Believing Something
“We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.” – Dallas Willard
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Having God Only
“He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.” – C. S. Lewis
Continue reading →Finding Peace
“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.” – Marvin Gaye
Continue reading →Live a Life of Reckless Abandon
“I have one desire now—to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.” – Elisabeth Elliot
Continue reading →The Number of Apples in a Seed
“Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.” – Robert H. Schuller
Continue reading →Saints and Sinners
“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” – Oscar Wilde
Continue reading →Having Total Self-Knowledge
“Have we any reason to suppose that total self-knowledge, if it were given to us, would be for our good? Children and fools, we are told, should never look at half-done work; and we are not yet, I trust, even … Continue reading →
The Bait of Pleasure
“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.” – Thomas Jefferson
Continue reading →Holding Steady
“Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to You and You’ve got to see me through.” – Harriet Tubman
Continue reading →Allowing the Word of God
“We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.” – John Stott
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