Quotes

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"God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute."

~ Oswald Chambers

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“If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.”

~ Thomas A Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

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"The people who influence us the most are not those who detain us with their continual talk, but those who live their lives like the stars in the sky and “the lilies of the field”— simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mold and shape us.

If you want to be of use to God, maintain the proper relationship with Jesus Christ by staying focused on Him, and He will make use of you every minute you live— yet you will be unaware, on the conscious level of your life, that you are being used of Him."

~ Oswald Chambers, from My Utmost for His Highest

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"It is a great deal better to live a holy life than to talk about it. Lighthouses do not ring bells and fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine."

~ D.L. Moody

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"The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights."

~ Oswald Chambers

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"Someone or something has romanced us from the beginning with creek-side singers and pastel sunsets, with the austere majesty of snowcapped mountains and the poignant flames of autumn colors telling us of something--or someone--leaving, with a promise to return.

These things can, in an unguarded moment, bring us to our knees with longing for this something or someone who is lost; someone or something only our heart recognizes."

~ Brent Curtis and John Eldredge, from Sacred Romance

[Madre]

"Experience is a gateway, not an end. Beware of building your faith on experience, the metallic note will come in at once, the censorious note. You can never give another person that which you have found, but you can make him homesick for what you have."

~ Oswald Chambers, from My Utmost for His Highest

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"You can either practice being right or practice being kind."

~ Anne Lamott

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“When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.”

~ (Mr.) Fred Rogers

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"A man is only as holy as he wants to be."

~ A. W. Tozer