 Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator. Author: William Law |
| Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies. Author: Isaac Watts |
| The calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure. Author: Isaac Watts |
| Thou sun, whose beams adorn the spheres, and with unwearied swiftness move to form the circles of our years. Author: Isaac Watts |
| May I govern my passions with absolute sway, and grow wiser and better as life wears away. Author: Isaac Watts |
| To be loved by God is the highest relationship, the highest achievement, and the highest position in life. Author: Henry Blackaby |
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| When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable) "toward the goal of true maturity" (Rom 12:2 JBP). Author: Elisabeth Elliot |
| The God who created, names and numbers the stars in the heavens also numbers the stars of my head. He pays attention to very big things and to very small ones. What matters to me matters to Him, and that changes my life. Author: Elisabeth Elliot |
| Let not our longings slay the appetite of our living. Author: Elisabeth Elliot |
| Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection, a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink. Author: Elisabeth Elliot |
| An 'unintended pregnancy' could be a wonderful surprise, not planned but welcome. Why should the government be in the business of 'preventing' a surprising but welcome pregnancy? Author: Wendy Wright |
| God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them and prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them; they outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world. Author: E.M. Bounds |
