Tag Archives: Quotes
Life is Very Short, and There’s No Time for Fussing and Fighting, My Friends
Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last. (From “Only One Life, Twill Soon Be Past” by C. T. Studd) Love this quote and poem from a true stud. Good word with which to … Continue reading
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Dead Men Don’t Pray
“So when we find a man praying, we shout—he breathes; he is not dead, he is alive; for while a man prays he is not dead in trespasses and sins, but is brought to life, is quickened by the power … Continue reading
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The Quest for Glory
The quest for glory is God-given, it just needs to be directed correctly. Continue reading
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Worthy to Be Humbled
And as he is humbled, let him rejoice that he is counted worthy to be humbled. Continue reading
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A Word From My Older Brother
Like Oswald Chambers (posted earlier), this honest and humble word from Tullian Tchividjian has been an immense encouragement to me. Hearing this for the first time was like having my older brother sit down and give eyewitness to the power … Continue reading
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Divorce Me
Something I have really enjoyed lately is poetry. It’s just good stuff for the mind, and the heart. This sonnet by John Donne, written in the early seventeenth century, is the fourteenth of nineteen “Divine Sonnets” composed after Jesus got a … Continue reading
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Common Sense #1: Divine Providence
The world’s common sense, but I suspect also how most of us Christians functionally think about God’s providence. (Zeus to Hera, his Queen) “For I, I gave you this, all of my own free will but hardly willing.” (Iliad 4:50) … Continue reading
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The Lamb is Slain and Able
I’m thankful that the promise of Proverbs 22:6 has proved true for the daughter of one of America’s greatest evangelists. Anne Graham Lotz has written an excellent little daily devotional called Daily Light for Everyday. It contains a compendium of … Continue reading
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Made for Another World
John Piper presents an excellent biography of C. S. Lewis. These quotes from Lewis are beautiful and true. “A man’s physical hunger does not prove that that man will get any bread: he may die of starvation on a raft … Continue reading
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This too is striving after wind…
Currently reading Ed Welch’s book When People Are Big And God is Small. A really thoughtful work about the deep-seated effects of the fall. “The sin resident in the human heart (the fear of man) wields awesome power. The praise … Continue reading
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