one day you will wake up and all of the waiting will have made sense. you will realize that all of the prayers that seemed to be tangled in worries were actually wrapped tightly in God's grace.
you will realize that even though before,
you were certain it was over you were actually...okay,
and everything that was supposed to happen happened
and you are right where you need to be.
— Morgan H. Nichols
And yet I decide, every day, to set aside what I can do best and attempt what I do very clumsily - open myself to the frustrations and failures of loving, daring to believe that failing in love is better than succeeding in pride.
you will realize that even though before,
you were certain it was over you were actually...okay,
and everything that was supposed to happen happened
and you are right where you need to be.
— Morgan H. Nichols
And yet I decide, every day, to set aside what I can do best and attempt what I do very clumsily - open myself to the frustrations and failures of loving, daring to believe that failing in love is better than succeeding in pride.
— Eugene Peterson
How beautifully blind are we to ignore the smallest things in us, for it's the smallest parts in us that gives us the power to do the most brilliant of things."
— R. M. Drake
It's ok to feel alone, lost and empty. For everything that's lonely finds it's company, everything lost is meant to be found and everything empty eventually gets filled. So see it like this. Think about all the terrible times you have lived through, and think about how they too, have passed.
— R.M. Drake
If you have a choice between being right and being kind, choose being kind.
—Unknown
People living deeply have no fear of death.
—Anais Nin
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Rules for Self Discovery:
1. What we want most;
2. What we think about most;
3. How we use our money;
4. What we do with our leisure time;
5. The company we enjoy;
6. Who and what we admire;
7. What we laugh at.
**
"I do not try to con God into believing I am better than what I know I am. By nature and conduct, I am the worst man that has ever lived. Because of that, I want God to do more for me than any man that ever lived. "
"God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves."
"We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts."
"Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will."
"Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now."
"The beauty of grace is that it awakens us to more and invites us to what lasts."
"We come to know Jesus by faith, and through Him, we embrace the grace- bought opportunity to use our voices, our gifts, our influence, our job, our suffering, our weakness, and our pain to boast in His goodness.
In our less, He becomes more. and in our more, we know that He is greater still. And the power in it all is that no matter what the journey deals us, we know that no circumstance and no power can keep us from the love of God nor keep us from telling the world about Him.
So life, no matter how brief, takes on the broad strokes of eternity and, when lived for Him, our days really does end up lasting forever.
In the end, there is nothing to risk, just everything to gain."
— A.W. Tozer
"So when I use the phrase the reckless love of God I’m not saying that God himself is reckless, he’s not crazy. We are however saying that the way he loves is in many regards is quite so. But what I mean is this, he is utterly unconcerned with the consequences of his actions with regards to his own safety, comfort, and wellbeing. His love is not crafty or slick, cunning or shrewd, in fact, all things considered, it is quite childlike. And might I even suggest, sometimes downright ridiculous. His love bankrupted heaven. For you, for me. His love doesn't consider himself first, it isn't selfish or self-centered. He does not wonder what he will gain or lose by putting himself on the line.
He simply puts himself there on the off chance that you and I might look back at him and give him the love in return. His love leaves the 99 to find the one every time. To many practical adults, that's a foolish concept, well what if you lose the 99 to find the one right? What if?
But what if finding that one lost sheep is, and will always be supremely important? His love isn't cautious. It's a love that sends his own son to die a gruesome death on the cross. There is no Plan B with the love of God.
He gives his heart so completely, so preposterously, that if refused, you would think it would irreparably be broken. Yet He gives himself again, and again, and again. Time and time again.
Make no mistake. Our sins do pain his heart, and seventy times seven times is a lot of times to get your heart broken. And yet he opens up and allows you back in every, single, time. His love saw you when you hated him and all logic said, "They'll reject me." He said, "I don't care what it costs me. I lay my life on the line as long as I get their hearts."
He simply puts himself there on the off chance that you and I might look back at him and give him the love in return. His love leaves the 99 to find the one every time. To many practical adults, that's a foolish concept, well what if you lose the 99 to find the one right? What if?
But what if finding that one lost sheep is, and will always be supremely important? His love isn't cautious. It's a love that sends his own son to die a gruesome death on the cross. There is no Plan B with the love of God.
He gives his heart so completely, so preposterously, that if refused, you would think it would irreparably be broken. Yet He gives himself again, and again, and again. Time and time again.
Make no mistake. Our sins do pain his heart, and seventy times seven times is a lot of times to get your heart broken. And yet he opens up and allows you back in every, single, time. His love saw you when you hated him and all logic said, "They'll reject me." He said, "I don't care what it costs me. I lay my life on the line as long as I get their hearts."
— Reckless Love by Cory Asbury
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”
— Joshua 1:9
The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still
— Exodus 14:14
3 By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence. 4 And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires.
5 In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, 6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, 7 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone.
8 The more you grow like this, the more productive and useful you will be in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But those who fail to develop in this way are shortsighted or blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their old sins.
—2 Peter
Be strong and bold; have no fear or dread of them, because it is the Lord your God who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not fail you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.
— Deuteronomy 31:6-8
Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way.
— 2 Thessalonians 3:16
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
— Philippians 4:8
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”
— Joshua 1:9
The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still
— Exodus 14:14
3 By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence. 4 And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires.
5 In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, 6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, 7 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone.
8 The more you grow like this, the more productive and useful you will be in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But those who fail to develop in this way are shortsighted or blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their old sins.
—2 Peter
Be strong and bold; have no fear or dread of them, because it is the Lord your God who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not fail you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.
— Deuteronomy 31:6-8
Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way.
— 2 Thessalonians 3:16
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
— Philippians 4:8
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