Meditations of the day

[Aupmanyav]

What is more important? What you do or what you are?

 

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He tries but does not always succeed. Otherwise no Christian ever would have been punished with death. Nice photographs, high sounding words, but not true all the time.

 

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"The Holy Spirit establishes the righteousness of heaven in the midst of the unrighteousness of earth, and will not stop or stay until all that is dead has been brought back to life and a new world has come into being." ~Karl Barth

 

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“In His free grace, God is for man in every respect; He surrounds man from all sides. He is man's Lord who is before him, above him, after him, and thence also with him in history, the focus of man's existence. Despite man's insignificance, God is with him as his Creator who intended and made mankind to be very good. Despite man's sin, God is with him, the One who was in Jesus Christ reconciling the world, drawing man unto Himself in merciful judgment. Man's evil past is not merely crossed out because of its irrelevancy. Rather, it is in the good care of God. Despite man's life in the flesh, corrupt and ephemeral, God is with him. The victor in Christ is here and now present through His Spirit, man's strength, companion, and comfort. Despite man's death God is with him, meeting him as redeemer and perfecter at the threshold of the future to show him the totality of existence in the true light in which the eyes of God beheld it from the beginning and will behold it evermore. In what He is for man and does for man, God ushers in the history leading to the ultimate salvation of man.” - Karl Barth-

 

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"The road into God is one of progression from our limited into His unlimited. God will meet you where you are in order to take you where He wants you to go." -David E. Johnson-

 

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“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” -Frederick Douglass-

“There are only two options: Make progress or make excuses.” -Anonymous-

 

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"It's an incredible mystery of God's love that the more you know how deeply you are loved, the more you will see how deeply your sisters and your brothers in the human family are loved." ~ Henri Nouwen~

"People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God." -Allan Hamilton-

 

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"Spirit filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that kindles. They serve with a devotion that consumes. They hate sin with fierceness that burns. They rejoice with a joy that radiates. Love is perfected in the fire of God." ~Samuel Chadwick

 

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"Ironically, it was the father's blessing that actually 'financed' the prodigal son's trip away from the Father's face and it was the son's new revelation of his poverty of heart that propelled him back into his Father's arms. Sometimes we use the very blessings that God gives us to finance our journey away from the centrality of Christ. It's very important that we return back to ground zero, to the ultimate eternal goal of abiding with the Father's in intimate communion." -Tommy Tenney

 

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"God’s Spirit is on me; He’s chosen me to preach the message of good news to the poor, sent me to announce pardon to prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, to set the burdened and battered free." -msg-

 

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"You'll always face problems. When you experience hard times, immerse your mind in God's thoughts. Turn a deaf ear to doubters. Set your mind on a holy cause. Once you find your mountain, no giant will stop you, no age will disqualify you, and no problem will defeat you." ~Max Lucado

 

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"Experiencing God is a way of life, not only for an emergency." -David E. Johnson

 

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“Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.” - Helen Keller

“If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options.

You can climb it and cross to the other side.
You can go around it.
You can dig under it.
You can fly over it.
You can blow it up.
You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there.
You can turn around and go back the way you came.
Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.” - Vera Nazarian