Meditations of the day

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"I don't always feel His presence. But God's promises do not depend upon my feelings; they rest upon His integrity." -R. C. Sproul

“If God is the Creator of the entire universe, then it must follow that He is the Lord of the whole universe. No part of the world is outside of His lordship. That means that no part of my life must be outside of His lordship.” - R.C. Sproul

 

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"You don't make Him Lord. He's Lord already. You just recognize it." -Adrian Rogers

"Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship." -Elisabeth Elliot

 

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"The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire." -Carl Jung

 

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"If you are as weary of some sleepy form of devotion, probably God is as weary of it as you are." ~Frank Laubach

 

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"It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered, in the midst of it, a quiet and holy people who have learned a great secret. They have found a joy, which is a thousand times better than any of the pleasures of our sinful life. They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They have overcome the world. These people, Donatus, are Christians, and I am one of them." -Cyprian the Bishop of Carthage

 

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"When religion is in the hands of the mere natural man, he is always the worse for it; it adds a bad heat to his own dark fire and helps to inflame his four elements of selfishness, envy, pride, and wrath. And hence it is the worst passions, or a worse degree of them are to be found in persons of great religious zeal than in others that made no pretenses to it. History also furnishes us with instances of persons of great piety and devotion who have fallen into great delusions and deceived both themselves and others. The occasion of their fall was this.....They considered their whole nature as the subject of religion and divine graces; and therefore their religion was according to the workings of their whole nature, and the old man was as busy and as much delighted in it as the new." -Wm. Law

 

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"There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes." -Frank Lauback

 

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"Union with Christ in His resurrection was not an after-thought on the part of God. It was not some sort of plan b because the devil had spoiled Plan A." -John Gavazzoni-

 

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"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." -H.J. Brown Jr.

“Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who & what we are.” -Charles Bukowski

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -Abraham Lincoln

 

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"At the center of the Christian tradition since the first church have been a number who insist that history is not tragic, hell is not forever, and love, in the end, wins and all will be reconciled to God." -Rob Bell

 

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"What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like." -Rob Bell

“To say it again, eternal life is less about a kind of time that starts when we die, and more about a quality and vitality of life now in connection to God. Eternal life doesn't start when we die; it starts now. It's not about a life that begins at death; it's about experiencing the kind of life now that can endure and survive even death.” -Rob Bell

 

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"It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity." -George MacDonald

 

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"Are our broadest hopes broad enough? Shall there be a nook or abyss, in all the universe of God, finally unlightened by the Cross? Shall there be a sin, or sorrow, or pain unhealed? Is the very universe, is creation in all its extent, a field wide enough for the Son of God?" -Christ Triumphant

 

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"Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of God.' He is not moody or capricious; He knows no seasons of change. He has a single relentless stance toward us: He loves us." -Brennan Manning

"We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground." -Brennan Manning

 

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"God is unchanging in His love. He loves you. He has a plan for your life. Don't let the newspaper headlines frighten you. God is still sovereign; He's still on the throne." -Billy Graham

 

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"The resurrection of Jesus Christ was necessary to establish the truth of his mission and put the stamp of all-conquering power on his gospel." -E.M. Bounds

"I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire." -Ignatius of Antioch

 

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