Sunday Quotes

                            

"We can look at Job, we can look at Lamentations, we can look at the Psalms, we can look at so many heroes of the faith who at different times had questions, who faced unbelief, yet God kept them, and they continued, in their doubts, to lean towards God, to lean and doubt in a way that continued to keep them attached to the vine and seeking Jesus in all of it." — Laura Wifler

"Every single thing He has ever or will ever say is true. The simplicity of faith is this: taking God’s Word for it." — Jackie Hill Perry

"No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!" — Joyce Meyer

"Hearing how God is moving in other places encourages and inspires our faith for what God wants to do in our own corner of the world." — Matt Brown

"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness." — Henry David Thoreau

"A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being." — James E. Faust

"Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them." — Mahalia Jackson

"The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith." — Billy Graham

"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase." – Martin Luther King Jr.

"She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her away, she adjusted her sails." – Elizabeth Edwards

"Every single thing He has ever or will ever say is true. The simplicity of faith is this: taking God’s Word for it." — Jackie Hill Perry

"We can let go of burdens like condemnation and worry, perfectionism and insecurity. And we can cling desperately—even through tears—to the assurance that God knows, he cares, and he loves us with an infinite love. We can lay our burdens at the feet of Christ and receive what he offers instead." — Sarah J. Hauser

"Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.” — C.S. Lewis

"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe." — Saint Augustine

"In faith, there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t." — Blaise Pascal

"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe." — Voltaire

Sunday Quotes

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. – Francis of Assisi

The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor – Charles Stanley

Jesus’ mission is not to make converts, and it never has been. His mission is to make disciples. – Jim Putnam

It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor. – Martin Luther

The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has stood so much bad preaching. – A.T. Robertson

We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first. – Oswald J. Smith

Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself. – Leonard Ravenhill

God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him. – Hudson Taylor

The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me. – Donald Miller

The world needs Christians who don’t tolerate the complacency of their own lives. – Francis Chan

Dear Jesus…how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here. – Corrie ten Boom

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. – Oswald Chambers

Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love. – John Stott

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. – Charles Swindoll

Nothing so clearly discovers a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother. – St. Augustine

Sunday Quotes

          A whole Sermon can be compressed into a single quote 

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way - Dean Stanley.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip - Billy Graham

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know. - Dwight L. Moody

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ - Billy Graham

As a Christian, Christ died so that we will have eternal life in Him in Heaven. What it looks like doesn't matter, what it smells like doesn't matter, as long as Christ is there it will be Heaven to me - T. D. Jakes

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then only can i change - Carl Rogers.

You have to look at what a person does with his life. Anyone can say that he's a Christian, but you look at how they live. Franklin Graham

When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man! - John Wesley

What Have You With held from God ?

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Withholding from God
By Erika in Symphony of Praise

“You did what?” My mouth dropped open as my husband told the story. I couldn’t believe it.
“God told you to sacrifice our son? Abraham, what is wrong with you? Where is Isaac? Where is my son?”
Abraham calmly replied, “He is outside with the servants tending to the animals. He is fine Sarah”.
“Okay, let me get this straight! You bound my son to an altar. You treated him like an animal. You lifted a knife to kill him, and you say everything is fine?”
“Sarah, what would you have me do? Disobey God? God told me to take our son . . . our Isaac . . . our baby . . . our heir . . . our life. Isaac was to be sacrificed as a burnt offering to God. I didn’t question. If God gave him to us, God can take him from us. Our son was God’s before he was ours.”
I saw Abraham speaking, but I could hear no words. He almost killed our son. Our promise. I could understand that he didn’t go through with it because God provided a ram. But still. This was too much for a mother to bear. A mother who waited over ninety years to see the promise of a child. A mother who tried to take matters into her own hands with Hagar and Ishmael . . . and paid dearly. A mother who held, and nursed, and loved that baby. How could my husband do this?
Finally, I heard Abraham. “Sarah, my love, what would you have done?”
“I wouldn’t have sacrificed . . . I wouldn’t have taken my . . . I wouldn’t have . . . “. I couldn’t get the words out.
“I don’t know.” I replied through angry and bitter tears. I could hardly look at the man. I don’t know what I would have done. Would I have disobeyed God? Would I have kicked and screamed? Would I have bargained with God?
“Abraham, I would like to think that I would have obeyed, but I just don’t know.” I cried on my husband as he held me close. Why wasn’t my faith as strong as his? Why couldn’t I be as confident that God was a God of mercy and grace?
Heck, I laughed when God told us that I would give birth to Isaac. I laughed in God’s face as if anything is too hard for Him. Forgive me, Lord.
I wiped the tears, came to my senses (a bit), and stared into the eyes of my husband, “Why did you do it, Abraham? Help me understand so that I can become a woman of faith. Teach me how you could obey God at any cost . . . including that of sacrificing our son. Why did you do it, my love?”
Abraham pulled me close into his strong embrace and whispered into my ear, “Because I will withhold nothing from my God.”.
- Genesis 22 -

Sunday Quotes

                      

1. “If you sell your soul to the Devil, you will spend the rest of eternity trying to buy it back.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
2. “If Noah waited for signs of rain to build an ark, he would have been swept away by the flood.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
3. “Before you look for dirt in people, look for treasure.” – Matshoa Dhliwayo
4. "Wisdom is the capacity to see things from God's viewpoint." – Charles Stanley
5. "Do not judge others, we do not know the battles they face. Love and be kind, for it costs nothing.” – Henrietta Newton Martin
6. “One of the enemy's sneaky attacks against the joy of our salvation is to put us in the spiral of self-condemnation.” – Linda Evans Shepherd
7. “If you want to know your worth, look at the old rugged Cross.” – Gift Gugu Mona
8. “The fact that I'm a biker doesn't make me a different kinda Christian, but the fact that I'm a Christian makes me a different kinda biker.” – Dano Janowski
9. “Forgiveness brings us closer to those who have hurt us and helps them to experience the forgiveness and love of Jesus through us who forgives them.” – Omoakhuana Anthonia
10 “Shine your light at all times; you never know who you are leading out of the dark.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
11. "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength." – Corrie Ten Boom
12. "If you put your faith in yourself and your abilities, intellect and dreams, then your foundation is only as strong as you are." – Charles Stanley