Showing posts with label #life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #life. Show all posts

Thursday, April 10, 2025

A New Day

 

Lamentations 3:22-23 (ESV): "The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." 

This verse beautifully illustrates the daily renewal of God's grace and mercy, offering a fresh start each day to each of us. 
Isaiah too gave similar counsel in chapter 43:18-19 (ESV): "Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert." 
This encourages us to look forward to the new things God is doing and a daily spiritual renewal and revival for each one.  So, every day let us be happy for another day to live. 
Today is a New Day so thank you for a chance for a new start. Yesterday's gone and with it are our failures, mistakes and regrets. Lets ask God to help us to start again. It's a good day to give thanks for this life. A new opportunity to love, give and be all that He wants us to be. 

Monday, November 11, 2024

Monday Quotes

When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient. Tullian Tchividjian
The truth is the real Christian experience is truly about repenting every day because there is no Christian that doesn't sin. Stephen Baldwin
I'm excited to create more awareness about the importance of giving the youth of America a choice. There's a 24-hour music channel. There's a 24-hour comedy channel. I believe there's a 24-hour gay channel coming. Why isn't there a 24-hour Christian channel that's edgy and hip and cool and new and different, like all that other stuff? Stephen Baldwin
Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is very impossible to please... No, God delights even in our heartfelt attempts at obedience. Kevin DeYoung
If creators of Christian culture hope to produce work that will bear good fruit, we must draw our life from the true source - our living Savior. He is real. He is present. But all too often we reduce him to an abstraction, giving him intellectual assent, but not our hearts. Michael O'Brien
I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church. Lincoln Steffens
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. Billy Graham
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
You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole. Billy Graham
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. John Wesley
Is it not hard that even those who are with us should be against us - that a man's enemies, in some degree, should be those of the same household of faith? Yet so it is. John Wesley
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Mahatma Gandhi
I'm a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order. Mike Pence
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too. Helen Hayes
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. Benjamin Disraeli
O never give me over to my own heart's desires, nor let me follow my own imaginations! John Wesley
It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven. Matthew Henry
He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave. Matthew Henry
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church. Matthew Henry



Monday, October 28, 2024

Quotes to Inspire

 
"God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile." — Max Lucado
"You are the only Bible some unbelievers will ever read." — John MacArthur
"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important." — C.S. Lewis
"It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships." — Charles Stanley
"If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big.'" — Elisabeth Elliot
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." — Chuck Swindoll
"The greater your knowledge of the goodness and grace of God on your life, the more likely you are to praise Him in the storm." — Matt Chandler
"It is great to be faced with the impossible, for nothing is impossible if one is meant to do it. Wisdom will be given, and strength. When the Lord leads, He always strengthens." — Amy Carmichael
"Life is God's novel. Let him write it." — Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe." — Saint Augustine
"When I consider the cross of Christ, how can anything that I do be called a sacrifice?" — Amy Carmichael
"One of the Devil's great lies is that the path to a fulfilling life is to live for one's self." — Andrew B. Ray
"If not for the tests in our lives some of us would not learn to pray." — Aminata Coote











Friday, June 14, 2024

86,400 Seconds

                                            

Man lives his or her life in moments, not in years, though we do celebrate birthdays. In actuality, life is lived in moments. We often miss fully living in the present moment because we are so busy rehashing the past or rehearsing the future. 

Our days are numbered as is our breadth. We could be happily alive one moment, and moved on the next, leaving our near and dear ones, our riches and all our material glory behind. The material outcome of each one of us is the same: ashes and dust and onto eternal life minus all we have known. Meanwhile I can either strike off the day or moments I have lived or add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived (Robert Brault).
Therefore, each moment of life is to be celebrated; with joyous gratitude and celebrating those moments with sharing a piece of ourselves. William Arthur Ward pointed this out and famously said
"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you'?"
Keep in mind the old saying. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God’s gift, and that’s why we call it the present.”


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