Category: Odds & Ends

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through the experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” — Helen Keller

“When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you to find Him. And, in fact, He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others—not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong condition. Just as sunlight, though it has no favourites, cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one.” – C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“All the peace and favor of the world cannot calm a troubled heart; but where this peace is which Christ gives, all the trouble and disquiet of the world cannot disturb it.” — Robert Leighton

“Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.” — Oswald Chambers

“I don’t pray to change God. I pray because I have to. I pray because I can’t help myself. It doesn’t change God. It changes me.” – C. S. Lewis

“Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.” – Philip Yancey

“‘Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home.”—John Newton

“The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into him, that they may delight in his presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God himself in the core and center of their hearts” — A. W. Tozer

“The book of Acts was written only because the apostles acted. You are in the right position when you allow the glory of the new life to cause you to act. Live in the Acts of the Apostles, and every day you will see some miracle worked by the power of the living God.” – Smith Wigglesworth

“Your most profound and intimate experiences of worship will likely be in your darkest days—when your heart is broken, when you feel abandoned, when you’re out of options, when the pain is great—and you turn to God alone.” — Rick Warren

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall