Refuse to waste time worrying, and you will have strength to spare. – Sarah Young
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The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. – George Müller
As you gaze at me(Jesus) through the eyes of your heart, you see the world from my perspective. – Sarah Young
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. – Amy Carmichael
The less I spent on myself and the more I gave to others, the fuller of happiness and blessing did my soul become. – Hudson Taylor
Our gifts are not to be measured by the amount we contribute, but by the surplus kept in our own hand. – Charles Spurgeon
There is nothing wrong with me possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men. – Billy Graham
 I never met a person who tithes who is unhappy doing so. – Glenn Morrison
When we give Him(God) our plans, we aren’t handing over control; we’re receiving direction. – Kathy Branzell
As long as you refuse to obey, you are in God’s way. – Oswald Chambers
Forgetting in the human mind, may be a defect; in the divine mind, it is an attribute. – Oswald Chambers
Many people are so preoccupied with future plans and decisions that they failed to see the choices they must make today. – Sara Young
We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to divine guidance. – Oswald Chambers
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When Christ calls me Home, I shall go with the gladness of a boy bounding away from school. – Adoniram Judson
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God is the author of the Bible, and only the truth it contains, will lead people to true happiness. – George Muller
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The Church is a community of the works and words of Jesus. -
Donald English
There is no such thing as proud holiness. – Oswald Chambers
There was no self-preservation on the cross, only selfless mercy and grace. – Ashley Blain
If your Father will not comfort you, who will? He is the most likely person to get comfort from; therefore the proper person to go to for it. – Philip Bennett Power
Pride of gifts robs us of God’s blessing in the use of them. – William Gurnall
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Be not ashamed of your faith; remember it is the ancient gospel of martyrs, confessors, Reformers, and saints. Above all, it is the truth of God, against which the gates of hell cannot prevail. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
True leadership begins not with control but with a reformed heart. – Jeff Schwartzentrau
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False gods never satisfy; they stir up lust for more and more. – Sarah Young
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Christ Jesus never encouraged the idea of spiritual repose. His instructions were clear, “Go and Tell… “ – Oswald, Chambers,
Bragging comes to us more naturally than humility, just like weeds grow in a garden easier than vegetables. – JC Ryle
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The Bible tells us not to be conformed to this world either physically or intellectually or spiritually. – Billy Graham
We must rejoice in God when we have nothing else to rejoice in. – Matthew Henry
Christ has been sent here to reveal the Father and to show forth His glory. So we are sent into the world to show forth Christ’s glory, which is the glory of the Father. – A. W. Pink
Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees. – William Cowper
The great tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, but un-offered prayer. – F. B. Meyer
Prayer is a discipline, a practice, that only gets better when it is exercised. The best way to learn to pray is to pray! – David Jeremiah
The measure of our spirituality is the amount of praise and thanksgiving in our prayer. – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
We are often so preoccupied with our petitions to our Father that we completely forget to praise Him for who He is and what He has done. – Phillip Keller
Temptation has its source not in the outer lure but in the inner lust. – D. Edmund Hiebert
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. – C. S. Lewis
Before we can pray, “Lord, Thy kingdom come,” we must be willing to pray, “My Kingdom go.” – Alan Redpath
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At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter. – Oswald Chambers
The best atmosphere for prayer is praise. – Peter Anderson
Prayer is the key of heaven; faith is the hand that turns it. – Thomas Watson.
An ongoing problem is like a tutor who is always by your side – Anonymous
Salvation, the salvation of man, is the final purpose of the whole Bible. – J. H. Bernard
Mature faith does not live by answers to prayer, but by prayer. – R. E. O. White
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. – Augustine of Hippo
The New Testament is thus the decryption key for unlocking the meaning of the Old Testament Scriptures. – Josh McDowell
[God’s] presence never diminishes. Our awareness of His presence may falter, but the reality of His presence never changes. – Max Lucado
God is near to lowliness; He loves the lost, the neglected, the unseemly, the excluded, the weak and broken.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christ is the true Bread of Life sent by God to bring us eternal life. We all need Christ to be the Bread of Life to us. – Witness Lee
God prepares us through past seasons to face present ones, and He uses our present seasons to equip us for future ones. -Judith Landrum
God always equips us for the work for which He calls us. -Janet Parshall
If the Son of God is formed in us by regeneration, He will press forward in front of our common sense and change our attitude to the things about which we pray. -Oswald Chambers
Crisis always reveals character. -Oswald Chambers
I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. -Oswald Chambers
Over time, our skill in discerning God’s will grows as we benefit from His guidance. -David Jeremiah
See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time,...
If you are always taking blessings to yourself and never learn to pour out anything unto the Lord, other people do not get their horizon enlarged through you. -Oswald Chambers
One reason the church has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church. -Charles Spurgeon
The more you realize yourself, the less you will seek God. – Oswald Chambers
You can never give other people what you found, but you can make them homesick for what you’ve got.-Oswald Chambers
Many times God blesses us more in the trials than in the triumphs! – David Jeremiah
Any part of the Bible can only be properly explained in reference to the whole Bible. – F. F. Bruce
God makes us pure by his sovereign grace, but we also have something we must take care of: our bodily lives. – Oswald Chambers
Let us stop the progress of sin in our soul at the first stage, for the further it goes, the faster it will increase – Thomas Fuller
It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed. -Augustine
Faith, like a muscle, grows by stretching. -A. W. Tozer
It is possible to be so active in the service of Christ as to forget to love Him. -P. T. Forsyth
Christ does not exist in order to make much of us. We exist in order to enjoy making much of Him. -John Piper
Hope assures the soul that while God waits to perform one promise, he supplies another. – William Gurnall
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God is the author of all true happiness; he is the donor of all true happiness; he is the maintainer of all true happiness; and he is the center of all true happiness. – Thomas Brooks
The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. And the first to forget is the happiest – Mother Teresa
Worry is an indication that we think God cannot look after us. – Oswald Chambers
A grateful heart protects you from negative thinking. – Sarah Young
No one is redeemed except through unmerited mercy. – Augustine
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“A clam glorifies God better than we do because the clam is being everything it was created to be, whereas we are not.“ – Elizabeth Elliott
Limitations can be liberating when your strongest desire is living close to Me. – Sarah Young
One of the marks of humility (meekness) is a teachable spirit, a willingness to learn from God and from others who know Him well. – David Jeremiah
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. – Thomas V. Moore
May our gratitude find expression in our prayers and our service for others, and in our commitment to live wholly for Christ. – Billy Graham
It is much more fun to live being grateful than groaning! – Janette Levellie
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Unfortunately, it is possible to know YHWH (God) is the Lord and still not yield to him. – Tara-Leigh Cobble
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Contentment is the idea of finding joy in the will of God whatever the circumstance. – David Jeremiah
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Seek for happiness and you will never find it. Seek righteousness and you will discover you are happy. – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. – Saint Augustine
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Our love of [God] is nothing more than His love to us, reflected back upon Him, the source of love. – Osborne Gordon
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There is no soul so pure and heavenly that it can throw back upon God all that love which He lavishes upon us. – Osborne Gordon
Purity is not innocence; it is much more. Purity is the outcome of sustained spiritual closeness with God. We have to grow in purity. – Oswald Chambers
The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge but to change our lives. – D. L. Moody
We are not asked to believe the Bible; we are asked to believe the One the Bible reveals. – Oswald Chambers
Much of our distress as Christians is caused not by sin but by ignorance of our own nature. – Oswald Chambers
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering. -D. A. Carson
How you live your life daily is a testimony of what you believe about God. – Henry Blackaby
Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin. – Oswald Chambers
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God doesn’t need your good works, but your neighbor does. – Martin Luther
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Before we rush off into work for God, we have to make sure that we are rightly related to him. – Oswald Chambers
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As we go to the cradle only in order to find the Baby, so we go to the Scriptures only to find Christ. – Martin Luther
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[The Bible is] the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by. – N. T. Wright
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Hit-and-run Bible reading can often become hit and miss. – John Blanchard
There is no wisdom but that which is founded on the fear of God. – John Calvin
Faithful witness is truth-telling, not head-counting. – Don Posterski
Down through the years, I turned to the Bible and found in it all that I needed. – Ruth Bell Graham
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Hope for the Christian is a confident expectation of a guaranteed result. – Paul David Tripp
Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present. – John Maxwell
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Hope is the foundation of patience. – John Calvin
I have deliberately to give my sanctified life to God for His service, so that He can use me as His hands and His feet. – Oswald Chambers
If we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. – Charles Spurgeon
We are to be in the world but not of it; to be disconnected fundamentally, not externally. – Oswald Chambers
Thanksgiving leads to knowing God more fully, which leads to trusting in God more, worshiping God more, and loving God more. – Dustin Crowe
Thankfulness opens your heart to my presence and your mind to my thoughts. Sarah Young
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticise, but that we may intercede. – Oswald Chambers
Thankfulness is a flower which will never bloom well excepting upon a root of deep humility. – J. C. Ryle
It is inconceivable that the Christian should ever think of sin without also thinking of his Savior. -John Stott
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Sanctification is simply the marvellous expression of the forgiveness of sins in a human life, but the thing that awakens the deepest well of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven sin. – Oswald Chambers
Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them. – Elisabeth Elliot
I cannot separate my life into secular and sacred compartments. All of my life is sacred and needs to be under God’s authority. – Don Clark
A saint is never consciously a saint; a saint is consciously dependent on God. – Oswald Chambers
In a Christian home, there’s something special. It’s called grace. – Robert Wolgemuth
Suffering is unbearable if you’re not certain God is with you and for you. – Tim Keller
My kingdom is not about earning and deserving; it is about believing and receiving. – Sara Young.
I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him. I ended up asking God to do His work through me. – Hudson Taylor
Faith is unutterable trust in God which never dreams that He will not stand by us. Oswald Chambers.
Faith must be tested, because it can turn into a personal possession only through conflict. Oswald Chambers.
When you spend time with me, I restore your sense of direction. When you look to me for guidance, I enable you to do less and accomplish more. Sarah Young
When we forgive, we take away the devil’s opportunity to stir up trouble. David Jeremiah
Christianity is the power of God in the soul of man. Robert B. Munger
Resting in the Lord does not depend on external circumstances at all, but on your relationship with God himself. Oswald Chambers
‘Thou has made us for Thyself and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in Thee” St. Augustine
Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer. John Bunyan
“I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.”  Oswald Chambers
“I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light. Mary G. Brainard
Cry for grace from God to see God’s purpose in every trial. Charles Spurgeon  ( Romans 8:28)
“It is not so true that “prayer changes things” as that prayer changes me and I change things”. Oswald Chambers
“Your neighbor is anyone with a need that you are able to meet.” ― David Jeremiah
“A saint is never consciously a saint; a saint is consciously dependent on God.” ― Oswald Chambers
“The reason we see hipocracy, fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The great characteristic of a saint is humility.” ― Oswald Chambers
“Never doubt in the dark what God told you in the light.”
V. Raymond Edman
“Love is a fruit in season at all times and within the reach of every hand.” Mother Teresa
“Praise is inner health made audible.” Tim Keller
“Integrity is doing the right thing when you don’t have to – when no one else is looking or will ever know.” Charles Marshall.
“The man who kneels to God can stand up to anything.”
Louis H. Evans
“Nothing is more powerful to overcome temptation than the fear of God.”
John Calvin
NANA'S NOTABLE QUOTABLES
“There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.” 
Frederick W. Faber
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“Thank God when things do not go your way, because spiritual, blessings, come wrapped in trials.” Sarah Young.
“I am not interested in science or any thing else that leaves God out of it.” George Washington Carver
“Empathy is your pain in my heart.” Halford E. Luccock
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“Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.”
Bob Pierce.
“The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.” Oswald Chambers
“If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.” Oswald Chambers
“Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.” Francis Schaeffer
“God does not give us everything we want. But He does fulfil His promises, leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all.” Cecil Frances Alexander
“True love is an act of the will—a conscious decision to do what is best for the other person instead of ourselves.”
Billy Graham
“The Lord does not give me rules, He makes His standards very clear, and if my relationship with Him is that of love, I will do what He says without any hesitation.” Oswald Chambers
In our relationship with God, rules are replaced by clear standards. As Oswald Chambers said,...
On Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand! Hymn- “My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less” William B. Bradbury
In life's shifting sands, one truth remains steadfast: "On Christ the solid rock I stand,...
“God would never permit evil if He could not bring good out of evil.” Saint Augustine
In the face of adversity, Saint Augustine's words resonate: "God would never permit evil if...
“Life serves back in the coin you pay.” Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers said, "Life serves back in the coin you pay." This reminds us that...
My life as a worker is the way I say “thank you” to God for His unspeakable salvation. Sarah Young
Gifts come in many forms—talents, skills, and opportunities we receive from God. As Christians, we...
“Thankfulness awakes you to my presence, which overshadows all of your problems.” Sarah Young
Gratitude transforms your perspective, opening your heart to God's presence, which is greater than any...
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“Imagination is the greatest gift God has given us, and it ought to be devoted entirely to Him.” Oswald Chambers
The dictionary defines imagination as the ability to form a mental image of something not...
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“If God forgives us and we do not forgive ourselves, we make ourselves greater than God.” Edwin Louis Cole
The inability to forgive ourselves for sinful ideas, attitudes and actions greatly impacts many people. ...
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“Gratitude enables you to see the Light of My (God’s)Presence shining on all your circumstances.” Sarah Young
Gratitude, thankfulness and appreciation are not characteristics of the natural man.   I never recall...
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“Find freedom by accepting the boundaries of your domain.” Sarah Young
One of the biggest lies we so frequently tell children and young people is that...
Jacob-and-Esau
“The Esau Syndrome: trading away God’s lifelong gift in order to satisfy a short-term appetite.” Eugene H. Peterson
In a world of instant gratification, beware of the Esau Syndrome found in Hebrews 12:16....
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“No sin is worse than the sin of self-pity, because it obliterates God and puts self-interest upon the throne.” Oswald Chambers
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“Sin is not an action, it is a condition.” Oswald Chambers
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“A mind preoccupied with planning pays homage to the idol of control.” Sarah Young
…and God saw that it was good.
In the beginning God create heaven and earth and in the first chapter of Genesis...
“In the beginning God…” Genesis 1: 1
In the beginning God was. He existed before time began. God the Father is responsible...
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe
Respect was truly a kingdom value demonstrated by Christ during His earthly life. As his...