Before us was the dream of spring. It is always safe to dream of spring. For it is sure to come; and if it be not just as we have pictured it, it will be infinitely sweeter. (from The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery)
Worship is essential in finding God's will. In fact, it is the means by which we find it and by which we continue in it. (Chris Riser, the pastor of the church I attended in TN)
People who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives ... and when the bubble has burst, they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted. (Nate Saint)
The life of faith demands that we see beyond current circumstances, that we see beyond current realities, to the reality of what God has promised—and that we keep our eyes fixed on that and walk towards that even when we can’t see it. (Max Wilkins, pastor of my dad's church in FL)
I learned He never gives a thorn without this added grace -- He takes the thorn to pin aside the veil that hides His Face. (Martha Snell Nicholson)
Thus says God, the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it: "I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations, to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.
I am the LORD; that is My name; My glory I give to no other, nor My praise to carved idols.
Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them." (Isaiah 42:5-9)
