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With what misgivings we turn over our lives to God, imagining somehow that we are about to lose everything that matters. Our hesitancy is like that of a tiny shell on the seashore, afraid to give up the teaspoonful of water it holds lest there not be enough ocean to fill it up again. Lose your life, said Jesus, and you will find it. Give up, and I will give you all.

~~Elisabeth Elliot
The Path of Loneliness

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Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up.

~~Unknown

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Without knowing God and knowing who we are in Him, we will constantly take our faith on a roller-coaster ride. It will go up and it will go down. We'll scream at the treacherous turns and close our eyes when we start speeding into a steep downward spiral. Trust doesn't change God, but it will certainly change the ride.

~~Kathy Troccoli
Hope for a Woman's Heart

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God is our Helper. When the task He assigns is beyond our ability and we are totally helpless to fulfill it, He steps in and takes over. He does what we can't. His strength is perfect in our weakness.

~~Anne Graham Lotz
God's Story

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We do not come to know God through works--we come to know Him by faith through grace. We cannot work our way toward happiness and heaven; we cannot moralize our way, we cannot reform our way, we cannot buy our way. Salvation comes as a gift of God through Christ.

~~Billy Graham The Secret of Happiness

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Levi is a Jew collecting taxes for the Romans and that makes him a traitor to his own people. But Levi is tough as nails. As a social and religious outcast, he has had to develop a thick skin over the years in order to survive. Yet Jesus takes one look at him, says a couple of words, and Levi simply drops everything to follow Him. What happened? Levi fell in love . . . . In an instant, Levi saw in Jesus' eyes a love both deep and vast.

~~Harriet Crosby A Place Called Home

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We are only finite human beings. We can only see the present and the past. The future is a little frightening to us. So we need to hold onto God's hand and trust Him to calm our fears.

~~Charles Swindoll

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The mustard seed is one of the smallest seeds in the world. It takes very little faith to grow big miracles. But sometimes I find having even the smallest amount of faith the most difficult thing in the world--especially when times are hard.

Hebrews 11:1...tells us to cultivate faith the size of a very tiny seed and let it grow in the ground of our own pain. Such faith, sown in pain, is a miracle great enough to move mountains.

~~Harriet Crosby A Well-Watered Garden

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The word impossible melts away with God. He knows no defeat; can turn every failure and frustration into unexpected victory. He can reverse a doctor's grim prognosis. With Him a seemingly dark and desolate future becomes a joyous new life.

~~Catherine Marshall
Moments that Matter

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My earnest expectation and hope is that in nothing I shall be ashamed. ~~Philippians 1:20

It's as if Paul were saying, "My determined purpose is to be my utmost for His Highest -- my best for His glory." Shut out every other thought and determine to be absolutely and entirely for Him and Him alone.

--Unknown

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