Quotes

I have always thought it ironic that Jesus spent His blood-sweating agony not on an ash heap like Job, or in the desert like the Israelites, but instead among blossoms and fresh scent of cedar and olive trees. After the Last Supper, He did not choose to impart more wisdom to His disciples; He did not choose to be in intimate contact with those He loved the most. He chose to be alone with God in a garden.

~~Leslie Williams
Night Wrestling

God has included the hardships of my life (which I confess have been few) in His original plan. Nothing takes Him by surprise. But nothing is for nothing, either. His plan is to make me holy, and hardship is indispensable for that as long as we live in this hard old world. All I have to do is accept it.

~~Elisabeth Elliot
The Path of Loneliness

God deserves preeminence in our lives. He is the source of our strength and wholeness. He is the beginning and the end of all that we are and ever will be. He has redeemed us and nurtured us, and He loves us more than an earthly parent ever could.

~~Peter Wallace
What the Psalmist Is Saying

It's difficult for me to understand how God can look at me, with all my failures and sins, hold me close to His heart, and love me with exuberant joy--but He does. He can joyfully delight in His people because we're in His Son; and when the Father looks at His Son, He says, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matt. 3:17). Paul calls this "accepted in the Beloved."

~~Warren W. Wiersbe
The 20 Essential Qualities

During the cold and rainy time of your life. God has shown Himself to be a safe, warm, dry shelter. So you can trust Him now for whatever you need. In His strong tower, you are removed from the enemy's battle below. You are protected from attack, safe from harm.

~~Peter Wallace
What the Psalmist Is Saying

During the cold and rainy times of your life, God has shown Himself to be a safe, warm, dry shelter. So you can trust Him now for whatever you need. In His strong tower, you are removed from the enemy's battle below. You are protected from attack, safe from harm.

~~Peter Wallace
What the Psalmist Is Saying

You know what? God personally cares about the things that worry us. He cares more about them than we care about them: those things that hang in our minds as nagging, aching, worrisome thoughts. . . .He cares. You are His personal concern.

~~Charles Swindoll
Perfect Trust

Worship is the act of magnifying God. Enlarging our vision of Him. Stepping into the cockpit to see where He sits and observes how He works. Of course, His size doesn't change, but our perception of Him does. As we draw nearer, He seems larger. Isn't that what we need? A big view of God?

~~Max Lucado
Just Like Jesus

God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

-Aughey

What does your song in the night sound like? It could be a mournful dirge. Or a staccato outburst. Or a stirring song of praise. But those nights when you can't sleep, when your mind speeds out of control, rummaging through the problems and trials of your life, you can slow things down with a song or a meditation. Direct your mind toward God.

~~Peter Wallace
What the Psalmist Is Saying