QUOTES FOR YOU

When we cannot see the sunshine of God's face, it is blessed to cower down beneath the shadow of his wings || Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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Swim through your temptations and troubles. Run to the promises; they are our Lord's branches hanging over the water so that His children may take a grip of them || Samuel Rutherford

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You are valuable just because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done, but simply because you are || Max Lucado

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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out || Barbara Johnson

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As the brook hides the footprints which are imprinted on its soft ooze, so are God's footprints hidden. We cannot detect his great and wonderful secrets. He marches through the ages with steps we cannot track || F. B. Meyer

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A friend is a gift you give yourself || Robert Louis Stevenson

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept || Samuel Butler

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway || Fr. Jerome Cummings

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My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! || Henry Ford

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There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money || Benjamin Franklin

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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it || E.W. Howe

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Lost people matter to God, and so they must matter to us || Keith Wright

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Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell || C.T. Studd

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If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him || C.T. Studd

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No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once || Oswald J. Smith

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence ||  Anonymous

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The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue ||  Anonymous

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There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say - unless you insist on saying it || Anonymous

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The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust || Josh Billings

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I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm || Calvin Coolidge

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Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather

straps || Emo Phillips

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A church is like a bank. The more you put into it the more interest you

Have || Unknown

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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be

relied on || Amelia E. Barr

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Why not get out on a limb for Jesus? That's where all the fruit is!|| Unknown

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None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but

those who have learned it by experience || Martin Luther

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Prayer is a powerful thing, for God has bound and tied himself

thereunto || Martin Luther

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The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we

will hear Him || William McGill

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Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for

things || Samuel M. Shoemaker

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Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of

your trousers || Austin O'Malley

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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties || Oswald

Chambers

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When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is

the only way he can get in touch with reality || Oswald Chambers

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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He

can sleep || Charles Baudelaire

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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk || Henry Ward

Beecher

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In the calmness of the morning before the mind is heated and wearied by the turmoil of the day, you have a season of unusual importance for communion with God and with yourself || William Wilberforce

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals || Duke

of Wellington Arthur Wellesley

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O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not

thou forget me || Sir Jacob Astley

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Prayer is certainly a high and holy privilege. To think that, as God's

children, we can come freely and boldly to His throne and share with Him our

needs! ... The mature Christian is prayerful in the troubles of life.

Instead of complaining about his situation, he talks to God about it; and

God hears and answers his prayers || Warren Wiersbe

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I know not by what methods rare,

But this I know, God answers prayer.

I know not when He sends the word

That tells us fervent prayer is heard.

I know it cometh soon or late;

Therefore we need to pray and wait.

I know not if the blessing sought

Will come in just the guise I thought.

I leave my prayers with Him alone

Whose will is wiser than my own.

|| Hickok

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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything

depended on you || St. Augustine

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Paul was in the habit of praying, but he prayed not by mere force of

habit || E. M. Bounds