Friday, March 20, 2009

Friday Thoughts

"Relying on God has to begin over again every day as if nothing had yet been done."
        --C.S. Lewis

"Do not look forward to the changes and chances of this life in fear; rather look to them with full hope that, as they arise, God whose you are, will deliver you out of them.  He has kept you hitherto--do you but hold fast to His dear hand, and He will lead you safely through all things; and, when you can not stand, He will bear you in His arms...The same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and every day.  Either He will shield you from suffering or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it.  Be at peace then and put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations."
      --Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

"God is God.  If He were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshiped.  Because He is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience.  I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will, a will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what He is up to."
        --Elisabeth Elliot, Through the Gates of Splendor

Do you have a favorite quote or something that you have read lately that has really caught your attention?  Please leave a comment and share!


1 comment:

  1. Be thou bold to believe, for he hath said, "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. "In this promise, God gives to his people everything. "I will never leave thee." Then no attribute of God can cease to be engaged for us. Is he mighty? He will show himself strong on the behalf of them that trust him. Is he love? Then with loving kindness will he have mercy upon us. Whatever attributes may
    compose the character of Deity, every one of them to its fullest extent shall be engaged on our side. To put everything in one, there is nothing you can want, there is nothing you can ask for, there is nothing you can need in time or in eternity, there is nothing living, nothing dying, there is nothing in this world, nothing in the next world, there is nothing now, nothing at the resurrection-morning,
    nothing in heaven which is not contained in this text-"I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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