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“The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'”

“It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.”

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Author:Francis of Assisi

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”

“When your will is God's will, you will have your will.”

“To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.”

“Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.”

Source: The Knowledge of the Holy

“Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.”

Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers

“My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.”

“You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.”

“If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.”

Source: Signs of Life: 40 Catholic Customs and Their Biblical Roots

“No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out.”

“We don’t need self-confidence we need God-confidence”

Source: Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing

“Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?”

“The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas. The latter will get you to heaven. Take your pick.”

Source: When God Whispers Your Name

“God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.”

“The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.”

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Book:If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer

Source: If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer

“When you acknowledge God, He will go before you and make the crooked places straight.”

“Without worship, we go about miserable.”

“Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me.”

Source: Hymns of Faith and Hope. First series

“The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.”

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Book:Christian Disciplines: Building Strong Character

Source: Christian Disciplines: Building Strong Character

“Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.”

Source: Prayer

“A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.”

Source: The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A...: Containing All His Sermons and Tracts which Have Been Already Published: with a Select Collection of Letters... Also, Some Other Pieces on Important Subjects, Never Before Printed; Prepared by Himself for the Press; to which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life, Compiled from His Orignial Papers and Letters

“The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don't turn up the TV and pretend they aren't there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think.”

Source: God Came Near: God's Perfect Gift

“At the time of your examination(of sins) beware of the devil that ties your tongue.”

“God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.”

“As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others.”

Source: Morning and Evening

“God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.”

“Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way......What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything....Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.”

“It is a lesson we all need - to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path.”

“How many people have you made homesick for God?”

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Book:Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart

Source: Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart

“Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.”

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Author:Corrie Ten Boom

“If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?”

“We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water. So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times. It doesn't matter whether you're a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew. When you believe in God, you should believe that all people are part of one family. If you love God, you can't love only some of his children.”

Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

“Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength.”

Source: The Way To God: Moody Classics Series

“If God does not save men by truth, he certainly will not save them by lies. And if the old gospel is not competent to work a revival, then we will do without the revival.”

Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series

“If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love.”

Source: Strengthen My Spirit

“Ask God to give you the strength to endure, and rest assured, He will take care of you.”

Source: Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day

“When the Lord opens a door, walk through it. If He doesn’t, just trust.”

“Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ’s pursuit of us.”

“As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr’s death seems like normal obedience.”

“I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement. I feel that Christ would admit into discipleship anyone who sincerely desired to follow him, and allow that disciple to make his creed out of his experience; to listen, to consider, to pray, to follow, and ultimately to believe only those convictions about which the experience of fellowship made him sure.”

“We don't ask any people to throw away any good they have got; we only ask them to come and get more. What if all the world should embrace this Gospel? They would then see eye to eye, and the blessings of God would be poured out upon the people, which is the desire of my whole soul.”