Category: PASSION Quotes

Quotes To Ponder: Peace

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What can make those uneasy whose souls dwell at ease in God?
– Matthew Henry

That lasting peace between nations requires so much effort and attention is,
without doubt, an unmistakable sign of our fallenness as a race. 
Peace, it seems, is not our natural state. 
Rather, enmity is fundamental to the human condition.
– James S. Spiegel

If God has established peace by reconciling us both to God and to one another in Christ, then we must do all we can to embody visibly that unity and harmony
that are the hallmarks of our new life of peace.
– Philip Kenneson

The Human Heart

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HowMuchJPEGThe human heart will be filled.  If God is not the primary occupant, someone or something else will be…

To live as children of God and not as cultural clones, we need to nourish the heart with the presence of God…

An empty prayer life reflects an emptiness in life, which is to say a cluttered and distracted heart…

When the heart is given to God, mammon becomes a servant.  We can then place it among other things to be enjoyed and used in a way that honors the God to whom everything belongs…

– Arthur Simon in How Much Is Enough?

Quotes To Ponder: Hope

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Whatever a man’s past life may have been, there is hope and a remedy for him in Christ.
If he is only willing to hear Christ’s voice and follow Him, Christ is willing to receive him at once as a friend, and to bestow on him the fullest measure of mercy and grace.
– J. C. Ryle

What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going
to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.
– Rick Warren

The joy and peace of believers arise chiefly from their hopes. 
What is laid out upon them is but little, compared with what is laid up for them;
therefore the more hope they have the more joy and peace they have.
– Matthew Henry

Confident hope breeds inward joy.
– Charles Spurgeon

Quotes To Ponder

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Wherever I go, I can spread splashes of glory or showers of sin. 
What do I want to leave behind?
– Gary Thomas

The primary purpose of having hands and feet
that reach out to others is to display God’s glory.
– Gary Thomas

The greatest ethical challenge is so to live
that men don’t glorify you for living that way, but God.
– John Piper

Why Our Country’s Moral System Is Decaying

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The fatal habit of considering Christian morals as distinct from Christian doctrines insensibly gained strength.  Thus the peculiar doctrines of Christianity went
more and more out of sight, and as might naturally have been expected,
the moral system itself also began to wither and decay,
being robbed of that which should have supplied it with life and nutriment. 
– William Wilberforce

Quotes to Ponder

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Work is always healthier for us than idleness;
it is always better to wear out shoes than sheets.
— C.H. Spurgeon

If we are so impoverished that we have nothing to reveal but small talk,
then we need to struggle for more richness of soul.
– Frank Laubach

The time of every man’s death has been fixed by God.
We are safe from all risk until God is pleased to call us away.
— John Calvin

Every time you draw your breath, you suck in mercy.
—Thomas Watson

Quotes to Ponder

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Before the next hurricane, tornado, or tsunami come, nail it down:
“Even the winds and the sea obey him” (Matt. 8:27).
– John Piper

To manage a life of pain, as a believer in Jesus,
remember: This is all the hell you will ever bear. 
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne

The Lord makes his people sensible of the vanity of the present life,
by a constant proof of its miseries.
– John Calvin

There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained
only through the discipline of suffering. 
– D.A. Carson