Nothing surprises God. What puzzles us is permitted by our Lord, for reasons too profound to grasp. It is put together in the counsel of His own will so that it fits perfectly into His plan for His glory and for His purposes.
–Charles Swindoll

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
– Helen Keller

The temple of glory is built on the threshing-floor of affliction.
–Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
–Henry Ward Beecher

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
– John Ruskin

Worry says, The outcome depends on me. It is self-worship. Prayer says, The outcome depends on God. It is God-worship.
–Bill Patterson

One of Wellington’s officers, when commanded to go on some perilous duty, lingered a moment as if afraid, and then said, Let me have one clasp of your all-conquering hand before I go; and then I can do it. Seek the clasp of Christ’s hand before every bit of work, every hard task, every battle, every good deed. Bend your head in the dewy freshness of every morning, ere you go forth to meet the day’s duties and perils, and wait for the benediction of Christ, as He lays His hands upon you. They are hands of blessing. Their touch will inspire you for courage and strength and all beautiful and noble living.
–J. R. Miller

God’s care for us is more watchful and more tender than the care of any human father could possibly be.
–Hannah Whitall Smith

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
– Isak Denison

He will bring me safe to heaven at last, unhurt by the way.
–Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Every work of God can be traced to some kneeling form.
–Dwight L. Moody

Some of you are going through trials right now that have dropped you on your knees. At the same time those trials are pulling you closer to the Lord than you’ve ever been in your life. That ought to bring rejoicing. You’ll be more closely linked to Him. Some of the mysterious themes threaded through His Word will become clearer because you have been leveled by some unexpected affliction or enduring persecution or facing misunderstanding.
–Charles Swindoll

We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes; we count on God’s love for our present needs; but we count on God’s sovereignty for the future.
–Augustine

When God moves into our lives, no obstacle can stop him.
–Jim Cymbala

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

Faith does not struggle; faith lets God do it all.
–Corrie ten Boom

God has charged Himself with full responsibility for our eternal happiness and stands ready to take over the management of our lives the moment we turn in faith to Him.
–A. W. Tozer

As a mother, my job is to take care of the possible and trust God with the impossible.
–Ruth Bell Graham

He has a shepherd’s heart, beating with pure and generous love that counted not His life-blood too dear a price to pay for our ransom. He has a shepherd’s eye, that takes in the whole flock, and misses not even the poor sheep wandering away on the mountains cold. He has a shepherd’s faithfulness, which will never fail nor forsake, nor leave us comfortless, nor flee when He sees the wolf coming. He has a shepherd’s strength, so that He is well able to deliver us from the jaw of the lion or the paw of the bear. He has a shepherd’s tenderness–no lamb so tiny that He will not carry it; no saint so weak that He will not gently lead; no soul so faint that He will not give it rest. He pities as a father. He comforts as a mother. His gentleness makes great. He covers us with His feathers, soft and warm and downy; and under His wings do we trust.
–F. B. Meyer

God is our refuge, and what comfort that brings! He is your refuge when you awaken in the night filled with fear, and cold sweat breaks out. He is your refuge, your strength, a very present help when events transpire that you cannot understand.
–Charles Swindoll

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments, but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
– Joseph Addison

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
–Emily Dickinson

God walks with us. . . . He scoops us up in His arms or simply sits with us in silent strength until we cannot avoid the awesome recognition that yes, even now, He is there.
–Gloria Gaither


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Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer. ~Psalms 19:14