"I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him. I ended up by asking God to do His work though me."
Hudson Taylor
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"Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord. "
J.I. Packer
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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children.
He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part,
but to each one He gives all of Himself as full as if
there were no others.
- A.W. Tozer
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Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best. God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best and the man will not take it.
-George McDonald
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I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to men. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book.
- Abraham Lincoln
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And what words would make the cross worth nothing? How about words like good enough, fair, tolerance, correct, personal opinion, relative, cultural, acceptable or does not hurt anyone? Wherever sin is minimized, the cross is emptied. Wherever God is ignored, the cross is emptied. Wherever you and I refuse to submit to the call of the King, the cross is emptied.
-Skip Moen and AtGodsTable.com.
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To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.
-Thomas A Kempis
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The more we depend on God the more dependable we find He is.
-Cliff Richard
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Through the clouds of midnight, This bright promise shone, I will never leave thee, Never leave thee alone.
-Anonymous
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What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer.
-Joseph Scriven
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If God is your partner, make your plans BIG!
-D.L. Moody
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Only God can fully satisfy the hungry heart of man.
-Hugh Black
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The world will never starve for want of wonders.
-Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Beauty is God's handwriting.
-Charles Kingsley
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I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
-Abraham Lincoln
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The universe is centered on neither the earth nor the sun. It is centered on God.
-Alfred Noyes
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We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God.
-St. Francis De Sales
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Without the Way there is no going; without the Truth there is no knowing; without the Life there is no living.
-Thomas A Kempis
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God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Is your place a small place? Tend it with care; He set you there. Is your place a large place? Guard it with care! He set you there. Whate'er your place, it is Not yours alone, but his Who set you there.
-John Oxenham
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I love to think of nature as an unlimited broad- casting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
-George Washington Carver
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To fall in love with God is the greatest of all romances; To seek him, the greatest adventure; To find him, the greatest human achievement.
-Raphael Simon
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Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like ens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"
-Burton Hillis
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Our God is at home with the rolling spheres, And at home with broken hearts.
-M. P. Ferguson
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If God shuts one door, he opens another.
-Irish Proverb
TODAY's Thought: Daily Devotional 
