Your Abiding with Christ when: 1. You talk to him, and listen patiently for his heart. 2. You spend time thinking about what he wants you to do. 3. You worship him with no one around. 4. You read the Bible and meditate on what it says. 5. You enjoy God's presence in your life and all day long. Secrets of a spiritual life
1. Read your Bible every day. 2. Pray all the time 3. Share your faith with everyone who doesn't know Christ.
Know that the Lord will not give up on you even if it’s the same sin you committed yesterday. When you’re truly seeking Jesus, no sin can keep you from him.
Do you really believe that what you really believe is real?
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me. He must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me, for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. Mathew 16:24-25
I chose you and appointed you that you should go out and bear fruit and that your fruit should remain John 15:16
For even the son of God came not to be served but to serve/give his life for many Mark 10:45
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." Pride and Prejudice
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. ~C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
I must be fair - for if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself. George Macdonald, The Princess and Curdie
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The good, kind people did not reflect that the road to the next duty is the only straight one, or that, for their fancied good; we should never wish our children or friends to do what we would not do ourselves if we were in their position. We must accept righteous sacrifices as well as make them. George Macdonald, The Princess and Curdie
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Remember, then, that whoever does not mean good is always in danger of harm. But I try to give everybody fair play; and those that are in the wrong are in far more need of it always than those who are in the right: they can afford to do without it. George Macdonald, The Princess and Curdie
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Shapes are only dresses, Curdie, and dresses are only names. That which is inside is the same all the time. George Macdonald, The Princess and Curdie
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening." ~ghandi
A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.
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Love does not live on words nor can it be explained by words especially the love which serves God. Simple acts of love and care keep the light of God burning. ~Mother Teresa
"Don't fear death. Fear a life not lived."
Prayer is as much or more about listening as it is talking. The Glorious Appearing
You have the power to change someone's life simply by the words that you speak. ~ Max Lucado
“We have none of us long to wait for Death. Patience, patience! He’ll be here soon enough for us all” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist pg. 210
Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the somber colors are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision. " Pg. 295
Joy and gried were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief itself arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain. " Pg. 450
The boom of every iron bell came laden with the one, deep, hollow sound---death. " Pg. 456
“I Don’t know anything about politics, but I can read my Bible; and there I see that I must feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and comfort the desolate; and that Bible I mean to follow.” Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin Pg. 79
“Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion? Is that religion which is less scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, Worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for a religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath.”" Pg. 181
“I an’t a grain afeard to die.i’d as soon die as not. Ye may whip me, starve me, burn me,---it’ll only send me sooner where I want to go.”" Pg. 375
Liberty!---electric word! What is it? Is there anything more in it than a name a rhetorical flourish? Why, men and women of America, does your heart’s blood thrill at that word, for which your fathers bled, and your braver mothers were willing that their noblest and best should die? Is there anything in it glorious and dear for a nation that is not also glorious and dear for a man?" Pg. 378