Getting Fed?
“Some of the best communicators of the Scriptures who I know have had people leave their churches for the express reason that they’re not being fed. I know that we are the sheep of God, and sheep require the Shepherd to feed them, but there must come a time when we become shepherds who feed others.
Is it really all about us being fed? I think it might be important to remember that over 60 percent of Amercians are overweight or even obese. Is it possible that this is also true in the arena of personal spirituality? Are we too much about us getting fed and too little about us exercising our faith?”
Erwin McManus, An Unstoppable Force, 31.
Gentleness
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength.”
–St. Francis de Sales–
“Gentleness springs from great strength.” –R.E. Phillips–
God
“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” A.W. Tozer
“God wants our attention and He knows how to get it.” –James Earl Massey–
“We spend out entire lives acting out our concept of God.” –Jack Taylor–
“I want to know God’s thoughts, the rest are details.” –Albert Einstein–
God: His Timing
“God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work.” A.W. Tozer
God’s Will
“A man has very often to decide between one good thing and another.” –George MacDonald (spoken by the character Malcolm in The Marquis’ Secret)–
“If only the next step is clear, then the one thing to do is take it! Don’t pledge your Lord or yourself to any steps beyond what you know. You don’t see them yet.”
— Amy Carmichael, Candles in the Dark, 41.
“God delights to plan for His children. No human father ever experienced such joy in planning for his child as god experiences as He plans for you. He does not want you to miss any part of His beautiful purpose for you. His plans are filled with details of blessing, joy, and wonderful surprises. David said, ‘The things you planned for us no one can recount to you; were I to speak and tell of them, they would be too many to declare'” — Wesley Duewel, Let God Guide You Daily, 16. —
Good News
“God is most glorified when we are most satisfied in Him.” –John Piper–
Goodness
“Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
As long as ever you can.
— John Wesley —
Gossip
“If you haven’t go anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.”
–Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)
Grace
“Here is a revelation bright as the evening star: Jesus comes for sinners, for those as outcast as tax collectors and for those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams. He comes for corporate executives, street people, superstars, farmers, hookers, addicts, IRS agents, AIDS victims, and even used car salesman. Jesus not only talks with these people but dines with them–fully aware that his table fellowship with sinners will raise the eyes of the religious bureaucrats who hold up the robes and insignia of their authority to justify their condemnation of the truth and their rejection of the Gospel of Grace.” –Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel, p. 20–
Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.” — John R. W. Stott —
“Perhaps the larger reason why we do not experience more of God’s grace is our misconception that, having been saved by grace, we must now, at least to some degree, “pay our own way” and earn God’s blessings in our daily lives. An accepted maxim among people today, “There is no such thing as a free lunch” (which may be true in our society), is carried by us into our relationship with God.”
–Jerry Bridges, Transforming Grace, 59–
“Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our salvation. It is difficult for our pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other people–for beggars. We don’t want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We like to think that we will go to heaven because we deserve to be there.”
R. C. Sproul, “Suffering and Merit?”
Tabletalk magazine, vol 13. no.1, Feb. 89, pg 5.
Gratitude
“God is not glorified if the foundation of our gratitude is the worth of the gift and not the excellency of the Giver. If gratitude is not rooted in the beauty of God before the gift, it is probably disguised idolatry. May God grant us a heart to delight in him for who he is so that all our gratitude for his gifts will be the echo of our joy in the excellence of the Giver!”
John Piper, A Godward Life, 214
Greatness
“The great of the kingdom have been those who loved God more than others did.”
— A.W. Tozer —
Guidance
“Too often we want a roadmap to the future rather than a relationship with the Way.”
— Henry Blackaby, Experiencing God Day by Day, 118 —
“Sometimes God will lead you to do things you will not fully understand until after you have done them. He does not usually reveal all the details of His will when he first speaks to you. Instead he tells you enough so you can implement what he has said, but witholds enough information so that you must continue to rely upon His guidance.”
— Henry Blackaby, Experiencing God Day by Day, 81. —
“‘I will guide thee with mine eye’– a glance, not a blow–a look of directing love that at once heartens to duty, and tells duty. We must be very near Him to catch that look, and very much in sympathy with Him to understand it; but when we do, we must be swift to obey.”
— Alexander Maclaren —
“God always educates downs to the scruple. Is my ear so keen to hear the tiniest whisper of the Spirit that I know what I should do?”
Oswald Chambers, (My Utmost For His Highest, May 13)
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