Thomas a Kempis Quote

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If you desire to profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faithfulness.

From Isaiah 50:4-5:  “The Lord God has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word.  Morning by morning He wakens–wakens my ear to listen to those who are taught.  The Lord God has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, I did not turn backward.”

Oswald Chambers Quote

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Cleansing from sin is to the very heights and depths of our spirit if we will keep in the light as God is in the light, and the very Spirit that fed the life of Jesus Christ will feed the life of our spirits.

From 1 Thessalonians 5:23:  “May the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

From Psalm 139:11-12:  “If I say, ‘Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night,’ even the darkness is not dark to you; and the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you.”

Amy Carmichael Quote

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If God can make His birds to whistle in drenched and stormy darkness, if He can make His butterflies able to bear up under rain, what can He do for the heart that trusts Him.

From Proverbs 3:5-6:  “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight.  In all ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths.”

Charles Swindoll Quote

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Christ delivered us from slavery–slavery to a “futile way of life.”  The only way for us to be emancipated from slavery was to have someone redeem us.

From Romans 6:6:  “We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.”

Oprah Winfrey Quote

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Being human means you will make mistakes.  And you will make mistakes, because failure is God’s way of moving you in another direction.

From Psalm 40:1-3:  “I waited patiently for the Lord; He inclined to me and heard my cry.  He drew me up from the desolate pit, and out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.”

Taken From a Church Sign

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Wise men still seek Him.

From Matthew 2:10-11:  “When they saw that the star had stopped, they were overwhelmed with joy.  On entering the house, they saw the Child with Mary His mother; and they knelt down and paid Him homage.”

Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

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You can gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.  You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through his horror.  I can take the next thing that comes along.”  You must do the things you think you cannot do.

From Psalm 27:1:  “The Lord is my light and my Salvation; whom shall I fear?  The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?”

Oswald Chambers Quote

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It is a joy to Jesus when a disciple takes time to step more intimately with Him.

From John 15:4-5:  “Abide in Me as I abide in you.  Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in Me.  I am the vine, you are the branches.  Those who abide in Me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from Me you can do nothing.”