Discouraged people don’t need critics. They hurt enough already. They need encouragement. They need a refuge–a willing, caring, available someone.
From Proverbs 25:11: “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.”
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech as shallow as time.
It is the heart that always sees, before the head can see.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was a Scottish-born essayist, historian, and philosopher. He was a leading writer of the Victorian era.
Sovereignty means that ultimately God alone has the right to declare what creation should be.
From Proverbs 3:5-6: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths.”
Stanley Grenz (1950-2005) was an American theologian and Christian writer.
Dreams are renewable. No matter our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.
Dale E. Turner (1917-2006) was an American pastor and Christian writer. Many of his works shared an unfailing optimism with his readers.
A child is . . . such a knot of little purposeful nature!
Mind is a most delicate evidence. Not a soul has seen it yet.
Richard Eberhart (1904-2005) was an American poet who published more than two dozen books of poetry.
The Bible is a bottomless source of nourishment for becoming like Christ.
From Ephesians 5:8-9: “For once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Walk as children of light, for the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true.”
My books are friends, that never fail me.
A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was a Scottish-born essayist, historian, and philosopher. He was a leading writer of the Victorian era.
There is no way of deliverance from the state and condition of being in the flesh, but by the Spirit of Christ.
From Romans 8:3-4: “For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and to deal with sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.”
John Owen (1616-1683) was an English Puritan church leader and theologian.
Do all the good you can, and make as little fuss about it as possible.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer whose novels are generally considered some of the greatest published during the Victorian era.
God’s goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness.
From Psalm 23:6: “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”
William Tyndale (c. 1494 – c.1536) was an English Biblical scholar and linguist. He became a leading figure in the Protestant Reformation, and his writings were influenced by the thoughts shared from fellow reformer Martin Luther.
