“Attempt great things for God, expect great things from God.”
William Carey, the father of modern missions

“I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.”

C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy, p. 49

“I think the truth is that the belief into which I had hypnotized myself was itself too irreligious for its failure to cause any religious revolution. I had approached God, or my idea of God, without love, without awe, even without fear. He was, in my mental picture of this miracle, to appear neither as Savior nor as Judge, but merely as an magician; and when He had done what was required of Him I supposed He would simply - well, go away. It never crossed my mind that the tremendous contact which I solicited should have any consequences beyond restoring the status quo.”

C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy, p. 21

All the precious things in life involve commitment.

-Ravi Zacharias

And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he, too, is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

‭Jesus, Luke‬ ‭19‬:‭9-10‬

The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.

“It is difficult for us to see God’s hand of love in the adversities and heartaches of life because we persist in thinking, as the world does, that
happiness is the greatest good. Thus we tend to evaluate all our circumstances in terms of whether or not they produce happiness. Holiness, however, is a greater good than happiness, so God arranges and orchestrates circumstances to produce holiness before happiness. He is more concerned about our eternal than our temporal welfare and more concerned about our spiritual than our material welfare. So all the trials and difficulties, all the heartaches, disappointments, and humiliations come from His loving hand to make us partakers of His holiness.”
Transforming Grace

“I remember my affliction and my wandering,
   the bitterness and the gall.
I well remember them,
   and my soul is downcast within me.
Yet this I call to mind
   and therefore I have hope:
 
Because of the Lord’s great love we are not
       consumed,
   for his compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
   great is your faithfulness.”

“For men have no taste for it [God’s power] till they are convinced of their need of it and they immediately forget its value unless they are continually reminded by awareness of their own weakness.“

“Day by day and with each passing moment,
Strength I find to meet my trials here;
Trusting in my Father’s wise bestowment,
I’ve no cause for worry or for fear.
He whose heart is kind beyond all measure
Gives unto each day what He deems best
Lovingly, its part of pain and pleasure,
Mingling toil with peace and rest.”

Lina Sandell Berg