#christian-living

"Two natures beat within my breastThe one is foul, the one is blessedThe one I love, the one I hate.The one I feed will dominate.-Anonymous"

"The darker side of the City tried to emphasize the selfish parts of me by encouraging my sense of entitlement and my desire for personal space. But God seemed to whisper that the alternative existed: to let Him grow humility and concern for others in a way I had never experienced, to live out His peace amid whirling chaos. (p.67)"

"We are not asked to SEE,"said Amy. "Why need we when we KNOW?"We know--not the answer to the inevitable Why, but the incontestable fact that it is for the best. "It is an irreparable loss, but is it faith at all if it is 'hard to trust' when things are entirely bewildering?"

"The Word of God is my life's manual."

"CONCERNED BUT NOT CONSUMED!"

"Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them."

"Rejection is an opportunity for your selection."

"We may have done what the devil said we did, but we are NOT who the devil says we are!"

"When you make the dream of your heart a treasure of heaven, it holds an eternal value."

"Sustainable- Nutritious Eating/Living has a Higher Purpose."

"Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us."

"Like an athlete trains, so must the student of life."

"It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’ve wasted it!” then I would need to press all the way in, and all the way up, to the ultimate purpose of God and join him in it. If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God’s passion."

"God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life."

"On the concept of unity- “Thatʼs right-Jesusʼ most pressing concern beforeleaving the earth was our unity. He was looking ahead, to every generation ofbeliever. And as he prayed, he made it clear that our witness as his body in thisfractured , messed-up, chaotic world would depend on our love for another."

"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. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can."

"If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be."

"Sometimes you must stand still in order to get moving to where GOD wants you to go."

"As long as you do things for God, you are a Hall of Famer in heaven's list."

"What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God."