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“Once we can accept that God is in all situations, and can and will use even bad situations for good, then everything becomes an occasion for good and an occasion for God." ~Richard Rohr

"Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us." ~Samuel Rutherford

"He is the architect of our design; His heart dream. His grace-plan is to be celebrated: He greatly endeared us and highly favored us in Christ. His love for His Son is His love for us." ~T.M.B. The Gospel is not about telling people how lost they are, but reminding them of how loved they are...

“Salvation is not a divine transaction that takes place because you are morally perfect, but much more it is an organic unfolding, a becoming who you already are, an inborn sympathy with and capacity for, the very One who created you.” ~Richard Rohr “Jesus did not come to change the mind of God...

"God's word is not under threat! In fact, if all mankind fails, truth remains intact. Truth is defined in God, it is neither challenged nor vindicated by human experience." ~Francois du Toit

“Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.” ~Charles Spurgeon “Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of...

"What does it avail you to know that there is a God, which you not only believe by faith, but also know by reason: what does it avail you to know Him - if you think little of Him? ~Thomas More “During the dark night there is no choice but to surrender control, give in to unknowing, and stop and...

"There is no way back into the Tree of Life for the natural man but by way of the flaming swords of the Lord swirling in every direction. The way is guarded; the only way to partake is by entering thru the flaming swords." ~D. E. Johnson

"Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused." ~ C.H. Spurgeon "Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. He does our praying in and for us, making...

"The gospel is absurd and the life of Jesus is meaningless unless we believe that He lived, died, and rose again with but one purpose in mind: to make brand-new creation. Not to make people with better morals but to create a community of prophets and professional lovers, men and women who would...

"Compassion is not something that simply runs out of God, it is something that God is." ~A.W.Tozer "To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself." ~A.W.Tozer

"When we live with hope we do not get tangled up with concerns for how our wishes will be fulfilled. So, too, our prayers are not directed toward the gift, but toward the one who gives it. Our prayers might still contain just as many desires, but ultimately it is not a question of having a wish...

"Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion." ~ Brennan Manning "Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable; He did not come to reform the reformable. None of those...

"What I believe is so magnificent, so glorious, that it is beyond finite comprehension. To believe that the universe was created by a purposeful, benign Creator is one thing. To believe that this Creator took on human vesture, accepted death and mortality, was tempted, betrayed, broken, and all...

Have you heard how a pearl is formed? It is truly fascinating. A foreign object, often a grain of sand, somehow makes its way into the tightly sealed crack of an oyster. Instead of spitting out this irritating object, the oyster covers it with layer upon layer of a substance secreted from its...