"We need to stop using God and start being used by God!”- Holly Auvenshine
"If you kneel before God you can stand before anything." -- Unknown
"If you are facing the light, you will never see the shadows." - Helen Keller
God does nothing, but in answer to prayer. John Wesley
"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."--Corrie ten Boom
"Courage is fear that has said its prayers." -- Karl Barth
God answers knee mail.
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better. Tryon Edwards
True whole prayer is nothing but love. Stephen Foster
Prayer- the most precious occupation of your life. Stephen Foster
Prayer is nothing more than an ongoing and growing love relationship with God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Stephen Foster
The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. John Ruskin.
There are many things worse than war
and they all come from losing the war.
Stew, Tender Warriors
Persistence is moving ahead with what we have and who we are, not worrying over what we do not have, or trying to pretend we are someone else
--- it is dogged forward movement, no matter how slow or stumbling, no matter how perilous the path ahead.
---- it is disregard for the circumstances all around us while focusing wholeheartedly on the goal in front of us.
--- it is not weakened by yesterday’s slow progress but is strengthened to think that today the journey may end in overcoming victory. And if not, tomorrow becomes a new today, full of more potential for breakthrough.
"Do not pray for challenges equal to your strength, but pray for strength equal to your challenges."
"Don’t focus on missionaries or missions but the lost."
"You don't need to see the way if you follow the
One who IS the Way!" -- Unknown
A vision without implementation is a dream.
“Prayer isn’t about getting things from God, .... Rather, prayer is primarily about getting God himself. Dallas Holm reflecting on prayer when his wife had cancer
What we lack is not time, but heart.
--Henri Boulard
People seek God’s hand and not his face. That is, we too often seek what God can do for us and not what we can do for God.
Most people want to serve God, but only in an advisory capacity.
Faith is the Holy Spirit’s power of God in us as we do His will.
Pray like it depends on God.
Work like it depends on you.
"This
is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son."
Jesus
Bible Verses on Prayer:
But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. Matt 6:6
And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Matt 6:7
"Is it not written: " 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations' Mark 11:17
I
always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers. Philemon
1:4
The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. Elijah was a man just like us. James 5:16-17
If we really want to do something, we’ll find a way; if we don’t we’ll find an excuse. Anonymous
You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him.
It's hard to stumble when you're on your knees.
Prayer: Don't give God instructions just report for duty!
You cannot change what you will not acknowledge.
You can’t change the past,
you can change your future.
A
mighty oak is nothing but a little nut who held it's ground.
"....this tenacity, that is given to those
of long and insistent vision, is what saves nations. "
May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart.
May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace.
May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain in to joy.
And may God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done. Franciscan blessing