If you abundantly talk of God’s goodness, you are sure to benefit your neighbors. Many are comforted when they hear of God’s goodness to their friends.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from Spurgeon on Praise
Hope
Kids Throughout the Decades – Ravi Zacharias
In the 1950s kids lost their innocence. They were liberated from their parents by well-paying jobs, cars, and lyrics in music that gave rise to a new term—the generation gap.
In the 1960s, kids lost their authority. It was a decade of protest—church, state, and parents were all called into question and found wanting. Their authority was rejected, yet nothing ever replaced it.
In the 1970s, kids lost their love. It was the decade of me-ism dominated by hyphenated words beginning with self. Self-image, Self-esteem, Self-assertion. … It made for a lonely world. Kids learned everything there was to know about sex and forgot everything there was to know about love, and no one had the nerve to tell them there was a difference.
In the 1980s, kids lost their hope. Stripped of innocence, authority and love and plagued by the horror of a nuclear nightmare, large and growing numbers of this generation stopped believing in the future.
In the 1990s kids lost their power to reason. Less and less were they taught the very basics of language, truth, and logic and they grew up with the irrationality of a postmodern world.
In the new millennium, kids woke up and found out that somewhere in the midst of all this change, they had lost their imagination. Violence and perversion entertained them till none could talk of killing innocents since none was innocent anymore.
– Ravi Zacharias –
Strong Paths, Strong Shoes – Corrie ten Boom
If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.
– Corrie ten Boom –
God Gives Us Our Daily Bread – DL Moody
If God could set a table for His people in the wilderness, and feed three millions of Israelites for forty years, can he not give us our daily bread? I do not mean only the bread that perisheth, but also the Bread that cometh from above. If He feeds the birds of the air, surely he will feed his children made in His own image! If He numbers the very hairs of our head, he will take care to supply all our temporal wants.
– DL Moody –
No Fishing For Sin – Corrie ten Boom
When the Lord takes your sins, you never see them again. He casts them into the depths of the sea, forgiven and forgotten. I even believe that He places a sign over them that reads: “No fishing allowed.”
– Corrie ten Boom –
Heavenly Hope – William Gurnall
Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.
– William Gurnall –
Love, Forgive, Faith, and Hope – GK Chesterton
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
– GK Chesterton –
Clothe Me With Thy Might – Evan Roberts
Keep me. Lord, from fainting
In this fierce fight,
When the foe is rising,
Clothe me with Thy might.
– Evan Roberts –
The Will of God – AW Tozer
The only fear I have is to fear to get out of the will of God. Outside of the will of God, there’s nothing I want, and in the will of God there’s nothing I fear, for God has sworn to keep me in His will. If I’m out of his will that’s another matter. But if I’m in His will, He’s sworn to keep me.
– AW Tozer –
from Success and the Christian