I am a huge fan of quotes….I absolutely love reading them and finding new ones to take to heart and live by. I love finding new inspiration that encourages me to be a better person. So in this blog entry, I just want to share with you some of my favorite quotations that I have come across recently. Hopefully they will touch your heart like they have mine.
“Everything is not going to be okay, it’s going to be perfect.” –Burk Parsons
“The Christian is not scared when the whole world is shaking. Your faith was born on Calvary. It can stand anything.” –Festo Kivengere
“Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.” –Corrie Ten Boom
“When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. Master it.” –John Piper
”If you are depressed, if you are down, if you have the blues, it means you are in control of your life. You aren’t paying attention to the Holy Spirit or you are exasperating yourself and exhausting yourself trying to make the Holy Spirit do in your life what you think He ought to be doing. It never occurred to us that He had a plan.” –E. V. Hill
“Christ deems his happiness completed by his people sharing it.” –Spurgeon
“What we need is a generation of heavenly minded people who see human beings and the earth not simply as they are, but as God intends them to be.” –Randy Alcorn
“But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.” –Psalm 3:3
“Because He has already been our help, we feel confidence in Him for the present and the future.” –Spurgeon
“The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.” –Francis Schaeffer
“Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told.” –Habakkuk 1:5
“I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.” – John Calvin
“God is at work in your life right now. He is directing your steps. What you thought was a setback is going to turn out to be a setup.” –Hugh Freeze
“Every sin is an attempt to fill voids.” –Simone Weil
“The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.” –Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“You are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.” -J.I. Packer
“Pray a lot, imagine big, and ask for more.” –D.A. Carson