Thoughtful Thursday

"Contentment should be the hallmark of the man or woman who has put his or her affairs in the hands of God."

~Phillip Keller

Thoughtful Thursday

"Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile."

~~Wilfred T. Grenfell~~

Weighing the Cost

I had feelings of fear about the future...The devil kept on whispering, "It's all right now, but what about afterward? You are going to be very lonely"....And I turned to my God in a kind of desperation and said "Lord, what can I do? How can I go on to the end?" And He said, "None of them that trust in Me shall be desolate." That word has been with me ever since.

Amy Carmichael
Biography And Bibliography
On 'weighing the cost' of full time missionary work

Thought Provoking Thursday

You have to be different to make a difference. You cannot change anything by adding more of the same. 

- Jim Berg, Changed Into His Image

Thought Provoking Thursday

“The Holy Spirit operates upon the heart through the truth. He gives it a personal application; brings it home to the heart and conscience, and makes it effectual in changing the heart and life.”

Thought Provoking Thursday

A desire to glorify God must, then, be the ruling principle of all our conduct, the moving spring of all our actions. The moon reflects the glory of the sun just as we are to reflect the glory of God.

Thought Provoking Thursday

"A person who is not skilled at being attentive and reflective can never be biblically wise; he cannot be godly."

- Jim Berg, Changed Into His Image

Thought Provoking Thursday

"When you and I walk by the Spirit, our life is characterized not by fretting, panic, and anxiety, but by the quiet peace that comes with trusting God." 

~Elizabeth George

Thought Provoking Thursday

"God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever."

- Vance Havner

Thought Provoking Thursday

"Before dawning we must have darkness; before healing, sickness must be present; before desire fulfilled must be longing unmet."

Thought Provoking Thursday

  Contentment is keeping our eyes focused on Christ, the daily forgetting of self, and being an instrument of Christ to those around us - while finding joy in serving others.

Thought Provoking Thursday

"How much faith you have is dependent upon how well you know the object of your faith...If you have little knowledge about God and His Word, you will have little faith."

~ Neil T. Anderson

Thought Provoking Thursday

The truths that I know best
I have learned on my knees.
I never know a thing well, till it is
burned into my heart by prayer.
-John Bunyan
"Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation,
be constant in prayer."
-Romans 12:12

Thought Provoking Thursday

"Anything that dims my vision of Christ or takes away my taste for Bible study or cramps my prayer life or makes Christian work difficult is wrong for me, and I must, as a Christian, turn away from it."

~ J. Wilbur Champman

Thought Provoking Thursday

"Character is not made during a crisis, it is only exhibited."

Thought Provoking Thursday

"The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. The world has enough women who know how to be brilliant. It needs some who will be brave. The world has enough women who are popular. It needs some who are pure. We need more women, and men too, who would rather be morally right than socially correct."

Thought Provoking Thursday

 "If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."
~Frank Clark

Thought Provoking Thursday

Allowing fear to hold you back from going forward will ultimately lead to more fear and failure.

Thought Provoking Thursday

“After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. After every storm, there comes clear, open skies.” 
~ Samuel Rutherford

Thought Provoking Thursday

"Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern--it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that...one stitch at a time, taken patiently."

--Oliver Wendell Holmes