Inspirational Thought

If life be short, then moderate your worldly cares and projects; do not cumber yourselves with too much provision for a short voyage.-
Thomas Manton

He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end.-
Thomas Adams

There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life; it is to accept and do the will of God.-
William Barclay

When Jesus cried, "It is finished," He did not take away the conflict, the contest, the fight. No! He took away only your defeat.
Ira Taylor

The resurrection never becomes a fact of experience until the risen Lord lives in the heart of the believer.-
Peter Marshall

Sin is not misfortune; sin is not error or ignorance. Sin is a choice against what you know pleases God. If you lose this meaning of sin, you lose the beauty of forgiveness.-
Robert H. O’Bannon

It seemed to me that God had looked over the whole world to find a man who was weak enough to do His work, and when He at last found me, He said, "He is weak enough- he’ll do." All God’s giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His being with them.
J. Hudson Taylor (when someone complimented him on founding the China Inland Mission)

Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.
C. S. Lewis

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father’s hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.
William Barclay

No man ever enters heaven until he is first convinced that he deserves hell.
John Everett

If God commands something, that is the highest evidence that we can do it.
Charles G. Finney

When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.
C. S. Lewis

He is a path, if any be misled;
He is a robe, if any naked be;
If any chance to hunger, His is bread;
If any be a bondman, He is free;
If any be but weak, how strong is He!
To dead men life is He, to sick men, health;
A pleasure without loss, a treasure without stealth.-
Giles Fletcher

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. - Albert Schweitzer

There is just one thing more I wish I could give you. It is the religion of our Lord Jesus Christ. With it, if you had nothing else, you could be happy. Without it, though you had all things else, you could not be happy. - Patrick Henry

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God. -Monica Baldwin

I believe in the sun even when it isn’t shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when He is silent.
Jewish refugee, World War II, Poland

The truth about man is that he needs to be loved the most when he deserves it the least. Only God can fulfill this incredible need. Only God can provide a love so deep it saves from the depths. - Unknown

What I have today I have because of His mercy. I did not earn it. I do not deserve it. I did not pay for it. I have no rights to it. I cannot keep it except for one thing- God’s mercy. - David Crosby

What a pity that so many people are living with so few friends when the world is full of lonesome strangers who would give anything just to be somebody’s friend. - Milo L. Arnold

When a person forgives another, he is promising to do three things about the intended wrongdoing: not to use it against the wrongdoer in the future; not to talk about it to others; and not to dwell on it himself. - Jay Adams

Men who fear God face life fearlessly. Men who do not fear God end up fearing everything. - Richard Halverson

The only way to live your last day as you would want to, is to live like that all the time.- Vaughan Garwood

Do not, therefore, please yourself with thinking how piously you would act and submit to God in a plague, a famine, or persecution, but be intent upon the perfection of the present day, and be assured that the best way of showing a true zeal is to make little things the occasion of great piety. - William Law

Do not let us fail one another in interest, care and practical help; but supremely we must not fail one another in prayer. - Michael Baughen

We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship. - Johann Von Schiller

Patience with ourselves is a duty for Christians and the only humility. For it means patience with a growing creature whom God has taken in hand and whose completion he will effect in his own time and way. - Evelyn Underhill

He overcomes the frustration of the times whose plans and purposes belong to God. - Unknown

To love God is something greater than to know him. - Thomas Aquinas

God instructs the heart, not by ideas, but by pains and contradictions. - Jean Pierre de Caussade

Our love for God is tested by the question of whether we seek Him or His gifts. - Ralph W. Sockman

It isn’t the Devil in humanity that makes man a lonely creature, it’s his Godlikeness. It’s the fullness of the Good that can’t get out or can’t find its proper “other place” that makes for loneliness. - Unknown

If only we knew how to look at life as God sees it, we should realize that nothing is secular in the world, but that everything contributes to the building of the Kingdom of God. - Michel Quoist