Right now I am like the unborn baby in the womb, knowing nothing except the comforting warmth of the amniotic fluid in which I swim, the comforting nourishment entering my body from a source I...

Fanya kazi kwa bidii na maarifa!

She was prisoner to an old, forgotten god, kept from her home, probably never to see it again, and yet… the way she sat, poised, calm, clear like a full moon night, she seemed much...

God draws near to the brokenhearted. He leans toward those who are suffering. He knows what it feels like to be wounded and abandoned.

Maombi yako yasipojibiwa usikate tamaa, Mungu alishakusikia na tayari alishaandaa malaika wa kukuletea jibu. Jibu wakati mwingine huchelewa kufika kwa sababu ya nguvu za giza. Usiwe na haraka, muda wako ukifika utajibiwa.

By then I wasn’t just asking questions; I was being changed by them. I was being changed by my prayers, which dwindled down nearer and nearer to silence, which weren’t confrontations with God but with...

Scripture, empowered by God’s Spirit, is the instrument that brings people to salvation.

I have taken all my good deeds and all my bad deeds, and cast them … in a heap before the Lord, and fled from both, and betaken myself to the Lord Jesus Christ, and...

The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.

One way to be sure you are not making the wrong decision, is to lookvertically upwards

If you can grasp those two truths—you are made in His image and dependent on Him—you will discover a great dignity and at the same time a profound humility.

It is symptomatic of the constricting specialism and the oppressive burden of fact of our time that it has been left to the imagination of a novelist, Marguerite Yourcenar, to create the broadest, the most...

Beware of worldliness—it can turn your heart away from God.

The home is the most ritualized place in a society; each house is like a religious order with its own ceremonies.

Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens—even when things go wrong.

Ik zou een héél boek willen schrijven over een kiezelsteen en over een paars viooltje. Ik zou met één enkele kiezelsteen heel lang kunnen leven en een gevoel kunnen hebben in Gods machtige natuur te...

Audacious faith is not passive. Neither is audacious prayer. Every aspiration you have in prayer needs an accompanying action. Otherwise you’re not really praying. You’re just pontificating.You do the natural. Trust God for the super.

Embracing the LightCollected bits of truthShimmering sparksShards of lightMergeHealingRestoringBursting BrightRisingin divine ecstatic flame.

…she did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously if He himself never had.

That’s for God sure. People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

God sovereignly controls every detail of your life, which should be a great comfort to you.

Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.

You don’t need to understand. You need only to obey and then reap the blessings of that obedience.

We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves. Sure, we can pretend to stay true to ourselves, but if...

Then Gai told me about the famous cup of the heart, which I should now begin to empty. The Sufiscompare our spiritual heart, the seat of God within us, with a cup into which the...

I’d rather apologize to you for not being who you want me to be than apologize to God for not being who I should be.

We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.

God is our final say in who and what’s negative and who and what’s positive in our lives. It is best not to have this so over-simplified as the illusioned superstitionists have it; an infinite...

Death is God when love is mine.Prayer preys when we’re divine

A sheep walking in a dark forest one sheep found him and bring him to shepherds house but he didn’t realize there still wolves in that place, he run into the dark forest and still...

I think that’s part of the calling God has given me — that if you’re willing and faithful to do the work God will give you the strength and guidance needed.

Your only limitations are those that you impose upon yourself

God is wanting to use this generation to shine the light of Jesus into this world, and the wait is over.

Negativity is a debilitating disease. It is a slow and painful way to experience life. It attacks the immune system, creates anxiety, and can lead to loneliness and depression. Finding your inner harmony is the...

God transforms us one area at a time.

Decision decides destiny. What God wants you to become is the positive person you decide to become when led by God’s spirit.

If we never had the courage to take a leap of faith, we’d be cheating God out of a chance to mount us up with wings like eagles and watch us soar.

The real form of abuse is not a physical torture; it’s mismanagement of purpose by misunderstanding God!

Time is the secret language of God which no one can understand.

Your local dreams contain global elements; think global. On no account should you settle with a crowd when God has called you for multitudes! Dare to dream big!

Rule 1 for Mortals: Love the Lord your God (with every bit of you). Rule 2 for Mortals: Love your neighbor as yourself. Tip 1 for Mortals: Ask God to call your bluffs.

Diabolical forces are formidable. These forces are eternal, and they exist today. The fairy tale is true. The devil exists. God exists. And for us, as people, our very destiny hinges upon which one we...

Within biblical theology it remains the case that the one living God created a world that is other than himself, not contained within himself. Creation was from the beginning an act of love, of affirming...

Though sleep was dearly needed, it was not welcomed, for even in sleep I was tormented.

Only a prostitute will trade her valuables for money, so you shouldn’t sell your God given ideas and talents for money, because you don’t own it in any way but should be by a divine...

Saying of the ProphetThe BequestI have nothing to leave you except my family.

It used to be said that God could create anything except what would be contrary to the laws of logic. The truth is that we could not say what an “illogical” world would look like.

Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.

Come, my child,” I said, trying to lead her away. “Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look for blackberries.””Good-bye, poor hare!” Sylvie obediently repeated, looking over her shoulder at it as we...

Money should not direct you to what to do and what not to do; the giver of the money is responsible for playing that role.