Right is right even if no one is doing it and wrong is wrong even if everyone else is doing it!
We must never put a question mark where God has put a period.
Precious memories must be arranged ahead of time.
It is the clouds that make a beautiful sunset.
In the Garden, Jesus fought the greatest battle ever fought and won. Napoleon fought a great battle at Waterloo and lost. Napoleon fought because of the love of power and Jesus fought because of the power of love.
Said of the Roman army: They never became over-elated with victory, nor too cast down with defeat.
Truth never hurts unless it has to!
The Gospel is good news for bad people and bad news for good people.
Pardon has no value unless the person to whom it is offered will accept it. (A convict on “Death Row” preferred to die.)
What Jesus preached on the mountain, He practiced on Calvary.
To do wrong is to sin, to defend wrong is iniquity.
One pound of pottery clay is worth more than one ton of ordinary clay.
Roses are gathered for perfume at the darkest time of the night because, at that time, there is twice the fragrance.
Farmers know they will never get all the grain but God will not let one kernel fall to the ground (Amos 9:9)
Christ is our Standard of Righteousness: the Plumbline (Amos 7:7-8). When some are confronted with the Lord’s message, they see the wall; honest hearts see the plumbline. As one woman said, “It is SO right”.
Scientists cannot explain the Gulf Stream: where it begins, etc. But they know this warm water in a cold ocean affects every country it touches. This is like God’s love and God’s way in a cold old world.
I don’t have a subject, but I hope I have an object.
God gathers us together because He loves us, but He sends us forth (as from convention, etc.) because He loves the world.
A harbour is a safe place for ships but staying in the harbour is not what ships were made for; we must sail on. A ship that is sailing empty is sailing dangerously, and so is a ship that is overloaded (load could be the cares of life, etc.)
God without man is still God but man without God is nothing.
Signs don’t tell us of a smooth road ahead but warn of the pitfalls: the hills, the curves, or the rough spots. We need to heed God’s warnings.
The help we can give someone today might be the very help we will need from someone else tomorrow.
There will be no pride in Eternity. Who could be proud in a lost eternity? And who could be other than humble in the presence of God?
Instead of looking at the world and wishing we had what they have, we should realize it is all vanity, and wish they had what we have!
God loved His Son so much that He wanted a whole family just like Him.
True compassion is when your pain is in my heart.
The world seeks satisfaction in pleasure; the Lord’s people find pleasure in their satisfaction.
If we are near to God, it is easier to look at life the way He does.
If I should be arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict me?
The heart of us is the part of us that tells us whether we are right or wrong.
He is not a fool who gives what he can never keep to gain that which he can never lose.
Because Jesus took our place on the cross, he wants us to do some of the things he would be doing if he were here.
A friend knows all about us and loves us just the same.
A wise person will give up anything for Him, but won’t give up Him for anything.
We can’t begin too soon because we don’t know how soon it will be too late.
Death is part of the plan of life.
People’s lives can be UNused, MISused, or WELL used.
Our salvation and our influence cannot be destroyed by death.
Steam, as it rises from the kettle, is of no use. But steam controlled can run locomotives, much as the control of Christ in a life.
Despite all we hear these days about inflation, our life ‘buys’ as much today as it ever did. God wants us to use it to purchase a safe place in Eternity.
Life is hard by the yard, but it’s a cinch by the inch.
Death is not an exit, it’s an entrance.
Instead of living for things ‘under the sun’, we should live for the things ‘beyond the sunset’. (Not like the baseball star who went from ‘hero to zero’ in one year!)
Just think of touching another shore and finding it Heaven; of taking a hand and finding it God’s hand; of going beyond the storm and tempest and finding an unbroken calm; and of waking up and finding it HOME!
Some older people make choices that spoil their past, and some younger people make choices that spoil their future.
When God speaks, you can’t speak back!
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