There is not a single thing that Jesus cannot change, control, and conquer because he is the living Lord." -

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.”  ~ Corrie Ten Boom (A Dutch Christian who helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust)

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Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.”  ~ George Macdonald (Scottish author, poet and Christian minister)

“A string of opinions no more constitutes faith, than a string of beads constitutes holiness.”  ~ John Wesley (Anglican cleric and Christian Theologian, co-founder of the Methodist Church)

“Talk what we will of faith, if we do not trust and rely upon Him, we do not believe in Him.”  ~ Anthony Farindon (Famous English Preacher)

“The only way to learn strong faith is to endure great trials.”  ~ George Muller (English Evangelist)

“I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.”  ~ Charles Kingsley (English Clergyman)

“When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence.”  ~ Matthew Henry (English Bible Commentator and Minister)

 God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile" - Max Lucado

God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supplies." - Hudson Taylor

Remember who you are. Don’t compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth." - Lysa Terkeurst

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.” - Corrie Ten Boom

Christ literally walked in our shoes." - Tim Keller

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength." - Corrie Ten Boom

The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us." - Billy Graham

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them." -  Elisabeth Elliot

 Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.--Michael Pritchard

Fear looks; faith jumps. Faith never fails to obtain its object. ... I am not here to entertain you, but to get you to the place where you can laugh at the impossible.--Smith Wigglesworth

Fearlessness is the first requisite of the spiritual life.--Mohandas Gandhi

Freedom lies in being bold.--Robert Frost

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.--D. H. Lawrence

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. --Robert G. Ingersoll

The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.--Allen Klein (Quotations to Cheer You Up)

 The deepest level of worship is praising God in spite of pain, trusting Him during a trial, surrendering while suffering, and loving Him when He seems distant.

You discover your identity and purpose through a relationship with Jesus Christ.” (The Purpose Driven Life)

Why Choose God’s Way?

“Instant obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible discussions.”  (The Purpose Driven Life)

“If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you’re available.”  

“Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.”  (The Purpose Driven Life)

“You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.”  

“You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.” 

One thing I have noticed in studying the Word of God, and that is, when a man is filled with the Spirit he deals largely with the Word of God, whereas the man who is filled with his own Ideas refers rarely to the Word of God. He gets along without it, and you seldom see it mentioned in his discourses.

Let us have one day exclusively to study and read the Word of God. If we can’t take time during the week, we will have Sunday uninterrupted.

 We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.”

“He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely…”

 Faith is like radar that sees through the fog — the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

I don’t know the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone.”  (The Purpose Driven Life)

The best use of life is love. The best expression of loveis time. The best time to love is now.” 

“Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.”  (The Purpose Driven Life)

“Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye…”  (The Purpose Driven Life)

Praise, Worship & Trust 

“Happy moments, PRAISE GOD. Difficult moments, SEEK GOD. Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD. Painful moments, TRUST GOD. Every moment, THANK GOD”  

“If you have ever said, “I didn’t get anything out of worship today,” you worshiped for the wrong reason. Worship isn’t for you. It’s for God. ” 

 Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”

“for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.”

“Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.”

“God never measures the mind… He always put His tape measure in the HEART”

Dear Jesus…how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.”

“Don’t bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.”

“It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.”

“Trying to do the Lord’s work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.”

“There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.”

“When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.”

“And our wise Father in heaven knows when we’re going to need things too. Don’t run out ahead of Him.”

 The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. People do what they must--in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures--and that is the basis of all human morality.--John F. Kennedy

Courageous risks are life-giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.--Joan L. Curcio

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.--Neal A. Maxwell

Do the thing you fear, then the death of fear is certain.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)

Do what you fear and fear disappears.--David Joseph Schwartz

Don't forget to pack your courage for your journey to greatness.--Dave Weinbaum

Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.--Robert F. Kennedy

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.--Erica Jong

Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.--Gerald Jampolsky

Fear ends where faith begins.--Giorgio A. Dano

 Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.--Mignon McLaughlin (The Neurotic's Notebook)

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absenceof fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts)

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.--Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.--David Ben-p

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.--Billy Graham

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.--Eddie Rickenbacker

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values.--Rollo May (The Courage to Create)

Courage is not simply another virtue, it is the true form each and every virtue takes when put into practice.--Michael Rawls (from Friday's Inspiration: The Foundation of Integrity - 6/1/2001)

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.--Ambrose Redmoon

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.--Alice M. Swaim

Courage is reclaiming your life after a devastating event robs you of your confidence and self-esteem. It is facing tomorrow with a firm resolve to reach deep within yourself to find another strength, another talent...It is taking yourself to another level of your own existence where you are once again whole, productive, special...--Catherine Britton

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.--Mark Twain

Courage is the atom of change.--Bettina R. Flores

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.--Aristotle

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.--Clare Boothe Luce (in Reader's Digest, 1979)

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.--Maya Angelou

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.--Raymond Lindquist

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things;
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear;
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings.--Amelia Earhart

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.--Ruth Gordon

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.--Winston Churchill

I tell you whenever a man stands by God, God will stand by him.

I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ.

If He laid down His life for us, is it not the least we can do to lay down ours for Him? If He bore the cross and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?

Shame on the Christianity of the nineteenth century; it’s a weak and sickly thing. Would to God we had a few men like Daniel living here today.

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian… and most of all, his family ought to know.

Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.

Work as if everything depended on you and pray as if everything depended on God.

Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.

Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.

I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.

A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.

 God loves each of us as if there were only one of us” - Augustine

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." - Chuck Swindoll

If God is your partner, make your plans BIG!" - D.L. Moody

You are the only Bible some unbelievers will ever read." - John MacArthur

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face...we must do that which we think we cannot."  - Eleanor Roosevelt

Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one." - A.W.Tozer

If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things.  It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'." - Elisabeth Elliot

There is no one who is insignificant in the purpose of God." - Alistair Begg

Relying on God has to start all over everyday, as if nothing has yet been done."  - C. S. Lewis

 The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'” - Billy Graham

This is our time on the history line of God. This is it. What will we do with the one deep exhale of God on this earth? For we are but a vapor and we have to make it count. We’re on. Direct us, Lord, and get us on our feet." - Beth Moore

1Your potential is the sum of all the possibilities God has for your life." - Charles Stanley

The greater your knowledge of the goodness and grace of God on your life, the more likely you are to praise Him in the storm." - Matt Chandler

God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises, leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God is able to take the mess of our past and turn it into a message. He takes the trials and tests and turns them into a testimony." - Christine Caine

What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God." - Rick Warren

If you can’t fly, then run, If you can’t run, then walk, If you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward." - Martin Luther King Jr.

God will meet you where you are in order to take you where He wants you to go."  - Tony Evans

 When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” —Carol Burnett

Everything that’s broken was beautiful at one time. And our mistakes make us better people.” —Jamie Hoang

We all can dance when we find music that we love.” —Giles Andreae

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” —Jimmy Dean

Nothing is impossible. The word itself says: ‘I’m possible!'” —Audrey Hepburn

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” —Audrey Hepburn

Out of difficulties grow miracles.” —Jean de la Bruyere

The best way out is always through. — Robert Frost

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” —Zig Ziglar

Life isn’t finding shelter in the storm. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” ―Sherrilyn Kenyon

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Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish.--Cecile M. Springer

 Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” – Helen Keller

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide 

“Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Chris Bradford

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” – Maya Angelou

“If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.” – Dr Roopleen

“Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires….courage.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can and you will. The difficulty of it, is why you must.” – Charles Rhoades

“Courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” – Nelson Mandela

“The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.” – Jim Hightower

“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.” – Brené Brown