WHAT WOULD OTHERS SAY?

"Please don't let my heart become hard. Please show me how to evaluate the condition of my heart constantly . . . Is my heart becoming more hard and stubborn or more compassionate and merciful? Would others say, ' There goes someone with the heart of Jesus?'"



365 Pocket Prayers  p. 43
Tyndale 2010

THREE WAYS TO TREAT ENEMIES

"There are 3 ways to treat enemies . . . First, kill them! Second, get as far away from them as you can. Third, try to make them your friends. But Jesus . . . Tried a fourth way. His plan was, "'Let them kill you and keep on loving them. '"





Frank C. Laubach
Channels Of Spiritual Power  p.41
Fleming Revell  1954

WANDERING MIND 8-)

"My mind wanders. That's not a good thing. It's too small to be out there alone."

Aaron Wilburn

FOR EVERY WORD . . . 125 DIED

"Some people ignored the book, and some laughed at it, but for every word of Mein Kampf, 125 people died in World War II."





Warren Wiersbe
Key Words Of The Christian Life  p. 7/nook
Baker Books   20)

YOU CAN RUN

"You can run; but you cannot hide . . . from my prayers.

 I love you."





Lonnie West

Fifty Words Or Less  4-10-16

NOT ENOUGH FAITH?

"Usually, the courage actually to go and pray for a person is a sign of sufficient faith. Frequently our lack is not faith but compassion."



Richard Foster
Celebration Of Discipline p.49
Hodder   1980

WHEN I LEAST UNDERSTAND

"Sometimes we stand to learn the most about God from the situations we understand the least."







Beth Moore
Portraits Of Devotion  p.62
Broadman and Holman   2014