📚“Rest is a weapon given to us by God. The enemy hates it because he wants us to be stressed and occupied.” [Elisabeth Elliot]

 📚 “Patient, literally; ‘to remain under’. That is, to remain under the test in a God honoring-manner, eager to learn the lessons it was sent to teach." [Kenneth Wuest]

 📚 “Thomas Edison, the prolific American inventor, suffered a devastating loss. A fire damaged everything. The next morning walking around the charred embers he said, ‘There is value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Now we can start anew.’" [Unknown Source]

 📚 “Establish Your word to Your servant, as that which produces reverence for You.” [Ps 119:38]

 📚 “All Bible prophecy relates to four great themes-the rebirth of Israel, the realignment of nations, the rapture of the church, and the return of Christ. There are increasing indications in all four areas that end times are closing in.” [John Phillips]

 📚 “We derive our existence solely from God; we depend on him every instant for life, activity, being itself. Without Him we should neither continue to live, nor be as such we are, nor have been at all." [Horacio B. Hackett]

 📚 “A mind convinced against itself is of the same mind still.” [Unknown Source]

📚 “The emotions and affections do not obey a determination of the will. A change of purpose, therefore, is not a change of heart.” [Charles Hodge]

 📚 “A person's works are an unmistakable mark of where his loyalties lie. Salvation is by grace, but character in the end will test the fruit…”[Robert Thomas on Rev 20:12]

 📚 “All that glitters is not gold; truth is not always identical to appearances.” [Unknown Source]

 📚 “Our best work is always the result of long preparation, and it is only thus that we can pass on the lessons that God teaches us.” [W.H. Griffith Thomas]

  📚 “The human intellect is as erring as the human heart. We can no more find truth than holiness, when estranged from God.” [Charles Hodge]

 📚 “It is the prerogative of God to bring good out of evil, and to make the good triumph over evil.” [Charles Hodge]

 📚 “God controls all history and makes all prophecy come to pass and in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.” [Thomas McCall and Zola Levitt]

📚 “Joseph was compelled to wait for deliverance. The delay he suffered teaches us that all events are under the Providence of God, that this providence meshes indisputably human affairs in its outworking.” [Harold G. Stivers on Genesis 41]

 📚 “We call this the ‘Providence of God’, and we do well; and the true Christian heart will always love to trace the hand of God in the ordinary everyday experiences of life.”  [Unknown Source]

 📚 “Underlying every prophecy is the reality of God’s hand in history and to remind mankind of Who is in charge.” [Robert Thomas]

 📚 “If you would lift me, you must be on higher ground.” [Emerson]

📚 “We have lost natural moral ability. What we lack is the moral ability to choose the things of God.” [Edwards]

 📚 “Flattery is like perfume- sniff it, don’t swallow it.” [Alistair Begg]

 📚 “The last experience of the sinner is the horrible enslavement of the freedom he desired.”  [C.S. Lewis]

 📚 “Only on earth are there trees. Trees have life!”[Dr Neil de Grasse Tyson]

 📚 “The time you know what to do and the time you do what you need to do, is the interval of time Satan speaks to you.” [Robert Jeffress]

 📚 “The hour is coming when we shall be astonished to think what mere trifles were once capable of discouraging us.” [John Newton]

 📚 “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” [Sir Walter Scott]

📚 “We can not condone what God has condemned.” [Robert Jeffress]

 📚 “Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” [Unknown Source]

 📚 “God never withholds from is children that which His love and wisdom call good. God’s refusals are always merciful- ‘severe mercies’ at times but mercies all the same” [Elisabeth Elliot]

 📚 "But if any of you lacks wisdom, let them ask God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him." [James 1:5]

 📚 "Rest is a weapon given to us by God. The enemy hates it because he wants us to be stressed and occupied." [Elizabeth Elliot]

 📚 "If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you'll be at rest." [Corrie Ten Boom]

 📚 "In my judgment they are happiest, who have the lowest thoughts of themselves, and in whose eyes Jesus is most glorious and precious." [John Newton]

 📚 "However great my troubles are, they are not as great as my Father's power. However difficult my circumstances may be, yet all things around me are working together for good." [Charles Spurgeon]

📚  “For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.” [Phil 1:6]

📚  “‘My grace is sufficient for you’, these words should be engraved on the palm of every believers hand.” [Charles Hodge on 2 Cor 12:9]

 📚  “God’s works of Providence are His most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all His creatures and all their actions.” (Source: Westminster Shorter Catechism) [Heb 1:3, Col 1:17, Acts 17:28 John 1:3]

 📚  " The greatest sin of all is that we take glory to ourselves instead of giving credit to God. When we do well we think it is our achievement. When we do badly we think it is somebody else’s fault. It is the perspective of fallen humanity…” [James Montgomery Boice on Dan 1:4-37]

📚  “…from Jesus’ correction of the woman we learn that her response was still sub-Christian. The woman confused the human family of Jesus with the family of God.” [C. Marvin Pate on Luke 11:27]

 📚 "Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt, and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and His ways just, and He is able to humble those who walk in pride." [Dan 4:37]

 📚 "In salvation I am always the recipient, the donee, never the donor. If I try to donate anything with respect to becoming a Christian, then I have added a work, and salvation is no longer solely and purely of grace." [Charles Ryrie]

 📚 "Faith is the resting of the heart on God, the Author of life and eternal salvation, so that we may be saved from all evil through Him..." [William Ames 1576-1633]

 📚 "Perhaps the one thing that exercises Christians as much as anything else is that of unanswered prayers." [Arthur Pink]

 📚 "Be careful; understand what you love, for what you love will lead you." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "Make sure your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have, for He Himself has said, "I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you." [Heb 13:5]

 📚 "Your future needs you more than your past ever will." [Unknown Source]

  📚 "Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction." [President Ronald Reagan]

 📚 "We would be more grateful if we knew how much of what we take for granted is planned by God." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "How inconsistent! To acknowledge that I am blind, to entreat Him to lead me, and yet to want to choose my own way in the same breath!" [John Newton]

📚 "Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them." [Ps 139:16]

 📚 "If you understand that God is using the difficulties you face to mature you, you will be at peace." [John McArthur]

 📚 "The Lord is aware of the temptations His children face. He is not detached from the events that come upon His own. Through His Holy Spirit, believers can overcome whatever comes against them." [Dr. Mal Couch on 1 Cor 10:13]

 📚 "Christian liberty should not lead to self-indulgence and spiritual compromise." [Dr. Mal Couch on 1 Cor 10:6]

 📚 "Religious profession, social prestige, and human mortality can be no substitute for spiritual regeneration." [Merrill Unger on  John 3]

 📚 "Feeding the spiritual man is not something you decide - it is something you do ." [David Jeremiah]

 📚 "Love, is both a noun and a verb, yet 'Truth' is never a verb." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "We walk by faith not by sight. We believe, but do not see things which governs our lives." [Charles Hodge on 2 Cor 5:7]

 📚 "Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out, patience is genius." [Comte de Buffon]

  📚 "Dear Lord, may those who love us, love us, and those who don't, may you turn their hearts, and if you don't turn their hearts, may you turn their ankles so we will know them by their limping." [Unknown Source]

 📚 “Better is a dish of vegetables where love is than a fattened ox served with hatred.” [Prov 15:17]

 📚 “The work of our hands through grace, becomes the work of His hands, which He is bound to accomplish, so that eternity, not time, becomes the real gauge of our life’s work.” [Merrill Unger on Ps 90:17]

 📚 “The hammers of infidels have been pecking away at the Bible for ages, and the anvil of the Word still endures.” [H.L. Hastings]

 📚 “Lord, I have thanked you a million times for my roses, but never once have I thanked you for my thorn.” [Unknown Source]

 📚 “Everyone thinks forgiveness is a good idea until they have someone to forgive.” [C.S. Lewis]

 📚 " Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace, comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word. [2 Thess 2:16-17]

 📚 “Pain is often an instrument of God’s mercy.” [Unknown Source]

 📚  “The child of God is a creature of eternal destiny. For him no day is without consequence, and no fleeting moment can be called incidental or unimportant. The hours he spends and the decisions he makes have implications that carry on into eternity. What he does today will matter a thousand years from now.” [Dave Breese]

 📚 “Truth is a hard master and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.” [Unknown Source]

📚 “If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” [Unknown Source]

 📚 "Stop regarding man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils; For why should He be esteemed?" [Isaiah 2:22]

 📚 "Ill that He blesses is our good, And unblest good is ill; And all is right that seems must be wrong, If it be His sweet will." [W.F. Faber]

 📚 "This is my Father's world, O let me ne'er forget, That though the wrong oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet." [ M.O. Babcock]

 📚 "I would rather our children be ditch-diggers and go to heaven than some famous academic or rich person and go to hell." [Ken Ham]

  📚 "People often turn to God in a crisis, see Him move in response to their faith, and then forget Him when their situation improves." [Ed Hindson]

  📚 "...To those who are the called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:..." [Jude 1:1]

 📚 "Someone has said that Christians, the same as everyone else, should look both ways before crossing the street. Not to do so is a presumptuous test of the Sovereignty of God. [Unknown Source]

 📚 "If the great trials of our spiritual life are the means of bringing us nearer to the heart of God, they will turn out to be our greatest blessing." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "If you are wrong about Jesus it doesn't matter what you're right about." [Adrian Rogers]

 📚 "Worldliness consists in these three things: Attachment to the Outward; Attachment to the Transitory; Attachment to the Unreal." [Roberton circa, 1800's]

 📚 "For this reason I say to you, her sins, which are many, have been forgiven, for she loved much; but he who is forgiven little, loves little." [Luke 7:47]

 📚 "Old Testament prophets delivered a message from God. In the New Testament, Christ IS the message." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "God buries His workman and continues His work." [W.H. Griffith]

 📚 "Truth is not always identical to appearance." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these- It might have been." [John Greenleaf Whittier]

 📚 "The eternal God is a dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms;" [Deut 33:27a]

📚 "When obstacles and trials seem like prison walls to be, I do the little I can do, and leave the rest to Thee." [F.W. Faber]

📚 "It is not just what you know, but how you live because of what you know" [Dr. Mal Couch]

 📚 "Put your mind in gear before putting your mouth in motion." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "If there was a point where God stopped, then God wouldn't be perfect. God is eternal, no beginning, no end." [A.W. Tozer]

 📚 "For it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to do for His good pleasure." [Phil 2:13]

 📚 "If you are serious about changing your life, you will find a way. And if not you will find an excuse." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "Children are the living message we send to a time we will not see." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and His justice cannot sleep forever." [Thomas Jefferson]

 📚 "Sometimes your prayer won't fix the problem; Sometimes it fixes you, so you can handle the problem." [Unknown Source] 

 📚 "See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us that we would be called born ones of God; and we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him." [1 John 3:1]

 📚 "Humanism is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of creation under the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil: 'you will be like God.'" [Whittaker Chambers]

📚 "Before speaking ask yourself three questions. Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? [Unknown Source]

  📚 "The best way to be successful is to follow the advice you give others." [Unknown Source]

📚 "Future events should not carry us so powerfully away to the world-to-come that we ignore the needs of the present." [Spiros Zodhiates]

 📚 "There is no wisdom and no understanding and no counsel against the Lord." [Prov 21:30]

 📚 "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost." [Billy Graham]

 📚 "Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe." [Mark Twain]

📚 "Whatever troubles come on you, of mind, body, or estate, from within or from without, from friend or foe- whatever your trouble be, O children of the heavenly Father, be not afraid." [J.H. Newman 1884]  

📚 "Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter." [Paxton Hood 1921]

 📚 "You have taken account of my wanderings; Put my tears in Your bottle.  Are they not in Your book?" [Psalm 56:8]

 📚 "The hope of a hypocrite is like a spider's web; the hope of the believer is an anchor to his soul, sure and steadfast." [Rom 5:5 Charles Hodge] 

 📚 "We must look up to God through and beyond circumstances. Circumstances are only things that 'stand round' us, and they never do more than this...if only our gaze is ever fixed on God..." [W.H. Griffith]

📚 "Living God's way maybe harder for  you, but it will be easier on you." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "Satan enters into rulers, governors and kings and uses them to oppose the people of God and the Word of God." [A.D Muse]

 📚 "For to the snow He says, 'fall to the earth'. And the downpour and the rain, 'be strong'. He seals the hand of every man that all men may know His work." [Job 37:6-7]

 📚 "Nowhere in God's Book are we commanded to be successful, but we are commanded to be faithful. Man's way of working has never been God's way." [Virginia Ely]

 📚 "Neither our obligations nor our trials will go beyond our capacities. As a Just Sovereign, He proportions duty to power and as a merciful Redeemer, trials to strength." [David Thomas]

 📚 "He who seeks a friend without a fault, remains without one." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "Reflect upon 3 things and you will not come within the power of sin; (1) Know from where you come (2) Know to where you are going and (3) Before whom you will, in the future, have to give an account." [Soncino Commentary]

  📚 "As a ring of gold in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion." [Prov 11:22]

 📚 "It is never to be forgotten that contact with sin, even apart from the contamination of it, always involves a measure of suffering." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "It is no paradox that he who would advance can never cling too close to the past, nor plan too much in the future. You may spare yourself some unhappiness if you slip the book of Ecclesiastes beneath your arm." [Soncino Commentary]

 📚 "The church that can't worship must be entertained. And men who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment."  [A.W. Tozer]

 📚 "To be almost saved is to be totally lost." [Adrian Rogers]

  📚 "...and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood." [Rev 1:5]

  📚 "Old tendencies need to be corrected, old weaknesses made strong, old faults removed; And if only we yield ourselves into the hands of the great Potter He will fashion the clay, in spite of all our natural disadvantages, into vessels unto honor." [W.H. Griffith]

 📚 "Divine disposition of events or the calling of specific persons, by no means rules out human action. Election is not inconsistent with exertion." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "Over attachment to possessions never promise proper soil for the growth of the Word of God. What we put first in our lives soon masters us." [Spiros Zodhiates]

 📚 "In this TikTok age in which we live, the prophetic clock of God's Word is being muted. Many believers cannot hear it ticking toward the midnight hour because their leaders have put it in storage." [Dr. Paul Wilkinson]

 📚 "Now to Him  who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, [Jude 24]

 📚 "I'll trust in God's unchanging Word till soul and body sever: For though all things shall pass away, His word shall stand forever." [Martin Luther]

 📚 "God is never before His time but He is never behind. The clock of Divine Providence keeps strict time, and has never been known to vary either in one direction or the other. [W.H. Griffith]

 📚 "It is a merciful Providence which hides the future from our view, and calls upon us to take one step at a time, and learn the spiritual meaning and significance of each event in the retrospect of experience." [W.H. Griffith] 

 📚 “The discipline of delay is hard to bear. But the delay is not due to the fact that God grudges to bless; it is because He has other blessings in store for us than those for which we ask.” [J.D. Jones]

  📚    For who regards you as superior?  What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? [1 Cor 4:7]

 📚 "No Christian nation can be considered great which ignores the sacred book." [Fanny Crosby]

📚 "Be like a watch! Have an open face, busy hands, full of good works, pure gold and well regulated." [Unknown Source] 

 📚 "Mankind in their hostility to God, are ungodly people who have no home but earth and want no home but earth." [Lenski]

📚 "Faith sets no limits on God's power and submits itself to His will." [John D. Grassmick]

 📚 "Behold, as for the proud one, his soul is not right within him; But the righteous will live by his faith." [Habakkuk 2:4] 

 📚 "The Gospels are... portraits or paintings to present various poses of 'Jesus Christ, the Son of God' ... whether King (Matthew), Servant (Mark), Man (Luke), or God (John)".