Hearts that are "fit to break" with love for the Godhead
are those who have been in the Presence and have looked with
opened eye upon the majesty of Deity. Men of the breaking
hearts had a quality about them not known to or understood by
common men. They habitually spoke with spiritual authority.
They had been in the Presence of God and they reported what
they saw there. They were prophets, not scribes: for the
scribe tells us what he has read, and the prophet tells us what
he has seen. The distinction is not an imaginary one. Between
the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen, there is
a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with
orthodox scribes; but the prophets, where are they? The hard
voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church
waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the
veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the Wonder that is God.
... A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God [1948]


The deeper sorrow carves into your being, the more joy
you can absorb.
Jan Coleman

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has
been done, the greater will be his power of
knowing what to do.
Benjamin Disraeli



When you judge another, you do not define them, you define
yourself.

Wayne Dyer
(1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer)

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Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

James Allen



We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the
game. Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for
obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable
Pharisaism... To your knees, man! and to your Bible! Decide
at once! Don't hedge! Time flies! Cease your insults to God,
quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and
cowardly excuses. Enlist!
... C. T. Studd (1860-1931)




"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have,
for instance."

-- Franklin P. Jones



We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have
much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in
doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing
nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days
are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

Seneca
(BC 3-65 AD, Roman Philosopher, Dramatist, Statesman)

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We
cannot force it any more than love.

William Hazlitt

The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against
anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of
virtue, the common man of comfort.

Confucius
(BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher)



In order for us to realize genuine happiness, we must be willing to court contentment every step of the way.

Sarah Ban Breathnach writes on simplicity and abundance.



"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

-- Oscar Wilde



Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is
wrong, even if everyone is for it.

William Penn



People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Victor Hugo
(1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist)



Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and
meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and
occasions, in a certain degree, and must be used and governed
with such caution as we eat and drink and refresh ourselves, or
they will bring forth in us the fruits of intemperance. But
the spirit of prayer is for all times and occasions; it is a
lamp that is to be always burning, a light to be ever shining:
everything calls for it; everything is to be done in it and
governed by it, because it is and means and wills nothing else
but the totality of the soul -- not doing this or that, but
wholly... given up to God to be where and what and how He
pleases.
... William Law (1686-1761)



Nothing is small or great in God's sight; whatever He wills
becomes great to us, however trifling, and if once the voice of
conscience tells us that He requires anything of us, we have no
right to measure its importance.
... J. N. Grou (1731-1803)



Temptations discover what we are.

Thomas á Kempis



God wants us to know that when we have Him we have
everything.
... A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)



If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have
an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

Marian Wright Edelman



Failure is not failure to meet your goal. Real failure is failure to reach as high as you possibly can. No man will ever truly know that he had succeeded until he experiences an apparent failure.

Robert Schuller



Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.

Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) was a Swiss physiognomist, theologian, and poet.