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"The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine; and at the right time, and in the right way, is the right fruit found on it. Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus." ~Hudson Taylor
"Some people think that God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all." ~D.L. Moody
"The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a sunhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the son shines on it." ~C.S. Lewis
"When you are arguing against Him, you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all." ~ C.S. Lewis "If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him." ~C.T. Studd
"All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient." ~William Carey
"There is no work better than to please God; to pour water, to wash dishes, to be a cobbler,, or an apostle, all are one; to wash dishes and to preach are all one, as touching the need, to please God. ~William Tyndale
"I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it." ~Thomas Aquinas
"The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone...How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?" ~Martin Luther
"This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it." ~Richard Baxter
"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God." ~Corrie Ten Boom
"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength." ~Corrie Ten Boom
"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. ~Pascal
"None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full." ~Thomas Watson
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and untried." ~G.K. Chsterson
"We have a God who delights in impossibilities." ~Billy Sunday
"Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works." ~Martin Luther
"I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess. ~Martin Luther
"Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ." ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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