Quotes by Topic

Friends

• Henri Nouwen
• Warren G Harding
  

Hope

• Max Lucado
  

Humor

Peace

• George Bernard Shaw
• Helen Keller
• Thich Nhat Hanh
• William Ury
  

Quotes by Author

Amy Carmichael

• God's presence
  

Ben Patterson

• Start with God no matter what mess your life is in
  

C. S. Lewis

• Lucy and Aslan in Prince Caspian
• No ordinary people
• Christianity does not want
• Crooked sticks
• If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy
• Different boy
• To easily pleased
  

George Bernard Shaw

• Peace, war
  

Henri Nouwen

• Friends, grief, pain

JI Packer

• God knows me
  

Max Lucado

• Hope as dependence on God
  

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Friendship is not the outstretched hand
  

Warren G. Harding

• Friends, exile, family

God's Presence

My servant, I have come into the house --

I, who know pains extremity so well.

That there can never be the need to tell

His power to make the flesh and spirit quail.

Have I not felt the scourge, the thorn, the nail?

And I, his Conqueror, am in the house.

Let not your heart be troubled, do not fear.

Why shouldst thou, child of Mine, if I am here?

My touch will heal thy songbird's broken wing

And he shall have a braver song to sing.

Amy Carmichael

God knows me

What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it -- the fact that He knows me. I am graven on the palms of His hands. I am never out of His mind . . . . He knows me as a friend, one who loves me; and there is no moment when His eye is off me, or His attention distracted from me, no moment, therefore, when His care falters.

. . . There is tremendous relief in knowing that His to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on a prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me.

JI Packer
Knowing God

Friendship is not the outstretched hand

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Start with God no matter what mess your life may be

It is never as important to God where you are on the journey, as it is that you are indeed on the journey. Where you are going is what matters to God, not where you happen to be at the moment. You may start with God no matter what mess your life may be at the present time.

Ben Patterson

Waiting

Crooked Sticks

The good news of the Gospel is that God draws straigt lines with crooked sticks.

CS Lewis