Category: strength

Winged time glides on insensibly and deceives us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.~Ovid (43 b.c.-a.d. 17) “Hear then the parable of the sower: When anyone hears …

He who will fight the devil with his own weapons must not wonder if he finds him an overmatch.~Robert South (1634-1716) But, seeing that we have died with Christ, …

A funeral among men is a wedding feast among the angels.~Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” But He said to them, “I have food …

I believe God made me for a purpose, but He also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure. ~Eric LiddellAfter this I looked, and behold, a …

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.~Alexander Pope (1688-1744)And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at …

But in this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is likest that which in a better country is …

To let my loving Savior work in me His will, my sanctification, is what I would live for by His grace. Abiding, not striving nor struggling; looking off unto …

God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road seems dreary and endless, the skies grey …