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One of the worst things you can give to your people is someone you're not. Charles R. Swindoll

You People Worst Someone Give Your Things

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. Charles Spurgeon

Men Difficulties Tremendous Owe Grandeur Many Lives

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me. Charles Spurgeon

The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God's loving-kindness. Charles Spurgeon

God Law Fear Victory Christ Judgment Final Our Both Through Thunder Roaring Terror Won Salvation Us Used Bring

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do. Charles Spurgeon

Hope God Prayer Reflection Else Thousand More Throne Delightful Feel Come Most Prayers Than May Anything Anything Else Defects Dissatisfied

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush. Charles Spurgeon

Men Few Own Back Dare Would Entire Entire Career Recorded Look Read Without Were Few Men Autobiography Blush Deeds Career

In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled. Charles Stanley

Service God Leadership Giving First Become Own Design Else Our Our Lives Abandon Someone Give Both Perfect Through He Put Calls Sake His Truly Selflessness According Up Child Children Places Us Interests Fulfilled Lives Desires Position

Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship. Dada Vaswani

Life Relationship Marriage Commitment Lifelong Permanent

The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference. David Jeremiah

God Humble Old Will Men Our Righteous Ourselves New Heal Make Make A Difference Testament Pray Hear Prayers Fervent New Testament Heaven Difference Land Us Old Testament Teaches

His mouth is for export and his head has no entrance. Douglas Feaver

Mouth Entrance Head His Export

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think. Douglas Horton

Life Good Think Good Life Bad

Life seeks life and loves life. The opening of a catkin of a willow, in the flight of the butterfly, in the chirping of a tree-toad or the sweep of an eagle - my life loves to see how others live, exults in their joy, and so far is partner in their great concern. Edward Everett Hale

Life Great Joy My Life Partner Live Others Willow See Seeks Opening Concern How Loves Far Sweep Flight Eagle Butterfly

Nineteen centuries would have been worth very little if we had not made some advance in welcoming the stranger, in feeding the hungry, in clothing the naked, and in caring for the prisoner. Edward Everett Hale

Worth Made Naked Prisoner Caring Nineteen Hungry Would Some Had Advance Feeding Welcoming Been Very Clothing Little Centuries Stranger

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Gentleman Brutal He Vice Who

As long as I am an American citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject, being amenable to the laws of my country for the same. Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Myself Speak Liberty Citizen Long Country Whatever Publish Please Runs Laws Shall Write Veins Am Subject Blood Amenable American Same Any American Citizen Being Hold

Truth is eternal, unchanging, though circumstances may and do operate to give a different colour to it, in our view, at different times. And truth will prevail, and those who do not yield to it must be destroyed by it. Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Debts and lies are generally mixed together. Francois Rabelais

Together Lies Generally Mixed Debts

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches. George Whitefield

Christ Our Churches Morality Mere Most Preached Heathen Jesus Jesus Christ

To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers. George Whitefield

Man Angel Half Preach Angels More Hour Himself Than Should

Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the conditions that force their migration. Greg Boyle

Political Poverty Other Our Border Thousands Torture Abject Deterrent Instability Push Abuse Force Equals Conditions Migration Across Imaginable

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel. Harold Kushner

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