DEEP LOVE

There is no pit so deep that God’s love is not deeper still.
                         -  Corrie Ten Boom

TEMPTATION

“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.” C.S.Lewis

LOVE AND OBEDIENCE

“God’s love does not get bigger when you obey and it does not get smaller when you disobey.”

–Tullian Tchividjian

JUDGMENT AND CHRIST'S RETURN

"We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love."
- Madeleine L'Engle

IN THE BEGINNING ... THERE WAS GOD

"It is said that an argument is what convinces reasonable men and a proof is what it takes to convince even an unreasonable man. With the proof now in place, cosmologists can no longer hide behind the possibility of a past-eternal universe. There is no escape, they have to face the problem of a cosmic beginning."
- Alexander Vilenkin; Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute of Cosmology at Tufts University

LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people."
- G.K. Chesterton

RIGHTEOUS

"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous."

- Blaise Pascal

CHOOSE GOD

"Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it. " - C. S. Lewis

REAL LIFE

"The truth is, what we call interruptions are precisely our real life, the life God is sending us day by day."
- C.S. Lewis

LOVE BEYOND REASON

What I believe is so magnificent, so glorious, that it is beyond finite comprehension. To believe that the universe was created by a purposeful, benign Creator is one thing. To believe that this Creator took on human vesture, accepted death and mortality, was tempted, betrayed, broken, and all for love of us, defies reason. It is so wild that it terrifies some Christians who try to dogmatize their fear by lashing out at other Christians, because tidy Christianity with all answers given is easier than one which reaches out to the wild wonder of God's love, a love we don't even have to earn. - Madeleine L'engle

LIVING OUT GOD'S KINDNESS

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."

- Mother Theresa

ASH WEDNESDAY

"The emotional result of Ash Wednesday observance isn't depression or gloom, but gratitude and new energy for living. When we realize how desperately we need God, and how God is faithful far beyond our desperation, we can't help but offering our lives to him in fresh gratitude. And when we recognize that life doesn't go on forever, then we find new passion to delight in the gifts of each and every day, and to take none of them for granted."      - Mark D. Roberts

Read more: http://blog.beliefnet.com/markdroberts/pages/series/ash-wednesday-practice-and-meaning.html#ixzz1G5T8c2J6

SHOUTING IN PAIN

“God whispers to us in our pleasures…but shouts in our pain.”

- CS Lewis

FAITH IS NOT

"Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lions' den or hanging on a wooden Cross. Faith is not inferred from the happy way things work. It is an act of will, a choice, based on the unbreakable Word of a God who cannot lie, and who showed us what love and obedience and sacrifice mean, in the person of Jesus Christ."
- Elizabeth Elliott

THE EDGE OF BELIEF

"Walking to the edge of your belief is not the same and being thrown to the edge by someone else."
- Bill Shoemaker, Church Planting Director for the Great Lakes Region of the Churches of God."

FAITH AND REASON

"Can man live without God? Of course he can, in a physical sense. Can he live without God in a reasonable way? The answer to that is No!"

—Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God

INVINCIBLE SECURITY

"There is a fullness to life, a purpose, sense of belonging and invincible security when one lives by faith."
- Shari Riley, posted in BIBLICAL JOY, the on-line Bible study of the Church of God of Landisville