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