"Oh, men and women, pray through; pray through! Do not just begin to pray and pray a little while and throw up your hands and quit; but pray and pray and pray until God bends the heavens and comes down."
*******-R.A. Torrey
“A chaplain was speaking to a soldier on a cot in a hospital. "You have lost an arm in the great cause," he said. "No," said the soldier with a smile. "I didn't lose it - I gave it." In that same way, Jesus did not lose His life. He gave it purposefully.”
*******-Unknown
“Take up your cross, and by the power of the Spirit of God you will soon be so in love with it, that like Moses, you would not exchange the reproach of Christ for all the treasures of Egypt.”
*******-Charles Spurgeon
“I had the choice to either grow up and find God in the situation or become bitter. I chose to find God. And I experienced freedom like I never knew before.”
-Heather Mercer: Christian Aid Worker who was imprisoned in Afghanistan, 2001.
“To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong enough to pierce our hardened hearts and awaken our moribund souls.”
*******-R.C. Sproul