It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another
“It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another. Let us first make amends to the injured one before we dare approach God at either the private or the public altar.”
– Jonathan Goforth
“There is no greater deception than that which is born of a faith that excuses itself from obedience!”
– Brian Troxel
“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only,
deceiving your own selves”
James 1:22
“Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit”
-John Calvin
“Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?”
Romans 2:4
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks
“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal”
– Helen Keller
“Strengthened with all might,
according to his glorious power…”
Colossians 1:11
“He is the God of boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small; our expectations are too limited. He is trying to lift us up to a higher conception, and lure us on to a mightier expectation and appropriation. Oh, shall we put Him in derision? There is no limit to what we may ask and expect of our glorious El-Shaddai; and there is but one measure here given for His blessing, and that is “according to the power that worketh in us.”
— A. B. Simpson
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