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It has well been said that faith is not believing in spite of evidence but obeying in spite of consequence.
No matter how difficult our circumstances may be, the safest and best place is in the will of God.
“A man has to learn ‘the plague of his own heart’ before his own problems can be solved” (The Shadow of an Agony, 76).
“Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such a time takes flight and, in her absence, wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.”
“A man that studies revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.”
All truths are not to be spoken at all times,” wrote Matthew Henry, “though an untruth is not to be spoken at any time.”
The British essayist Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) wrote, “When little men cast long shadows, it is a sign that the sun is setting.”
“Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office,” wrote Aesop in his fable “The Jackass in Office,”
“Try not to become a man of success,” said Albert Einstein, “but try to become a man of value.”
Martin Luther who challenged prelates and potentates with: “My conscience is captive to the Word of God. Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise!”
“He who answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame to him” (Prov. 18:13 NKJV).
As great doors can swing upon small hinges, so great events can turn upon the deeds of “small” and sometimes anonymous people.
“The mighty liner of God’s sovereign design keeps its steady course over the sea of history,” wrote Dr. Tozer. “God moves undisturbed and unhindered toward the fulfillment of those eternal purposes which He purposed in Christ Jesus before the world began” (The Knowledge of the Holy, 118).
Dr. Tozer again: “In the moral conflict now raging around us whoever is on God’s side is on the winning side and cannot lose; whoever is on the other side is on the losing side and cannot win” (119).
The Puritan preacher William Jenkyn said, “Our father was Adam, our grandfather dust, and our great-grandfather nothing.”
