Kindle Notes & Highlights
(8) Christianize your relationships.
(9) Cultivate the Quiet Time—preferably
We now sum up the steps: Consider your ways, change your directions, connect with Christ, consent to surrender, cease from struggling, concentrate on acceptance, cleanse your past, Christianize your relationships, cultivate the Quiet Time, and create outlets and activities.
Week 12 Friday
(1) The stage of drawing near:
(2) You make up your mind.
(3) Surrender to Christ.
(4) Acceptance of the self of the other person: Christ.
“We don’t make friends; we recognize them.”
(5) A continuous, mutual adjustment of being to being, of purpose to purpose.
fear is spelled with a small f
When fear uses us and controls us, then it is bad.
Then Fear becomes fearsome.
AFFIRMATION FOR THE DAY: Fear ties me up. Faith releases me. Therefore I choose faith.
my best, your best,
Fear is paralysis.
A wrong notion of God can produce fear. A
“I do not know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.”
surrender first, then discipline.”
When God comes, anxiety goes; when anxiety comes, God goes.
Charles Baudelaire says, “Hatred is a precious liquor, a poison more costly than that of the Borgias—for it is made with our blood, our health, our sleep, and the best part of our love!”*
Sentenced by God
dislike was dis-life.
Love shall be in my bosom, and then I shall find love everywhere.
(1) Remember that resentments have no part or lot with a Christian.
(2) Remember that no one has ever treated you worse than you have treated God, and yet God forgives and forgets.
The “torturers”? They are within you;
(3) Remember the three levels of life and decide which one you are going to live on:
demonic
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divine
I can wait for the years to speak against the hours.
