You can run a sprint or your can run a marathon, but you can’t sprint a marathon. Ryan Holmes
There is not a lack of mountains, but we lack mountain movers. BM
When it was hard to be a Jew, people stayed Jewish. When it was easy to be a Jew, people stopped being Jewish. Rabbi Johnathan Sacks
Cowardice asks the question: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? Vanity asks: Is it popular? Conscience asks: Is it right?” Martin Luther King
For the humble Christian, the more the world is against him, the more silent and still he will be, unless it is in his prayer closet, and there he will not be still.” Jonathan Edwards
When Christ calls a man, he bids him: “Come and die.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Old man at the gate
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Saint Pishoy was born in 320 AD in Egypt. At the age of twenty, Pishoy went to the wilderness of Scetes and became a monk. Eventually he became the spiritual father of many monks who gathered around him. The Copts believe that Saint Pishoy saw Jesus a number of times in his cell (a small cubicle where he spend 6 days a week.) One day the monks asked him to ask...
D.L. Moody – his encounter the Holy Spirit
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D.L. Moody: “I was crying all the time that God would fill me with His Spirit. Well, one day, in the city of New York – oh, what a day! – I cannot describe it. I seldom refer to it. It is almost too sacred an experience to name. Paul had an experience of which he never spoke for fourteen years. I can only say that God revealed Himself to me, and I had such an experience of His love that I...
Adoniram Judson – No matter how distant a day…
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Adoniram Judson was the first American missionary to go overseas. He worked in Burma (Myanmar) his entire life. It was his custom to have 7 definite prayer times a day. Once he said: “I never was deeply interested in any object, I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything, but it came. At some time, no matter how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably...
In McGee’s words, “I lost everything.”
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Christianity and forgiveness The story began in 2005 in the city of Benton Harbor, Michigan. On that day, Jameel McGee was, in his words, “minding his own business,” when he was stopped by a policeman, Andrew Collins. The encounter did not go well for McGee. Collins accused him of selling drugs and arrested him. At the time, McGee insisted that the charges were “all made up.” As CBS noted, “Of...