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“You may never know that JESUS is all you need, until JESUS is all you have.”
― Corrie ten Boom

“There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.”
― Ernest J. Gaines, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

“Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“I was deeply interested in conveying what is a deeply felt conviction of my own. This is simply to suggest that human beings must involve themselves in the anguish of other human beings. This, I submit to you, is not a political thesis at all. It is simply an expression of what I would hope might be ultimately a simple humanity for humanity's sake.”
― Rod Serling

“Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him....Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness....And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives along with the command, the love itself.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

“Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.”
― Epictetus

“God will prepare a table before you in the presence of your enemies so let them watch you eat.”
― Tyler Perry

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
― Epictetus

“Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.
Topics: Prayer, Meditation

I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood.
Topics: Salvation, Atonement

When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end.
Topics: Satan, Prayer

God's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.
Topics: Scripture

Do not study commentaries, lesson helps or other books about the Bible: study the Bible itself. Do not study about the Bible, study the Bible. The Bible is the Word of God, and only the Bible is the Word of God.
Topics: The Bible

All that God is, and all that God has, is at the disposal of prayer. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do everything, prayer is omnipotent.”
― R.A. Torrey

“Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.”
― Epictetus

“Who you are at 20 will not be who you are at 40 and if it is, SOMETHING IS WRONG!”
― Tyler Perry

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
― OMAR KHAYYAM, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

“Don't try to be seen, God may be hiding you on purpose.”
― Tyler Perry

“The grass may be greener on the other side but the the water bill is higher.”
― Tyler Perry

“A footstool is only needed when you need to get higher. Let your enemy lift you.”
― Tyler Perry

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage.”
― Rod Serling

“Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.”
― Rod Serling

“I have a dream!
To be free at last!
Free at last!
Free at last.
And if a man has nothing to die for,
Then his life is worth nothing.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.”
― Rod Serling

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

“I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus. ”
― Mother Teresa

“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”
― Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła)

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
― alice walker, The Color Purple

“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“If a man hasn’t found something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

[Quoting Reverend Phillips Brooks, during Remarks at Presidential Prayer Breakfast, February 7 1963]”
― John F. Kennedy