Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumstances so that we might look up to Him and see His deliverance.
Jerry Bridges
Related The Holy Ghost brings back memories of what God has taught us. And one of the ways God teaches us is... HENRY B. EYRING Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our ... C.S. LEWIS God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our... WALTER MARTIN We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wa... BARBARA MANDRELL Here is the thing about God. He is so big and so perfect that we can't really understand Him. We can... LAUREN F. WINNER Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 I can see no intellectual objection to ... DONALD O. SOPER God gave us free will so that we might choose our own destinies. He left it up to us to achieve them... R.M. ARCEJAEGER The criterion for our intercessory prayer is not our earnestness, nor our faithfulness, nor even our... CHARLES H. TROUTMAN We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL We talk all the time. I don't get to see him that much, but he brings up his game film for me to wat... JASON LONG To accept Christ is to receive Him by faith as your Lord and Savior. But, strictly speaking, the gre... H. A. IRONSIDE May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri... W. H. AUDEN To accept Christ is to receive Him by faith as your Lord and Savior. But, strictly speaking, the gre... H. A. IRONSIDE Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may ... WILLIAM AMES Feast of Mark the Evangelist The reason why we can hope to find God is that He is here, engaged al... RUFUS JONES He blesses us so we can be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri... W. H. AUDEN What if the thing that God wants us to receive most in our conversations with Him is not some altern... TRISTAN SHERWIN In the days of His earthly ministry, only those could speak to him who came where He was: if He was ... WILLIAM TEMPLE Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let
us to the end dare to do our duty a... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to
do our duty as... ABRAHAM LINCOLN What brings a real and lasting joy is our relationships with God, and our love for His other childre... LINDSEY STIRLING God has created us and poured love into our hearts so that we may do our best to alleviate the suffe... DADA VASWANI Another version of the “Prosperity Gospel” or “Name It and Claim It” teaching has to do with... ERIC METAXAS Let him who has abundance spend out of his abundance and whoever has his means of subsistence strait... QURAN And do these objectors mean to say that, because God has redeemed us from the curse of the law, ther... HORATIUS BONAR God’s mercy and patience with us are beyond our ability to comprehend. He pursues us until we resp... TERESA SCHULTZ Another version of the “Prosperity Gospel” or “Name It and Claim It” teaching has to do with... ERIC METAXAS Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we i... LIN YUTANG God tries our faith so that we may try His faithfulness. UNKNOWN God has prepared our victory for us, if only we will praise Him in all circumstances SUNDAY ADELAJA It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself ev... GORDON B. HINCKLEY The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the man to God, love brings him to ... MARTIN LUTHER We are just so thankful that Christ does not measure us by what we do. God is not measuring us by th... BEN ZOBRIST I think we've overstated that God is the God who wants us to obey. Obedience is not the end game... ERWIN MCMANUS Hence, when we ask anything of God and He begins to hear us, He so often goes counter to our petitio... MARTIN LUTHER God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December. JAMES M. BARRIE If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Faith in the biblical sense is substantive, based on the knowledge that the One in whom that faith i... RAVI ZACHARIAS God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn l... DOLLY PARTON Tests and trials are given to all of us. These mortal challenges allow us and our Heavenly Father to... ROBERT D. HALES CHRISTMAS DAY He has come! the Christ of God; Left for us His glad abode, Stooping from His throne ... HORATIUS BONAR He who stands by his heart has God in him. Our conscience is what unites us with God. SUZY KASSEM Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our... MATTHIAS God is glorified in his people by the way we experience him, not merely by the way we think about hi... JOHN PIPER Brad has told us that he has commitments that will prevent him playing for us and so that seems to b... NICK KNIGHT A person who goes in search of God is wasting his time. He can walk a thousand roads and join many r... PAULO COELHO Yes, our Father has a plan, Ciminae,” he said. “But he leaves it up to his children to accept hi... SHAUN MESSICK Far too often, we want God to change our circumstances rather than God to change us. This should not... TRAVIS J HEDRICK our family is strong. our only fear is losing you. It's been almost a century that Edward's been alo... STEPHENIE MEYER They said he had a minor tear in his cartilage but I had one of them and couldn't walk. Sometimes yo... MARTIN JOL Burning bridges behind you is understandable. It's the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing... ANTHONY LICCIONE We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us. OSWALD CHAMBERS Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of ... E. STANLEY JONES The devil's main purpose is not to scare us, in a horror-movie way; when we're scared of him... FREDERICA MATHEWES-GREEN Grace transforms our failings full of dread into abundant, endless comfort … our failings full of ... JULIAN OF NORWICH Feast of the Holy Innocents The whole being of any Christian is Faith and Love... Faith brings th... MARTIN LUTHER God is not so much of a concept which we think about with our mind, but God is a person that we enco... CHRISTOPHER WEST If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face ... CONFUCIUS The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to dis... BUTLER SHAFFER The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evi... GEORGE MACDONALD Life is a tightrope with God at the end. If we walk with our eyes down, looking at what is happenin... KRIS LEIGH SCHOTT It means a lot to me that someone who knows the game so much and has been around the game for so lon... JOEY CABRET God desires for the whole world to see Him, so that he can conquer the world and make it His footsto... SUNDAY ADELAJA Sometimes we want something so much that God will have us give it up so we can grow (I CANNOT REMEMBER) God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330 Wherever we turn in the church of ... FREDERICK W. FABER God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them ... JOHN ORTBERG And I pray mark how he begins: he sets not up trophies to himself, but triumphs in his God-- "I will... RICHARD STEELE I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him? VALERIE BERTINELLI There is an end waiting for all of us; an end waiting to show us records of our journey. Mind the en... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER Despite our earnest efforts, we couldn't climb all the way up to God. So what did God do? In an amaz... WILLIAM H. WILLIMON No matter how many flaws we have, our God is so forgiving and understanding. He'll never leave y... ADRIAN PETERSON God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especi... SAINT AMBROSE We must lift our hands to God in prayer, crying out to Him to help us fulfill what He has called us ... SUNDAY ADELAJA God's relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop wh... CRISS JAMI The good news is that God gave us imaginations because he wanted us to take a tour into our future, ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Jon Hamm is such an amazing co-star. He used to set the tune of the scenes so easily, and in his fre... MADHUR MITTAL We see him as a guy who's played well, has started, so he has experience, has speed and can help us ... JACK DEL RIO Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and th... THOMAS BECKET So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we... BIBLE He has no idea who he is, and he is sad that he has caused us so much pain. I just told him we are s... JANE POWER The one use of the Bible is to make us look at Jesus, that through Him we might know His Father and ... GEORGE MACDONALD And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God,... ANONYMOUS Strife -- in philosophy, religion, and politics -- has certainly gained so much ground that it is im... JAN AMOS COMENIUS A big part of his success has been his parents' commitment. And so many coaches have had an impact. ... BOB FREUND Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us st... BIBLE He looked fine. When I look at him, the question is, is the knee holding up? So far, so good. He get... FRANK ROBINSON Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to
do our duty as... ROY DISNEY The good news is that God gave us imaginations because he wanted us to take a tour into our future, ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR But if he had come down from the Cross, he would have made it impossible for them to believe ... PETER KREEFT The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great an... T. B. JOSHUA Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380 He has loved us without being loved... We are b... CATHERINE OF SIENA People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it u... CORRIE TEN BOOM The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intell... E.M. FORSTER Secondly, the proper counsel and intention of God in sending his Son into the world to die was, that... JOHN OWEN Jerry sees things that I see. He calms the team down. With all the intangible things he brings, we'r... TODD TAYLOR
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JEFF BRIDGES Execution is everything. JEFF BRIDGES The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come... JEFF BRIDGES The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own... JEFF BRIDGES Sea Hunt was the first time anyone tackled a show that took place underwater. The stories were sort ... LLOYD BRIDGES My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in. JEFF BRIDGES There are not a lot of junior enlisted Airmen out there getting the chance to operate a weapons syst... AIRMAN BRIDGES That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie. JEFF BRIDGES With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go.... JEFF BRIDGES If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of... WILLIAM BRIDGES We've got a couple of old heads in Andy Duncan and Mark Peters, but I'm probably the next oldest pla... DAVID BRIDGES But when I'm done with the job I can take it off pretty easy, it's like a suit of clothes, put on so... BEAU BRIDGES The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels. JEFF BRIDGES What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones th... JEFF BRIDGES I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fa... LLOYD BRIDGES I just find my creativity manifesting a bunch of different ways. JEFF BRIDGES Mania is a wonderful feeling. JEFF BRIDGES D.A.T.A. stands for desires, abilities, temperament and assets. . . . desires [may] include solving ... WILLIAM BRIDGES Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living. 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MADELINE BRIDGES I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates t... BEAU BRIDGES Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a pro... JEFF BRIDGES I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in curren... JEFF BRIDGES I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photogra... JEFF BRIDGES If GOD had a milk carton, would your face be on it? CHUCK BRIDGES It's more than six years since my last hat-trick so it was sweet to get another one. I'm getting bac... MICHAEL BRIDGES Better than brothers. And on my driver's license, my Social Security card, everything. Most people w... U.Z. BRIDGES Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are... WILLIAM BRIDGES You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve... 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