There is a cumulative effect in prayer. The focusing of many prayers on one life or on a situation can change defeat into victory. - E. M Bounds
Little House on the Ridge
a place for quotes about life, faith and learning
Courage
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. - Eddie Rickenbacker
Closest to Your Heart
What's closest to your heart is what you talk about, and if God is close to your heart, you'll talk about Him. - A. W. Tozer
Standing
Living justly is standing with those who are oppressed, not just standing for them. - Sunia Gibbs
Real
When we ask something definite of God, and He gives it, how real God becomes! He is right there! It is blessed to have a God who is real and not merely an idea...The joy of the healing is not as great as the joy of meeting God. - R. A. Torrey
Strong Ones
God isn’t calling us to raise safe kids; He’s calling us to raise strong ones. - Tim Kimmel
Inexpensive & Expensive
Inexpensive is not a good reason to buy something and expensive is not a good reason to keep something. - Peter Walsh
Impact
You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. - Jane Goodall
A Nod of Encouragement
People always need a nod of encouragement in their journey, regardless of how confident they may appear to be. - Dennis Rainey
Prayer
The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying...The prayer of the feeblest saint on earth who keeps right with God paralyzes the darkness --- that's why he tries to keep our minds fussy in active work until we cannot think in prayer. - Oswald Chambers
Always Time
One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy. - Elisabeth Elliot, Secure in the Everlasting Arms
Reasons
I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write for other reasons: to see more closely what it is they are thinking about, what they may be afraid of. Sometimes writers write to solve a problem, to answer their own question. All these reasons are good reasons. And that is the most important thing I'll ever tell you. Maybe it is the most important thing you'll ever hear. Ever. - Patricia MacLachlan, Word After Word After Word
Reading
Reading is the best way I know to learn how to examine your life. By comparing what you've done to what others have done, and your thoughts and theories and feelings to those of others, you learn about yourself and the world around you. Perhaps that is why reading is one of the few things you do alone that can make you feel less alone; it's a solitary activity that connects you to others. - Will Schwalbe
Situations
It never does any good to compare your situation to someone else's situation. - Darcy Kimmel
Circumstances
Don't let your past circumstances disqualify you from what God has in store for your future. - Tracie Miles
World
The world is so full of pain and confusion, but also such extravagant beauty, that sometimes it is in beauty that we best hear God whisper, 'I am still here.' - Madeleine L'Engle
God's Word
Keep me in Your Word so that I can be encouraged and be an encourager to those around me. - Tracy Klehn
Rest
Rest will never come by trying to figure it all out. It only comes by trusting the One who has it all figured out for you. - Paul David Tripp
Into Words
He liked all books because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head. - John Green
Read with a Pen
Read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you find that is curious or that might be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such particulars in your memory, where they will be ready on some future occasion to adorn and improve your conversation. - Benjamin Franklin
Wellness
If you won't make time for your wellness, you'll be forced to make time for your illness. - Jill Savage
Hard Place
This hard place in which you, perhaps, find yourself, is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him. - Elisabeth Elliot
Like Breathing
Paul does not ask us to spend some of every day in prayer. No, Paul is much more radical. He asks us to pray day and night, in joy and in sorrow, at work and at play, without intermission or breaks. For Paul, prayer is like breathing. - Henri Nouwen
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