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For being so straight and sure, God’s path held quite the assortment of twists.
— April W. Gardner, The Ebony Cloak
Run your race. It's the only one that will count in eternity.
— Robin M. Bertram
Even the enemy needs permission from God to do what he wants with you.
— Joyce Rachelle
If you think about life simply as one big waiting room for eternity, who cares if it's not fully air conditioned?
— Joyce Rachelle
The gospel is the announcement that God has fulfilled the promise of Scriptures to make the world right in Jesus Christ (1 Cor 15:1-11). Christ has died for our sins. By his death and resurrection (and ascension), he has defeated the effects of our sins, including death itself. He now sits at the right hand of the Father ruling over the world. In Christ the new creation has begun. Old things are passing away. Behold, the new has begun (2 Cor 5:17). All who respond to this good news repent of the old ways, and make Jesus their Lord and Savior, enter in and become part of what God is doing to reconcile the whole world to himself (2 Cor 5:18-19), and receive power to become the children of God (Jn 1:12). This in one paragraph is the gospel.
— David E. Fitch
There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
If you cannot fix the situation may be the situation is meant to fix youu
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Who are you?
You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests.' It certainly is not easy to hear that voice in a world filled with voices that shout: 'You are no good, you are ugly; you are worthless; you are despicable, you are nobody- unless you can demonstrate the opposite.' These negative voices are so loud and so persistent that it is easy to believe them. That's the great trap. It is the trap of self-rejection.
— Henri Nouwen
A true Christian and true servant of God serves God and not man
— Sunday Adelaja
A Christian must not while away time. Get engaged in something
— Sunday Adelaja
Christians have the advantage of searching for all the answers to their questions in God
— Sunday Adelaja
The strength of America is not vested in the ability of the government to remain true to Christian principles. It rests in the strength of the people to stay true to the Christian virtue that provides an adequate base for electing virtuous representatives, thereby maintaining our Constitutional Republic.
— Karla Perry, Back to the Future: Rebuilding America's Stability
The truth is only a few hundred people are at the top of the media infrastructure…in America, and their worldview is what gets delivered to the people. It isn’t necessarily that there is a conspiracy…a humanist will promote humanist values. If we choose to see it as a conspiracy, we will demonize those we find to be culpable and will lack the insight necessary to instigate change.
— Karla Perry, Back to the Future: Rebuilding America's Stability
The eyes of your understanding must see through to Great Success
— Ikechukwu Joseph
For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he in his deep heart conceives God to be like. We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God.
— A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy
If GOD had a milk carton, would your face be on it?
— Chuck Bridges
It may not matter how u start but it matters how u finish
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Insight for Fruitful Living
...there is a constant theme at the centre of all her writings which forms the heart of her vision of God, From her earliest novel to the mature vision of her autobiography, the central importance of unity, reconciliation, one-ness, is reiterated; for she came increasingly to see everything in life, even the darkness of fear and pain and suffering, as part of the one perfect whole that is Creation, that tiny hazelnut of Dame Julian's vision that was all that is made.
— Christine Rawlins, A Vision of God
Yes, but perhaps he did have something to do with it.” (In such arguments Stenham often found himself unexpectedly extolling the bourgeois virtues.) “If he was good himself, and worked hard—”“Never!” cried Amar, his eyes blazing. “You’re a Nazarene, a Christian. That’s why you talk that way. If you were a Moslem and said such things, you’d be killed or struck blind here, this minute. Christians have good hearts, but they don’t know anything. They think they can change what has been written. They’re afraid to die because they don’t understand what death is for. And if you’re afraid to die, then you don’t know what life is for. How can you live?
— Paul Bowles, The Spider's House
I remember when I was growing up and there would be sick people in the church. I was always so sensitive to them sitting in the pews alone, and I would not pass by without saying hello. But even at those tender ages of 5 through 14, I felt like they carried the plague, and after seeing them I would turn around praying really hard to never experience sickness like that, ever. I’d pray that I wouldn’t make God angry enough to curse me like that with really awful things, but I didn’t think about grace. I did not understand that it does not work that way, that God’s grace is so much bigger than our sin because of Jesus—but I do get it now. We go through what we do so that we can fulfill God’s glory in our lives.
— Jacquelyn Nicole Davis, Trace The Grace: A Memoir
God wants every Christian to avoid and not repeat the mistakes of the Israelites
— Sunday Adelaja
If you wish gain understanding, turn away from evil.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every Christian has an opportunity to be successful
— Sunday Adelaja
We have taken the holistic message preached in the Old Testament and New Testaments and reduced our message to the entry point into the Kingdom.
— Landa Cope, An Introduction to the Old Testament Template: Rediscovering God's Principles for Discipling Nations
Every Christian should be a faithful minister and steward of God
— Sunday Adelaja
When Christian leaders dare to invade with authority the devil’s domain with kingdom attitude, people listen
— Sunday Adelaja
It is not all about what you can get but all about what you can give
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Unlocking Closed Doors
I see the beautyAll around me I see itThe polished faces
— Nicole Eskuri, Healing Haikus by the Raging Sea: Book 1
The church and all Christians need to pray, but without playing an active part, it is impossible to impact the country
— Sunday Adelaja
Life in Christ is far richer.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I’m a soldier. Believe me when I say that the greatest weapon anyone can use is not the sword but love. One day the world will see that and it won’t need men like me anymore.”-Antoine (from Twiceborn)
— JP Robinson
If every Christian will have an active civil position, he can become a reformer in his country
— Sunday Adelaja
The church and every Christian are individually responsible for the reformation of the country
— Sunday Adelaja
O Lord save as all!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
An active civil position makes a Christian strong as the image of God
— Sunday Adelaja
Every Christian has their place in the body of Christ
— Sunday Adelaja
You must know your enemy to beat him at his own game, but be ready as well for the ultimate sacrifice, for nobody comes out of hell without a scratch.
— Robin Sacredfire
Christian mentality is a victorious mentality
— Sunday Adelaja
The victorious life of a Christian depends on His correct thinking that is based on the word of God
— Sunday Adelaja
Holy Scripture is Holy Scripture.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To succeed as a Christian is to become one with God
— Sunday Adelaja
A Christian’s mentality should be radically different from that of others in the community
— Sunday Adelaja
A Christian’s mindset should be a victorious mentality
— Sunday Adelaja
Every Christian’s life is full of God’s blessings
— Sunday Adelaja
The word of God is enough wealth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Never exchange the word of God for any wealth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Study the Bible, there God is the teacher.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If we obey God, we shall be his treasured possession.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give--my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength, nights, days, youth, age, and spend them in Thy service, O my crucified Master, Redeemer, God. Oh, let these not be mere words! Whom have I in heaven but Thee? And there is none upon earth that I desire in comparison of Thee. My heart is athirst for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
— Elizabeth Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward
If we obey God, the more we shall know his goodness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not forget the Heavenly Father.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The grace to read the Holy Bible is the strength of being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If we obey God, we will be happy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Nothing can create more dramatic changes than simple and pure love and compassion. When people pray, their prayers are listened, but the answers manifest in forms that their selfishness blinds them to see.
— Robin Sacredfire
Unforgiveness is a strategic "design," craftily implemented by you enemy to "outwit" you, to cripple your effectiveness in prayer and your power to stand against him victoriously. Which is why, if I were your enemy, I would do everything possible to keep you from forgiving anyone and everyone who's done you any wrong.
— Priscilla Shirer, Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer
Is there any saint without a sin?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Praying is the power of being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Similarly, when we denigrate our bodies—whether through neglect or staring at our faces and counting up our flaws—we are belittling a sacred site, a worship space more wonderous than the most glorious, ancient cathedral. We are standing before the Grand Canyon or the Sistine Chapel and rolling our eyes.
— Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
As for the secularist belief that says 'if we were to eliminate all religions, the world would know peace,' this is the Atheist Heaven; thus it is so important to him (although perhaps more laughable than some say the Christian Heaven). It is about as useless as saying 'if all people were true Christians, the world would know peace,' or 'if all people were devout Muslims, the world would know peace.' And even yet, the secular dream could remain active only for a time before generational rebellion and freedom of thought were to kick in anew.
— Criss Jami
There is no 'big sin' or 'little sin', it's just sin.
— Braden Pedersen, 30-Second Theology: By Braden Pedersen
Joseph went from prison to prime minister from trials to triumph, from scar-weary to stardom
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Unlocking Closed Doors
A powerful vision has the therapeutic effect of numbing the pain of what it will cost you
— Ikechukwu Onwukwe
A powerful vision has the therapeutic effect of numbing the cost of what it will cost you.
— Ikechukwu Onwukwe
Our poor world aspires simply to point out where Christians have gone wrong, and that is pretty much where it goes wrong. It is as though many of us, when of the world, are actually all the more judgmental: for we are stuck on a bad Christian while the Christian is pinned to a good Christ.
— Criss Jami
Love actually is a great act of the will. It's when I say, "I desire your good, not for my sake but for yours". To love is to break out of the black hole of the ego and say, "My life is about you".
— Robert E. Barron
There is a greatness inherent within you. That greatness comes from God. He has bestowed each of us with unique gifts and talents to be used for kingdom building here on earth.
— Gabriella Marigold Lindsay, Living F.I.T.: A 40-Day Guide to  Living Faithfully, Intentionally, and Tenaciously
A godly man often grows best when his worldly circumstances decay. He who follows Christ for his bag is a Judas; they who follow for loaves and fishes are children of the devil; but they who attend him out of love to himself are his own beloved ones. Lord, let me find my life in thee...!
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening: Daily Readings
Elijah found his substitute Elisha in his purpose doing work in the field
— Ikechukwu Joseph, The Complete Leader: Jesus Christ the Accomplished Perfect Total Leader
The basis of spiritual community is truth, the basis of emotional community is desire.The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from everyday Christian life in community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; for in the poor sister or brother, Christ is knocking at the door.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
...this place, this life, the one we were building together, even with all its cracks and bumps and imperfections, this life was the one I needed, the one I wanted, and that best of all, it was home.
— Kimberly Stuart, Better Together
I felt my heart warm up and become pliable in a way that I hadn't felt in far too long, and I knew in that moment that the thaw had happened because I was finally surrendering.
— Kimberly Stuart, Better Together
Jesus doesn't want what you can do for Him. He wants you.....all of you.....the good and the bad.
— Wade Grassedonio, Jesus and the Bunny: The story of how a loveable little bunny became the Easter Bunny
Dying for the world is not noble in anyway but a disgrace for the rest of the world itself, for those that don't do absolutely anything to support, help or even bleed. It's like going to war alone, while our friends cheer and applaud from the distance. It's not fun and doesn't make me proud in any way. Most so-called spiritual people in this world, are not spiritual, they think they are but they're braindead, they are living their own fantasies, their own Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings Stories, but not truly bleeding for life. And so, it's quite interesting when my friends do all they can to stop me from leaving them, from changing country, while at the same time, they give me no reason to justify being attached to them.
— Robin Sacredfire
When life belittle and trick you, you will forget protocol...
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Pulling Down Satanic Strongholds
As Christians we are called to make disciples of all the nations, meeting them where they are and serving them in ways that are relevant and meaningful. That is the challenge: as the church, to remain relevant and meaningful, in efforts to reach all people where they are in a way they need.
— Kellen Roggenbuck
Levi's gaze sought out Miss Spencer. Eden. All she had to do was smile to release those little frissons of lightning in him.  As that thought crossed his mind, she glanced up, and Levi realized he was wrong. She didn't have to smile. All she had to do was look at him.  Heaven help him. He was in bad.
— Karen Witemeyer, To Win Her Heart
Atheists say that religion is like wearing shackles. Religion sets forth laws that govern how we act, and countries set forth laws that govern how we act. Yet only one is like wearing shackles.
— S.G
Atheists don't like it when we push our morals on them and other people. But we don't, they follow them willingly and knowingly because they know that we are right. They hate us, but follow us.
— S.G
Through the eyes of men an utterly irrational birth followed by a terribly improbable execution are miscues of the most pathetic sort. And all I can say is that I’m immeasurably thankful that I’ve been given access to the eyes of God.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
They imprisoned Joseph to cage his abilities but God empowered him to manifest his potentials
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Unlocking God's Divine Favor
Balance both sides of the equation to attain equilateral-balance your life
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Achievers Handbook 3: Over 100 Inspirational Keys to fulfill your Destiny
I'm just a kid who's 4Each day I grow some moreI like exploringI'm CaillouSo many things to do Each day is something newI'll share them with you I'm CaillouMy life is turningChanging each day!With mommy and daddy I'mFinding my wayGrowing up is not so toughExcept when I've had enoughBut there's lots of fun stuff I'm Caillou Caillou Caillou I'm CaillouThat's me!
— Caillou (1994-2016) R.I.P he lived a long life and was 4 for 12 years.
You are the enemy and a vessel through which the cure flows - if Christ lives in you, then you are an embodiment of the very shot this hostile and crying world needs as it, in every waking moment, struggles belligerently to resist.
— Criss Jami
However, the primary job of a servant of God is to speak or to write words to convict people of God's truth. So, in the speaking or in the writing of words, he witnesses for God.
— Richard T. Ritenbaugh
Sharing both personal details from his life's story as well as discussing the idea of a panentheistic God-that is, a God who is in everything-Garzelli invites readers to think about the who of our Creator.
— Brent Garzelli, The Mad Ravings of a Bona Fide Tree Hugger
The Word of God is our measuring stick against all deception.
— Brian Reynolds
26. Don’t marry someone with intolerable characteristics in the hopes of changing him or her. If you can’t live with someone who drinks or someone who isn’t a Christian or someone who isn’t clean, then don’t marry that kind of person. The chances for miraculous improvements or changes in behavior are slim. What you see is what you get!
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
If you don't follow Christ or love others in the way Christ said, and let yourself be bogged down instead with fearfulness, hatred, violence and the persecution of others - HOW can you call yourself a 'Christian'?
— Christina Engela, Inanna Rising: Women Forged in Fire
I know I am awful. But how much more awful I should be without the Faith.
— Evelyn Waugh
Isn't corn like a meat or something?
— my friend, 2015
It is no coincidence that Christian fundamentalist movements worldwide seek a return to Old Testament laws - because they fundamentally reject Christ as the New Covenant - which replaced all that.They are not Christians - they are Leviticans.
— Christina Engela, For Love of Leelah
I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact that God says I am far better than what the sum total of those decisions would ever suggest.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The hatred the 'Christian' right wing harbors for the SA Constitution is not htere because of an absence of 'God' in state machinery and the excised phrase 'in humble submission to almighty God' - but because it no longer places THEM in a position to claim that THEY represent the will of that 'God' and to act as though it were true.
— Christina Engela
Most High God, let your servant see but a little ahead. Or, if not give me the hope that drives out fear
— Stephen Lawhead
One might think one is loving God
—  the real test is whether it leads to a love of people
To him who prays, and as he prays, the hour is sacred because it is God's hour
— E M Bounds
The three Secrets of Fatima were closely held by the Vatican for decades, until the text of the third and last secret was finally released in 2000.
— Peter J. Tanous
What could there be in this document written by a young girl in 1917?
— Peter J. Tanous, The Secret of Fatima
Well, there is no sin in being gay. The immorality comes from engaging in forbidden behavior. Therefore, the Christian homosexual is in the same situation as the unmarried heterosexual. He (or she) is expected to control his or her lusts and live a holy life. I know this is a tough position to take, and some will argue with it. But I stand on the authority of Scripture, and I have no license to edit it.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
Whether right or wrong, it is my belief that Christian colleges place their emphasis not on that which divides us, but on the substance that binds us together. That commonality is the gospel of Jesus Christ. He commanded us to love one another—to set aside our differences and to care for “the least of these” among us. It is our unity, not our diversity, that deserves our allegiance.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
What to do? Fight it or play along? Was God behind it?
— Peter J. Tanous, The Secret of Fatima
Prayer is a law of the universe. As God has ordained that certain physical laws should govern the law of this universe, so He has ordained the spiritual law. Books simply will not stay put on the table without the operation of gravity - although God could cause them, by divine fiat, to stay. Certain things simply will not happen without the operation of prayer, although God could cause them, by divine fiat, to happen. The Bible is full o examples of people doing what they could do and asking God to do what they couldn't do. In other words, the pattern given to us is both to work and pray.
— Elisabeth Elliot
If the number of religious converts who converted during a season of intense suffering is high, then does that mean that the number of religious abstainers who abstained because their life was already satisfying is correspondingly low? If so, does this argue for or against religion’s relevance in the world? If theistic religion is attractive, useful, and remedial only for those broken people in the most dismal of needful situations, then is this truly the work of a God or is it just the human psyche gravitating toward a comforting solution?
— Michael Vito Tosto, Portrait of an Infidel: The Acerbic Account of How a Passionate Christian Became an Ardent Atheist
If she looked into a fractured mirror, she'd see what he saw.
— Kristen Heitzmann, Told You Twice
Knowing God supersedes everything else because it is the supreme cause. Everything else—being, doing, loving, believing, hoping, praising, worshipping, evangelizing, glorifying, enjoying—is an effect.
— Larry Alan Thompson, Know Be Do: Turning the Christian Life Right Side Up
Life is a great gift from God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is a giver of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Prayer is not complaining but proclaiming
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Through Faith: Living an Overcoming Life
Insufferable man! But I grinned all the way back upstairs.
— Dawn Crandall, The Captive Imposter
Carry your cross and follow Christ.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You do not need to be perfect to be the best. Your attitude determines your altitude
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Achievers Handbook 2: Over 100 Inspirational Keys to fulfill your Destiny
Many people ask what they should do in their quiet time. Find a time early in your day when there are no distractions, which includes children, television, radio, or anything else that may take your focus off what you are doing. Pray for concerns on your heart and thank God for your blessings. Read God's Word and look for meaning in the scriptures and how to apply them to your life. You and your children will be blessed when you seek the Lord daily.
— Tamara L. Chilver
If I had to sum up homeschooling in one word, it would be freedom.
— Tamara L. Chilver
Life's most important lessons are not found in the lesson plans.
— Tamara L. Chilver
Teach the child, not just the curriculum.
— Tamara L. Chilver
I homeschool my children not to prepare them for tests but to prepare them for life.
— Tamara L. Chilver
Dear Homeschool Mom, You've got this! God called you to it, and He will see you through it. Inhale Grace. Exhale Doubt.
— Tamara L. Chilver
When I think of the word "organic," I think of natural, wholesome, and fundamental.That's exactly what I want my children's education to be like.
— Tamara L. Chilver
FUN + Learning = The Best Educational Experience
— Tamara L. Chilver
My Top Ten Reasons for Homeschooling: (10) Birthdays become school holidays. I love celebrations!(9) I always get to be the chaperone on field trips. Lucky me.(8) I can sleep in on rainy mornings. (Okay, I wrote that before my last two babies were born- no more sleeping in for Mom now.)(7) My pajamas are sometimes my work uniform until noon. Shhh!(6) The teacher-student ratio can’t be beat!(5) I can kiss the school principal in the faculty lounge. ♥(4) Integrating God in our school lessons is always encouraged.(3) I do not have to stay up late at night helping my children study for tests and complete homework assignments.(2) I have the opportunity to instill the love of learning.(1) I am the recipient of hugs and kisses all day long.
— Tamara L. Chilver
God has a plan for you (Jer. 29:11) and you will make it through this time of testing. Keep on believing and moving forward and you will see Him working out the details. God is never early or late but His timing is always perfect. You will see, I promise.
— Tamara L. Chilver
Homeschooling is not head-to-head, it's heart-to-heart.
— Tamara L. Chilver
I'm not saying homeschooling will be easy. I am saying it will be worth it.
— Tamara L. Chilver
Adding FUN to learning creates the best educational experience possible.
— Tamara L. Chilver
It isn't my teaching credentials that qualify me to teach my child. It is my God who qualifies me.
— Tamara L. Chilver
It's not my credentials that qualify me to teach my child. It's my God who made me qualified when I became a mom.
— Tamara L. Chilver
Homeschooling allows you the freedom to step off the highway of learning and take a more scenic route along a dirt road.
— Tamara L. Chilver
The primary focus of homeschooling should be on cultivating hearts for the Lord.
— Tamara L. Chilver
Organic education is natural, wholesome, and fundamental.
— Tamara L. Chilver
There is freedom in homeschooling.
— Tamara L. Chilver
The times I am most frustrated in homeschooling is when I become focused more on my plans than His plans. I must spend more time daily looking up for his divine direction than I do looking down at my lesson plans.
— Tamara L. Chilver
Goodbye worry, fear, doubt, and guilt. Hello grace.
— Tamara L. Chilver
Christ is the core of my child's curriculum.
— Tamara L. Chilver
Make Learning Magical
— Tamara L. Chilver
Proverbs 16:3 "Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and He will establish your plans."A great reminder when planning out the school year.
— Tamara L. Chilver
[Put] on your oxygen mask first. We cannot give our children something we don't have ourselves. I encourage you to make a commitment to having a quiet time with God every day. This may involve some sacrifices, such as waking up ten minutes earlier, turning off the morning news for a few minutes, or finding time alone, but I can promise that the results will be worth it.
— Tamara L. Chilver
Only God can break through the variegated walls of skin to capture the one and only hue of the heart. One Blood.
— Katelyne Parker, Hosanna
I pray moms will use ... [my] book[s] as a reference to arm themselves with God's grace and His Word to break away from the enemy's bondage and begin to experience peace and freedom in their homeschool journeys right away.
— Tamara L. Chilver
Dilemma of a Modern Christian:We know enough Word to make us Argumentativebut not enough to help ourself change.We have enough Knowledge to make us Religiousbut not enough to make us Godly.We have enough Reasons for being critical about othersbut never enough to be Compassionate.We have enough Wisdom to say that we are Rightbut never enough to Say "God I'm Sorry".We have enough Friends who leads us astraybut never enough who builds us Spiritually.We have enough Talents to score point over othersbut never enough to Serve one another.We have enough Achievements to fill ourselves with Self-Glorybut not enough to make us Holy.We have enough Time to attend all our Needsbut never enough to Seek God in Worship....God please help us to have enough but plenteous enough to 'Please You' in all the ways of our Life.- Santosh Thankachan
— Santosh Thankachan
All the best firsts should be experienced at three a.m.
— Heather Lyons, Royal Marriage Market
The weather in this land was quite unruly, and if you couldn't appreciate the many shades of gray, you had no business living in it. Alden Garrat Warrior Heart
— Dee Farrell, Warrior Heart
I'll be damned if I'm the weak link in a line of cognac drinkers.
— Heather Lyons, Royal Marriage Market
The course you take determines your greatness or failure
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Repositioning Yourself for  Greater Success
Be careful who you believe and how you believe who you believe. What and Who you believe influences your life powerfully
— Phebe Olaniran
Living Life God's way is living the Beautiful Life.
— Phebe Olaniran
Live healthy
—  Live Beautifully
How do I find joy in my homeschool journey?The answer is quite simple. I accept lots of God's grace. Grace to make mistakes. Grace to take a nap when I am exhausted. Grace to not feel guilty. Without His abundant provision of grace, I would be depleted, discouraged, and dissatisfied. Instead, I place all my trust in His direction and I embrace my calling as a homeschool mom. His grace has set me free from worry, fear, doubt, and guilt and I am overflowing with joy. Praise God!
— Tamara L. Chilver
But now, here were the British among us, upon our soil where the sun rises over one lake and sets upon another.
— Dee Farrell, Warrior Heart
The Truth: Doing it all is a misconception the enemy wants mothers to believe. Learn how to fully embrace the beauty of each season of your life. It is a gift from God. God’s Word: Colossians 3:23-24-'Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.' Take a deep breath busy mom. You are doing a great job!
— Tamara L. Chilver
Every mom is busy, whether you have one child or more than one. You just learn how to manage your time differently as your family grows.
— Tamara L. Chilver
For those of you who think that I have my life altogether, I definitely do not. Every season brings new challenges. For example, since I had my fifth child, I am notoriously 5-10 minutes late everywhere no matter how hard I try to be on time. I would like to say that I am "fashionably" late, but that isn't the truth either. Running in a mad dash in a parking lot (all holding hands of course) to make it somewhere 5 minutes late (instead of 6 minutes cause that makes a big difference) while one child is missing shoes and my hair is going in every direction. Yep, that is my family.
— Tamara L. Chilver
... parents naturally want their children to excel in every area of academics and extra-curricular activities, but the reality is- God made each child differently for His purpose. He never intended for our children to excel in everything.
— Tamara L. Chilver
Relax. Cultivate your children's capabilities. Maximize their strengths. Do not handicap their unique skills by spending too much time on making them average in everything. Help them create their own style, and appreciate your children for who God created them to be.
— Tamara L. Chilver
Homeschooling is not a race ... You will not get behind nor do you have to live with guilt that you feel the need to catch up.
— Tamara L. Chilver
curriculum companies provide more work than is needed. I never finished the complete curriculum when I taught in a classroom or at home. If your race is with your curriculum, learn to pick and choose what to use, and please do not attempt to cover it all or your race will be ongoing and you will be exhausted. Even races require pit stops to refuel.
— Tamara L. Chilver
... the enemy will do anything to rob my joy of homeschooling and parenting. He wanted me to live in bondage and feel guilty and like I was never doing enough to have me miss the real joy of just being home with my children.
— Tamara L. Chilver
I LOVE homeschooling and want others who have been led to do it to love it, too.
— Tamara L. Chilver
I want home educators to look beyond the lesson plans, curriculum, and grades to see the abundant blessings. My desire is for parents to enjoy the journey rather than focus on the destination.When you begin to embrace the journey- TRULY embrace the journey- the joy of homeschooling will be absolutely A.MA.ZING. You will begin to see the much larger picture and God's work in your homeschool day more than you ever have before.
— Tamara L. Chilver
[Home educator] take time during the holidays to catch your breath and enjoy homeschooling in a new, refreshing way (and to learn the value of bookmarks like I did.☺)
— Tamara L. Chilver
[Home educator] sometimes teaching and parenting is tough stuff. That is the reality of the calling. I hope ... [do] not quit or give up hope but keep moving forward on the path where God guides you.
— Tamara L. Chilver
God will help you do it if you trust and lean on Him for guidance and strength.
— Tamara L. Chilver
By fulfilling our divinely appointed jobs as parents, we can be God's tools that define and refine our children as they are sculpted into the individuals that He wants them to be.
— Tamara L. Chilver
Are you kidding me? The last time I saw a face like yours, I fed it a banana.
— TheFlamingPopsicle, Better Than Revenge
Do not give them a piece of your mind but a piecepiece of God's LOVE
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Holy Spirit Anointing
Beloved, there is no way to measure the continuing influence of one godly mother.
— Elizabeth George, The Remarkable Women of the Bible: And Their Message for Your Life Today
Faith is your anchor and sustainer in the new season. Faith that the one who called us is faithful. Faith helps you see in the dark. And when you feel like you can't see, Faith steadies your heart to trust what you know. What is true.
— T.D. Jakes
He has seen and felt how solemn a thing it was to approach the gate of death, to enter the presence of God; and from that awful point of vision, he has contemplated the world, and life, and human responsibility, as they are; and he has come back like a spirit from another sphere, clothed with all the solemnities of eternity; to live now as one soon in reality to be there.
— Octavius Winslow
Too commonly sex does not have the dignity of a sacramental event because sex is thought to be the means of the search for self rather than the expression and communication of one who has already found himself, and is free from resort to sex in the frantic pursuit of his own identity.
— William Stringfellow, Instead of Death: New and Expanded Edition
Events are not determined by the wheel of fortune, which is blind, but by the wheels of Providence, which are full of eyes
— Matthew Henry, Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible
This, too, is the Biblical description of work. In sin men lose their dominion over the creation which God gave them, and their relationship with this creation becomes toil. “Cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for our of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” (Gen. 3:17-19)Work represents the broken relationship between men and the rest of creation. Men, literally, work to death.The fallenness of work, the broken relationship between men and the rest of creation which work is, involves both the alienation of men from nature and from the rest of creation, including the principalities and powers. In work men lose their dominion over the principalities and are in bondage to the principalities. Instead of men ruling the great institutions – corporations, unions, and so on – men are ruled by the great institutions.
— William Stringfellow, Instead of Death: New and Expanded Edition
Biblical spirituality means powerlessness, living without embellishment or pretense, free to be faithful in the gospel, and free from anxiety about effectiveness or similar illusions of success.
— William Stringfellow
Let ur attitude be gratitude.Give thanks to God=
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Who Are You?
Reckon your weakness as praise of God’s power, endure suffering in joy, risk your life on the veracity of Christ, count your loneliness a means of grace.
— William Stringfellow
pse.The Scars come before the Stars.
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Through Faith: Living an Overcoming Life
Just as God, above all, is free of every need and self-interest, the spiritual man who has the Spirit struggles and becomes perfected in the love according to Christ, love that is delivered of all need and self-interest.
— John Romanides
delays,closed doors are not setbacks but setups God uses to move you forward
— Ikechukwu Joseph, The Complete Leader: Jesus Christ the Accomplished Perfect Total Leader
That means, in turn, that this is an experience which shatters time and liberates people from the confinement of time by at once recalling all that has gone before and anticipating all that is to come.
— William Stringfellow
The salvation of all the elect is not less certain than the power of God is invincible.
— John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols
When God descends to us he, in a certain sense, abases himself and stammers with us, so He allows us to stammer with Him
— John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols
Don't be afraid. There is no more to fear. Do not fear rejection. If you fear rejection by another you do not love the other, though you may profess it. You are only being anxious for his love of you. The free man does not seek the love of others, nor fear that his love will be rejected, for rejection - as is known from the night Christ was betrayed - does not destroy love, and it does not destroy the one who loves. Don't be afraid, you are not alone.
— William Stringfellow
Freedom, wholeness, and true success can only be found when you are living a praying life. That means walking so close to God that He can keep you away from danger and guide you where you need to go
— Stormie Omartian, Lord, I Want To Be Whole: The Power Of Prayer And Scripture In Emotional Healing
The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us.
— Oswald Chambers
Girls...only lift the veil over your body to the spouse who is worthy to see the glory of that unveiled mystery.
— Jason Evert
It was a common saying among the Christians in the primitive Church, "The soul and the body make a man; the spirit and discipline make a Christian;" implying, that none could be real Christians, without the help of Christian discipline. But if this be so, is it any wonder that we find so few Christians; for where is Christian discipline
— John Wesley
What is the difference between Jew and Christians? We all await the Messiah. You believe He has already come and gone, while we do not. I therefore propose that we await Him together. And when He appears, we can ask Him: were You here before?
— Elie Wiesel, All Rivers Run to the Sea
Gods revelation to you is a classified info.
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Divine Immunity
If you do not manage power, it will burn you.
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Insight for Fruitful Living: Bible Faith Nuggets Series - Book One
What had he said about machines?”Block was not entirely sure about that. Something about their eventually being able to think, something which the woman said was at odds with the Christian view of things, just like his sexual inclinations.
— David Lagercrantz, Fall of Man in Wilmslow
If the Christian life seems boring,I suggest you may be DOING IT WRONG!
— Edmund Lloyd Fletcher
It costs a man just as much or even more to go to hell than to come to heaven. Narrow, exceedingly narrow is the way to perdition!
— Søren Kierkegaard
don't do d right things for the wrong reasons
— Ikechukwu Joseph, The principles of the Dynamics  of Faith
Every negative effect needs a positive cure (solution)
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Unlocking Closed Doors
May God grant children who will fear and revered Him.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Experience kills out ur weaknesses
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Who are you?
Delay is not denial.There is a waiting time
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Unlocking Closed Doors
Our willingness and desire to be obedient to the teachings of Jesus is at the heart of our entire faith walk.
— Sara Dormon, If You're a Christian and Everyone Likes You... Something's Wrong
There is no such thing as Christian work. That is, there is no work in the world which is, in and of itself, Christian. Christian work is any kind of work, from cleaning a sewer to preaching a sermon, that is done by a Christian and offered to God. This means that nobody is excluded from serving God. It means that no work is "beneath" a Christian. It means there is no job in the world that needs to be boring or useless. A Christian finds fulfilment not in the particular kind of work he does, but in the way in which he does it.
— Elisabeth Elliot, Discipline: The Glad Surrender
I remember my father, who had served in Vietnam, once talking to me about how real courage is when you're scared out of your mind but you do what you have to do anyway. I didn't feel very courageous at the moment. I felt like a small mouse in the mouth of a lion.
— Anna M. Aquino
When it comes to giving thanks to God, there isn’t a card, a sentiment, a picture, or a word that can adequately express the gratitude in my heart. What can I say to the One who not only saved my life but who also adopted me into His family? How can I possibly express my thankfulness for His riches? How can I express my gratitude for His friendship and His healing touch? How does one find the words to thank Him for His unconditional love, unmerited favour, and forgiveness? Dictionaries and thesauruses can’t help me. All I can say is ‘Thank you, God’ with the hope that those humble words convey all that is in my heart.
— Katherine J. Walden, Dare to Call Him Friend
The Son of Man saves souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
He may be a Christian by common profession; but, in a saving sense, no man is a Christian, in whose soul any thing hath a greater and higher interest than God the Father, and the Mediator (352).
— Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest
Our United States "State religion" has become Secular Humanism which has no "separation from the State.
— James C. Campbell
We lied to ourselves thinking in our minds we knew everything. We were deceived in believing that youthful enthusiasm could replace wizened maturity.
— Anna M. Aquino
Whatever God does today will be as significant as the parting of the Red Sea.
— Rebecca VanDeMark
I feel as if I've gone past the lukewarm stage that Jesus talked about in the book of Revelations and am slowly dwindling on cold. Deep down I want to change, but I don't know how. I'm the pastor. I'm supposed to know how. I hide my frustration with an obsession for Ohio State football and hours at the I Sold It on eBay internet cafe around the corner from the church.
— Anna M. Aquino
The couch and I were what I would describe as frenemies. I loved to hate it. It was too small for my frame. I had tried to tell my wife that fact when we bought it off of Craigslist, but she assured me that it went perfectly with our room decor and it was a good deal.
— Anna M. Aquino
They weren't people that liked change. They were the kind of people that would have tied change to a chair with dental floss if they could in order to avoid it. They were the type of people who desired to live in their virtual bubbles and grew to resent anyone that challenged that world.
— Anna M. Aquino
I looked up at the wall. My bachelor's degree had been in History. Films like Back to the Future and Quantum Leap had been some of my favorite programs. Could time travel really be possible? This seemed too unreal.
— Anna M. Aquino
The weight of God's love for humanity cannot be determined. But felt with a grateful heart.
— David Nii Sowah Kobbina Adjei
I could smell death in the air and I knew it was mine. I could see the world spinning around me and I could sense the blows being thrust into my body. I blacked out.
— Anna M. Aquino
As far as not seeing your fruit is concerned, you know many people have this idea that things need to happen when you think they should and if they don't you get this idea that God isn't in it. The fruit you've seen isn't bad fruit. It's just green. It's not ready. I've heard you humans complain time and time again about God telling you to do something and then the frustration begins to set in. You are so busy checking your fruit every two days that you don't realize it's just not ripe yet.
— Anna M. Aquino
Your passion dwindling out isn't Father's fault either. You can't blame that on Him. He has you in Merchant for a reason. You may not see it yet. But there is purpose. Father always has a purpose.
— Anna M. Aquino
The great hope we find in the Christian faith is that God is not us.
— Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love:  Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World
Experiential truth comes by obedience.
— Jane Bulos
In the life of a Christian, there are no accidents, only Divine appointments.
— Dr. Lonnie Rex
If your repentance and God's forgiveness of your sin does not lead to total surrender to God, you should wonder if you truly repented.
— Gail Davis
Kind deed is a seed of love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To shrink back from all that can be called Nature into negative spirituality is as if we ran away from horses instead of learning to ride. There is in our present pilgrim condition plenty of room (more room than most of us like) for abstinence and renunciation and mortifying our natural desires. But behind all asceticism the thought should be, ‘Who will trust us with the true wealth if we cannot be trusted even with the wealth that perishes?’ Who will trust me with a spiritual body if I cannot control even an earthly body? These small and perishable bodies we now have were given to us as ponies are given to schoolboys. We must learn to manage: not that we may some day be free of horses altogether but that some day we may ride bare-back, confident and rejoicing, those greater mounts, those winged, shining and world- shaking horses which perhaps even now expect us with impatience, pawing and snorting in the King’s stables. Not that the gallop would be of any value unless it were a gallop with the King; but how else— since He has retained His own charger—should we accompany Him?
— C.S. Lewis
Only the Saviour saves.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God gives grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God give grace for obedience to His commandments.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is no greater love than the love of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Jesus Christ saves the sinner.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Jesus Christ seeks to save the lost souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
O Lord lead me along a sacred straight path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Jesus Christ is my Saviour
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Cry to Christ!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Neither boost about your own strength nor dignity but the sacred grace of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The deeds and motive of man define his personality.
— Lailah Gifty Akita