He has hedged me in and put me where I am. He has Placed me, Not Misplaced me. He knows exactly where I am and how to care for me.-Joni, A Lifetime of Wisdom

Let Christ stay throughout the meal. Don't dismiss Him with the blessing.-Unknown

"In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead . . . I charge you!" 2 Timothy 4:1
Life is very serious! We are always standing before God who is our Judge. Our commonest days--are judgment days.
We should learn to do everything "in the presence of God". This makes every word and act serious.
If only we were more conscious of God and of eternity--we would live better!- J. R. Miller, "Paul's Message for Today" 1904

Fix your affections upon the things that are above, and this will enable you to mortify sin. Heavenly things are blessed and suitable objects--God Himself, in His beauty and glory; the Lord Jesus Christ, who is 'altogether lovely,' the 'chief of ten thousand'; grace and glory; and the blessed promises of the gospel.
Were our affections filled, taken up, and possessed with these things, as it is our duty that they should be--and it is our happiness when they are--what access could sin, with its painted pleasures, with its sugared poisons, with its envenomed baits, have into our souls? How should we loathe all sin's proposals, and say unto them, "Away with you, you abominable thing!" For what are the vain, transitory pleasures of sin--in comparison to the heavenly glories which are proposed unto us?-John Owen

The church is the great lost and found department.- Robert Short

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The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car, a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.- Ben Sweetland

Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.- John Petit-Senn, 1792 - 1870

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.- Basil, 329 - 379

Found a little patched-up inn in the village of Bulson.... Proprietor had nothing but potatoes; but what a feast he laid before me. Served them in five different courses: potato soup, potato fricassee, potatoes creamed, potato salad, and finished with potato pie. It may be because I had not eaten for 36 hours, but that meal seems about the best I ever had. - Douglas MacArthur, 1880 - 1964, in his World War I diary

It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not only be spectators of this beauteous theatre, but also enjoy the multiplied abundance and variety of good things which are presented to us in it. - John Calvin, 1509 - 1564