Oh, what a blessed and comfortable thing to be known by Christ, known and marked as His friends, His relations, His dear children, His beloved family, His purchased possession! Here we are often cast down, often discouraged, often persecuted, often spoken against, often misunderstood—but let us take courage, our Lord and Master knows all. A day shall come when we shall no longer see through a glass darkly—but face to face—a day when we shall know even as we are now known; for the union between us and our Redeemer, which we so often feel disposed to doubt, shall then be clearly seen, and we shall no more go out to battle.~ J.C. Ryle,The Christian Race & Other Sermons, “The Privileges of the True Christian”, [Moscow, ID: Charles Nolan Publishing, 2002], 107.

Faith is the avenue to salvation. Not intellectual understanding. Not money. Not your works. Just simple faith. How much faith? The faith of a mustard seed, so small you can hardly see it. But if you will put that little faith in the person of Jesus, your life will be changed. He will come with supernatural power into your heart. It can happen to you.- Billy Graham

"There shall be no night there!" Revelation 21:25
My soul! is it night with you here? Are you wearied with these midnight tossings on life's tumultuous sea? Be still! The day is breaking! Soon shall your Lord appear! That glorious appearing shall disperse every cloud, and usher in an eternal noontide which knows no twilight. "The Lord will be your everlasting light--and your God will be your glory! Your days of sorrow will come to an end!" Everlasting light! Wondrous secret of a nightless world--the glories of a present God!
Strange realities! A world without night! A heaven without a sun! And, greater wonder still, yourself in this world--a joyful citizen of this nightless, sinless, sorrowless, tearless Heaven--basking underneath the Fountain of uncreated light! No exhaustion of glorified body and spirit to require repose; no lassitude or weariness to suspend the ever-deepening song, "Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain--to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!"- John MacDuff, "The Faithful Promiser")

Joy is the serious business of Heaven. C S Lewis

Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to
faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not
breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.-J. C. Ryle (1816-1900), A Call to Prayer, published in the 1850's as a pamphlet, p. 1

I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again. -Tim Vine

I was put on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind I will never die. ~ Calvin of Calvin & Hobbes

I liked things better when I didn't understand them. ~ Calvin of Calvin & Hobbes

Joy is the serious business of Heaven. C S Lewis

Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to
faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not
breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.-J. C. Ryle (1816-1900), A Call to Prayer, published in the 1850's as a pamphlet, p. 1

I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again. -Tim Vine

I was put on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind I will never die. ~ Calvin of Calvin & Hobbes

I liked things better when I didn't understand them. ~ Calvin of Calvin & Hobbes

Leaness of body and soul may go together. -John Owen

The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it,
for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.
The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth
will bring their splendor into it.-Revelation 21:23,24 (NIV)

My windows open to the autumn night,
In vain I watched for sleep to visit me:
How should sleep dull mine ears, and dim my sight,
Who saw the stars, and listened to the sea?

Ah, how the City of our God is fair!
If, without sea, and starless though it be,
For joy of the majestic beauty there,
Men shall not miss the stars, nor mourn the sea.
Lionel P. Johnson (1867-1902), Poems, London: Elkin Mathews, 1895, p. 77

I know no light but Yours, Lord.- RMA

Though a thermosceptic I strong on recycling, especially of quotes- GJW


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