"It is as wrong to say that the church has no part in the ministry of healing as it is to say that the only thing that prevents people from being healed is their lack of faith."
- Colin Brown

"Ultimate healing and the glorification of the body are certainly among the blessings of Calvary for the believing Christian. Immediate healing is not guaranteed. God can heal any disease, but He is not obligated to do so."
- Warren Wiersbe

"God certainly can, and sometimes does, heal people in a miraculous way today. But the Bible does not teach that He will always heal those who come to Him in faith. He sovereignly reserves the right to heal or not to heal as He sees fit. From time to time God, in His mercy, may grant us healing from disease as a gracious glimpse, a ‘sneak preview’ of what is to come. It is my opinion that He sometimes does. But, in view of the fact that the kingdom has not yet come in its fullness, we are not to automatically expect it."
- Joni Eareckson Tada

Healing

“Faithfulness to principle is only proved by faithfulness in detail.”
- Ridly Havergal

“Dependability—fulfilling what I agreed to do even though it requires unexpected sacrifices.”
- Bill Gothard

“My dear Senator, I am not called to be successful, but faithful.”
- Mother Teresa to Senator Mark Hatfield who asked her, “How can you bear the load without being crushed by it?”

“Is your place a small place?
Tend it with care!—
He set you there.
Is your place a large place?
Guard it with care!—
He set you there.
Whate’er your place, it is not yours alone,
But his who set you there.”
- John Oxenham

Faithfulness

"The story of Easter is the story of God's wonderful window of divine surprise."
- Carl Knudsen

"Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer;
Death is strong, but Life is stronger;
Stronger that the dark, the light;
Stronger than the wrong, the right;
Faith and Hope triumphant say
Christ will rise on Easter Day."
- Phillips Brooks

"O chime of sweet Saint Charity,
Peal soon that Easter morn
When Christ for all shall risen be,
And in all hearts new-born!"
- James Russell Lowell

"If Easter means anything to modern man it means that eternal truth is eternal. You may nail it to the tree, wrap it up in grave clothes, and seal it in a tomb; but "truth crushed to earth shall rise again." Truth does not perish; it cannot be destroyed. It may be distorted; it has been silenced temporarily; it has been compelled to carry its cross to Calvary's brow or to drink the cup of poisoned hemlock in a Grecian jail, but with an inevitable certainty after every Black Friday dawns truth's Easter morn."
- Donald Harvey Tippet

"On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer."
- Douglas Horton

"Easter is not a passport to another world; it is a quality of perception for this one."
- W.P. Lemon

"There is a stage in a child's life at which it cannot separate the religious from the merely festal character of Christmas or Easter. I have been told of a very small and very devout boy who was heard murmuring to himself on Easter morning a poem of his own composition which began 'Chocolate eggs and Jesus risen.' This seems to me, for his age, both admirable poetry and admirable piety. But of course the time will soon come when such a child can no longer effortlessly and spontaneously enjoy that unity. He will become able to distinguish the spiritual from the ritual and festal aspect of Easter; chocolate eggs will no longer seem sacramental. And once he has distinguished he mustput one or the other first. If he puts the spiritual first he can still taste something of Easter in the chocolate eggs; if he puts the eggs first they will soon be no more than any other sweetmeat. They will have taken on an independent, and therefore a soon withering, life."
- C. S. Lewis

Easter

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Abraham Lincoln

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle
Benjamin Franklin

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
Andrew J. Holmes

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Barry Switzer

When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.
Bernard Baily

When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.
Mary H. Waldrip

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
Benjamin Whichhcote

He was like a rooster who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
George Eliot

If I had any humility I would be perfect.
Ted Turner

Don’t be humble; you’re not that great.
Golda Meir

I am no more humble than my talents require.
Oscar Levant

Only the penitent man will pass…the penitent man is humble, the penitent man kneels before God.
Dr. Jones, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Oh yeah? Well, I’m twice as humble as you!
Linus to Charlie Brown

Humility

“What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.”
- Abraham Lincoln

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”
- Benjamin Franklin

“It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.”
- Andrew J. Holmes

“Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.”
- Barry Switzer

“When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.”
- Bernard Baily

“When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.”
- Mary H. Waldrip

“None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.”
- Benjamin Whichhcote

“He was like a rooster who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.”
- George Eliot

“If I had any humility I would be perfect.”
- Ted Turner

“Don’t be humble; you’re not that great.”
- Golda Meir

“I am no more humble than my talents require.”
- Oscar Levant

“Only the penitent man will pass…the penitent man is humble, the penitent man kneels before God.”
- Dr. Jones, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

“Oh yeah? Well, I’m twice as humble as you!”
- Linus to Charlie Brown

Humility

"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all
And sweetest in the gale is heard.
- Emily Dickenson

When hope dies, the killing begins. Hopelessness and brutality are just two sides of the same coin."
- Jurgen Moltmann

"One of the most important distinctions I have learned in the course of reflection on Jewish history is the difference between optimism and hope. Optimism is the belief that things will get better. Hope is the faith that, together, we can make things better. Optimism is a passive virtue; hope, an active one. It takes no courage to be an optimist, but it takes a great deal of courage to have hope."
- Jonathan Sacks

"Within the embrace of Christ’s wounds lies our only refuge, and our hope of glory only on the other side."
- Deborah Smith Douglas

Hope

“With us, there’s a saying: La esperanza muere ultima. Hope dies last. You can’t lose hope. If you lose hope, you lose everything.”
--Jessie de la Cruz

“A true Christian should have but one fear—lest he should not hope enough.”
--Walter Elliot

“There are none in the humanly “down” position so low that they cannot be lifted up by entering God’s order, and none in the humanly “up” position so high that they can disregard God’s point of view on their lives. The barren, the widow, the orphan, the eunuch, the alien, all models of human hopelessness, are fruitful and secure in God’s care.”
--Dallas Willard

“Hope without patience results in the illusion of optimism or, more terrifying, the desperation of fanaticism. The hope necessary to initiate us into the adventure must be schooled by patience if the adventure is to be sustained. Through patience, we learn to continue to hope, even though our hope seems to offer little chance of fulfillment. . . . Yet patience equally requires hope, for without hope, patience to easily accepts the world and the self for what it is, rather than what it can or should be.”
--Stanley Hauerwas

“The differences between black folk and white folk are not blood or color, and the ties that bind us are deeper than those that separate us. The common road of hope, which we all traveled, has brought us into a stronger kinship than any words, laws, or legal claims.”
--Richard Wright

Hope

"Lord, the Scripture says: “There is a time for silence and a time for speech.” Savior, teach me the silence of humility, the silence of wisdom, the silence of love, the silence of perfection, the silence that speaks without words, the silence of faith. Lord, teach me to silence my own heart that I may listen to the gentle movement of the Holy Spirit within me and sense the depths which are of God."
- Frankfurt prayer

Silence

"Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
- Socrates

Life

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” – Samuel Johnson

Integrity

"Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself one way or the other at all…The humility which consists in being a great deal occupied about yourself, and saying you are of little worth, is not Christian humility. It is one form of self-occupation and a very poor and futile one at that." - William Temple

Humility

The month of January is named after the Roman god Janus, who was pictured as a man with two faces, one looking backward and the other forward. New Year’s Day provides a valuable time to ponder the past while anticipating the future.
--Nelson’s Complete Book of Stories, Illustrations, & Quotes by Robert J. Morgan

"While all the promises of God are true and precious, yet it is good to take them one by one and especially commit ourselves to them. If you ask God to give you a special message for the opening year, one that will be made seasonable and real in ever exigency of the unknown future, you will be surprised how faithfully He will fulfill His Word, and how fittingly the Holy Spirit will speak to you of things to come, and anticipate the real needs and exigencies of your life."
-–A. W. Tozer, January 1, 1938

"Another year is dawning:
Dear Father, let it be,
In working or in waiting,
Another year with Thee;
Another year of progress,
Another year of praise,
Another year of proving
Thy presence all the days."
--Frances Ridley Havergal

"Not renouncing, but repeating and ratifying all my former Covenants with God, and lamenting it, that I have not lived up more closely to them; I do in the beginning of this New Year solemnly make a fresh surrender of myself, my whole self, body, soul, and spirit, to God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, my Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier, covenanting and promising, not in any strength of my own, for I am very weak, but in the strength of the grace of Jesus Christ, that I will endeavour this year to stand complete in all the Will of God."
-–Matthew Henry, January 1, 1705

New Year’s