I don’t ask God to bless what I do. I pray He will help me to do what He blesses.

…Bob Pierce, founder and president, World Vision

February 9, 2004

A life devoted unto God, looking wholly unto Him in all our actions, and doing all things suitably to His glory, is so far from being dull and uncomfortable, that it creates new comforts in everything that we do.

… William Law (1686-1761)

Meditation:

For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

…Matthew 6:14,15 (KJV)

We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today.

…A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)

The Gospel is not presented to mankind as an argument about religious principles. Nor is it offered as a philosophy of life. Christianity is a witness to certain facts — to events that have happened, to hopes that have been fulfilled, to realities that have been experienced, to a Person who has lived and died and been raised from the dead to reign for ever.

…Massey H. Shepherd, Jr. (1913- ), Far and Near

Some people are kind, polite, and sweet-spirited – until you try to sit in their pews.

Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.

“Dear Father: Bless the person reading this in whatever it is that You know they need.” Amen!

It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

…Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

After a trip to Mexico [in 1984]… I fell ill… The illness was protracted… I suffered a mild depression… When [an episcopal priest] prayed for my recovery, I choked up and wept. The only prayer I knew word for word was the Pater Noster. On that day and in the days after it, I found myself repeating the Lord’s Prayer, again and again, and meaning every word of it. Quite suddenly, when I was awake one night, a light dawned on me, and I realized what had happened… After many years of affirming God’s existence and trying to give adequate reasons for that affirmation, I found myself believing in God.

… Mortimer Adler (1902-2001), quoted in

Philosophers Who Believe, Kelly James Clark, ed. [1993]

Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601