Dwight L. Moody
1. I do not know anything that would wake up Chicago better than for every man and woman here who loves Him to begin to talk about Him to their friends, and just to tell them what He has done for you. You have got a circle of friends. Go and tell them of Him.
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2. I wish we had a few more women like the woman of Samaria, willing to confess what the Lord Jesus Christ had done for their souls.
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3. All should work and ask God's guidance.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Popular Quotes by Dwight L. Moody
1. If Christ comes into our hearts we are not ashamed.
2. Some people go back into the past and rake up all the troubles they ever had, and then they look into the future and anticipate that they will have still more trouble, and then they go reeling and staggering all through life.
3. I have never yet known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord's people were divided.
4. Take your stand on the Rock of Ages. Let death, let the judgment come: the victory is Christ's and yours through Him.
5. Joy is love exalted; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in school; and temperance is love in training.
2. Some people go back into the past and rake up all the troubles they ever had, and then they look into the future and anticipate that they will have still more trouble, and then they go reeling and staggering all through life.
3. I have never yet known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord's people were divided.
4. Take your stand on the Rock of Ages. Let death, let the judgment come: the victory is Christ's and yours through Him.
5. Joy is love exalted; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in school; and temperance is love in training.
Friday, March 9, 2012
The Eagle That Cackled
"But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint." - Isaiah 40:31 (NIV).
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The following illustration has been around the email circuit for quite a while but it is a good reminder. Also, there are different versions of this story, but
they all make an excellent point.
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A man found an eagle's egg and put it into the nest of a prairie chicken. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them.
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All his life, the eagle, thinking he was a prairie chicken, did whatever the other prairie chickens did. He scratched in the dirt for seeds and insects to eat. He clucked and cackled. And he flew in a brief thrashing of wings and flurry of feathers no more than a few feet off the ground. After all, that's how
prairie chickens were supposed to fly.
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Years passed. The eagle grew very old. One day he saw a magnificent bird far above him in the cloudless sky. Hanging with graceful majesty on the powerful wind currents, it soared with scarcely a beat of its strong wooden wings.
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"What a beautiful bird!" said the eagle to his neighbor. "What is it?"
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"That's an eagle--the chief of the birds," the neighbor clucked. "But don't give it a second thought. You could never be like him."
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And so the eagle, thinking he was just a prairie chicken and not able to soar into the heights, lived his life groveling and picking at the ground, never
experiencing the exhilaration of flight and the majesty which was his by birthright.
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Tragically, this is the picture of many Christians today. With the God-given ability to "soar on wings like eagles," as Isaiah wrote, they fail to take
advantage of the abilities and blessings that God has prepared for all who truly hope and trust in him.
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Let each of us determine that, with God's help, this will not be our fate, but rather that we will be like eagles and become and do all that God has planned and envisioned for us to become and do, and therein reach our God-given potential--and reap the rewards for all eternity.
- AnudhinaManna
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The following illustration has been around the email circuit for quite a while but it is a good reminder. Also, there are different versions of this story, but
they all make an excellent point.
.
A man found an eagle's egg and put it into the nest of a prairie chicken. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them.
.
All his life, the eagle, thinking he was a prairie chicken, did whatever the other prairie chickens did. He scratched in the dirt for seeds and insects to eat. He clucked and cackled. And he flew in a brief thrashing of wings and flurry of feathers no more than a few feet off the ground. After all, that's how
prairie chickens were supposed to fly.
.
Years passed. The eagle grew very old. One day he saw a magnificent bird far above him in the cloudless sky. Hanging with graceful majesty on the powerful wind currents, it soared with scarcely a beat of its strong wooden wings.
.
"What a beautiful bird!" said the eagle to his neighbor. "What is it?"
.
"That's an eagle--the chief of the birds," the neighbor clucked. "But don't give it a second thought. You could never be like him."
.
And so the eagle, thinking he was just a prairie chicken and not able to soar into the heights, lived his life groveling and picking at the ground, never
experiencing the exhilaration of flight and the majesty which was his by birthright.
.
Tragically, this is the picture of many Christians today. With the God-given ability to "soar on wings like eagles," as Isaiah wrote, they fail to take
advantage of the abilities and blessings that God has prepared for all who truly hope and trust in him.
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Let each of us determine that, with God's help, this will not be our fate, but rather that we will be like eagles and become and do all that God has planned and envisioned for us to become and do, and therein reach our God-given potential--and reap the rewards for all eternity.
- AnudhinaManna
Monday, March 5, 2012
Popular Quotes by Dwight L. Moody
1. Look at Him at Gethsemane, sweating as it were great drops of blood; look at Him on the cross, crucified between two thieves; hear that piercing cry, "Father, Father, forgive them, they know not what they do." And as you look into that face, as you look into those wounds on His feet or His hands, will you say He has not the power to save you? Will you say He has not the power so redeem you?
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2. I find that many Christians are in trouble about the future; they think they will not have grace enough to die by. It is much more important that we should have grace enough to live by. It seems to me that death is of very little importance in the meantime. When the dying hour comes, there will be dying grace; but you do not require dying grace to live by.
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3. The most solemn truth in the gospel is that the only thing Christ left down here is His blood.
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4. "Lord, you don't really mean that we shall preach the Gospel to those men that murdered you, to those men that took your life?" "Yes," says the Lord, "go and preach the Gospel to those Jerusalem sinners." I can imagine Him saying: "Go and hunt up that man that put the cruel crown of thorns upon My brow, and preach the Gospel to him. Tell him he shall have a crown in My kingdom without a thorn in it"
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5. I believe firmly that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and everything that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Spirit will fill every corner of our hearts. But if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God. We must be emptied before we can be filled.
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2. I find that many Christians are in trouble about the future; they think they will not have grace enough to die by. It is much more important that we should have grace enough to live by. It seems to me that death is of very little importance in the meantime. When the dying hour comes, there will be dying grace; but you do not require dying grace to live by.
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3. The most solemn truth in the gospel is that the only thing Christ left down here is His blood.
.
4. "Lord, you don't really mean that we shall preach the Gospel to those men that murdered you, to those men that took your life?" "Yes," says the Lord, "go and preach the Gospel to those Jerusalem sinners." I can imagine Him saying: "Go and hunt up that man that put the cruel crown of thorns upon My brow, and preach the Gospel to him. Tell him he shall have a crown in My kingdom without a thorn in it"
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5. I believe firmly that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and everything that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Spirit will fill every corner of our hearts. But if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God. We must be emptied before we can be filled.
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