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101 " I heartily suggest going all in! You’ll never regret it. I have more to say about burning bridges, but we’ll have to save it. "
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson , Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday
102 " (I have found the voices in my head are good company, but they aren’t always dependable in the help department.) "
103 " I find the pages of Holy Scripture to be the sweetest and most effective stress reliever on the planet. "
104 " the trenches are where I want to be found, too. My goal is to live for Christ in the trenches of what we call this Christian walk. As believers, we’re all called to be there. "
105 " God isn’t looking for fine china, all polished up, nick-free, and reserved with a prayer that He might use us for something big, something grand. Oh, that’s not to say that He won’t do something extraordinary with the yielded soul, but living our faith out loud in the ups and downs of our everyday lives is how we tell the redeeming story of His love. "
106 " I beg you to linger long in the Good Book and give yourself time in the scriptures until your desire for God’s Word deepens and the Word begins to quench your strongest thirst. Given time, our parched hearts come to find that God’s Word is the only source that truly satisfies. "
107 " Speaking of Jesus, John the Baptist said, “He must increase, but I must decrease” (John 3:30). Basically, John was talking about the ministry of Christ and how important it was for him to prepare the way by getting out of it! I’ve begun to understand that Jesus is calling us to do the same thing. The way I see it, the more Shellie I can give up, the more room in my family I can offer Jesus to operate. "
108 " Praise the Lamb of God who gladly bears the scars of our redemption! "
109 " Scrimping and saving is great economic advice, my friends, but it is poor practice in our spiritual lives. "
110 " There is nothing good in us apart from Christ, but we’re welcome to draw on the bank of heaven with every breath we take. "
111 " It is in resisting Him that we find ourselves learning tough lessons the hard way. "
112 " God doesn’t begin His work in us as believers by telling us to behave. The law did a stellar good job of proving that we don’t know how, "