tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38181355760689405032024-03-08T00:12:55.554-08:00Quote CentralJoshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545552664313887986noreply@blogger.comBlogger125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818135576068940503.post-16427276771286904322011-11-06T14:59:00.000-08:002011-11-06T14:59:29.994-08:00Human Growth<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"You only ever grow as a human being if you're outside your comfort zone."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">~ Percy Cerutty </span>Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545552664313887986noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818135576068940503.post-70262312329734192392011-07-11T22:08:00.000-07:002011-07-11T22:08:23.445-07:00Greatest Burden and Sorrow of the Father<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"The greatest burden and sorrow that you can lay on the Father is NOT to believe that He loves you."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- James Boice</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span>Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545552664313887986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818135576068940503.post-86317093504971135952011-06-08T18:12:00.000-07:002011-06-08T18:12:33.722-07:00Demolish The Word 'Impossible'<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Impossible is not a word. It's just a reason for someone not to try."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Anonymous</span>Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545552664313887986noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818135576068940503.post-29476478810003484662011-06-05T16:15:00.000-07:002011-06-05T16:15:53.155-07:00We Will Rest In His Arms Soon<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"The God of all comfort, who sends down drops of comfort now--- will soon call us up to enter into the torrents of the fullness of His joy forever! Weeping may endure for a night--- but joy comes in the morning. Soon our sufferings and sorrows will be forever ended!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- James Smith</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Augustine </span>Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545552664313887986noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818135576068940503.post-3464148733960149572011-03-22T18:31:00.000-07:002011-03-22T18:31:58.235-07:00Jesus Bore Our Sin Problem<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Our sin problem was what moved Him from a place of unapproachable glory to become our substitute, and His substitution provoked the very intricacies of destruction that was invoked by our sin problem."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Yours Truly </span>Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545552664313887986noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818135576068940503.post-4389690003138260542011-03-22T14:04:00.000-07:002011-03-22T14:05:19.716-07:00Value Yourself<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Your talents are a gift. Are you just going to drop them, hoping that someone will give you your dream job and a fat salary just for being you? Or are you going to take responsibility for what you've got and really push yourself to do something great with those gifts? You have to believe in yourself enough to know that you've got talent and that you are worth the investment of time and effort. God valued you enough to give you those abilities. Value yourself enough to grow those talents to become great."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Michael Oher (from the Blindside) </span>Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545552664313887986noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818135576068940503.post-80469500552225901842011-03-18T09:07:00.001-07:002011-03-18T09:07:25.076-07:00When Does Church Happen?<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Church happens more between Sundays than on Sundays."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Anonymous </span>Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545552664313887986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818135576068940503.post-89709884813288210722011-03-14T15:48:00.001-07:002011-03-14T15:48:20.477-07:00Courage<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Courage is being afraid, but going on anyhow."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Anonymous </span>Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545552664313887986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818135576068940503.post-41751786598258362102010-06-02T08:22:00.000-07:002010-06-02T08:24:20.109-07:00Being Poor in Spirit<span style="font-family: arial;">"No prayer is more powerful than the prayer of powerlessness, of littleness, of not knowing. Isn't this what it means to be poor in spirit."<br /><br />- Mike Mason<br /><br /><br /><br /></span>Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545552664313887986noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818135576068940503.post-30532480821980736792010-06-01T05:00:00.000-07:002010-06-01T05:00:02.897-07:00Greatest Significance: The Giving of His Life<span style="font-family: arial;">"This was the perspective of Jesus on His death. Despite the great importance of His teaching, His example, and His works of compassion and power, none of these was central to His mission. What dominated His mind was not the living, but the giving of His life."<br /><br />- John Stott<br /><br /><br /><br /></span>Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545552664313887986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818135576068940503.post-44503666421291265292010-05-31T05:00:00.000-07:002010-05-31T05:00:04.761-07:00Recognize His Love By Standing At the Cross<span style="font-family: arial;">"When you're tempted to doubt God's love for you, stand before the cross and look at the wounded, dying, disfigured Savior, and realize why He is there. I believe His Father would whisper to us, 'Isn't that sufficient? I haven't spared my own Son; I deformed and disfigured and crushed Him---- for you. What more could I do to persuade you that I love you.'"<br /><br />- C.J. 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He persuades us that He loves us."<br /><br />- Sinclair Ferguson<br /><br /><br /><br /></span>Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545552664313887986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818135576068940503.post-81327494453810026562010-05-29T05:00:00.000-07:002010-05-29T05:00:00.384-07:00The Triumphant Nature of Divine Love<span style="font-family: arial;">"Divine love triumphed over divine wrath by divine self-sacrifice."<br /><br />- John Stott<br /><br /><br /><br /></span>Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545552664313887986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818135576068940503.post-29028711747972317162010-05-28T05:00:00.000-07:002010-05-28T05:00:02.265-07:00Personal Love<span style="font-family: arial;">"Let there never be a lengthy period of time where you aren't receiving inspiration and instruction related directly to the cross, since that's where we find a fresh, sustaining conviction of of His personal love."<br /><br />- C.J. 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The Gospel is life-permeating, world-altering, universe-changing truth. It has more facets than any diamond. We will never exhaust its depths."<br /><br />- C.J. Mahaney<br /><br /><br /><br /></span>Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545552664313887986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818135576068940503.post-1843503181123837472010-05-25T05:00:00.000-07:002010-05-25T05:00:00.612-07:00Cultivating Joy<span style="font-family: arial;">"The inevitable result of preaching the Gospel to yourself will be a pronounced joy, an infectious joy, a consistent joy. Like nothing else, the Gospel creates joy; it's both the source and the object of our joy."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">- C.J. 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