Quotemeal: Dec. 8th, 2024

Sunday, December 8, 2024

"The Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a "happy Christian." Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not. Remember, Jesus Christ had joy, and He prays "that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.""
— Oswald Chambers

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"Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible, and receives the impossible."
— Corrie ten Boom —
"Make two homes for yourself my daughter. One actual home and another spiritual home, which you carry with you always."
— Catherine of Siena —
"An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate."
— Charles Stanley —
"'Difficulty' is not a word to be found in the dictionary of heaven. Nothing can be impossible with God."
— Charles H. Spurgeon —

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Illustration of Oswald Chambers — "The Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a "happy Christian." Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not. Remember, Jesus Christ had joy, and He prays "that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.""

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