Quotes of the Month Rogation
Sunday (5 May) is about asking for God's protection and
blessing on our endeavours. Pure
prayers have pure blessings. - Thomas Goodwin To spend
an hour worrying on our knees is not prayer. Indeed,
there are times when it is our duty, having committed a
problem to God in prayer, to stop praying and to trust
and to do the necessary work to arrive at a solution. -
Oliver Barclay Ascension
Day is when the Church recalls the day Jesus left this
earth. Here some Christian writers ponder his future
second coming: Many
people will be surprised when Jesus comes again –
but nobody will be mistaken. - Anon He that
rose from the clods we expect from the clouds. - Thomas
Adams Pentecost
Sunday is when the Church celebrates that long-ago day in
A
Christian may not always be conscious of the Holy
Spirit's presence, but he would not even be a Christian
in his absence. - John Blanchard Before
Christ sent the church into the world, he sent the Spirit
into the church. The same order must be observed today. -
John R There are
churches so completely out of the hands of God that if
the Holy Spirit withdrew from them they wouldn't find it
out for many months. - AW Tozer The
Spirit is not given to make Bible study needless, but to
make it effective. - J I Packer Here
are some general Christian observations: The real
measure of a man's wealth is what he has invested in
eternity. Laughter
is God's sunshine. Everything
has beauty but not everyone sees it. It's
important for parents to live the same things they teach. Thank God
for what you have, TRUST GOD for what you need. If you
fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. Happy
memories never wear out... relive them as often as you
want. Patience
is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like
stripping your gears. Anger is
a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. - Anon Drink
like a fish only if you drink what a fish drinks. - Anon It is
possible to be so active in the service of Christ as to
forget to love him. - P T Forsyth I will
place no value on anything I have or may possess, except
in relations to the Blessed
are the peacemakers; they will never be unemployed. Finally,
some general observations on life as spring gets
underway: Golf
liars have one advantage over the fishing kind –
they don't have to show anything to prove it. The two
agencies that redistribute great fortunes are taxation
and offspring. You can't
fool all the people all the time, but most of us try. If you
would like to live a quiet, peaceful, uneventful life,
you are living at the wrong time. With the
exception of world unrest, nothing breaks out in more
places than an old garden hose. |