Jerry Bridges quotes 3

Jerry Bridges quotes 2

Jerry Bridges quotes 1

(I thought I got this image over at FPTFY, but I can't find the link, so I'm not sure who to give credit!)

Jerry Bridges book "Trusting God"

At Mom's suggestion, I've started reading Jerry Bridges book "Trusting God"- it is good!

I'll share 2 good quotes with you: 

"...God's providence is His constant care for and His absolute rule over all His creation for His own glory and the good of His people.  Again, note the absolute terms: constant care, absolute rule, all creation.  Nothing, not even the smallest virus, escapes His care and control.  But, note also, the twofold objective of God's providence: His own glory and the good of His people.  These two objectives are never antithetical; they are always in harmony with each other.  God never pursues His glory at the expense of the good of His people, nor does He ever seek our good at the expense of His glory.  He Has designed His eternal purpose so that His glory and our good are inextricably bound together.  What comfort and encouragement this should be to us.  If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe that just as certainly as God will allow nothing to subvert His glory, so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us...."

"...In His well-known statement about sparrows, Jesus said, "Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?  Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father....So don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows" (Matthew 10:29-31)   According to Jesus, God does exercise His sovereignty in very minute events- even the life and death of an almost worthless sparrow.  And Jesus' whole point is: If God so exercises His sovereignty is regard to sparrows, most certainly He will exercise it in regard to His children.  While it is certainly true that God's love for us does not protect us from pain and sorrow, it is also true that all occasions of pain and sorrow are under the absolute control of God.  If God controls the circumstances that affect us.  God does not walk away and leave us to the mercy of uncontrolled random or chance events...."

 I've known these truths for years now, but I confess I am somewhat rusty-- it is so nice to read someone else putting it so well- better than I ever could!

Whatever Wednesday: Maya Angelou Quotes - part 2

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
~ Maya Angelou

 “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style”

~ Maya Angelou 

“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
~ Maya Angelou 

Whatever Wednesday: C.S. Lewis quote

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”

― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Whatever Wednesday: Mark Twain quote

 

"Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. 

But this wrongs the jackass."   

~Mark Twain

Whatever Wednesday: Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

“I wished a companion to lie near me in the starlight, silent and not moving, but ever within touch. For there is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.”  

 “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”

 “There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”

“Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.”


“It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.” 

 “To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

 “Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.” 

 "To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying 'Amen' to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."

 “The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.”

Whatever Wednesday: Zig Ziglar Quote 1

“Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith and one barrel of laughter. Take love and loyalty and mix them thoroughly with faith; blend with tenderness, kindness and understanding. Add friendship and hope. Sprinkle abundantly with laughter. Bake it with sunshine. Wrap it regularly with lots of hugs. Serve generous helpings daily.”
― Zig Ziglar

Whatever Wednesday: Buddha quote

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. 

When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."

~Buddha

Wayne Dyer quote

 

"It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either."

~Wayne Dyer

Whatever Wednesday: Audry Hepburn quote

 "If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough."

~Audrey Hepburn

Whatever Wednesday: Charles R. Swindoll quote

"I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun."

~Charles R. Swindoll

Whatever Wednesday: Laura Ingalls Wilder quote

"Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all."

~Laura Ingalls Wilder