“…There is another thing that is of the greatest consequence ------this: that all men, if they do not take care, go downhill to the animal’s country; that many men are actually, all their lives, going to be beasts. People knew it once, but it is long since they forgot it…Two people may be in the same spot in manners and behavior, and yet one may be getting better and the other worse, which is just the greatest difference that could possibly exist between them”
-The Queen Irene to Curdie in The Princess and Curdie by GMacDonald
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“Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God’s love encompasses us completely. … He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken.” - Dieter F. Uchtdorf-
“Eternity will not be long enough to learn all he is, or to praise him for all he has done, but then, that matters not; for we shall be always with him, and we desire nothing more.” -F.W. Faber-
“We strain hardest for things which are almost but not quite within our reach.” -F.W. Faber-
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“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God’s will is our law; it is fully come when God’s will is our will.” -George MacDonald-
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"We IMPART joy, blessing, praise, life, strength, healing and love.
The word “impart” has two main meanings:
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to make known or to disclose (e.g., to impart knowledge);
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to bestow a measure or quantity of (e.g., to impart happiness)
Both of these can be done by words - either written, or spoken, and both of these forms of using words readily apply to our life with God.
But more than this, we constantly impart who we are to those around us. We impart our moods and feelings; we impart our personality and character.
Of vital consideration is the imparting through our thoughts and prayers.
The most commonly used word for prayer in the Greek NT is “proseuchomai” –
“Eu” means “well, ease, and well-being;” the “chomai” is what makes it a verb. The “pros” is a prefix which basically means “toward.”
So praying is “toward-eu-ing.” It is thinking, speaking or mentally projecting “toward things being well, or toward well-being.”
Through our spirits and our words, we project and thus impart to other people, and to situations, throughout creation, and, to God Himself.
Care should be taken concerning the “words of our mouths, and the meditations of our hearts.”
-Jonathan Mitchell-
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“Your strength doesn’t come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardship. Everything that you go through prepares you for the next level.”-- Germany Kent
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“God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He’s working on you too.”-Unknown-
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You never fail until you have accepted failure. Again, it all depends what is your idea of success. Don’t be deluded by the parameters of success created by unconsciously driven blind society. That has done enough damage to man and earth both. Our success stories and so-called rich have created a myth for all to chase and lead one and all to a state of living dead. Our success, our society, our education, our religions, our democracy are a pure mockery of human life. Humanity needs to wake up to redefine success and save themselves and their progeny! If we think we are alive, we are mistaken! Alarm is ringing…
~~Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari
God must be accomplishing a design invariable and without the shadow of turning, the design to save every one of us everlastingly. –Florence Nightingale
God will seek us – how long? Until he finds us. And when he’s found the last little shriveling rebellious soul and has depopulated hell, then death will be swallowed up in victory, and Christ will turn over all things to the Father that he may be all and in all. Then every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. --Clarence Jordan - (founder of Koinonia Community, author of “Cotton Patch Gospel”)
I trust that in Jesus Christ shall “all the families of the earth be blessed,” by being yet connected together in a better world, where every tie that bound heart to heart in this state of existence shall be far beyond our present conception, more enduring. –Robert Burns, 1789
“The restoration of the whole human race to purity and happiness.”
This benevolent doctrine—which not only goes far as to solve the great problem of moral and physical evil, but which would, if received more generally, tend to soften the spirit of uncharitableness, so fatally prevalent among Christian sects—was maintained by that great light of the early church, Origen, and has not wanted supporters among more modern theologians. –Thomas Moore 1779-1852
The Holy Spirit establishes the righteousness of heaven in the midst of the unrighteousness of earth, and will not stop or stay until all that is dead has been brought back to life and a new world has come into being. --Karl Barth
If you want the full and eternal truth, you have to go back to foundational beginnings. Are hell and sin and God’s judgments anywhere in Genesis 1 or 2? No. They aren’t there. God did not intend for them to be there. His intent was perfection. Thus I believe that such a foundation leads to the inescapable conclusion that perfection will again reign throughout the universe, and that sin (and hell) will ultimately be defeated. How else will God’s original intent ultimately be accomplished? –Michael Phillips
In each dispensation, God has a definite and different immediate purpose, all working toward the ultimate purpose of ridding the universe of all rebellion, so that all free moral agents will be willingly and eternally subject to God, Christ, and the Holy Ghost, as originally planned, with God all in all forever. --Finis Dake, “Notes on Genesis” in Dake’s Bible
Apokatastasis (the restoration of all things) represents an ultimate consequence of doctrine of the aeons, and as such a theological necessity. –Walter Kunneth
This sublime revelation of the extent of redemption as commensurate with the whole creation is brought out especially in…Philippians 2:9-10, Colossians 1:20-21. The solitary prisoner, Paul, could see farthest into the glory of the Divine Counsels. --B.F. Westcott, of Westcott and Hort
The Spirit of the Lord says within my soul, that the kingly nature of the Son of God is purposed to be revealed in the nature of every man, that Christ’s kingliness may be prevalent in all the world and govern the heart of every man, even as it governs the heart of those who know Him and have entered. –John G. Lake
The aim of redemption is to let Christ have the pre-eminence in all things. In order to have this first place in all things, Christ must first have the pre-eminence in us. And why? Because we are the firstfruits of all creation (James 1:18). After we are in subjection to Christ, all other things will follow in subjection… --Watchman Nee-
In the perspective of the future we have stopped short of the far-off goal, and explained the finale of God’s purposes by the episode or process on the way thereto. --A.E. Saxby
Why good men should be so averse to admit it, I know not; - into their own hearts at least, however they might object to its promulgation among the bulk of mankind. But perhaps the world is not ripe for it yet. I have frequently thought that since it has pleased God to leave it in darkness so long respecting this particular truth, and often to use 'such doubtful language as to admit of such a general misconception thereupon, he must have some good reason for it. We see how liable men are to yield to the temptations of the passing hour; how little the dread of future punishment - how still less the promise of future reward can avail to make them forbear and wait; and if so many thousands rush into destruction with (as they suppose) the prospect of Eternal Death before their eyes, - what might not the consequence be, if that prospect were changed for one of a limited season of punishment, far distant and unseen, - however protracted and terrible it might be? I thankfully cherish this belief; I honour those who hold it; and I would that all men had the same view of man’s hopes and God’s unbounded goodness as he has given to us, if it might be had with safety…. Only let our zeal be tempered with discretion, and while we labour, let us humbly look to God who is able and certain to bring his great work to perfection in his own good time and manner. –Anne Bronte-
“The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.”-- Sarah Brown
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Thank you for that quote from Charles Schmitt. I knew Charles personally and liked him. I met him at Camp Dominion in Minnesota. He often made the statement, “All of God’s judgments are remedial.”
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“If God be unchangeable, then what we see-of Him at any moment, must be true of Him at every moment of time; true of Him also both before and after all the moments of time; always and for ever true of Him. If His purpose be to save mankind, that purpose stands firm for ever, unaffected by man’s sin, unshaken by the fact of death, unaltered and unalterable by men, by angels, by naught conceivable." -Salvador Mundi-
Thank you for that quote from Charles Schmitt. I knew Charles personally and liked him. I met him at Camp Dominion in Minnesota. He often made the statement, “All of God’s judgments are remedial.”
Dear Paidion, there are those individuals today, as has been in every age, who refuse normal for better.
'All of God’s judgments are remedial -Charles Schmitt-.
“The supreme need in every hour of difficulty and distress is for a fresh vision of God. Seeing Him, all else takes on proper perspective and proportion.” -G. Campbell Morgan-
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“Never compare one student’s test score to another’s. Always measure a child’s progress against her past performance. There will always be a better reader, mathematician, or baseball player. Our goal is to help each student become as special as she can be as an individual – not to be more special than the kid sitting next to her.”
– Rafe Esquith
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“True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.” -A.W. Tozer-
“We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait.” -A.W. Tozer-
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Dear Paidion: That was truly refreshing. Much thanks.
“Ah, I have kept Him waiting when I ought not, but He has waited even then. Always waiting - so patient with my foolishness, my weakness, my fear. Our fellowship is with God, and fellowship is friendship, and friendship means that partnership which, on His part, is the accommodating of His strength to my weakness.” -G. Campbell Morgan-
“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.” -Nikola Tesla-