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Inspirational Pearls & Nuggets
We've all read little quips and quotes throughout our lifetime that have resonated with us. For years, I've pinned notes to bulletin boards and stuck scrap pieces of paper in between pages of books and corners of drawers with little jewels written on them to save to read again. So here's my collection of quotes - some anonymous and some quotable. I've separated them into Silver Pearls (unknown) and Golden Nuggets (attributable).
Silver Pearls
Golden Nuggets
The Anonymous Quote Column
The Quotable Quote Column
It costs to follow Jesus Christ,
but it costs more not to.
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The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
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Blessed are those who can give without remembering
and take without forgetting.
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Fear knocked at the door.
Faith answered.
No one was there.
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God's grace is getting something we don't deserve.
God's mercy is not getting something we do deserve.
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Doubt asks the sincere question,
unbelief refuses to hear the answer.
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God doesn't call the qualified,
He qualifies the called.
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God promises a safe landing,
not a calm passage.
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Be ye fishers of men.
You catch them.
He'll clean them.
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Don't put a question mark where God puts a period.
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Don't wait for six strong men to take you to church.
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We don't change God's message. His message changes us.
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The church is prayer-conditioned.
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When God ordains, He sustains.
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WARNING: Exposure to the Son may prevent burning.
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Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
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Most people want to serve God,
but only in an advisory position.
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Exercise daily. Walk with the Lord.
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Never give the devil a ride. He will always want to drive.
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Compassion is difficult to give away
because it keeps coming back.
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He who kneels before God can stand before anyone.
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Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop.
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Give Satan an inch and he'll be the ruler.
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Read the Bible. It will scare the hell out of you.
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There is no one so good that he can save himself,
neither is there any so bad that God cannot save him.
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One of the best ways to get back on your feet
is to first get on your knees.
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I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day.
I'd rather one would walk with me than merely show the way.
The eye's a better pupil and much sharper than the ear.
Fine counsel can confuse me but examples are always clear.
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He answered prayer not in the way I sought,
Nor in the way that I had thought He ought.
But in His own good way and I could see,
He answered in the fashion best for me.
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Give God what's right, not what's left.
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Man's way leads to a hopeless end -
God's way leads to an endless hope.
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In the sentence of life, the devil may be a comma,
but never let him be the period.
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A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing.
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"The best rubrics of worship are those which are written on broken hearts."
-Charles Spurgeon
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"When praying, don't give God instructions,
just report for duty."
-Corrie ten Boom
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"He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put
his feet into the grave".
-Matthew Henry
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"Prayer is the true thermometer of the spiritual life."
-Johan Peter Lange
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"O Love that will not let me go,
I rest my weary soul in thee,
that in Thine ocean depths
its flow may richer be."
-George Matheson
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"The dying thief rejoiced to see
that fountain in his day;
And there have I, though vile as he,
washed all my sins away."
-Isaac Watts
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"All I have seen teaches me
to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."
-Ralph W. Emerson
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"I do not ask the grace which thou didst give to
St. Paul, nor can I dare to ask the grace which
thou didst grant to St. Peter, but, the mercy which thou
didst show to the dying robber, that mercy, show to me."
-Nicolaus Copernicus
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"A little faith will bring your soul to heaven,
a great faith will bring heaven to your soul."
-Charles Spurgeon
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"I just want to be a nobody telling everyone about
Somebody who can save anyone."
-Melvin Graham 2004, brother of Billy Graham
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"Faith is to believe what we do not see,
the reward for this faith is to see what you believe."
-Aurelius Augustinus
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"Lord, may I not be conformed to the world,
but transformed by grace."
-Dr. David Jeremiah, Turning Point Ministries
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"A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition."
-William Arthur Ward
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"Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines Him
to bestow benefits upon the undeserving."
-A.W. Tozer
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"Beware lest clamor be taken for counsel."
-Desiderius Erasmus
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"If Christmas isn't found in your heart,
you won't find it under a tree."
-Charlotte Carpenter
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"I find that doing the will of God
leaves me with no time for disputing about His plans."
-George MacDonald
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"The hill of Zion yields a thousand sacred sweets before we reach the heavenly fields or walk the golden streets."
-Isaac Watts
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"The weakness of man sets the stage
of the display of God's strength."
- Janet Wise
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"Mature faith does not live by
answers to prayer, but by prayer."
-R.E.O. White
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"Trust the past to God's mercy, the present to God's love,
and the future to God's providence."
-Aurelius Augustinus
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"The Christian life is not a playground; it is a battlefield."
-Warren Wiersbe
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"God does not waste suffering. If he plows it,
it is because He purposes a crop."
-Isabel Kuhn
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"Preach the gospel. And, if necessary, use words."
-Francis of Assisi
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"Christian soldiers fight best on their knees."
-Dwight Moody
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"It's a good start if you feel wretched in God's presence."
-Martin Lloyd Jones
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"God will not look you over for medals,
degrees or diplomas, but for scars."
-Elbert Hubbard
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"I'd rather be a dog with gratitude enough to wag his tail . . .
than to be a soul so contemptibly mean as to sit down at the table three times a day and gulp down the food God has provided and never once lift my heart in thanksgiving."
-Rev. William Biederwolf
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