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Inspiration Nuggets are quotes with an extra helping of wisdomThese bigger bites of wisdom are meatier than the quotes you'll find on most sites. Each features a truth that will make you reflect on whether your life is conforming to it--or not. For the most part, these Inspiration Nuggets come from Christian writers, some of our favorites at inspiration-for-singles.com. These men and women have lifetimes of experience in walking with God. We put the complete title of the book in, too, in case you want to check it out of your public library or order it for your own. The fact that these books are still in the inspiration-for-singles library means they're classic keepers, worth rereading again and again. Try some Inspiration Nuggets. Nourishing, and tasty too. What more could you ask for from food for thought?
If you get out of your boat--whatever your boat happens to be--you will have problems. There is a storm out there, and your faith will not be perfect. Risk always holds the possibility of failure. But if you get out, I believe two things will happen. The first is that when you fail--and you will fail sometimes--Jesus will be there to pick you up. You will not fail alone. You will find that he is still wholly adequate to save. And the other thing is, every once in a while you will walk on the water. To be totally saved means that God has completely, eternally, and irrevocably forgiven us as believers of all our sins--past, present, and future--and has adopted us into His family. We are assured a place in heaven as well as God's ongoing presence during our lives on earth...When you know you've been delivered and no one can bring a charge against you, it ought to make you want to shout. Very few people have ever heard of George Washington Stanley, but my grandfather left me a few simple truths that live on in my life today. One of those truths is this: obey God and leave all the consequences to Him. I remember vividly the day I sat on his front porch and asked him how to succeed in life. He described obedience this way: "if God tells you to put your head through a wall, you get up and start running. And when you get to the wall, He'll provide a hole in it." V. Raymond Edman, He Leadeth Me When we pray, we put God into the work. God does not involve himself in our activity as a matter of course or on general principle; he comes by prayer. God will be found of us in the day that we seek him with our whole heart (Jeremiah 19:13) When the soul becomes poor through the loss of its wealth, which is virtue, its owner seeks luxury and riches to atone for his inner nakedness. The richer the soul, the less store it sets on the material...Poor monks are usually friendlier and far happier than millionaires. Whether you realize it or not, truth is the most important issue in your life. It is more important than what you do for a living, who you are married to, or what you earn. I am convinced that truth is the bottom line of life. You cannot have "real life" without truth. I would like to suggest that there is truth in the adage: God can't steer a parked car. In many cases, God waits until he sees us taking responsibility before he brings the right opportunity along, even though that opportunity might not be directly related to our personal efforts. God is present in all these hurts. He is more present in darkness than in light. He is nearer in time of desolation than in time of consolation. So the concrete advice is: Stay with the darkness. Go through it. Don't run away! And through all this you will grow from childhood to maturity; for your faculties will expand, making you more and more capable of receiving those sublime communications which come from the darkness of God. Accept the fact that your past significantly influences you in some ways. But accept, also, the fact that your present constitutes your past of tomorrow. You cannot today make a single right-about-turn into an entirely different person. But you can start changing yourself significantly today so that eventually you will act quite differently. The Bible will catch fire at your hands when in your use of it three things happen--when you appreciate it, appropriate it, and apply it. The size of the house you live in, the money you have tried to accumulate, or the fortune you have made are all left behind because these things have no value when you come to the end of the road. You came into this world with nothing and you leave it with nothing except your character and the lessons you have learned in life. And as to God, we must remember that the soul is but a hollow which God fills. Its union with God is, almost by definition, a continual self-abandonment--an opening, an unveiling, a surrender, of itself. Jesus did not come to make bad men good, but to make dead men live. The church should demand that men be alive in Christ, opposed to being simply good. What is a Christian? He is an ordinary person with an extraordinary love. A love that consistently "lays ourselves down" for the sake of seeing God exalted. It is love that motivates us, that clings to nothing that God gives save Himself. So many today have a "handle" on the ministry when the ministry should have a handle on them. Your faith is not found in the hearty singing of hymns from a pew on Sunday morning or in the fervent recitation of the Apostles' Creed. Real faith appears in your ability to face the crucibles of life--with calm acceptance: that is the experience of real belief. And we base that kind of faith on a real relationship with God. People who are taught to get over their emotional problems by just reading their Bibles and praying are being taught to become hearers of the Word. There will be no genuine healing, however, until they become doers of the Word. Bible study alone has been lifted to a status the Bible never intended. God says the Bible is important because it points us to Jesus and tells us how to live out our relationship with God and others--in fact, it serves as a guide for living our whole life.
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