“If we love a human being and do not love God, we demand of him every perfection and every rectitude, and when we do not get it we become cruel and vindictive; we are demanding of a human being that which he or she cannot give.”
— Oswald Chambers
“There is nothing miraculous about the things we can explain.”
— Oswald Chambers
“#Prayer is not only asking, but an attitude of mind which produces the atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural.”
— Oswald Chambers
“Wish it could be easy / Why is life so messy / Why is pain a part of us / But You’re here / You’re real / I know I can trust You”
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“Even when it hurts / Even when it’s hard / Even when it all just falls apart / I will run to you / Cuz I know that you are / Lover of my soul, healer of my scars / You steady my heart”
— Steady My Heart by @karijobe
“Have you been bolstering up that stupid soul of yours with the idea that your circumstances are too much for God? All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.”
— Oswald Chambers
“Taking on the career of being a mother and wife is a fabulously rare lifework in the 20th century, and a very challenging job. A wasted effort? A thankless job? An undignified slave? No, a most exciting possibility of turning the tide, of saving the species, of affecting history, of doing something that will be felt and heard in ever-widening circles.”
— “What is a Family” by Edith Schaeffer