Welcome to The Week In Words, where we share quotes from the last week’s reading. If something you read this past week  inspired you, caused you to laugh, cry, think, dream, or just resonated with you in some way, please share it with us, attributing it to its source, which can be a book, newspaper, blog, Facebook — anything that you read. More information is here.

I still have more quotes saved up than would be beneficial to share all at once, but here are a few standouts:

From our youth pastor’s Twitter:

Isn’t that a neat thought? I’d always reveled in God’s mercies being new every morning, but to think morning is happening at some point on the globe all through the day!

Seen at Challies:

You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure. God hath spoken much to you in the Scripture; labor to understand as much of what he saith as you can. God hath made you all reasonable creatures; therefore let not the noble faculty of reason or understanding lie neglected. Content not yourselves with having so much knowledge as is thrown in your way, and as you receive in some sense unavoidably by the frequent inculcation of divine truth in the preaching of the word, of which you are obliged to be hearers, or as you accidentally gain in conversation; but let it be very much your business to search for it, and that with the same diligence and labor with which men are wont to dig in mines of silver and gold. ~ Jonathan Edwards

Forgive me for another lengthy one, but this convictingly cuts to the heart of the matter:

The original sin, pride, is behind my “poor self-image,” for I felt that I deserved better than I got, which is exactly what Eve felt! So it was pride, not poor self-image, that had to go. If I’m so beautiful and lovable, what was Jesus doing up there, nailed to the cross and crowned with thorns? Why all that hideous suffering for the pure Son of God? Here’s why: There was no other way to deliver us from the hell of our own proud self-loving selves, no other way out of the bondage of self-pity and self-congratulation. How shall we take our stand beneath the cross of Jesus and continue to love the selves that put Him there? How can we survey the wondrous cross and at the same time feed our pride? No. It won’t work. Jesus put it simply: If you want to be My disciple, you must leave self behind, take up the cross, and follow Me. ~ Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart.

I thought about doing Thanksgiving quotes this week, but really wanted to share the ones above instead. But I have shared some past Thanksgiving quotes here and here.

You can share your family-friendly quotes in the comments below or write a post on your blog and then put the link to that post (not your general blog link) in Mr. Linky below.

I hope you’ll visit the other participants as well and glean some great thoughts to ponder. And don’t forget to leave a comment here, even if you don’t have any quotes to share.

Welcome to The Week In Words, where we share quotes from the last week’s reading. If something you read this past week  inspired you, caused you to laugh, cry, think, dream, or just resonated with you in some way, please share it with us, attributing it to its source, which can be a book, newspaper, blog, Facebook — anything that you read. More information is here.

It’s going to be hard to narrow down my choices this week to a manageable number — I have about a dozen I’ve saved through the week! But I’ll do my best to focus on a few and save the rest for another time.

From a friend’s Facebook:

If you mourn the fallenness of your world rather than curse its difficulties, you know grace has visited you. ~ Paul David Tripp

It’s too easy for me to get gripey rather than seeing people as fallen, lost sheep without a shepherd.

From Diane‘s Facebook:

We carefully count others’ offenses against us, but we rarely consider what others may suffer because of us. ~ Thomas a Kempis

I think if we thought more of our offenses rather than others’, it would help us be less prone to offend and more gracious towards those who offend us.

Also from Diane:

‎“Every day God patiently bears with us, and every day we are tempted to become impatient with our friends, neighbors, and loved ones. And our faults and failures before God are so much more serious than the petty actions of others that tend to irritate us! God calls us to graciously bear with the weaknesses of others, tolerating them and forgiving them even as He has forgiven us.” (from the book The Practice of Godliness, pg 174 by Jerry Bridges)

I forgot to note where I saw this:

Send out the heat of piety into your house, and let all the neighbours participate in the blessing….. “The joy of Jerusalem was heard afar off.” The joy of the Lord should be observed throughout our neighbourhood, and many who might otherwise have been careless of true religion will then enquire, “What makes these people glad, and creates such happy households?” Your joy shall thus be God’s missionary. ~ Spurgeon

Love that last line.

Finally, this blessed me from Lisa’s post about her infant daughter who passed away 18 years ago:

We’ll have all the time we need when time runs out.

What comfort when we want another hug, a conversation. just more time with a loved one who has gone on: some day we will have all the time we could want.

You can share your family-friendly quotes in the comments below or write a post on your blog and then put the link to that post (not your general blog link) in Mr. Linky below.

I hope you’ll visit some of the other participants as well and glean some great thoughts to ponder. And don’t forget to leave a comment here, even if you don’t have any quotes to share.

Welcome to The Week In Words, where we share quotes from the last week’s reading. If something you read this past week  inspired you, caused you to laugh, cry, think, dream, or just resonated with you in some way, please share it with us, attributing it to its source, which can be a book, newspaper, blog, Facebook — anything that you read. More information is here.

Here are a few that caught my attention this week:

From Lisa‘s Twitter:

The consequences of confession are far less severe than the consequences of concealment. ~ Andy Stanley

That’s profound. It echoes Proverbs 28:13: “He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.”

From a friends’ Facebook:

Don’t ever let someone rob you of your joy because of their own issues and insecurities that they try to put on you.

From an e-mail devotional taken from Elisabeth Elliot‘s book Keep A Quiet Heart, the chapter “Interruptions, Delays, Inconveniences”:

There is nothing like the biographies of great Christians to give us perspective and help us to keep spiritual balance.

From Created For Work: Practical Insights For Young Men by Bob Schultz:

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. ~ Joshua Reynolds

You can share your family-friendly quotes in the comments below or write a post on your blog and then put the link to that post (not your general blog link) in Mr. Linky below.

I hope you’ll visit some of the other participants as well and glean some great thoughts to ponder. And don’t forget to leave a comment here, even if you don’t have any quotes to share! 🙂