Excerpts: The Greatest Thing In The World and Other Addresses (Henry Drummond)

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"The people who influence you are people who believe in you."

"Nothing that happens in the world happens by chance. God is a God of order. Everything is arranged upon definite principles, and never at random."

"We say we exchange words when we meet; what we exchange is souls."

"There are some men and some women in whose company we are always at our best."

"Yesterday you thought mostly about yourself. Today the poor will meet you, and you will feed them. The helpless, the tempted, the sad, will throng about you, and each you will befriend. Where were all these people yesterday? Where they are today, you did not see them. It is in reflected light that the poor are seen. But your soul today is not at the ordinary angle."

"In looking at the mirror one does not see the mirror, or think of it, but only of what it reflects. For a mirror never calls the attention of itself—except when there are flaws in it."

"Begin with His Words. Words can scarcely ever be long impersonal. Christ himself was a Word, a word made Flesh. Make His words flesh; do them, live them, and you must live Christ."

"There are fifty other arguments for miracles, but none so good as that you have seen them. Perhaps you are one yourself."

"Make Christ your most constant companion.. Be more under His influence than under any other influence."

Excerpts: Life to the Max (Max Lucado)

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"Jesus understands. When you tell God that you'ved reach your limit, He knows what you mean. When you shake your head at impossible deadlines, He shakes His too. When your plans are interrupted by people who have other plans, He nods in empathy.
He has been there. He knows how you feel."

"Oh Lord, what an amazing opportunity You have spread out before me—a chance to make a difference for You in a desperately hurting world. Help me to see the needs You want me to see, to react in a way that honors You, and to bless others by serving them gladly with practical expressions of Your love."

"The fear-filled cannot love deeply."

"Life makes sense when we accept our place. The gift of pleasures, the purpose of problems—all for Him. The God-centered life works. And it rescues us from a life that doesn't."

"When God gives an assignment, He also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment."

"God endows us gifts so we can make Him known. Period."

"Behold, the most surprising ingredient of a great day: self-denial."