Quotes about Source

Prayer is the source of the Christian life, a Christian's lifeline.

If the times are indeed as bad as we say they are … if the darkness in our world is growing heavier by the moment … if we are facing spiritual battles right in our own homes and churches … then we are foolish not to turn to the One who supplies unlimited grace and power. He is our only source. We are crazy to ignore him.

Those who are faithful to God are protected and prospered. That comes as the result of serving God and keeping His commandments. But with those blessings comes the temptation to forget their source. It is easy to begin to feel the blessings were granted not by a loving God on whom we depend but by our own powers.

Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.

Like Jesus, who didn't know who his biological father was either. I have often thought it was this lack of knowledge of his earthly father that led him to his 'heavenly' one, for there is in all of us a yearning to know our own source, and no source is likely to seem too farfetched to a lonely, fatherless child.

My grandmother taught it to me when I was a little girl," Morris said as she blew down the desolate country road at more than eighty miles per hour. "She used to say, 'Jenny, God always knows what we need, and if we'll just trust him, he'll provide from the most unlikely of sources.

We are not a body with a soul, but a soul with a body. When the body dies the soul returns to the source.

The sin we need to be concerned about is the sin in our own lives. It's the root of all human woe, the source of anguish.

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

Consider humility to be the mother-virtue, your very first duty before God, the one constant safeguard of the soul, and set your heart on it as the source of all blessing.

No man," he declares, "can have the least knowledge of true and sound, doctrine, without having been a disciple of the Scripture. Hence originates all true wisdom, when we embrace with reverence the testimony which God hath been pleased therein to deliver concerning himself. For obedience is the source, not only of an absolutely perfect and complete faith, but of all right knowledge of God" (Inst. 1, 6, 2).

The illumination of   our minds by the Holy Spirit belongs to our renewal, and thus faith   flows from regeneration as from its source; but since it is by the same   faith that we receive Christ, who sanctifies us by his Spirit, on that   account it is said to be the beginning of our adoption.