Great Quotes

A real Christian is an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible and knows that which passeth knowledge….The man who has met God is not looking for something—he has found it; he is not searching for light—upon him the Light has already shined. His certainty may seem bigoted, but his is the assurance of one who knows by experience. His religion is not hearsay; he is not a copy, not a facsimile print; he is an original from the hand of the Holy Ghost.

We are waiting for a trumpet note that will call us away from the hurly-burly and set in motion a series of events that will result at last in a new heaven and a new earth.

We can afford to wait.

—The Root of the Righteous, A.W. Tozer

Comments

[becky]

I guess you could say we're odd waiters!
I liked this a lot. It somehow settled something in my spirit. Thanks!
B~

[Rick]

What a great reminder! I love the expression that "...he is an original from the hand of the Holy Ghost!" Each one of us is a 'one-of-a-kind-work of art' fashioned by the Creator! Indeed, we are "...waiting for a trumpet note..." to return to our Creator. And it will be the purest note ever heard! I am waiting with joyful anticipation!!

[Linda]

I love Rick's comment of it being the purest note ever heard. I hadn't thought of that before-- can't wait to hear it.