Affliction Cements Hearts

Affliction Cements Hearts
Afflictions make friendships. There was an Englishman in Chicago the winter before the fire, who was much impressed with the rapid growth of the city.

He went back to Manchester where he told the people about the city only forty years old, with all its fine buildings, its colleges, its churches. He thought it was a most wonderful city.

But no one seemed to take any interest in Chicago. “But,’’Tie says, “one day the news came flashing over the wires that Chicago was burning. Then they suddenly became interested about Chicago.

Every man I had told about Chicago became interested, and couldn’t hear too much. The news came flashing under the sea that half the city was burnt.

There were men who couldn’t help but weep.” At last the news came that 100,000 people were homeless, and were in danger of starvation, unless immediate help was sent. Then these men came forward and gave their thousands.

It was the calamity that visited Chicago that brought out the love and pity of those men.— MOODY.

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Will You Go Out Without Knowing?

Oswald Chambers

One of the difficulties in Christian work is this question - "What do you expect to do?" You do not know what you are going to do; the only thing you know is that God knows what He is doing.

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Let Us Keep To The Point

Oswald Chambers

Shut out every other consideration and keep yourself before God for this one thing only - My Utmost for His Highest. I am determined to be absolutely and entirely for Him and for Him alone.

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Magnifying Glass of Faith

Philip Yancey

In my spiritual journey as well as in my writing career I have long lingered in the margins, pondering unanswerable questions about the problem of pain, the conundrums of prayer, providence versus free will, and other such matters.

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Rosetta Stone

Philip Yancey

In the incarnation, God’s Son deliberately “handicapped” himself, exchanging omniscience for a brain that learned Aramaic phoneme by phoneme, omnipresence for two legs and an occasional donkey, omnipotence for arms strong enough to saw wood but too weak for self-defense.