The Season Has Ended

"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven..." ~Ecclesiastes 3:1

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“Love people who hate you. Pray for people who have wronged you. It won’t just change their life… it’ll change yours.”

Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

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Be careful whose side you take when you only know one side of the story.

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"Whoso keepeth his mouth & his tongue, keepeth his soul from troubles."

Proverbs 21:23

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"God didn't come to be a shareholder, forget it! God doesn't want to share your life, He wants to own it! He doesn't want partnership, He wants ownership of every part of my being.!"

Leonard Ravenhill

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"The only thing that can cure you of rejection is the love of God."

Charles Stanley

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"A widow in the biblical sense may be a daughter, a mother, a sister, a niece, or an aunt who loses her husband through divorce, desertion, imprisonment, or especially death. Caring for such a woman is a privilege & a manifestation of God's compassion."

John MacArthur, from his book Divine Design

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"The very essence of the death of Christ was to LOVE YOUR ENEMIES."

John Piper, from Ask Pastor John Podcast: Why Did God Permit Slavery, 16 May 2008

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"To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing meekness unto all men."

Titus 3:2 KJV

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Having Jesus in my life is a great comfort. His sovereignty makes life liveable inspite of all the things we can't explain. But most of all, everyone & everything who may have seemed a loss to me, are really not. They are all just steps leading me closer to what God truly has in store for me.

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"The more God loves you, & the more you love God, the more expensive will you find it to sin. An ordinary sinner sins cheaply: the child of God sins very dearly."

C. H. Spurgeon

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"Some men cannot endure to hear the Doctrine of Election -- I suppose they like to choose their own wives, but they are not willing that Christ should select His bride, the church."

C. H. Spurgeon

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“A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.”

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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Suffering makes the thought of Jesus & heaven all the sweeter.

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"Do not let anything set your heart beating so fast as love for Him."

 C. H. Spurgeon