From a friend's Facebook post

“You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.” — Corrie ten Boom

From a Facebook post

Quiet tension is not trust but simply compressed anxiety. — L.B. Cowman

From a web site

A full stomach and an empty soul is the most severe form of destitution. — William Booth

From Mikey's Funnies

It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you don’t care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman

From a sermon

The minimum of provisions was meant to call out the maximum of faith. — R. Kent Hughes

From Practicing the Presence of God

Whether God leads us by suffering or by consolation all is equal to a soul completely surrendered. — paraphrase of Brother Lawrence

From blog on RelevantMagazine.com

When you're waiting, you're not doing nothing. You're doing the most important something there is. You're allowing your soul to grow up. If you can't be still and wait, you can't become what God created you to be. — a monk (see article)

From Augustine's Confessions

And man desires to praise You, for he is a part of Your creation; he bears his mortality about with him and carries the evidence of his sin and the proof that You resist the proud. Still he desires to praise You, this man who is only a small part of Your creation. You have prompted him, that he should delight to praise You, for You have made us for Yourself and restless is our heart until it comes to rest in You. — St Augustine

From a commentary on Exodus

Those who are led by God must expect to encounter that which is displeasing to the flesh, and also a constant and real testing of faith itself. God's design is to wean us from everything down here, to bring us to the place where we have no reliance upon material and human resources, to cast us completely upon Himself. — A.W. Pink

From another quote web site

To know that nothing hurts the godly, is a matter of comfort; but to be assured that all things which fall out shall co-operate for their good, that their crosses shall be turned into blessings, that showers of affliction water the withering root of their grace and make it flourish more; this may fill their hearts with joy till they run over. — Thomas Watson

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God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity. — Thomas Watson

Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because he sees I can bear no more. — Joseph Hall

The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory. — Richard Sibbes

As the wicked are hurt by the best things, so the godly are bettered by the worst. — William Jenkyn

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride. — Richard Sibbes

From "Eye of the Oracle"

The Maker has given us this destiny, so we would be wise to make the best of it. — Makaidos, Bryan Davis

From a conversation with my wife

I didn't realize how much pride I had until I had to swallow it.

From Dr Swenson at MACSA

• God is sufficient unto Himself.
  
• Ministry for Jesus was the person right in front of him.
  
• Jesus never ran.
  
• “You are not going to hurry Me. You are going to have to fit into My schedule.”
  
• God invented human limits. They help us remember that we are not God.
  
• Joy is an early casualty of overload.
  
• God is very strong and very loving. He didn’t have to be both.
  
• If I step in a hole and break my leg I know my field will still be plowed. &mdash Amish description of community
  
• Human beings are what matter most. They’re what Jesus died for.
  
• Time is the context for relationships.
  
• God will give you enough time and resources to accomplish His will for your life.
  
• You cannot satiate people with economics.
  
• The countries with the most technology are the most stressed.
  
• Everything you own, owns you.
  
• “I want you to want Me more than anything else.”
  

— Dr. Richard Swenson

From Dr Swenson at MACSA

All God's gifts are loving only to the degree that they lead us to God Himself. That's what God's love is: His commitment to do everything necessary (most painfully the death of His only Son) to enthrall us with what is most deeply and durably satisfying—namely Himself. — John Piper

From my brother

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. When you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted. Now, older, you stretch out your hands, and Someone Else dresses you (and even Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these), and leads you where before you didn’t want to go. And let me tell you, it is so much better than it seems, so much better than your dreams. The removal of things that can be shaken, so that what cannot be shaken may remain. All that to say, these are the days of Him changing water into wine. — S

From a prayer

Provide us with everything we need to be of service to You! And with that, and nothing more, let us be content. — Jim VanDuzer (this is my paraphrase of a line in a prayer that I was meditating on the other morning)