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Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Isaiah 40:28-31 (ESV)A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy:
"What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man's spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God. Worship is pure or base as the worshiper entertains high or low thoughts of God."
C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain:
"God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down."
Augustine, Confessions, Book I:
"Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite. And Thee would man praise; man, but a particle of Thy creation; man, that bears about him his mortality, the witness of his sin, the witness that Thou resistest the proud: yet would man praise Thee; he, but a particle of Thy creation. Thou awakest us to delight in Thy praise; for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee."
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, Chapter 1:
"He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, says the Lord. These are the words of Christ by which we are admonished how we ought to imitate His life and manners, if we would be truly enlightened and delivered from all blindness of heart. Let it therefore be our chief study to meditate upon the life of Jesus Christ. What will it avail you to dispute profoundly of the Trinity, if you be void of humility and therefore displease the Trinity? Truly, sublime words do not make a man holy and just; but a virtuous life makes him dear to God."
Where are you running on empty -- and refusing to stop -- because you believe your strength is the only thing keeping it all together?
Epictetus, as recorded by Arrian, Discourses, Book II:
"It is not things that disturb us, but our judgments about things. Death is not terrible -- otherwise it would have appeared so to Socrates. But the judgment that death is terrible -- that is the terrible thing. When therefore we are impeded, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never blame anyone but ourselves, that is, our own opinions. The uninstructed person lays the blame on others; the partly instructed person lays it on himself; the fully instructed person blames neither others nor himself."
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