Inspirational Quotes on Encouragement

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”

“Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.”

“He (God) usually prefers to work through people rather than perform miracles, so that we will depend on each other for fellowship.”

“Let this encourage those of you who belong to Christ: the storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary. The clouds that are temporarily rolling over your head will pass, and then you will have fair weather, an eternal sunshine of glory. Can you not watch with Christ for one hour?”

“We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.”

“Once I knew only darkness and stillness - my life was without past or future - but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.”

“Open your heart to sympathy, but close it against despondency. The flower which opens to receive the dew shuts against the rain.”

“Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveler cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him.”

“Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.”

“I seldom come out of the pulpit but my conscience smiteth me that I have been no more serious and fervent. It accuseth me not so much for want of ornaments and elegancy, nor for letting fall an unhandsome word; but it asketh me, 'How couldst thou speak of life and death with such a heart? How couldst thou preach of heaven and hell in such a careless, sleepy manner? Dost thou believe what thou sayest? Art thou in earnest, or in jest? How canst thou tell people that sin is such a thing, and that so much misery is upon them and before them, and be no more affected with it? Shouldst thou not weep over such a people, and should not thy tears interrupt thy words? Shouldst thou not cry aloud, and show them their transgressions; and entreat and beseech them as for life and death? Truly this is the peal that conscience doth ring in my ears, and yet my drowsy soul will not be awakened. Oh, what a thing is an insensible, hardened heart! O Lord, save us from the plague of infidelity and hardheartedness ourselves, or else how shall we be fit instruments of saving others from it? Oh, do that on our souls which thou wouldst use us to do on the souls of others!”

“Jesus can move mountains, so he can and will act on your behalf. He loves you! So receive his love and his power. Quit doubting the King of Kings and teacher of all teachers. Believe in him and step in the resurrection power that is already yours in Christ Jesus. He is who he says - believe him! The Lord exposes our weaknesses so we'll come to him and find our rest and hope in him. He wants you to come to him and stop imaging terrible scenarios. Has he not brought you this far? That's the creator of the ends of the Earth in your court! On your side! He is for you, not against you. Trust in him. Worship him. Take your position in praise and prayer and he will set ambushes for the enemy. - letter by Mrs Lucado.”

“Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.”

“If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.”

“What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.”

“Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.”

“It was well done of Paul to reprove Peter to his face, and it was well done of Peter, to praise Paul in his absence.”

“Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap....Sow to yourself rather in righteousness: break up your fallow ground, sow not among thorns.”