John B. Phillips @JohnBPhillips Apr 15
Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.” (Luke 23:43, NIV)
John B. Phillips @JohnBPhillips Apr 15
Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do no know what they are doing.” (Luke 23:34, NIV)
John B. Phillips @JohnBPhillips Apr 15
If a mother is mourning…her dead child…it’s a comfort to believe the child hasn’t lost the end for which it was created.
—C.S. Lewis
John B. Phillips @JohnBPhillips Apr 12
Above his head they placed the written charge against him: THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS. (Matthew 27:37, NIV)
John B. Phillips @JohnBPhillips Apr 11
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. (John 15:13, NIV)
John B. Phillips @JohnBPhillips Apr 10
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
—Marcel Proust
John B. Phillips @JohnBPhillips Apr 10
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
—Roger Staubach
John B. Phillips @JohnBPhillips Apr 10
Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it. (Hebrews 13:2)
John B. Phillips @JohnBPhillips Apr 9
The Lord has given me the tongue of a teacher that I know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he wakens my ear. (Isaiah 50:4)
John B. Phillips @JohnBPhillips Apr 8
Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. (Luke 9:23, NIV)