John B. Phillips @JohnBPhillips May 2
I prayed for this child, and the Lord…granted me what I asked of him. So now I give him to the Lord. For his whole life… (I Samuel 10-28)
John B. Phillips @JohnBPhillips May 1
No one can be saved – in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved in virtue of what God can do.
—Karl Barth
John B. Phillips @JohnBPhillips May 1
We should never desire to be over others. We ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God’s sake.
—Francis of Assisi
John B. Phillips @JohnBPhillips May 1
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
—C. S. Lewis
John B. Phillips @JohnBPhillips May 1
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
—Saint Augustine
John B. Phillips @JohnBPhillips May 1
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
—John Wooden
John B. Phillips @JohnBPhillips Apr 30
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
—William Blake
John B. Phillips @JohnBPhillips Apr 30
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
—Reinhold Niebuhr
John B. Phillips @JohnBPhillips Apr 30
I am growing more and more aware that all too often we preachers aim at nothing and hit it.
—Peter Marshall
John B. Phillips @JohnBPhillips Apr 30
You can’t have a belief system on Sunday and not live it the other six days.
—David Green