John B. Phillips‏ @JohnBPhillips Mar 3

[C]ontinue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you…to fulfill his good purpose. (Philippians 2:12-13)

John B. Phillips‏ @JohnBPhillips Mar 3

I urge you,,,in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God…(Romans 12:1)

John B. Phillips‏ @JohnBPhillips Mar 3

Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? (I Corinthians 3:16)

John B. Phillips‏ @JohnBPhillips Mar 3

Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. (II Corinthians 9:6)

John B. Phillips‏ @JohnBPhillips Mar 3

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. (Galatians 5:22)

John B. Phillips‏ @JohnBPhillips Mar 3

But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions. (Ephesians 2:4)

John B. Phillips @JohnBPhillips Mar 3

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
―– Bertrand Russell

John B. Phillips‏ @JohnBPhillips Feb 24

This too [being fulfilled in toil], I see, is from the hand of God, for without him, who can…find enjoyment? (Ecclesiastes 2:24-25, NIV)

John B. Phillips‏ @JohnBPhillips Feb 24

My heart took delight in all my labor…Yet when I surveyed…what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless…(Ecclesiastes 2:10-11)

John B. Phillips‏ @JohnBPhillips Feb 24

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 1:9, NIV)