December 1
The hope of a Christian is inseparable from his faith. Whoever believes in the Divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures must hope that the religion of Jesus shall prevail throughout the earth. Never since the foundation of the world have the prospects of mankind been more encouraging to that hope than they appear to be at the present time. And may the associated distribution of the Bible proceed and prosper till the Lord shall have made “bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God” [Isaiah 52:10]. —President John Quincy Adams
December 2
You don’t know who you are until you know God and you don’t know how to live until you've settled the question of how to die. —Alistair Begg
December 3
God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest revival meetings in history, we are still faced with gross corruption in every nation, as well as with the most prayerless church age since Pentecost. —Leonard Ravenhill
December 4
Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding. —Corrie Ten Boom
December 5
Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ‘in spirit and in truth.’ Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them. —Elisabeth Elliot
December 6
Someone asked me recently if I didn’t think God was unfair, allowing me to have Parkinson’s and other medical problems when I have tried to serve him faithfully. I replied that I did not see it that way at all. Suffering is part of the human condition, and it comes to us all. The key is how we react to it, either turning away from God in anger and bitterness or growing closer to him in trust and confidence. —Billy Graham
December 7
A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming. —Martin Luther
December 8
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. —Isaac Newton
December 9
Now may the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the eternal high priest himself, the Son of God Jesus Christ, build you up in faith and truth and in all gentleness and in all freedom from anger and forbearance and steadfastness and patient endurance and purity. —Polycarp
December 10
God rewards the person who is diligent. And for those who will take time in their day to seek the Lord, for those who will take time to read His Word, for those who will take time to wait upon Him, He will reveal His truths to them. —Greg Laurie
December 11
The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend all to the happiness of man. —President Thomas Jefferson
December 12
Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts, but hearts aren't changed by compromise. —Alistair Begg
December 13
The reason we have so many pygmies in our pews is because we have so many puppets in our pulpits. —Leonard Ravenhill
December 14
The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy. —Corrie Ten Boom
December 15
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on him who has all things safely in his hands. —Elisabeth Elliot
December 16
Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think. —Billy Graham
December 17
God has surely promised His grace to the humbled: that is, to those who mourn over and despair of themselves. But a man cannot be thoroughly humbled till he realizes that his salvation is utterly beyond his own powers, counsels, efforts, will and works, and depends absolutely on the will, counsel, pleasure and work of Another - God alone. —Martin Luther
December 18
Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription. —Isaac Newton
December 19
For 86 years I have served Jesus Christ and he has never abandoned me. How could I curse my blessed king and savior? —Polycarp
December 20
God will test you because He wants you to mature. He wants you to develop a walk with Him that is not based on your fluctuating emotions, but on your commitment to Him as you learn to walk by faith. —Greg Laurie
December 21
The practice of morality being necessary for the well being of society, He [God] has taken care to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of our brain. We all agree in the obligation of the moral principles of Jesus and nowhere will they be found delivered in greater purity than in His discourses. —President Thomas Jefferson
December 22
I do not come to God so that Jesus can give me what I want. But I must come to God so that Jesus will grant me what I need. —Alistair Begg
December 23
Each of us are as godly as we want to be. —Leonard Ravenhill
December 24
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. —Corrie Ten Boom
December 25
You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms. —Elisabeth Elliot
December 26
Quit beating yourself up. We all live under grace and do the best we can. —Billy Graham
December 27
No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes. —Martin Luther
December 28
By grace ye are saved, not of works, 'but by the will of God through Jesus Christ... If we please Him in this present world, we shall receive also the future world, according as He has promised to us that He will raise us again from the dead, and that if we live worthily of Him, 'we shall also reign together with Him,' provided only we believe... —Polycarp
December 29
We need to be homesick for heaven. Though we have never been there, we still have something God has built within us that gives us a certain homesickness, a desire to be there. —Greg Laurie
December 30
I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others. —President Thomas Jefferson
December 31
A good church is a Bible-centered church. Nothing is as important as this--not a large congregation, a witty pastor, or tangible experiences of the Holy Spirit. —Alistair Begg