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Waiting on God

""There may be a reason for the delay and the waiting may bring a blessing." "You will learn that the delay in answer is one of the most precious ways God gives you his grace." -- Andrew Murray --

"When you are waiting you are not doing nothing. You're doing something. You're allowing your soul to grow up. If you can't be still and wait, you can't become what God created you to be."  -- A monk to Sue Monk Kidd from When the Heart Waits --

Weakness

"All men who are eminently useful, are made to feel their weakness in a supreme degree." -- C.H. Spurgeon --

Weight (reasons for gaining)

"We all get heavier as we get older because there's a lot more information in our heads." Basketball player Vlade Divac explaining his weight gain

Will

"God is not satisfied by the sound of our lips, nor the position of our bodies, nor external ceremonies.  What he asks is a will which will no longer be divided between him and any creature, a will pliant in his hands, which neither desires anything nor refuses anything, which wants without reservation everything he wants, and which never, under any pretext, wants anything which he does not want."  -- Francois Fenelon Christian Perfection, p. 8 --

Wisdom

"It takes a smart man to know he's stupid."  --Barney Rubble (Flintstones)--

"We don't know one millionth of 1 percent about anything."  --Thomas Edison--

"All people are ignorant--only on different subjects."  --Will Rogers--

Wonder

'We cover our deep ignorance with words but we are ashamed to wonder, we are afraid to whisper "mystery"'  -- A.W. Tozer, Knowledge of the Holy, 26. --

"Sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became number to the sensation of wonder." -- Douglas Copeland, Life After God, p.51 --

"We live in a time when faith is thin, because our aching for what is above and beyond us has been anaesthetized and our capacity for wonder reduced to clever tricks." -- Alan Jones, Passion for Pilgrimage, 146. --

Work

"If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor." --Haitian Proverb--

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."  --Woody Allen--

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or as Beethoven composed music or as Shakespeare wrote poetry. he should sweep streets so that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'" --Martin Luther King, Jr.--

Worldliness (Of the World, but not in it)

"It has not been uncommon for evangelical Christians to give up trying to come to terms with "secular" popular culture, and to boycott it altogether.  But often they have simultaneously endorsed the creation of an extensive parallel popular cultures complete with Christian rock bands and night clubs, Christian soap operas and talk shows, Christian spy and romance novels and Christian exercise videos.  They have thus succeeded in being of the world, but not in it." ---  Kenneth Myers, All God's Children and Blue Suede Shoes, 18. ---

Worry

"I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time."  Charles Schulz, Peanuts, cartoon.

Worship

"When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had been made for us rather than that we had been made for Him."  --Stephen Charnock--

"We are called to an everlasting preoccupation with God."  --A.W. Tozer--

"We are drifting toward a religion which consciously or unconsciously has its eye on humanity rather than on deity."  Alistair Begg

"It is a subtle trap: whenever we insist or require that worship be ___________(fill in your own adjective), we are drawn into human-centered worship. It doesn't matter which adjective we choose, the mere process of evaluating worship on our terms makes it human-centered."  --Robert Wenz in Room for God?, p. 34.--

"We who worship the true, living God would be better if not completely different if we worshiped him better. For to worship Him as we ought is to become what we ought." --Ben Patterson--

"Worship is a Verb" --Robert Webber (title of one of his books)--

"Worship must must have heart and head. Worship must engage emotions and thought. -- John Piper--

Truth without emotion produces dead orthodoxy and a church full (or half-full) of artificial admirers (like people who write generic anniversary cards for a living). On the other hand, emotion without truth produces empty frenzy and cultivates shallow people who refuse the discipline of rigorous thought. But true worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in truth are the bone and marrow of biblical worship."  -- John Piper (Desiring God, expanded edition, p. 76)

"We are often so caught up in our activities that we tend to worship our work, work at our play and play at our worship."  -- Charles Swindoll --

"We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work." -- A.W. Tozer --

Wounded

"The church is the only outfit I know that shoots its wounded." -- Chuck Swindoll --

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