WELCOME TO 4 AND 20 SPARROWS! IT IS A BIT OF BLOGGING GOODNESS JUST FOR YOU...FILLED WITH THE RIDICULOUSNESS OF LIFE, MY RANDOM MUSINGS AND THE KNOWLEDGE THAT GOD IS ALWAYS GOOD! COME IN AND ENJOY!

Spiritual Musings

***These are some beautiful Spiritual Musings from many sources. The pictures and art are also their own sort of Spiritual musings. As a Christian my greatest goal is to honor and glorify my Savior Jesus Christ.



"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light." 
~Hellen Keller



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“Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength”
~ Charles H. Spurgeon

“You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”
~ C.S. Lewis
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“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world”
~ C.S. Lewis
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"I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, and no one comes to the Father except through me" John 14:6
~ Jesus
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Jesus, my Savior, Lord, King and friend....forever John 3:16, John 14:6, Romans 8:9-10
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"The best is yet to be."
~Corrie Ten Boom
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Imagine the One who is so infinitely high, so intimately nigh to us, as minuscule as we are in the universe.
~unknown
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"30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.' This is the first commandment. 31 And the second, like it, is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these." Mark 12:30-31
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"We are either the masters or the victims of our attitudes. It is a matter of personal choice. Who we are today is the result of choices we made yesterday. Tomorrow, we will become what we choose today. To change means to choose to change."
~John Maxwell
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That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. -- Romans 10:9
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"Some people talk about finding God - as if He could get lost."
- Author Unknown
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"God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed." ~St. Augustine

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"God always answers in the deeps, never in the shallows of our soul."
- Author Unknown
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“God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.”
― Oswald Chambers
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"God gave us memories that we might have roses in December."
- James M. Barrie
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"How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?"
~Oscar Wilde
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"God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them."  ~Author Unknown
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"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." ~Leo Buscaglia                                        *********















"Until we know Jesus, God is merely a concept, and we can't have faith in Him. But once we hear Jesus say, "He who has seen Me has seen the Father" (John 14:9) we immediately have something that is real, and our faith is limitless."    ~Oswald Chambers
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"Jesus says to you and me, 'I want to share with you what I have achieved. I want to live in you. I want to share my risen life with you.' How do we get it? We cannot buy it, cannot earn it, cannot work for it-no matter how hard we try. In fact the harder we try, the less likely we are of getting it, because the point is that it is a free gift! We can only accept it free! We can only receive it! We don't get it by being good! We get it by grace, i.e. Jesus Christ living in us." ~ Cyril Brooks

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‎"If I find in myself a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most logical explanation is that I was made for another world." - CS Lewis

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Eternity in His presence...I cannot wait!


"I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker."

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“God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having--viz., life with Himself. It is a question of loosening the bonds that hinder the life...”
― Oswald Chambers
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"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."




"It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion." ~Mozart

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                                     Problems will come and go
                                        Joy will come and go
                                      Money will come and go
                                      People will come and go
                           A lot of things in life will come and go
                                   But God's love is forever!!!!
                                               ~~~Unknown

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How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
~~~Shakespeare
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"I choose to live happy, walk in love, and forgive. Amen! This is my season of victory! There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living." Being alive is a gift, living life happy is a choice." Theory A----anon
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"And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment."~~Hebrews 9:27                                              *******



 
Be careful of your thoughts
for your thoughts become your word.
Be careful of your words
for your words become your actions.
Be careful of your actions
for your actions become your habits.
Be careful of your habits
for your habits become your character.
Be careful of your character
for your character becomes your destiny
~Unknown

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“Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.”
C.S.Lewis~
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"For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" -- Galatians 5:14
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"Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words."
 ~Rainer Maria Rilke












 















                                

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