Let us be on the watch for opportunities of usefulness; let us go about the world with our ears and our eyes open, ready to avail ourselves of every occasion for doing good; let us not be content till we are useful, but make this the main design and ambition of our lives.
—Charles Spurgeon
HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman
One of you routs a thousand, because the Lord your God fights for you, just as he promised.
—Joshua 23:10 NIV
The aim needs to be not simply to get our tasks done but to build people up in the accomplishing of our tasks.
— Matt Perman
HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman
But you are to hold fast to the Lord your God, as you have until now.
—Joshua 23:8 NIV
The resurrection of Christ changed the midnight of bereavement into a sunrise of reunion; it changed the midnight of disappointment into a sunrise of joy; it changed the midnight of fear to a sunrise of peace.
—Billy Graham
HT: Billy Graham
But be very careful to keep the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you: to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to keep his commands, to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
—Joshua 22:5 NIV
I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren’t true. Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world—and they couldn’t keep a lie for three weeks. You’re telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible.
—Charles Colson
HT: ABR
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.
—Joshua 1:9 NIV
We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour’s crucifixion.
—Phillips Brooks
HT: Wikiquote
Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
—Joshua 1:8 NIV
