Quotes about Preparation

When will you come and how will you come and will we be ready

John looked up from where he was crouched beside the fire, feeding it little bites of driftwood, and said, 'We'd better decide who wants hot dogs and who wants hamburgers because we haven't got too much time.' Everybody began talking about food, and things were better. There's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

Success results when preparation meets opportunity.

If you run a hundred miles in your heart, you are ready to run a hundred miles on your feet.

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

I spoke of an Army on the point of entering an enemy's territories. Answering the question as to the cause of delay: 'Waiting for supplies.' The answer might also have been: 'Waiting for instructions, 'Waiting for orders.' If the last dispatch had not been received, with the final orders of the commander in chief, the army dared not move. Even so in the Christian life - as deep as the need of waiting for supplies is that of waiting for instructions.

We cannot be filled with the Spirit until we are prepared to yield ourselves to be led by the Lord Jesus—to forsake and sacrifice everything for this pearl of great price.

There is such a danger of our being more occupied with the things that are coming than with Him who is to come.

He requires of us nothing more than what He has prepared for us power to do in His Holy Spirit. The new life is a life in the power of Christ through the Spirit.

He knows when we are spiritually ready to receive the blessing to our profit and His glory.

They knew that their story wasn't over when their life was over—that their bodies, somehow, someway, were destined to be a part of that story, and so it mattered where and how those bodies were buried. When the day came to go to the "city" God had "prepared for them," they wanted to walk into that city together, as a family.

All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs.