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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 'darkness' on the wall of his cell... C.S. Lewis
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God
whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but
shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
C.S. Lewis
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The
New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will
be known in the world. Charles Dickens
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Notice
here that Paul has given us the "3 P's" that are
absolutely foundational for the Christian walk in this world.
Presentation:
completely and totally (12:1);
Preparation:
You must change and prepare for Godly intelligent discerning
service in this world (12:2);
Position:
No matter how high God takes you, you are no higher than the
lowest. Remember, the ground is level at the foot of the cross
(12:3).
Jeffrey E. Ramey, MRE
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If
we continue to teach about tolerance and intolerance instead
of good and evil, we will end up with tolerance of evil. Dennis Prager
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You
never know how much you really believe anything until its
trust or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
C.S. Lewis
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Once
you become aware that the main business that you are here for
is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of
their own accord. J.I. Packer
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If
God forgives us, we must forgive others. Otherwise it is
almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than
him. C.S. Lewis
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When
a church is truly convinced that prayer is where the action
is, that church will so construct its corporate activities
that the prayer program will have the highest priority. Paul
E. Billheimer
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|
The day we find the
perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it. Charles H.
Spurgeon
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|
It
is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed
ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism. Vance Havner
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|
Let
us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is
not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible. J.C. Ryle
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|
Surely
the essence of wisdom is that before we begin to act at all,
or attempt to please God, we should discover what it is that
God has to say about the matter. D. Martyn
Lloyd-Jones
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The
only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to
Jesus Christ. R.C. Sproul
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God
alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or
reject his initiative. John Powell
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The
great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the
unpleasant things as interruptions of one's own or real life.
The truth is of course that what one call the interruptions
are precisely one's real life - the life God is sending one
day by day. C.S. Lewis
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The
gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and
it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians will
never exhaust its riches. Charles Hodge
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The
only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our
charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live at the same
level of affluence as other people who have our level of
income, we are probably giving away too little. C.S. Lewis
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Jesus
Christ never died for our good works. They were not worth
dying for. But he gave himself for our sins, according to the
Scriptures. Martin Luther
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Christianity
is not blindly following a list of rules, but rather building
a relationship with You, Lord. Cliff Jennings
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This
is exactly where a liberal attitude to the Bible leads us:
there is no final authority, no reliable words of Christ, no
test by which we shall be judged, and nothing to obey. Brian H. Edward
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If
you haven't met Satan recently, you are probably going his
way! C.S. Lewis
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Inscrutability
of God - We demand proof of God, forgetting that if we could
prove God we would be within the compass of our rationalities,
and then our logical mind would be our own grotesque God. George A.
Buttrick
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It
is easy to criticize and find fault with the conduct of kings,
and write furious articles against them in newspapers, or make
violent speeches about them on platforms. Any fool can rip and
rend a costly garment, but not every man can cut out and make
one. To expect perfection in kings, prime ministers, or rulers
of any king, is senseless and unreasonable. We would exhibit
more wisdom if we prayed for them more, and criticized less. J.C. Ryle
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Commitment
to Christ goes hand in hand with commitment to His church. Unknown
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One
truth from the Bible is worth more than all the wisdom of man.
Unknown
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Of
all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the
best. John Donne
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We
are to order our lives by the light of His law, not the our
guesses about His Plan.
J.I. Packer
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The
conduct of our lives is the only proof of the sincerity of our
hearts.
Robert Wilson
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|
A
Witness in a court of law has to give evidence; a Christian witness has
to be evidence. It is the difference between law and grace!
Geoffrey R. King
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Men
and women who refuse to acknowledge God's existence do so, in
the final analysis, because it is contrary to their manner of
living. They do not want to bow to the moral claims of a holy
God on their lives.
R.C.
Sproul
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"...
dear God that I may be part of a church that this can be said
of."
Dr.
Tim Alexander
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For
until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they
are nourished by His fatherly care, that He is the Author of
their every good, that they should seek nothing beyond Him —
they will never yield Him willing service. Nay, unless they
establish their complete happiness in Him, they will never
give themselves truly and sincerely to Him. John
Calvin
|
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God
saved us to make us holy, not happy. Some experiences may not
contribute to our happiness, but all can be made to contribute
to our holiness. Vance
Havner
|
|
The
destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but
holiness. God's one aim is the production of saints. Oswald
Chambers
|
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If
we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a
"wandering to find home," why should we not look
forward to the arrival? C.S.
Lewis
|
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The
refusal to be committed and the attitude of indifference can
in fact never be neutral. J.B.
Phillips
|
|
The
Christian is strong or weak depending upon how closely he has
cultivated the knowledge of God. A.W.
Tozer
|
|
Salt
seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us
that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this
world the wrong way. Vance
Havner
|
|
In
science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in
Christianity we find the poem itself. C.S.
Lewis
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But
some most worthless persons are in the habit of carrying about
the name of Jesus Christ in wicked guile, while yet they
practice things unworthy of God, and hold opinions contrary to
the doctrine of Christ, to their own destruction, and that of
those who give credit to them, whom you must avoid as ye would
wild beasts. Saint
Ignatius
(in his Epistle to the Ephesians)
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It
is no sin to doubt some things but it may be fatal to believe
everything. A.W.
Tozer
|
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What
were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in
life? To know God. What is the eternal life that Jesus gives?
To know God. What is the best thing in life? To know God. What
in humans gives God most pleasure? Knowledge of himself. J.I.
Packer
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Surely
God would not have created such a being as man to exist only
for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. Abraham
Lincoln
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For
until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they
are nourished by His fatherly care, that He is the Author of
their every good, that they should seek nothing beyond Him —
they will never yield Him willing service. Nay, unless they
establish their complete happiness in Him, they will never
give themselves truly and sincerely to Him. John
Calvin
|
|
Once
you become aware that the main business that you are here for
is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of
their own accord. J.I.
Packer
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Aim
at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and
you will get neither. C.S.
Lewis
|
|
We
do not need to look around today and blame the politicians in
Washington for failing us. The failure and problems in our
country today can be attributed to the preacher in the pulpit.
They forgot this wise old adage.... "The main thing is to
keep the main thing the main thing." Dr.
Robert Pitman
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|
Man
never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has
first looked upon God's face, and then descends from
contemplating him to scrutinize himself. John
Calvin
|
|
We
do not segment our lives, giving some time to God, some to our
business or schooling, while keeping parts to ourselves. The
idea is to live all of our lives in the presence of God, under
the authority of God, and for the honor and glory of God. That
is what the Christian life is all about. R.C.
Sproul
|
|
It
is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed
ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.
Vance
Havner
|
|
We
are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex
and ambition when infinite joy is offered to us, like an
ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum
because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a
holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. C.S.
Lewis
|
|
At
the final bar of judgment, the gravest charge that will be
made against us Christians will be that we were so
unconcerned. D.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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|
Confidence
that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this
is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through
long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them. J.I.
Packer
|
|
The
only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to
Jesus Christ. R.C.
Sproul
|
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God
is no founder of intellectual slackers than of any other
slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn
you you are embarking on something which is going to take the
whole of you, brains and all. C.S. Lewis
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|
All
that is not eternal is eternally out of date. C.S. Lewis
|
|
"Dying
for something takes one right choice; living for it requires
hundreds of choices each day." Dr.
Lynda Hunter
|
|
The
church has made its greatest impact upon society, not when the
church was large, rich, and at ease, but rather when it
consisted of a people who were committed to God in spite of
all the difficulties they confronted. Findley B. Edge
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Watch
your thoughts: they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. Frank Outlaw
|
|
As
we have seen, living in truth has consequences on many levels,
but it all begins and ends with the personal - with each of us
as we really are when we stand alone before God. As the
Apostle John wrote, in words that are magnificent but
searching, "God is light and in him there is no darkness
at all. If we claim to be sharing in his life while we go on
living in darkness, our words and our lives are a lie. But if
we live in the light as he himself is in the light, then we
share a common life, and the blood of Jesus his Sons cleanses
us from all sin." Os Guinness
|
|
Modern
man has lost any sense of God's nearness, but Christianity
teaches that God reveals himself through every single thing he
has ever brought into being, whether a created object or
historical event. R.C. Sproul
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|
The
Basic problem of the Christians in this country is the last
eighty years or so, in regard to society and in regard to
government, is that they have seen things in bits and pieces
instead of totals. Francis A. Schaeffer
|
|
Jesus
Christ never died for our good works. They were not worth
dying for. But he gave himself for our sins, according to the
Scriptures. Martin Luther
|
|
The
weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean,
the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste
away. J.I. Packer
|
|
Afflictions
are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are
light when compared with the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But
perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them
with the weight of glory which is awaiting us. Arthur W. Pink
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It
is generally true that all that is required to make men
unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they
should receive that blessing often and regularly. Richard Whately
|
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In
most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or
explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the Lord". It
is... not merely a sacred book but a book so remorselessly and
continuously sacred that it does not invite -- it excludes or
repels -- the merely aesthetic approach. You can read it as
literature only by a tour de force... It demands incessantly
to be taken on its own terms: it will not continue to give
literary delight very long, except to those who go to it for
something quite different. I predict that it will in the
future be read, as it always has been read, almost exclusively
by Christians. C.S. Lewis
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|
He
is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he
cannot lose. Jim Elliot
|
|
I
am persuaded that love and humility are the highest
attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest
evidences that he is indeed our Master. John Newton
|
|
One
road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.
C.S. Lewis
|
|
God
has called us to shine, just as much as Daniel was sent into
Babylon to shine. Let no one say that he cannot shine because
he has not so much influence as some others may have. What God
wants you to do is to use the influence you have. Daniel
probably did not have much influence down in Babylon at first,
but God soon gave him more because he was faithful and used
what he had. Dwight L. Moody
|
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All
the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our
trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the
benefit of our neighbors. John Calvin
|
|
We
must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is
impossible to live one way and pray another. William Law
|
|
Christ
was content with a stable when he was born so that we could
have a mansion when we die. Unknown
|
|
Just
supposing for the sake of the argument that there is a being
of such a kind as that He may with any propriety be called
"God", it does seem antecedently very improbable
that weak and limited creatures of a day, such as we are,
should discover Him by our own efforts.... who could be
discovered in that way would hardly be worth discovering. I
think we ought to stick to that principle rather firmly. I
think we ought to be rather sure that we cannot know God
unless God has been pleased to reveal Himself to us. J. Gresham Machen
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The
year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the
blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these
bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to
forget the source from which they come, others have been
added, which are of so extraordinary a nature that they cannot
fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is
habitually insensible to the ever-watchful providence of
Almighty God. . . . Abraham
Lincoln
|
|
Keep
clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also
Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your
religion is an illusion and try to "cure" it: and
this assumption they make not as professional psychologists
but as amateur philosophers.
C.S. Lewis
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|
To
Confess your sins to God is not to tell him anything he
doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however,
they are the abyss between you. When you confess them,
they become the Golden Gate bridge. Frederick
Buechner
|
|
Nothing
significant comes out of the mouth with out something
significant first coming out of the brain. Unknown
|
|
If
anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he
makes himself
scholar to a fool. St.
Bernard
|
|
There will be two kinds of
people in the end: Those that will say to God 'Thy will be done'
and those to whom God will say 'Thy will be done.' C. S. Lewis
|
|
Who
decides what is right and wrong In the world? Who has the
authority to define morality for all of creation? It is not
the courts, congress, the media, public opinion, the
"politically correct" police, the
"tolerance" brigade or even the church. The only
answer has been, is and always will be Jesus Christ. You can
find His opinion on a great variety of subjects in His best
seller... The Bible. Jeffrey
E. Ramey, D Div
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|
Aristotle
was but a wreck of an Adam, and Athens but the rubbish of an
Eden. How completely sin has defaced the divine image in man!
That man has lost his righteousness and happiness is clearly
evident as we look at the state of the world today! Robert
South
|
|
Sin
may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint. Thomas
Brooks
|
|
Cheap
grace is the idea that "grace" did it all for me so
I do not need to change my lifestyle. The believer who accepts
the idea of "cheap grace" thinks he can continue to
live like the rest of the world. Instead of following Christ
in a radical way, the Christian lost in cheap grace thinks he
can simply enjoy the consolations of his grace. Dietrich
Bonhoeffer
|
|
To
be "nobody-but-yourself" -- in a world which is
doing it's best, night and day, to make you everybody else --
means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can
fight; and never stop fighting. E.E. Cummings
|
|
If all the sleeping folk will wake up. If
all the lukewarm people will fire up. if all the dishonest folk will
confess up. If all the disgruntled folk will cheer up. If all the
estranged folk will make up. If all the gossipers will shut up. If all
true soldiers will stand up. If all the dry bones will shake up. If all
the church members will pray up... then we can have revival! R.
G. Lee
|
|
If you do not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship
Him on one day a week. There is no such thing known in heaven as
Sunday worship unless it is accompanied by Monday worship and
Tuesday worship and so on. A.W.
Tozer
|
|
The Scriptures were not given to increase
our knowledge but to change our lives. D.L. Moody
|
|
We have no cause to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ;
but the Gospel of Christ may justly be ashamed of us. John Tillotson
|
|
All
virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that
he has them, but this is specially true of humility. C.S.
Lewis
|
|
Freedom
prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God
is acknowledged. Ronald
Reagan
|
|
God-breathed,
Paul affirms God's active involvement in the writing of
Scripture, an involvement so powerful and pervasive that what
is written is the infallible and authoritative word of God. Zondervan
NIV Study Bible
|
|
Tolerance
is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.
G.K.
ChestertonThis
so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge
indifference. Alexis
de Tocqueville Toleration
is often just indifference in disguise. Frederick
Buechner
|
|
The man who commits immorality
does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can
minimize the pain by keeping it secret. Erwin
W. Lutzer, Ten Lies About God
|
|
We have better historical
documentation for Jesus than for the founder for any other
ancient religion. Edwin
Yamauchi
|
|
With so many self proclaimed
"prophets" and "spiritual leaders" today, we
must not loose sight of who God is concerned about us listening
to. God is concerned about HIS will being done in HIS universe.
All others are unimportant. Unknown
|
|
You will know a tree by its fruit
and you can't pick an apple from a lemon tree. You will know
their lives by their love. By their love you will know who
they're following. Wendy
& Mary, Collection
|
|
It is scripture alone, not
conservative Evangelical tradition or any other human authority,
that must function as the normative authority for the definition
of what we should believe. The authority of the scripture means
that all the words in scripture are God's words in such a way
that to disbelieve or disobey any word of scripture is to
disbelieve or disobey God. Dr.
Wayne Grudem, "Systematic Theology"
|
|
Paul taught that religions
evolved because man did not honor the true God. Because of
rebellion, they "exchanged the glory of the incorruptible
God for an image in the form of the corruptible man and birds
and four-footed animals and crawling creatures." One
characteristic of idolatry is that it always confuses the
creature with the creator. Erwin
Lutzer, "Ten Lies About God"
|
|
When a scientist of Crick Orgel's
caliber feels he has to invoke undetectable spacemen, it is time
to consider whether the field of prebiological evolution has
come to a dead end. Phillip
Johnson
|
|
Justice is not always done in
this world; we see that everyday. But on the Last Day it will be
done for all to see. And no one will be able to complain by
saying, "This isn't fair." D.A.
Carson
|
|
We 'have all we want' is a
terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an
interruption. As St. Augustine says somewhere, 'God wants to
give us something, but cannot, because our hands are full -
there's nowhere for Him to put it.' C.S.
Lewis
|
|
The little time that remains
between this moment and our death, should quicken our diligence
to inherit the endless and unchangeable eternity of God. Stephen
Charnock
|
|
In the Bible violence chiefly
describes the actions of unjust authorities, such as the king,
the priests and the rich, and those who oppress the poor. In the
Bible violence is natural to humankind, a characteristic of our
rebellion against God. Chris
Sugden
|
|
So these liberals say historical
research can't possibly discover the Jesus of faith, because the
Jesus of faith is not rooted in history. He's merely a symbol.
But listen: Jesus is not a symbol of anything unless he's rooted
in history. The Nicene Creed doesn't say, "We wish these
things were true." It says, "Jesus Christ was
crucified under Pontius Pilate, and the third day he rose again
from the dead,' and it goes on from there. Gregory
A. Boyd, PhD
|
|
It is disturbingly curious that
liberals can protest the war, complain about killing Iraqi
soldiers, voice opinions against our own troops and government,
voice support for the terrorists and in the same breath complain
about the legislation that bans partial birth
abortions. Jeffrey
Ramey, DDiv
|
| If we compare the present state
of the New Testament text with that of any other ancient
writing, we must... declare it to be marvelously correct. Such
has been the care with which the New Testament has been copied -
a care which has doubtless grown out of true reverence for its
holy words.... The New Testament is unrivaled among ancient
writings in the purity of its test as actually transmitted and
kept in use. Benjamin
Warfield
|
| What we believe about God is the
most important thing about us. Yet subtle influences in today's
culture such as postmodernism, New Age thought, and liberal
theologians declare that God's authority is limited and his love
minimal. To make sure our convictions, views, and assumptions
about our Creator stay based on biblical truth and not on
popular consensus, we must continually check what we believe
against the Scriptures. Erwin
Lutzer in "Ten Lies About God"
|
| It should be carefully noted that
Jesus did not say, "I am one of the equally good ways"
or "I am a better way than the others, I am an aspect of
truth; I am a fragment of the life." Instead, His claim was
absolute, and allegiance to Him as the Savior of the world, was
to take precedence over all the claims of men and religions. Walter
Martin in "The Kingdom of Cults"
|
| Evangelicals have been living on
the periphery of responsible intellectual existence. The average
Christian does not realize that there is an intellectual war
going on in the universities and in the professional journals
and scholarly societies. Christianity is being attacked from all
sides as irrational or outmoded, and millions of students, our
future generation of leaders, have absorbed this viewpoint. This
is a war which we cannot afford to lose." William
Lane Craig in "Reasonable Faith"
|
It is absurd for the Evolutionist
to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable
God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it
is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into
everything.
G.K.
Chesterton
|
| The statistics reveal a failure
of nerve on the part of many Christians. They seem to be simply
unable to muster the strength necessary to develop a tenacious
commitment to the truthfulness of Scripture. Douglas
Groothius
|
| The
greatest danger confronting American evangelical Christianity is
the danger of anti-intellectualism. The mind in its greatest and
deepest reaches is not cared for enough. Charles
Malik
|
| God
sends no one away empty, except those who are full of
themselves.
Dwight
L. Moody
|
| Some
people have become so open minded that their brains have fallen
out.
Anonymous
|
| I
read in a periodical the other day that the fundamental thing is
how we think of God. By God Himself, it is not! How God thinks
of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important.
C.S.
Lewis
|
| "All
the miseries and evils which men suffer from: vice, crime,
ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from
their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the
Bible..."
Noah Webster
|
| We
affirm that the Gospel diagnoses the universal human condition
as one of sinful rebellion against God, which, if unchanged,
will lead each person to eternal loss under God's condemnation.
We deny any rejection of the fallenness of human nature or any
assertion of the natural goodness, or divinity, of the human
race.
The
Gospel of Jesus Christ:
An Evangelical Celebration
|
| Discipleship
never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a
decision, either for or against Jesus Christ.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
|
| The
Word did not become a philosophy, a theory, or a concept to be
discussed, debated, or pondered. But the Word became a person to
be followed, enjoyed, and loved!
Unknown
|
| The
only man that was perfect was crucified for it.
Unknown
|
| There
is never any peace for those who resist God.
François Fénélon
|
| When
you let people put you up on a pedestal, you step one step in
any direction, and you're going to go down.
Dr. James
Dobson
|
| Problems
cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created
them.
Albert
Einstein
|
| Among the
Jews, especially in the Old Testament, teachings served not for
the communication of religious truth, but rather to bring the
one taught into direct confrontation with the Divine Will. Dr.
Gordon Fee
|
| One
mark of a deteriorating society is when people cannot discern
between truth and lies. Another is that they don't care and will
believe whatever their itching ears want to hear. Cal
Thomas
|
| We
are given an absolute litmus test by the Apostle John, the
disciple who was closest to our Lord Jesus Christ, for any
belief system. If anyone teaches something other than Jesus
Christ is virgin born, fully man and fully God, the only Truth
and the only way for a person to be forgiven and go to heaven,
avoid them like the plague! Jeffrey
E. Ramey MRE
|
| Far
from being dry or abstract, Christian doctrine deals with the
most fundamental issues of life: who am I, what is the ultimate
meaning of the universe, where am I going?
Millard
J. Erickson
|
| Don't
ever think that there are many ways to the Divine. Jesus is the
one qualified mediator, the only qualified sacrifice, and the
only qualified savior. Dr.
Erwin W. Lutzer
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| The
main thing wrong with Christianity today is that they have
failed to keep the 'Main Thing' the 'Main Thing'. Dr.
Terry L. Fields
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| “Men
do not differ much about what things they call evils; they
differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable."
G.K.
Chesterton
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| “God's
love does not love that which is worthy of being loved, but it
creates that which is worthy of being loved." Martin
Luther
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| "The
term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this
is the morning." And as He spoke He no longer looked to
them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that
were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us
this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say
that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only
the beginning of the real story. Now at last they were beginning
Chapter One of the Great Story, which no one on earth has read:
which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the
one before. C.S.
Lewis
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| "The
only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so
badly that they seek it while the conditions are still
unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come." C.S.
Lewis
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| If
I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can
satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for
another world. C.S.
Lewis,
Mere Christianity
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| In a face-off over
Britain's blasphemy laws, sidewalk preachers shouted Bible
verses to drown out free-speech activists who read a homo-erotic
poem about Jesus Christ on the steps of a London church. The
17th-century laws -- which ban outrageous or indecent attacks on
Christianity – are under review by the House of Lords, which
may recommend abolishing them or extending them to protect other
religions. Although blasphemy laws are rarely enforced, the
activists said they were risking prosecution by reciting the
poem, which imagines a Roman centurion taking liberties with the
body of Jesus after he was removed from the cross. A London
minister who objected to the reading said that in a time when it
is wrong to utter a racial slur, "It seems the only person
you're allowed to insult in this land is Christ! Agape
Press
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| Consider,
it is impossible that your idol sins and you can go to heaven
together; and that those who will not part with these do not
indeed love Christ at the bottom, but only in word and show,
which will not do the business. Samuel
Rutherford
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| The
great danger of unsound doctrine lies even in this, that, like a
cancer, it rankles, because it finds in the diseased condition
of the religious life ever fresh nourishment. Weiss
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| Men
sometimes object to the doctrine of the depravity of mankind.
But the strongest teachings of the Bible and of the pulpit are
more than confirmed by their own actions - by the conduct of the
world itself. Every bolt and bar, and lock and key, every
receipt, and check, and note of hand, every law book and court
of justice, every chain, and dungeon, and gallows, proclaim that
the world is a fallen world, and that our race is a depraved and
sinful race. Unknown
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| Consider,
it is impossible that your idol sins and you can go to heaven
together; and that those who will not part with these do not
indeed love Christ at the bottom, but only in word and show,
which will not do the business. Samuel
Rutherford
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| The
first ministers were the twelve disciples. There is no evidence
that Jesus chose them because they are brighter or nicer than
other people. Their sole qualification seems to have been their
initial willingness to rise to their feet when Jesus said,
"Follow me." Frederick
Buechner
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| Jesus
will judge us not only for what we did, but also for what we
could have done and didn't.
George
Otis
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| For I
seek not to understand in order that I may believe; but I
believe in order that I may understand, for I believe for this
reason: that unless I believe, I cannot understand.
Anselm
of Canterbury
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| We learn to praise God not by
paying compliments but by paying attention. Frederick
Buechner
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| The human mind has no more power
of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky
or a new primary color in the spectrum. C.S.
Lewis
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| The most important thing a
father can do for his children is to love their mother. Theodore
Hesburgh
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|
Every doer of the law and
every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the
presumption of his own righteousness. Martin Luther
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|
The biggest threat to our
well being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose. Unknown
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|
The world says, 'The more you take, the more you have'. Christ says, 'The more you
give, the more you are. Frederick Buechner
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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
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| "Of
all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother."
- Lin Yutang
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| The mother is the most precious
possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its
highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.
Ellen Key
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| Neither the Jesus of the
rationalists, nor the Christ of the philosophers, hurts the
kingdom of Satan. John Peter Lange
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|
I have always said and always will say that the studious perusal of the Sacred
Volume will make us better citizens. Thomas Jefferson
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| Though hardness of heart is a great evil,
it is no greater an evil than softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt
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| Worship is about character. It's
not who you are in public that matters. It's who you are in
private. It's just between you and God.
Sir Lillard Kaylor
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| Without His Resurrection the
death of Christ would be of no avail, and His grave would be the
grave of all our hopes. A gospel of a dead Savior would
be a miserable failure and delusion. The Resurrection is the
victory of righteousness and life over sin an death.
Philip Schaff
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| Only he who believes is
obedient,.. only he who is obedient believes.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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| To educate a child in the mind
and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Theodore Roosevelt
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It is impossible to rightly govern the world
without God and the Bible.
George Washington
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|
A sad lesson from church history in 1266.
In the year 1266, Mongol
leader, Kublai Kahn, asks the pope to send 100 Christian
teachers to baptize him and teach his people. The pope sends
seven. In 1295 the Mongols begin to convert to Islam.
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Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you,
the part that chooses, into something a little different from
what it was before.
C. S. Lewis
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We have no cause to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ;
but the Gospel of Christ may justly be ashamed of us.
John Tillotson
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For the first time in our
history the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our
cultural norm, even our cultural ideal. Carl Bernstein
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|
Many refuse to accept the reality of a personal God
because they are unwilling to submit to His authority.
Kurt Bruner
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| There
is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of
religion held in contempt. Niccolo Machiavelli
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The nations morals are like
its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch
them. George Bernard Shaw
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|
The object of opening the mind as of opening the mouth is to close
it again on something solid.
G. K. Chesterton
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| Miracles
always start when somebody does something very ordinary in obedience
to God. Dr. Ken Culver
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| I do not feel obliged to
believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason,
and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei
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| How many observe Christ's
birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays
than commandments. Benjamin Franklin
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|
The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and
call of God. Dietrich Bonnhoeffer
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| Too
many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian
experience. We think we are doing our duty when we're only
talking about it. Charles F Banning
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| "When
we rely on organization, we get what organization can do. When
we rely upon education, we get what education can do. When we
rely on eloquence, we get what eloquence can do. But when we
rely on the Holy Spirit, we get what God can do."
A.C. Dixon
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| We are engaged in a social, political, and cultural war.
There's a lot of talk in America about pluralism. But the bottom line is
somebody's values will prevail. And the winner gets the right to
teach our children what to believe. Gary Bauer
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| Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words.
St. Francis of Assisi
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| Our Christian
experience must agree with the Bible. We will be taught by the
Bible and fed by the Bible. But we do not believe in Christ
because He is in the Bible: we believe in the Bible because
Christ is in us. Claxton Monro
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| Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at
earth and you get neither. C. S. Lewis
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| God sends no one away
empty, except those who are full of themselves. Dwight L. Moody
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| There
are two kinds of people: those who say to God: Thy will be done,
and those to whom God says: All right, then, have it your way.
C.S.
Lewis
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| It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation
was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of
Jesus Christ!
Patrick Henry
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| Next to
faith this is the highest art -- to be content with the calling
in which God has placed you. Martin
Luther
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|
False
doctrine is a symptom of an unhealthy religious life. The
turning away from sound doctrine goes hand-in-hand with a
predilection for such teachers as tickle the ear, while they
teach only such things as correspond to the sinful inclinations
of the hears. Weiss
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