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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

✦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

✦The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world. Charles Dickens

✦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

✦If we continue to teach about tolerance and intolerance instead of good and evil, we will end up with tolerance of evil. Dennis Prager
✦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
✦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
✦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
✦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
✦The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it. Charles H. Spurgeon
✦It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism. Vance Havner
✦Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible. J.C. Ryle
✦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
✦The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ. R.C. Sproul
✦God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative. John Powell
✦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
✦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
✦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
✦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
✦Christianity is not blindly following a list of rules, but rather building a relationship with You, Lord. Cliff Jennings
✦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
✦If you haven't met Satan recently, you are probably going his way! C.S. Lewis
✦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
✦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
✦Commitment to Christ goes hand in hand with commitment to His church. Unknown
✦One truth from the Bible is worth more than all the wisdom of man. Unknown
✦Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best. John Donne
✦We are to order our lives by the light of His law, not the our guesses about His Plan. J.I. Packer
✦The conduct of our lives is the only proof of the sincerity of our hearts. Robert Wilson
✦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
✦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
✦"... dear God that I may be part of a church that this can be said of." Dr. Tim Alexander
✦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
✦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
✦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
✦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
✦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)
✦It is no sin to doubt some things but it may be fatal to believe everything. A.W. Tozer
✦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
✦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
✦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
✦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
✦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
✦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
✦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
✦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
✦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
✦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
✦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
✦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
✦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
✦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
✦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
✦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
✦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. Chesterton

✦This 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

✦The main thing wrong with Christianity today is that they have failed to keep the 'Main Thing' the 'Main Thing'. Dr. Terry L. Fields

✦“Men do not differ much about what things they call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable." G.K. Chesterton

✦“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

✦"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

✦"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

✦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

✦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

✦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

✦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

✦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

✦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

✦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

✦Jesus will judge us not only for what we did, but also for what we could have done and didn't. George Otis

✦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

✦We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention. Frederick Buechner

✦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

✦The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Theodore Hesburgh

✦Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness. Martin Luther

✦The biggest threat to our well being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose. Unknown

✦The world says, 'The more you take, the more you have'. Christ says, 'The more you give, the more you are. Frederick Buechner

✦Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. Leo Buscaglia

✦"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother." - Lin Yutang

✦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

✦Neither the Jesus of the rationalists, nor the Christ of the philosophers, hurts the kingdom of Satan. John Peter Lange

✦I have always said and always will say that the studious perusal of the Sacred Volume will make us better citizens. Thomas Jefferson

✦Though hardness of heart is a great evil, it is no greater an evil than softness of head. Theodore Roosevelt

✦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

✦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

✦Only he who believes is obedient,.. only he who is obedient believes. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

✦To educate a child in the mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. Theodore Roosevelt

✦It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. George Washington

✦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.
✦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

✦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

✦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

✦Many refuse to accept the reality of a personal God because they are unwilling to submit to His authority. Kurt Bruner

✦There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. Niccolo Machiavelli

✦The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them. George Bernard Shaw

✦The object of opening the mind as of opening the mouth is to close it again on something solid. G. K. Chesterton
✦Miracles always start when somebody does something very ordinary in obedience to God. Dr. Ken Culver

✦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

✦How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. Benjamin Franklin

✦The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God. Dietrich Bonnhoeffer

✦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

✦"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

✦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

✦Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. St. Francis of Assisi

✦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

✦Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. C. S. Lewis

✦God sends no one away empty, except those who are full of themselves. Dwight L. Moody

✦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

✦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

✦Next to faith this is the highest art -- to be content with the calling in which God has placed you. Martin Luther

✦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

✦I am much afraid that schools will prove to be the great gates of Hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not increasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt. Martin Luther

✦If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself. Augustine of Hippo

✦We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing. A. W. Tozer

✦Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. Ronald Reagan

✦When we place our contribution in the collection plate, we are not giving to the Lord; we are just taking our hands off that which belongs to Him. Unknown

✦The Gospel is not presented to mankind as an argument about religious principles. Nor is it offered as a philosophy of life. Christianity is a witness to certain facts -- to events that have happened, to hopes that have been fulfilled, to realities that have been experienced, to a Person who has lived and died and been raised from the dead to reign forever. Massey H. Shepherd

✦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 you speak of heaven, let your face light up; let it be irradiated by a heavenly gleam; let your eyes shine with reflected glory. But when you speak of hell, your ordinary expression will do. Charles Spurgeon

✦"Dying for something takes one right choice; living for it requires hundreds of choices each day." Dr. Lynda Hunter

✦Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image. A.W. Tozer

✦The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom. St. Jerome

✦I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it but because by it I see everything else. C.S. Lewis

✦HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel. Ambrose (Gwinnett) Bierce

✦PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy. Ambrose (Gwinnett) Bierce

✦The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Theodore Hesburgh

✦Discernment: The spiritual gift that would find more work to do in most of today's Churches than the gift of healing could find to do in the largest cancer ward. Jeffrey Ramey, MRE

✦Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than going to the garage makes you a car. Laurence J. Peter

✦All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation. Wystan Hugh Auden

✦If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool. St. Bernard

✦Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family. - Jean Rousseau

✦"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother." - Lin Yutang

✦I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual, and physical education which I received from my mother. - George Washington

✦Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. Fred Allen

✦Phrases like Worship Service or Service of Worship are tautologies. To worship God means to serve him. Basically there are two ways to do it. One way is to do things for Him that He needs to have done - run errands for Him, carry messages for Him, fight on His side, feed His lambs, and so on. The other way is to do things for Him that you need to do - sing songs for Him, tell Him what's on your mind and in your heart, in general rejoice in Him... Frederick Buechner

✦What is Worship? Worship is my voluntary, conscience response to God, by which I demonstrate His worth, greatness, goodness and His Lordship to me. Jeffrey Ramey

✦Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride. C.S. Lewis

✦He came to pay a debt He didn't owe, to free us from a debt we couldn't pay. Unknown

✦Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it. Charles Caleb Colton

✦The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. Dante Gabriel Rossetti

✦The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? Benjamin Franklin

✦Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. Ambrose (Gwinnett) Bierce

✦More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion. Alexander Chase

✦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

✦Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything. G.K. Chesterton

✦This 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

✦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