Before an individual can be saved, he must first learn that he cannot save himself. ~M. R. DeHaan, M.D. (1891-1965) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car ~Laurence J. Peter Christ is a substitute for everything, but nothing is a substitute for Christ. ~Dr. H. A. Ironside (1876-1951) All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.~Dr. H. A. Ironside Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength. ~Corrie Ten Boom Faith ends where worry begins, and worry ends where faith begins. ~George Mueller A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted. ~Adrian Rogers God's work done God's way will never lack God's supply. ~Hudson Taylor Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you. ~Corrie ten Boom The true follower of Christ will not ask, "If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?" Rather he will say, "This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!" ~A.W. Tozer Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable. ~Vance Havner God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves. ~Dwight L. Moody You might as well try to hear without ears or breathe without lungs, as to try to live a Christian life without the Spirit of God in your heart. ~D.L. Moody When boiled down to its essence, unforgiveness is hatred. ~John R. Rice And Satan trembles when he sees, The weakest saint upon his knees. ~William Cowper (1731-1800) If lips and life do not agree, the testimony will not amount to much. ~H. A. Ironside (1876-1951) People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn back, and 3. they no longer have plans of their own. ~A.W. Tozer No one who really wants to count for God can afford to play at Christianity. ~H. A. Ironside The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His Word. ~Bob Jones, Sr. To be like Christ is to be a Christian. ~Daniel Webster I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him. I ended up by asking Him to do his work through me. ~James Hudson Taylor (1832-1905) We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives! ~James Hudson Taylor Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow. ~Theodore Epp How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in? ~Oscar Wilde Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do. ~James Hudson Taylor Salvation is a work of God for man, rather than a work of man for God. ~Lewis Sperry Chafer (1871-1952) The Law and the Gospel are two keys. The Law is the key that shutteth up all men under condemnation, and the Gospel is the key which opens the door and lets them out.~William Tyndale Those who go to Heaven ride on a pass and enter into blessings that they never earned, but all who go to hell pay their own way. ~John R. Rice We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results. ~R.A. Torrey Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender. ~A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire? ~Corrie Ten Boom Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence. ~A.W. Tozer Do you need help today? Lift up your hands to the Lord in supplication and in expectation, and soon you will lift up your hands in jubilation and celebration. ~Warren W. Wiersbe Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well. ~Reformer Martin Luther I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church". ~(Anne Askew - Martyred for her faith at Smithfield in 1545) It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible! ~President George Washington We have staked the future of American civilization upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God. ~President James Madison I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book. ~President Abraham Lincoln The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts. ~John Jay - 1st Chief-Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct. ~Noah Webster (1758-1843) "The Schoolmaster of the Nation." We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God. ~President Harry S. Truman A friend is one who has the same enemies you have. ~Abraham Lincoln If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants. ~William Penn (1644-1718), founder of Pennsylvania "The Bible is the Only Book That Can Make Us Wise unto Salvation. The Bible is not a book to be studied as we study geology and astronomy, merely to find out about the earth's formation and the structure of the universe; but it is a book revealing truth, designed to bring us into living union with God." ~George F. Pentecost "It is well for the evangelist to bear in mind, on every fresh occasion of rising to preach, that his unconverted hearers are totally ignorant of the gospel, and hence he should preach as though it were the first time they had ever heard the message, and the first time he had ever delivered it...It is the presentation of the atoning death and glorious resurrection of the Son of God - and all this in the present energy, glow, and freshness of the Holy Ghost, from the exhaustless mine of Holy Scripture. Moreover, the one absorbing object of the preacher is to win souls for Christ, to the glory of God...Let it never be forgotten, the preacher's object is to bring the Savior and the sinner together - to win souls for Christ. ~C.H. Mackintosh "Every revival worthy of the name begins in the restoration of the Word of God to the pulpit, and its fearless proclamation by those anointed of God to preach the Gospel. The revival under Josiah took place when 'Hilkiah found the Book of the Law of the Lord'." ~Wilbur M. Smith. Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition. ~Vance Havner "To glorify Christ is to manifest Him as supremely excellent; to blind the eyes of men to that glory is the purpose of the god of this world; therefore, which spirit is at work in a man or in a church can easily be told." ~W. J. Erdman Satan has no difficulty in making sin look innocent. ~John Blanchard Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honour and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure and pays with pain; he promises profit and pays with loss; he promises life and pays with death. ~Thomas Brooks "All Satan's Apples Have Worms. I do not deny that the Devil has some pretty apples; I just say that all of them are fakes and that after you bite into them, you will find they have worms. All Satan's apples have worms." ~John R. Rice When Adam sinned, he fled from God; when a sinner believes, he comes back! ~William R. Newell "Christ stands in two relationships with God, His Father. He is a perfect man before His God and He is a Son with His Father. We are to share both these relationships. This He announced to His disciples ere He went back to heaven: it is unfolded in all its extent by the words He spoke, 'I go to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.' This precious -- this inappreciable truth is the foundation of the apostle's teaching in this place. He considered God in this double aspect, as the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, and as the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; and our blessings are in connection with these two titles." ~John Nelson Darby "The spot where God's triumph is achieved, God's victory over sin, over lawlessness, is the cross of Calvary - the cross on which the Son of God died. In that cross and through the cross the works of the devil were destroyed, and the One who conquered him is yet to bruise the serpent's head in the final triumph when He comes again, as recorded in prophecy." ~AC Gaebelein "Nobody ever outgrows Scriptures; the Book widens and deepens with our years" ~Charles Haddon Spurgeon The Bible is a Perfect Map and Chart to the Christian on Pilgrimage Through the World. ~George F. Pentecost "There is only one book in the world that bears the impress of the hand of God and that vibrates with His breath. That Book is the Bible." ~Erling C. Olsen "The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the bible in our life and thoughts."~George Mueller "The bible fits man for life and prepares him for death" ~Daniel Webster "THE Bible differs from all other books in that it never wears out. Other books are read and laid aside, but the Bible is a constant companion. No matter how often we read it or how familiar we become with it, some new truth is likely to spring out at us from its pages whenever we open it, or some old truth will impress us as it never did before. Every Christian can give illustrations of this." ~William Jennings Bryan "The will of God - nothing less, nothing more, nothing else." ~F. E. Marsh "You cannot starve a man who is feeding on God's promises." ~E.C. Olsen "When the eyes of the heart see the risen and glorified Christ and faith lays hold of the wonderful meaning for us who believe, then we learn to walk in that separation into which God has called His people. What the Christian therefore needs is an ever increasing realization in faith of his position in Christ, and then to be energized by the indwelling Spirit to seek those things which are above and not the things on earth. Such a life means joy and peace. It is a life of obedience and quietness, victorious over all earthly circumstances. And because it is a life which is hid with Christ in God, it is hidden from the world." ~A.C. Gaebelein "God looks not at the elegancy of your prayers, to see how neat they are; nor yet at the geometry of your prayers, to see how long they are; nor yet at the arithmetic of your prayers, to see how many they are; nor yet at the music of your prayers, nor yet at the sweetness of your voice, nor yet at the logic of your prayers; but at the sincerity of your prayers, how hearty they are." ~Thomas Brookes "The normal Christian life is a life of regular, daily answer to prayer. In the model prayer Jesus taught His disciples to pray daily for bread, and expect to get it, and to ask daily for forgiveness, for deliverance from the evil one, and for other needs, and daily to get the answers they sought." ~John R. Rice "Christendom is full of solemn warnings as to the tendency of our hearts to drop into a routine of religious forms. It is a very great loss to the soul to get into the habit of repeating substantially the same words in prayer every day. It is not real prayer at all. Today is not like yesterday, and tomorrow will not be like today. If you are really with God you will be sensitive to the fresh needs of every day. God delights to have our confidence as to every need and care. Then let us cultivate a child's confidence, and a child's simplicity as we come to Him in prayer. Bring the trying circumstances of today, and the expected difficulties and perplexities of tomorrow. Be merciful unto me, O Lord; for I cry unto thee daily (Ps. 86:3)."~C.A. Coates "I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his plan for me. Nothing is too big to ask of Him, not even an ocean lot. It is God's business to decide if it is good for me. It is my business to obey Him." ~Elisabeth Elliot "God knows when to withhold or grant visible signs of encouragement. It's good when He sends confirmation, but we grow faster when we've trusted Him without it." ~Charles Trumbull "The Law was given by Moses; the moral law, to discover the extent and abounding sin; the ceremonial law, to point out, by typical sacrifices and ablutions, the way in which forgiveness was to be sought and obtained. But grace, to relieve us from the condemnation of the one, and truth answerable to the types and shadows of the other, came by Jesus Christ." ~John Newton "We have no inherent holiness. We are holy as we are possessed by the Holy Presence. We are holy in His holiness, loving in His love, strong in His strength, tender in His tenderness, patient in His patience, calm in His peace, and consecrated in His consecration." ~F.E. Marsh "The world is the world still. 'There is nothing new under the sun.' Christ and the world are not one. The world has covered itself with the cloak of Christianity; but it is only in order that its hatred to Christ may work itself up into more deadly forms underneath. Let us not deceive ourselves. If we will walk with a rejected Christ, we must be a rejected people. If our Master 'suffered without the gate,' we cannot expect to reign within the gate. If we walk in His footsteps, whither will they lead us? Surely, not to the high places of this godless, Christless world. 'His path, uncheered by earthly smiles, Led only to the cross.'" ~CH Mackintosh "Every mark of the world is a reproach to him who is heavenly. It is only the heavenly man who has died with Christ that disentangles himself from all that is of Egypt. The life of the flesh always cleaves to Egypt; but the principle of worldliness is uprooted in him who is dead and risen with Christ and living a heavenly life. The life of a risen man is not of this world; it has no connection with it (Col. 2:11,12). He who possesses this life may pass through the world, and do many things that others do. He eats, works, suffers; but, as to his life and his objects, he is not of the world, even as Christ was not of the world. Christ, risen and ascended up on high, is his life (Col. 3:1-3)." ~John Nelson Darby "Just as there can be no normal, healthy life without the proper kind of food, so there can be no normal, spiritual growth without the food that God has ordained as the nourishment of the new life. 'As newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the Word that ye may grow thereby' (1 Pet. 2:2). If the Bible is not the center of the home, the home cannot be called a true Christian home, even though all the members of the household are children of God through faith in Christ Jesus. There is no spiritual life apart from the Bible, and the tragedy of the American home today is that so many people have abandoned the Book as the source of life and as the center of living." ~Donald Grey Barnhouse "What is it to 'walk in the Spirit'? It is not self-occupation, nor even occupation with the Spirit. Walking according to the Spirit is occupation with the Lord Jesus Christ in glory. If the believer ever looks to the Lord Jesus, depends upon Him, draws all his needs from Him - if He is his All in all - then the believer walks according to the Spirit of Christ." ~Arno C. Gaebelein "If we have Christ with us, we can do all things. Let us not be thinking how weak we are. Let us lift up our eyes to Him and think of Him as our Elder Brother who has all power given to Him in Heaven and on earth. He says, 'Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.'" ~D.L. Moody "A true evangelist is almost as great a rarity as a true pastor. Alas! Alas! How rare are both! The two are closely connected. The evangelist gathers the sheep; the pastor feeds and cares for them. The work of each lies very near the heart of Christ [Who Is] The Divine Evangelist and Pastor..." ~C.H. Mackintosh "If a preacher is cultured, gentle, earnest, intellectual, and broadly tolerant, the sheep of God run after him. He, of course, speaks beautifully about Christ, and uses the old words redemption, the cross, even sacrifice and atonement-but what is his Gospel? That is the crucial question. Is salvation, perfect, entire, eternal, justification, sanctification, glory, the alone work of Christ, and the free gift of God to faith alone?" ~C.I. Scofield "God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him." ~Hudson Taylor "The preacher's task is to cry, as did John the Baptist, 'Behold the Lamb of God;' not to attract attention to himself or to gather a clique around himself." ~Erling C. Olsen "The man who will present Christ to others must be occupied with Christ for Himself." ~C.H. Mackintosh "Be assured, if you walk with Him, and look to Him, and expect help from Him, He will never fail you"~George Mueller "Men do not fall from grace by sinning, but by putting the Law in place of grace- Galatians 5:4" ~Williams Evans "Prayer is the highest of all our privileges as followers of Jesus. Of that privilege no human power can deprive us. Let us prize it highly and prove it thoroughly in these serious days through which we are passing." ~Dr. R. G. Lee "Christian , our obligation in a world faced with chaos caused by a breakup of morals, is to come out of our stupor and live virtuous lives by the power of God's Spirit." ~Erling C. Olsen "The injunction 'be not conformed to this world,' and kindred passages of Scripture imply that something more is required of God's children, in their walk and conversation than simply to lead what is called a correct moral life; and a Christian professor who in any way encourages gay and fashionable amusements of the world, especially dancing and attendance upon theatrical performances, furnishes sad evidence that he has not yet 'put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to deceitful lusts,' nor 'put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness,' and that to him, at least, the promises and hopes of the gospel are a very unsatisfying portion. He thus brings dishonour and reproach upon his religious profession, throws a stumbling-block in the way of sinners, offends them that are weak, and grievously wounds the Savior in the house of his friends." ~James H. Brookes "The greatest menace in this country is not the bootlegger, but the college professor who rejects the Bible and undermines the faith of the young." ~Arno C. Gaebelein "No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul'" ~J.C. Ryle "This is our message: The Scriptures are still reliable. These Scriptures promised that Jesus would be born of a virgin -and He was. The Scriptures promised that Jesus would die on the cross of Calvary and pay for our sins - and He did. The Scriptures promised that Jesus would intercede for us on the right hand of the Father-and He does. And the Scriptures promise that Jesus would come again and receive us unto Himself-and He will." ~Dr. Tom Wallace "Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people, church members, even church workers - yes, and, alas, even prophets, priests and preachers - will find themselves lost when they expected to be saved, condemned when they expected approval, cast out of Heaven when they expected to be received into eternal bliss. That is the explicit meaning of the words of our Lord...[spoken in Matthew 7:21-23.]" ~John R. Rice "Salvation by grace is appropriated by faith. Grace is the fountain, but faith is the channel. Grace is the life-line, but faith is the hand that clutches it. And, thoroughly and finally to exclude all boasting, it is declared that the salvation and the faith are both the gift Of God. 'And that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.' That salvation is God's gift is evident. 'The gift of God is eternal life through Christ.' The free gift, The gift of grace, The gift of righteousness- these phrases determine the fact that salvation is itself a Divine present to man. 'Salvation,' cried C. H. Spurgeon in the great congregation, 'is everything for nothing! Christ free!-Pardon free!-Heaven free!' Thanks be to God for a gratuitous salvation!" ~Rev. Thomas Spurgeon "It was never intended that we should receive assurance by believing ourselves to be Christians, but by believing that Christ is our all-sufficient Saviour." ~James H. Brookes "One of the commonest causes of failure in Christian life is found in the attempt to follow some good man whom we greatly admire. No man and no woman, no matter how good, can be safely followed. If we follow any man or woman, we are bound to go astray. There has been but one absolutely perfect Man on this earth - the Man Christ Jesus. If we try to follow any other man we are surer to imitate his faults than his excellencies. Look to Jesus and Jesus only as your Guide." ~R.A. Torrey "If we ask what is the very essence and heart of Christianity and the Christian life, the answer is that God has summed up and centred all things in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ. This means that Christianity is not a number of things as in themselves, such as beliefs, doctrines, dogmas, practices, forms, rites, orders, or virtues. It is not salvation, regeneration, sanctification, power, life, joy, peace, etc., as things. It is just Himself, and Himself as resident within those who have received Him as Who and What He is. He is the total of all that is necessary for God’s glory and satisfaction, for which we were created. Nothing can be had or known as an "it" apart from the Person. If we have Him and live by Him, we have all." ~T. Austin-Sparks "Following Him is walking in the light and not in darkness. Man on account of sin is in moral and spiritual darkness. Believing on Christ and following Him delivers from both. In His fellowship the believer is delivered from the power of darkness, from the power of sin and from ignorance as to spiritual things." ~Arno C. Gaebelein "How dark and gloomy this world would be if we had no hope in the resurrection. But when we Christians lay our little children down in the grave, it is not without hope. We have seen them in the terrible struggle with death; but there has been one star to illumine the darkness and gloom--"the thought that though the happy circle has been broken on earth, it shall be completed again in yon world of heavenly light." ~D.L. Moody "No doubt all expositors and Christians agree that the ten virgins represent the professed followers of Christ; and hence it is important to notice that while the Bridegroom tarried they all nodded and slept. It is only when the midnight cry is heard, 'Behold the Bridegroom comes,' they awake. The end, therefore, will not find the professing church watching and working." ~James Hall Brookes "When you reject the genuine, you are wide open for the spurious. Paul wrote to the Thessalonians that when someone rejects the love of the truth that they might be saved, they will believe the big lie." ~J. Vernon McGee "Christ did not come to civilize. He came to save. Civilization is not the solution; it does not destroy the works of the devil. All civilization aims at world improvement, at the gradual elimination of the curse; it is a process of evolution. It is like a man who is suffering from a terrible disease, and the physician who comes to help him gives him a salve to apply. He treats the skin symptoms but the source of the disease he never considers and never touches. Such is a boasted and progressive civilization. It is a delusion." ~Arno C. Gaebelein "Salvation is a personal matter. It can never be enjoyed or experienced by proxy." ~Erling C. Olsen "My own definition of the grace of God is this: the unlimited and unmerited favor given to the utterly undeserving." ~R.G. Lee "It was for those who could by no means save or help to save themselves, that Christ died; it was for ungodly sinners that He gave His life; and if you are not such an one, you have neither part nor lot in the blessings which flow from His death. A lifeboat is for the drowning, a physician is for the sick, and a Saviour is for lost sinners." ~CA Coates "Take Him not only as your Savior from the guilt of sin but also as your Savior from the power of sin. He not only died to make atonement for your sins, He also rose again, and He lives today to set you free from the power of sin and to make intercession for you (Hebrews 7:25). Will you take Him now as your Deliverer from the power of sin? Will you come to this risen and mighty Lord Jesus with all your weakness and sins and trust Him to set you free? That is the right thing to do with Jesus Christ: Just take Him as your Savior, your crucified Savior, from the guilt of sin and your risen Savior from the power of sin." ~R.A. Torrey "We should remember that people can go to Heaven without knowing much of the Word of God, but they cannot go to Heaven without knowing Jesus Christ as Savior." ~Lee Roberson "God is the God of the impossible, as well as the God of the possible." ~Lester Roloff "We must learn what God is to us, not by our own thoughts, but by what He has revealed Himself to be, and that is, 'The God of all grace.' The moment I understand that I am a sinful man, and yet that it was because the Lord knew the full extent of my sin, and what its hatefulness was, that He came to me, I understand what grace is. Faith makes me see that God is greater than my sin, and not that my sin is greater than God. The Lord that I have known as laying down His life for me, is the same Lord I have to do with everyday of my life, and all His dealings with me are on the same principles of grace. The great secret of growth is, the looking up to the Lord as gracious. How precious, how strengthening it is to know that Jesus is at this moment feeling and exercising the same love towards me as when He died on the cross for me. This is a truth that should be used by us in the most common everyday circumstances of life." ~John Nelson Darby "What we have in Christ Jesus - Redemption through His blood is the beginning and foundation of everything." ~CH Mackintosh "The Christian life is not slightly better, but completely different." ~Clarence Sexton "If sound doctrine is given up, the real Gospel of redemption by the blood of the Son of God is denied, worldliness follows." ~A.C. Gaebelein "Neither when we have chosen our way can we keep company with those who go the other way. There must come with the decision for truth a corresponding protest against error." ~Charles Haddon Spurgeon "There can be no united Christian church except it be founded upon a solid rock." ~Erling C. Olsen "In a fallen world like ours unity is no treasure to be purchased at the price of compromise. Loyalty to God, faithfulness to truth and the preservation of a good conscience are jewels more precious than gold of Ophir or diamonds from the mine. For these jewels men have suffered the loss of property, imprisonment and even death; for them, even in recent times, behind the various curtains, followers of Christ have paid the last full measure of devotion and quietly died, unknown to and unsung by the great world, but known to God and dear to His Father's heart. In the day that shall declare the secrets of all souls these shall come forth to receive the deeds done in the body. Surely such as these are wiser philosophers than the religious camp followers of meaningless unity who have not the courage to stand against current vogues and who bleat for brotherhood because it happens to be for the time popular... When confused sheep start over a cliff the individual sheep can save himself only by separating from the flock. Perfect unity at such a time can only mean total destruction for all. The wise sheep to save his own hide disaffiliates. Power lies in the union of things similar and the division of things dissimilar. Maybe what we need in religious circles today is not more union but some wise and courageous division." ~A.W. Tozer "Dr. Bonar once said that he could tell when a Christian was growing. In proportion to his growth in grace he would elevate his Master, talk less of what he himself was doing, and become smaller and smaller in his own esteem, until, like the morning star, he faded away before the rising sun." ~D.L. Moody "Be assured that God does more in us than we for Him; and that what we do is only for Him in proportion as it is He Himself who works it in us." ~JN Darby "There is no failure in God's will, and no success outside of God's will." ~George Washington Truett "Whoever reads the New Testament seriously, or gives thought to the impact which the apostles made upon their generation, must acknowledge that one outstanding historic event alone spurred that small band of 11 ordinary men to an amazing task of evangelization in their generation. Defying every obstacle, loss of home, persecution, even death itself, they evidenced the supreme relevance in their ministry of the resurrection of Jesus Christ." ~Erling C. Olsen "God is not looking for brilliant men, is not depending upon eloquent men, is not shut up to the use of talented men in sending His Gospel out in the world. God is looking for broken men, for men who have judged themselves in the light of the Cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to an end of themselves, and whose trust and confidence is not in themselves but in God." ~H.A. Ironside "There are some promises in the Bible which I have never yet used; but I am well assured that there will come times of trial and trouble when I shall find that poor despised promise, which I thought was never meant for me, will be the only one on which I can float. I know that the time is coming when every believer shall know the worth of every promise in the covenant." ~C.H. Spurgeon "Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God." ~E.M. Bounds "God is never surprised." ~Ralph Sexton Sr. "Someday, when in the presence of our Savior, we will thank Him for every burden, every trial, and every heartache." ~J. Vernon McGee "The person of Christ is the object of faith. It is Christ in the promises that faith deals with. The promise is but the shell, Christ is the kernel; the promise is but the casket, Christ is the jewel in it; the promise is but the field, Christ is the treasure that is hid in that field; the promise is a ring of gold, Christ is the pearl in that ring; and upon this sparkling, shining pearl, faith delights most to look Faith hath two hands, and with both she lays earnest and fast hold on King Jesus. Christ's beauty and glory is very taking and drawing; faith cannot see it, but it will lay hold on it. Christ is the principle object about which faith is exercised, for the obtaining of righteousness and everlasting happiness." ~Thomas Brookes "The great guardian principle of all conduct in the church of God is personal responsibility to the Lord." ~JN Darby "Today, when people say they cannot believe, it is not a mental problem; it is a matter of the will of the heart - they do not want to believe. Some say they have certain 'mental reservations,' mental hurdles which they cannot get over. My friend, your mind is not big enough to take even one little hurdle. The problem is never in the mind but in the will. There is sin in the life, and a man does not want to turn to God; he does not want to believe Him." ~J. Vernon McGee "When the Word is stored in the heart, the individual finds it a wonderful power in preserving him from outbreaking sin." ~E.C. Olsen "Every one ought to study the Bible with two ends in view: his own growth in knowledge and grace, and passing it on to others. We ought to have four ears,- two for ourselves, and two for other people. My Bible is worth a good deal to me because I have so many passages marked that, if I am called upon to speak at any time, I am ready. We ought to be prepared to pass around heavenly thoughts and truths, just as we do the coin of the realm." ~D.L. Moody "No power of earth, or hell, men or devils, can possibly stand against the word of God; and hence it is the very height of folly and wild madness for any one to set up his thoughts or reasonings in opposition to the plain statements of Holy Scripture; and, on the other hand, it is the beginning and end of all true wisdom to submit in all things to the absolute authority of that Word which is settled forever in Heaven." ~CH Mackintosh "The scriptures are the only external guide in matters of religion; they are the way-posts we should look up unto, and take our direction from, and should steer our course accordingly: To the law and to the testimony: if men speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them (Isa. 8:20)" ~John Gill "No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance." ~C.H. Spurgeon "It is a good deal better to have life in Christ and God than any where else. I would rather have my life hid with Christ in God than be in Eden as Adam was. Adam might have remained in Paradise for 16,000 years, and then fallen, but if ours is hid in Christ, how safe!" ~D.L. Moody "A blameless life, a brilliant reputation, will not do. No, nor a Christian training either. "Ye must be born again." There must be a positive, actual, bona fide passage from death unto life...." ~CH Mackintosh "We are not saved by feelings of sorrow over Jesus' death. We are saved when the Word of God 'pierces' our hearts (Hebrews 4:12), when we are convicted of our sins and trust Christ by faith." ~R. L. Hymers, Jr. "It is better to think of what God is than of what we are. This looking at ourselves, at the bottom is really pride, a want of the thorough consciousness that we are good for nothing. Till we see this we never look quite away from self to God. In looking to Christ, it is our privilege to forget ourselves. True humility does not so much consist in thinking badly of ourselves, as in not thinking of ourselves at all. I am too bad to be worth thinking about. What I want is to forget myself and look to God, who is indeed worth all my thoughts. Is there need of being humbled about ourselves? We may be quite sure that will do it." ~J.N. Darby "We serve God because of, not in order to." ~Clarence Sexton "Take care you are not imposed upon, under the notion and pretense of an apostolical tradition; unwritten traditions are not the rule, only the word of God is the rule of our faith and practice." ~John Gill "How frightful a thing it is for the preacher when he becomes accustomed to his work, when his sense of wonder departs, when he gets used to the unusual, when he loses his solemn fear in the presence of the High and Holy One; when, to put it bluntly, he gets a little bored with God and heavenly things." ~A.W Tozer "If there is no deep yearning for a life that is well pleasing to Him, if there is no stimulating desire to know Him and His Word, church membership is just like a young man falling in love with a furnished apartment and marrying an electric stove, a refrigerator, a vacuum cleaner, a garbage disposal, and a wet mop! That is just about all it amounts to. Let's stop playing church today and start loving Christ and living for Him!" ~J. Vernon McGee "While the literary value of the Bible cannot be minimized, the Book was given not to be admired but to be received as the Word of God; that we might come to know Him of whom the Scriptures witness." ~Erling C. Olsen "We have the Bible in our hands; but how little we know of its teaching! And how little are we governed by it! We go on, from week to week, year to year, with things which have no foundation whatever in its pages - yea, with things utterly opposed to its teaching; and, all the while, we boast of having the Scriptures, just like the Jews of old, who made their boast of having the oracles of God, while those very oracles condemned themselves and their ways, and left them without a single plea." ~CH Mackintosh "The Word of God is a lamp by night, a light by day, and a delight at all times." ~C.H. Spurgeon "Let the Word be preached, the truth taught, and error will be uncovered and souls delivered." ~A.C. Gaebelein "Probably the greatest need in the Church today is a body of men who are absolutely devoted, every selfish purpose and plan given up, to the one great end of magnifying the Lord Jesus Christ in the midst of the nation." ~Wilbur M. Smith "There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home." ~Vance Havner "There is no kind of experience in which a Christian has a right to refuse to praise God, for 'all things work together for good to them that love God.'" ~A. C. Dixon "The Lord is seldom early, but never late." ~John K. Hutcheson, Sr. "As a Christian, my business is not to clean up this world; my business is something infinitely beyond that. I do not believe in reformation: I believe in regeneration by the Holy Spirit; not in changing lives, but in an imparting of a new life which is in Christ." ~Erling C. Olsen "If it be the duty of all men to believe the Gospel . . . then it be the duty of those who are entrusted with the Gospel to endeavor to make it known among all nations." ~William Carey "According to the Scriptures, salvation is never conditioned on human faithfulness, or on the promise of human faithfulness. There is no payment required, past, present, or future. God saves unmeriting sinners in unrelated, unrecompensed, unconditioned, sovereign grace. Good works should follow; but with no thought of compensation. Christians are "created in Christ Jesus for good works" (Eph 2:10); they are to be a "special people, zealous for good works" (Titus 2:14); and "those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works" (Titus 3:8). Thus, and only thus, are "good works" related to the gracious salvation from God through Christ Jesus. Grace is out of question when recompense is in question." ~Lewis Sperry Chafer "To believe God's testimony is the first of duties, and Christ is the object of that testimony. So, when the trembling jailer at Philippi fell down before Paul and Silas he said, 'Sirs, what must I do to be saved?' The answer was, 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.' The way is simple, the warrant sure, the salvation rich and full. The call of God is to believe on His Son, the Lord Jesus, the result is salvation for all that believe, the house no less than its head. Hence it is His commandment that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ: loving one another follows, as He gave us commandment. But it is in vain to urge love, holiness, or anything else till we believe on Him." ~William Kelly "If the heart be delighting in the Christ which Scripture unfolds, it will, assuredly, shrink from the false Christs which Satan would introduce. If we are feeding upon God's reality, we shall unhesitatingly reject Satan's counterfeit. This is the best possible way in which to escape the entanglements of error, in every shape and character. "The sheep hear His voice, and . . . follow him: for they know His voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him; for they know not the voice of strangers" (John 10: 4,5) It is not, by any means, needful to be acquainted with the voice of a stranger, in order to turn away from it; all we require is to know the 'voice of the good Shepherd.' This will secure us against the ensnaring influence of every strange sound." ~C.H. Mackintosh "False teachers have some true doctrine. There is not a cult that I know of which does not have some truth in it. That is the one thing that makes them ten thousand times more dangerous than if they were 100 percent in error. These teachers generally believe some things that are true. Our Lord said, 'Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.'" (Matthew 7:15). ~J. Vernon McGee Heresy is not so much rejecting as selecting. The heretic simply selects the parts of the Scripture he wants to emphasize and lets the rest go. This is shown by the etymology of the word heresy and by the practice of the heretic. "Beware," an editorial scribe of the fourteenth century warned his readers in the preface to a book. "Beware thou take not one thing after thy affection and liking, and leave another: for that is the condition of an heretique. But take everything with other." The old scribe knew well how prone we are to take to ourselves those parts of the truth that please us and ignore the other parts. And that is heresy. ~A.W. Tozer Here lay Cain's fatal mistake: "He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared to approach a holy God without blood." ~C.H. Mackintosh "What a compelling motive we have for prayer, for preaching, for soul-winning when we learn that every responsible human being who leaves this world without a definite change in heart, immediately lifts his eyes in Hell, tormented in flame!" ~John R. Rice Speaking of John 10:27, "it becomes a question, not of our ability to hold onto Him, but of His ability to have secure hold on us. My friend, He said with the infinite wisdom and full authority of the Godhead that He can hold us and that they who trust in Him shall never perish." ~J. Vernon McGee "Man is the same today that he has always been. He is a rebel against God. He may, in some generations, hide his rebellion a little more carefully than at other times, but there is no change in his heart. The men who builded the city against God back in the days of Babylon had the same hatred as that which possessed the men who nailed the Lord Jesus Christ to the cross." ~Donald Grey Barnhouse "The Church is the gospel express train, stopping at a few stations to pick up a few passengers, the train "Israel" being side-tracked to let the express go by. When Christ comes, the train "Israel" will be switched back up on the main line, stop at all stations, and take on the world." ~John Wilkerson "The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin." ~Martin Luther "Practically every false doctrine comes from getting things out of order. God's divine order is salvation, then change; not change and then salvation! If one has to be changed to be saved, that's salvation by works. It is also salvation by the flesh. The truth is, one is cleansed from the sins of the flesh just as he is saved; by yielding to the Holy Spirit and letting Him do His work." ~Jack Hyles "Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ." ~Billy Sunday "The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see." ~G. Campbell Morgan "It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher" ~George whitefield "It is a sad and shocking fact that many religious people are in Hell."~John R. Rice [The Judgment of Revelation 20] "Includes all the wicked dead from the days of Cain down to the last apostate from millennial glory. There will not be one there who has not passed through the article of death - not one there whose name has been set down in life's fair Book - not one there that shall not be judged according to his own very deeds - not one there who shall not pass from the dread of realities of the Great White Throne into everlasting horrors and inneffable torments of the Lake of Fire that burneth with fire and brimstone. How awful! How terrible! How perfectly dreadful!" ~C.H. Mackintosh "It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honoured in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised." ~George Muller "The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ." ~D.L. Moody "The only reason some of us are not exiled or thrown into prison is simply because we do not preach as fervently and as sternly as did Paul, John, Peter and others. This modern "santa claus" religion that is sweeping country today is not the religion Jesus taught and John practiced." ~Oliver B. Greene "We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results." ~R.A. Torrey "We are profoundly convinced that...the primary need of the hour is a return to New Testament first principles and standards. Christian missions are no human undertaking, but a supernatural and divine enterprise for which God has provided supernatural power and leadership." ~Robert H. Glover "If you have no joy, there's a leak in your Christianity somewhere." ~Billy Sunday "Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him." ~Hudson Taylor "I prayed for Faith, and thought that some day Faith would come down and strike me like lightning. But Faith did not seem to come. One day I read in the tenth chapter of Romans, 'Now Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God'. I had closed my Bible, and prayed for Faith. I now opened my Bible, and began to study, and Faith has been growing ever since. " ~D.L. Moody "We have a God who delights in impossibilities." ~Billy Sunday "The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor" ~Charles Stanley "The great reservoir of the power that belongs to God is His own Word," the Bible. If we wish to make it ours, we must go to that Book. Yet people abound in the Church who are praying for power and neglecting the Bible. Men are longing to have power for bearing fruit in their own lives and yet forget that Jesus has said: "The seed is the Word of God" (Luke 8:11). ~R.A. Torrey "The scriptures are given not to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives." ~Dwight L. Moody "If the Holy Spirit guides us, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them." ~George Muller "Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all." ~Hudson Taylor "Great truths that are stumbling blocks to the natural man are nevertheless the very foundations upon which the confidence of the spiritual man is built." ~H. A. Ironside "The Church is the dwelling place of God in the Person of the Holy Ghost. Where the Church thrives, people are blessed and progress is evident. Where there is no Church, people feed their babies to crocodiles and roam naked in the jungles." ~Oliver B. Greene "A poor believer [monetarily] certainly is looked down upon in certain churches, and yet he may be the richest man spiritually in that church." ~J. Vernon McGee "...you cannot live by sight and by faith, neither can you live by fear and by faith. It either has to be by faith or by fear, by faith or by sight. Which way are you living? Faith takes out the anxiety It takes out the fear. Faith leans heavy on the Lord. It knows that the Bible is so and can be trusted and that we can live by it and all of our needs will be supplied." ~Lester Roloff "What a lowering of the life of faith it is to confine it to the question of temporal supplies! No doubt it is a very blessed and a very real thing to trust God for everything; but the life of faith has a far higher and wider range than mere bodily wants. It embraces all that in any wise concerns us, in body, soul, and spirit. To live by faith is to walk with God; to cling to Him; to lean on Him; to draw from His exhaustless springs; to find ad our resources in Him; and to have Him as a perfect covering for our eyes and a satisfying object for our hearts - to know Him as our only resource in all difficulties, and in all our trials. It is to be absolutely, completely, and continually shut up to Him; to be undividedly dependent upon Him, apart from and above every creature confidence, every human hope, and every earthly expectation. Such is the life of faith." ~C.H. Mackintosh "When kingdoms have crumbled for the last time, His mercy endureth forever. When dictators have waged their wicked battles for the last time, His mercy endureth forever. When the stars have fallen like untimely figs from a tree shaken by the wind, His mercy endureth forever. When the sun refuses to shine and the moon has turned as black as sackcloth of hair, His mercy endureth forever. When people shall die no more and cemeteries shall not dot the horizon, His mercy endureth forever. When shoulders shall never stoop, nor brows wrinkle, nor faces become furrowed, His mercy endureth forever. When all of us awake in His likeness to live forever around His throne, His mercy endureth forever. Blessed be God! His mercy endureth forever!" ~Jack Hyles "Godliness has 'promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.' But the only way one can enter into godliness is by turning to God as a repentant sinner and receiving the Saviour He has provided in the Gospel. Therefore the crying need of our degenerate times is for a revival of true old-fashioned, Christ-centered, Bible preaching that will call upon all men everywhere to repent in view of that coming day when God will judge the world in righteousness by His Risen Son." ~Harry A. Ironside "The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin." ~Lester Roloff "Nothing is more needed among preachers today than that we should have the courage to shake ourselves free from the thousand and one trivialities in which we are asked to waste our time and strength, and resolutely return to the apostolic ideal which made necessary the office of the diaconate. We must resolve that we will continue steadfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the Word." ~G. Campbell Morgan "The heart makes the preacher. Men of great hearts are great preachers. . . We have emphasized sermon-preparation until we have lost sight of the important thing to be prepared - the heart. A prepared heart is much better than a prepared sermon. A prepared heart will make a prepared sermon...It would not do to say that preachers study too much. Some of them do not study at all; others do not study enough. Numbers do not study the right way to show themselves workmen approved of God. But our great lack is not in head culture, but in heart culture; not lack of knowledge but lack of holiness is our sad and telling defect - not that we know too much, but that we do not meditate on God and his word and watch and fast and pray enough. The heart is the great hindrance to our preaching. . . " ~E.M. Bounds "God is looking for broken men who have judged themselves in the light of the cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to the end of themselves, whose confidence is not in themselves, but in God." ~H.A. Ironside "It is not enough to do God's work; it must be done in His way and for His credit." ~Erwin Lutzer "We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty, we have money, we live in comparative luxury. As a result, discipline has disappeared. What would a violin solo sound like if the strings on the musician's instrument were all hanging loose, not stretched tight, not disciplined?" ~A.W. Tozer "We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs." ~George Whitefield "When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me." ~John Wesley "To the lover of the Lord Jesus Christ there can be nothing legal about baptism. It is simply the glad expression of a grateful heart recognizing its identity with Christ in death, burial, and resurrection. Many of us look back to the moment when we were thus baptized as one of the most precious experiences we have ever known." ~Harry A. Ironside "Out of one hundred men, one will read the Bible, the other ninety-nine will read the Christian." ~D. L. Moody "The greatest privilege of earthly life is to give some fellow creature the blessed word of God, and then try by loving speech and example, to bring home to the heart and conscience...the truths it contains." ~J. A. Broadus "May we all be in such a condition of soul, such an attitude of heart as will fit us for any little work in which our gracious Lord may be pleased to use us - not seeking a place for ourselves, but lovingly serving all. The Lord, in His great mercy, grant that thus it may be, with all His beloved people!" ~C.H. Mackintosh Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations. ~Edward M. Bounds "In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking." ~D.L. Moody [Regaarding Hearing From God]..."Retire from the world each day to some private spot. Stay in the secret place till the surrounding noises begin to fade out of your heart and a sense of God's presence envelops you. Deliberately tune out the unpleasant sounds and come out of your closet determined not to hear them. Listen for the inward voice till you learn to recognize it." ~A.W. Tozer "Ah, I have kept Him waiting when I ought not, but He has waited even then. Always waiting - so patient with my foolishness, my weakness, my fear. Our fellowship is with God, and fellowship is friendship, and friendship means that partnership which, on His part, is the accommodating of His strength to my weakness." ~G. Campbell Morgan "Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement." ~Charles H. Spurgeon "When you have been saved, regenerated, born again, then join a church-a live church. Join where the preacher loves the Word of God and the souls of men. Keep out of these ecclesiastical deep freezers. A deep freeze is all right for a dead chicken or a chunk of cheese or a leg of lamb, but it is no place for a live baby. A baby must be fed and nourished and given a chance to exercise, vocalize and grow. It couldn't do that in a refrigerator." ~Walter Hughes "People are so prone to lean upon gifted men. And if they cannot have such, they get discouraged and scattered, instead of getting lovingly together and helping one another by their mutual faith." ~C.H. Mackintosh "I desire to have both heaven and hell ever in my eye, while I stand on this isthmus of life, between two boundless oceans." ~John Wesley "A test of a Christian's character is what he does after he comes to the blockade in the road and what his attitude is after everything has left him except Jesus. You will never know down here that Christ is all you need until Christ is all you have left. You will never be able to tell the world for sure that He will do in a crisis unless you learn how to live in a crisis." ~Lester Roloff "Prayer is no little thing, no selfish and small matter. It does not concern the petty interests of one person. The littlest prayer broadens out by the will of God till it touches all words, conserves all interests, and enhances man's greatest wealth, and God's greatest good. God is so concerned that men pray that He has promised to answer prayer. He has not promised to do something general if we pray, but He has promised to do the very thing for which we pray." ~Edward M. Bounds "To the individual believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit there is granted the direct impression of the Spirit of God on the spirit of man, imparting the knowledge of His will in matters of the smallest and greatest importance. This has to be sought and waited for." ~G. Campbell Morgan "I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet, or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition in life is to win as many as possible." ~R. A. Torrey "Beware you be not swallowed up in [worldly] books." ~John Wesley The Bible is the inerrant Word of God. Its sixty six books are not a collection of religious writings, advancing certain theories, but they constitute one body, breathing with life and power. From the first verse in Genesis to the last verse in Revelation there is a wonderful continuity of thought, without any clash of opinion; all is a harmonious whole. This fact necessitates one great Author, One who guided the thoughts of each writer and who is instructed them to write as they did. This guiding and supervising Author is the Spirit of God."... 2Timothy 3:16, 2 Peter 1:21 ~Arno C. Gaebelein "Faith is to rest, not in the best of God's servants, but in His unchanging Word." ~H. A. Ironside "Nothing can touch the Word of God. Not all the powers of earth and hell, men and devils combined, can ever move the Word of God. There it stands, in its own moral glory, spite of all the assaults of the enemy, from age to age. 'For ever, O Lord, Thy Word is settled in heaven.'" ~C.H. Mackintosh "People are stumbling over the simplest things. Take, for instance, that word believeth. You would think that was plain enough for anybody, but all my life I have heard people say, 'I have always believed, and yet I am not saved.' It does not say, 'Whosoever believeth the Bible, or creeds, or even the gospel story,' but it does say, 'Whosoever believeth in him.' What is it to believe in Him? It means to put your soul's confidence in Him, to trust in Him, God's blessed Son." ~H.A. Ironside [Jesus] ..."He was born a King. The wise men came from the East and asked, 'Where is He that is born King of the Jews?' (Matthew 2:2). He died a King. In Greek, in Latin, and in Hebrew the description was written above His cross, 'This is Jesus, The King' (Matthew 27:37)" ~W.A. Criswell "I find no fault in Him."...You can find fault in anyone else, but you can find no fault in Jesus. Holy, harmless, undefiled, sinless: there He is! Christ is God's way to man; Christ is man's way to God. Christ is the true Jacob's ladder. By Him the penitent sinner, the believing soul, the redeemed child of God may come unto the Father and enter into the house of many mansions." ~George W. Truett "When the Lord Jesus Christ became my surety . . . He went to Calvary's cross, and all my guilt was charged against Him. He settled for everything, and then He cried, 'It is finished.' And on the basis of that finished work, God can freely forgive, and justify completely, every poor sinner who trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ." ~Dr. Harry A. Ironside A man of God in the will of God is immortal until His work is done. ~David Jeremiah God loves us the way we are, but too much to leave us that way. ~Leighton Ford God never says, "OOPS." ~Author Unknown Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born. ~Ronald Reagan I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress. ~Ronald Reagan A godly man is only as strong as his allegiance to the Lord. ~Today In The Word Divorce Myths: 1. When love has gone out of a marriage, it is better to get divorced. 2. It is better for the children for the unhappy couple to divorce than to raise their children in the atmosphere of an unhappy marriage. 3. Divorce is the lesser of two evils. 4. You owe it to yourself. 5. Everyone's entitled to one mistake. 6. God led me to this divorce. ~R.C. Sproul Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends his son to die for you. ~Cal Thomas claiming to quote John Ashcroft A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. ~Max Lucado Hurting people hurt people. ~Author Unknown You cannot have a testimony without a test. Will you pass the test or have the monies? ~Joyce Meyer A Bible that's falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn't. ~Charles Spurgeon The bumps are what you climb on. ~Warren Wiersbe The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and God too little. ~John Flavel Want to make God laugh? Tell Him you have a plan. ~Author Unknown God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed His name to go long offended. ~David Wilkerson Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual. ~Charles Spurgeon No two Christians will ever meet for the last time. ~Author Unknown Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. ~C.S. Lewis Don't tell God how big your storm is, tell your storm how big God is. ~Author Unknown Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will. ~Jonathan Edwards I could take everything I have built up over 35 years in my ministry and destroy it all if I went out tomorrow and committed one act of rebellion. ~David Jeremiah (paraphrase) Right now counts forever. ~R.C. Sproul If you are not as close to God as you used to be, who moved? ~Author Unknown Let God have your life; He can do more with it than you can. ~D.L. Moody Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. ~C.S. Lewis Jesus Christ did not come into this world to make bad people good; He came into this world to make dead people live. ~Lee Strobel I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. ~Mother Teresa When the will of God crosses the will of man, somebody has to die. ~Addison Leitch The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid. ~Martin Luther We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first. ~Oswald J. Smith Any place you can take Jesus Christ with you is ok to go. ~J. Vernon Mcgee A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again. ~Vance Hafner A prophet weeps while others are laughing. ~Warren Wiersbe If say 90% of Christian marriages were intact, people would be writing about it. ~Randy Carlson You will find more saints are interested in antichrist than Christ.~ Frank Gaebelin to J. Vernon Mcgee No one is going to be powerful in their ministry if they are hiding something that they are afraid people will find out at any moment. ~David Jeremiah (paraphrase) Paul, we are going to kill you. That is cool, then I will go to Christ. Ok Paul, we are going to let you live. That is great, then I can witness Christ. Ok, then we will torture you. That is fine, then I will receive a reward in Heaven one day. ~Tony Evans (paraphrase) The devil tempts us to bring out the worst in us, but the Father tests us to bring out the best in us. ~Warren Wiersbe He who rejects the Bible has nothing to live by. Neither does he have anything to die by. ~ Greg Laurie God doesn't have any grandchildren. ~Author Unknown The greatest judgment God can send on His people is letting them have their own way. ~Warren Wiersbe (See: Ps 106:15) In the beginning God made man in His own image, and since the fall, man has been seeking to return the compliment. ~Author Unknown Just because something doesn't make sense to you doesn't mean it doesn't make sense. ~Adrian Rogers The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible. ~J. Vernon Mcgee If lips and life do not agree, the testimony will not amount to much. ~Harry Ironside I have a great need for Christ, I have a great Christ for my need. ~Charles Spurgeon When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer. ~Corrie Ten Boom Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth! Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center for Bibles in many languages. ~Corrie Ten Boom Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one. ~C.S. Lewis A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. ~John Calvin Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer. ~Oswald Chambers I have concentrated all my prayers into one, and that prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him. ~Charles Spurgeon If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling we would all get real motivated to deal with the source of what ails us. ~Andy Stanley God examineth with trials, the devil examineth with temptations, the world examineth with persecutions. ~Henry Smith They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses? ~Martin Luther This book (the Bible) will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from this book. ~John Bunyan I have so much to do, that I must spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it. ~John Wesley Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. ~Mark Twain If you have only the Word, you dry up. If you have only the Spirit, you blow up. But if you have both, you grow up. ~Author Unknown Immorality is just as bad now as it was in the past. The difference is that now we flaunt it. It used to be done in secret, but now it is done in the open. ~J. Vernon Mcgee (paraphrase) Every inch of ground we refuse to take with God, we surrender to the enemy. ~Beth Moore If you are going to live by faith, then expect your faith to be tested. A faith that can't be tested can't be trusted. ~Warren Wiersbe Stop praying that God will change others, and ask God to change you. ~Rodney Gage We rarely get an answer to the question, "Why?" Instead of demanding definitive answers from God, it's more productive to ask for humility and trust in His goodness. ~Rodney Gage Indeed, your scars may be your greatest ministry. Just as the scars of Jesus convinced Thomas, perhaps your scars will convince someone today. ~Adrian Rogers Life is what comes along after you have planned something else. ~Joyce Meyer Worshippers aren't made when they see the enemy on the run, put to flight. The truth is, worshippers of God are made during dark, stormy nights. And how we respond to our storms determines just what kind of worshippers we are. ~David Wilkerson You can be too big for God to use, but you can never be too small for God to use. ~Adrian Rogers If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes. ~Corrie Ten Boom The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It's enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrow currently assail us aren't worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon. ~Joni Eareckson Tada If there were no God, there would be no atheists. ~G.K. Chesterton If you take care of yourself and walk with integrity, you may be confident that God will deal with those who sin against you. Above all, don't give birth to sin yourself, rather, pray for those who persecute you. God will one day turn your persecution into praise. ~Warren Wiersbe Christians are like teabags, you don't really know what they're like until you put them in hot water. ~Chip Ingram Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right. ~Charles Spurgeon When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place. ~C.S. Lewis If we ever forget that we are one Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under. ~Ronald Reagan Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman. ~Author Unknown Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride. ~Richard Sibbes The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial. ~Matthew Henry I had rather be in hell with Christ, than be in heaven without him. ~Martin Luther Make sure the thing you're living for is worth dying for. ~Charles Mayes Knowing that we are fulfilling God's purpose is the only thing that gives rest to the restless human heart. ~Chuck Colson Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen, such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the Kingdom of God on earth. ~John Wesley Don't say that a loving God is going to send you to hell- He's not. The thing that's going to send you to hell is that you're a sinner and you don't want to admit it. ~J. Vernon Mcgee If a sinner comes into your assembly or you otherwise come into contact with him, remember that he is a human being for whom Christ died. He stands at the foot of the cross, just as you stand at the foot of the cross. ~J. Vernon Mcgee If Satan can't make you bad, he'll make you busy. ~Adrian Rogers There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions. ~G.K. Chesterton Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude. ~F.F. Bruce As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in His peace. ~F.B. Meyer If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation. ~Charles Stanley Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls. ~Charles Spurgeon Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist. ~C.S. Lewis I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst, when I reach the lowest depths, I have an inward peace which no pain or depression can in the least disturb. Trusting in Jesus Christ my Savior, there is a blessed quietness in the deep caverns of my soul, through upon the surface, a rough tempest may be raging, and there may be little apparent calm. ~Charles Spurgeon The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home. ~J.C. Ryle The family that prays together stays together. ~Author Unknown Love is unselfishly choosing for another's good. ~C.S. Lewis If you are not concerned about your neighbor's salvation, then I am concerned for yours. ~Ray Comfort The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home. ~Augustine Going to church doesn't make you a Christian, any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. ~Billy Sunday Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. ~Oswald Chambers Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; we do not even know ourselves except through Jesus Christ. ~Blaise Pascal We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by His truth. ~Charles Stanley Let your mess be your message. ~Author Unknown Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success. ~Erwin Lutzer You say, "If I if I had a little more, I should be very satisfied." You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled. ~Charles Spurgeon Is there any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a fire? ~C.S. Lewis Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility. ~Jonathan Edwards Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. ~Mary C. Crowley The really great man is the who makes every man feel great. ~G.K. Chesterton A hypocrite is a person who acts differently on Sunday morning. ~Author Unknown It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith. ~Jonathan Edwards Hope: A trusting expectation that God is going to keep His word. ~Author Unknown Salvation is a movement from being God's enemies to being His friends, from a state of war to a state of peace. God loved us even when we were still His enemies (cf. 1 John 4:7-19), and it is through this love, shown especially in the gift of His Son, that we can now be reconciled to Him. ~Today In The Word You can't really live until you are no longer afraid to die. ~Adrian Rogers Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clinched fist. ~Alistair Begg The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer. ~F.B. Meyer You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile. ~C.S. Lewis Are you weak? Weary? Confused? Pressured? How is your relationship with God? Is it held in it's place of priority? I believe the greater the pressure, the greater the need for time alone with Him. ~Kay Arthur We are never defeated unless we give up on God. ~Ronald Reagan When we look at the ungodly, we are not to hate them, but to pity them, mourn over them, and pray for them. Nor have we any right to boast over them; for, by nature, and of ourselves, we are no better than they. ~John Newton Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people. ~Jonathan Edwards The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God. ~Charles Spurgeon Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in a very dark place. Put one little tallow in the middle of a large hall, and it will give a good deal of light. ~D.L. Moody The Bible is a compass, pointing you in the right direction. ~Author Unknown Men call their sons Paul and their dogs Nero today. ~J. Vernon Mcgee Christ is more concerned about what we do with Him than for Him. ~Warren Wiersbe Any part of the human body can only be explained in reference to the whole body. And any part of the Bible can only be properly explained in reference to the whole Bible. ~F.F. Bruce Train up a child in the way he should go- but be sure you go that way yourself. ~Charles Spurgeon There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, They will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way." ~C.S. Lewis Isn't it amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it? ~R.C. Sproul No Jesus, no peace. Know Jesus, know peace. ~Author Unknown I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it. ~Stanley Baldwin One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet, the age of persecution was the greatest period of church growth in history. ~Gene Edward Veith Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self. ~C.S. Lewis The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. ~G.K. Chesterton The safest place to be is within the will of God. ~Author Unknown What the majority calls "blessing" may actually be a judgment from God. ~Warren Wiersbe I have not suffered a lot for Christ, but I want to tell you that those times that I have suffered and I knew it was for Jesus, have been some of the happiest times of my entire life. ~Adrian Rogers God is interested in developing your character. At times He lets you proceed, but He will never let you go too far without discipline to bring you back. In your relationship with God, He may let you make a wrong decision. Then the Spirit of God causes you to recognize that it is not God's will. He guides you back to the right path. ~Henry Blackaby We never test the resources of God until we attempt the impossible. ~F.B. Meyer Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. ~Charles Spurgeon Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence. ~Jonathan Edwards He who kneels before God can stand before anyone. ~Author Unknown Only half the patients who go into an abortion clinic come out alive. ~Author Unknown Those who are in the best of circumstances but without God can never find peace, but those in the worst of circumstances but with God need never lack peace. ~John McArthur If you read history you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. ~C.S. Lewis When we change the message of God, we change the God of the message. ~Warren Wiersbe There are so many people who want to get together to have a great prayer meeting or other great gatherings. Friend, have you ever tried being alone? That is where God will meet with you. Take the Word of God and go off alone with Him. It will do you a lot of good. ~J. Vernon Mcgee When it seems as if God is far away, remind yourself that He is near. Nearness is not a matter of geography. God is everywhere. Nearness is likeness. The more we become like the Lord, the nearer He is to us. ~Warren Wiersbe We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world. ~G.K. Chesterton Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously. ~R.C. Sproul Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. ~Author Unknown Sin kept in the dark has power. Confide in someone. ~Author Unknown I can fill a church speaking on Revelation and empty it speaking on Romans. ~J. Vernon Mcgee We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine. ~D.L. Moody Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor. ~Erwin Lutzer Before God could bring me to this place He has broken me a thousand times. ~Smith Wigglesworth You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. ~Amy Carmichael It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions. ~Charles Spurgeon Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face. ~Ronald Reagan Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God's strength in you. ~Joni Eareckson Tada The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it may be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh. ~Jonathan Edwards Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom? Do overgenerous deeds, acts beyond reimbursement. Kindness without compensation. Do a deed for which you cannot be repaid. ~Max Lucado We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. ~Oswald Chambers Triumphant prayer is almost impossible where there is neglect of the study of the Word of God. ~R.A. Torrey In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life. ~C. Everett Koop (former Surgeon General) We are nowhere forbidden to laugh. ~John Calvin It is the mark of a hypocrite to be a Christian everywhere but home. ~Robert M'Cheyne Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God's. ~Jonathan Edwards I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary. ~Charles Spurgeon Kids today learn a lot about getting to the moon, but very little about getting to heaven. ~David Jeremiah The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals. ~Charles C. Ryrie We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves. ~Vance Havner I discovered an astonishing truth: God is attracted to weakness. He cannot resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him. ~Jim Cymbala The best style of prayer is that which cannot be called anything else but a cry. ~Charles Spurgeon He (God) is not looking for smart people, because He is the smart one. All he wants are people simple enough to trust him. ~Jim Cymbala Your future and mine are determined by this one thing: seeking after the Lord. ~Jim Cymbala Faith enables the believing soul to treat the future as present and the invisible as seen. ~Oswald Sanders People who walk by faith don't see obstacles, they see opportunities. ~Warren Wiersbe The New (Testament) is in the Old (Testament) concealed, the Old is in the New revealed. ~Augustine If I never run into the devil, it's because we are both headed in the same direction. ~Andrew Wommack Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. ~C.S. Lewis Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure. ~D.L. Moody The will of God will never take you where the grace of God will not protect you. ~Author Unknown Holiness is not the way to Christ. Christ is the way to holiness. ~Adrian Rogers One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching. ~Author Unknown When you have a problem, do you run to the phone or to the throne. ~Joyce Meyer God said it, that settles it. ~Author Unknown When we come to the end of ourselves, we come to the beginning of God. ~Billy Graham God uses us in spite of who we are, not because of it. ~Andrew Wommack Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous. ~Author Unknown God doesn't call the qualified; He qualifies the called. ~Author Unknown Where will you be sitting in eternity, smoking or non-smoking? ~Author Unknown Harboring unforgiveness is like drinking poison and hoping your enemy will die. ~Joyce Meyer Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset. Eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise. ~Thomas Watson He who angers you controls you. ~Elizabeth Kenny Be ye fishers of men. You catch them, He'll clean them. ~Author Unknown Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine. ~Oswald Chambers I am sorry for the men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and of the pleasure. ~Woodrow Wilson Everybody's not going to understand where God has called you to go, but that is not an excuse for you not to go there. Then, when He puts you in certain places, it's a spiritual warfare to stay there. ~CeCe Winans A bruised heart that chooses to beat with a passion for God amid pulsing pain and confusion may just be the most expensive offering placed on the divine altar. ~Beth Moore The more the Gospel progresses and the closer we come to the end of the age, the more aggressive the enemy becomes. Sadly, many Christians are unaware that a battle is raging all around them, and they have not reported for duty. ~David Jeremiah In today's America He (Jesus) has moved from the central figure of world history to source material for late-night comics and pundits who would not dare treat other religious leaders with such disrespect. ~David Jeremiah Marriage is a partnership between one man and one woman... Nothing could be clearer in the Bible as to what constitutes a marriage in God's sight. ~David Jeremiah Many Christians seem to get their notions of love from the Love Boat instead of the Love Book... Make the Bible your guide. ~Jim Binney The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it. ~William Gurnall Men do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself but because it contradicts them. ~Author Unknown It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence--- "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name be glory." ~Charles Spurgeon God has many ways that He might use to achieve His ends, but His wisdom determined the best way to accomplish them. ~Samuel Willard Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God. ~C.S. Lewis The noblest revenge is to forgive. ~Thomas Fuller If the church would only be the church-- if Christians would only be Christians-- nothing could halt our onward march. ~Vance Havner If you can't pray a door open, don't pry it open. ~Lyell Rader New level, New devil. ~Joyce Meyer Holding a grudge is letting someone live rent-free in your head. ~Author Unknown If for no other reason than to keep him humble, every minister needs a wife. ~T.S. Mooney (On being single) I would rather live wanting what I don't have than having what I don't want. ~T.S. Mooney The grace of God reveals One who loves us so much as to have made Calvary possible, but who hates sin so much as to make Calvary necessary. ~T.S. Mooney Consistency is the key to victory. ~Author Unknown If you put someone down, you must think you are better. ~Author Unknown If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you? ~Author Unknown Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less. ~C.S. Lewis We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices? ~John Ortberg The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed... The heart's fierce effort to protect itself from every slight, to shield its touchy honor from the bad opinion of friend and enemy, will never let the mind have rest... ~A.W. Tozer Just because God is working through us does not mean that we are right with God. ~Author Unknown Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. ~Blaise Pascal A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle. ~Fr. James Keller Greatness lies not in trying to be somebody but in trying to help somebody. ~Author Unknown Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: That you are dreadfully like other people. ~James Russell Lowell How do we know if we have a servant's heart? By how we act when we are treated like one! ~Author Unknown A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility. ~D.L. Moody Religion is man's attempt to reach God, Christianity is God's way to reach man. ~Author Unknown Some people pray just to pray, and some people pray to know God. ~Andrew Murray Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire? ~Corrie Ten Boom In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ~John Bunyan A good leader knows the way, shows the way, and goes the way. ~John Maxwell The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. ~William Blake To love at all is to be vulnerable. ~C.S. Lewis Anything, and I mean anything, becomes a blessing if it drives us to prayer. ~Jim Cymbala You can do more than pray after you've prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. ~John Bunyan Would anyone choose Hell over Heaven? YES! Why? Pride. They don't want to go in the only way you can go in, on your knees. They don't want to admit they are a failure, that their life is a mess. ~Alistair Begg (paraphrase Sin will take you farther than you ever expected to go; it will keep you longer than you ever intended to stay, and it will cost you more than you ever expected to pay. ~Kay Arthur. Stop staring at your problems and glancing at God. Start glancing at your problems and staring at God. ~Author Unknown End of Construction -- Thank you for your patience. ~Ruth Graham's tombstone (after seeing that sign while driving) The Lord blesses people who bless others, and He gives grace to those who focus on the things that please Him. ~Billy Graham The greatest resource a worship leader has is his relationship with his wife. ~Cliff Barrows Christ understands loneliness; He's been through it. ~Paul S. Rees A person's character is accurately measured by his reaction to life's iniquities. ~Author Unknown There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God. ~F.W. Faber The faintest whisper of support or encouragement uttered by a Christian in the ears of his fellow believer is heard in heaven. ~John J. Murray Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full. ~Watchman Nee Snuggle in God's arms. When you are hurting, when you feel lonely, left out... let Him cradle you, comfort you, reassure you of His all-sufficient power and love. ~Kay Arthur When God seems absent from us, He is often doing His most important work in us. ~Author Unknown Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good. ~John Milton At the end of the day, God's love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross. ~Andy Stanley Live simply so that others may simply live. ~Gandhi (not a Christian, but I like the quote) Christianity is not about being bad or good, it is about being dead or alive. ~Author Unknown Forget about what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you. ~Author Unknown I'm not where I need to be, but thank God I'm not where I used to be. ~Joyce Meyer God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which He must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves. ~A.W. Tozer You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. ~Henry Drummond God cannot give us happiness apart from Himself because it is not there. There is no such thing. ~C.S. Lewis Problems almost always create opportunities ~to learn, grow and improve. ~John Maxwell I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God. ~Helen Keller To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. ~George MacDonald I have had but one passion, and I have lived for it ~the absorbingly arduous yet glorious work of proclaiming the grace and love of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. ~John Henry Jewett We get no deeper into Christ than we allow Him to get into us. ~John Henry Jewett I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. ~Author Unknown Be patient enough to live one day at a time as Jesus taught us, letting yesterday go, leaving tomorrow until it arrives. ~Author Unknown God is patient with the process! Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry. ~Oswald Chambers God has given us two hands ~one for receiving and one for giving. ~Billy Graham If God took time to create beauty, how can we be too busy to appreciate it? ~Randall B. Corbin It is easier to leave angry words unspoken, than to mend a heart those words have broken. ~Author Unknown Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. ~Mother Teresa The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible, "In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths." ~George Washington Carver Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am. ~David Brainerd Never, never, never, never, give up. ~Winston Churchill Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. ~Mother Teresa A dollar spent for God is an investment for eternity. ~Author Unknown Visit God's house this week. He's expecting you. ~Author Unknown What's in a name? With Jesus, everything! ~Author Unknown When the going gets tough, look for the Lord's hand at work. ~Author Unknown Rest becomes easy for those who rest in God's bosom. ~Author Unknown I am never so strong as when I have nothing left but Christ. ~Author Unknown Like oil and water, Christian living and wickedness do not mix. ~Author Unknown When you cannot make it, God's Spirit goes to work. ~Author Unknown God's love is a safety net on life's slippery slope. ~Author Unknown Think of Christ before you speak. ~Author Unknown The door to God's throne is always open, and the light is on. ~Author Unknown Who can stand before God? You can in Christ! ~Author Unknown Let no unfair act go unchallenged. ~Author Unknown Give more of what you want and get more of what you need. ~Author Unknown One person can bring favor to many during the storm. ~Beth Moore (paraphrase) Those who give much without sacrifice are reckoned as having given little. ~Erwin Lutzer Ministry that costs nothing, accomplishes nothing. ~John Henry Jowett God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep. ~Randy Alcorn As we search the Scriptures, we must allow them to search us, to sit in judgment upon our character and conduct. ~Jerry Bridges Under every condition, in every circumstance for every burden, in every need, through every sorrow, Christ, the source and sustainer of life, is more than sufficient. ~A.L. Faust We are traveling on with our staff in hand... We are pilgrims bound for the heavenly land. ~Fanny Crosby No word He hath spoken was ever yet broken: The Lord will provide! ~Martha A. Cook The fundamental truth in the matter of stewardship is that everything we touch belongs to God. ~John Blanchard Anyone can count the seeds in one apple, but only God can count the apples in one seed. ~Author Unknown All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action. ~J.I. Packer The future is as bright as the promises of God. ~Adoniram Judson Stewardship is what I do after I say I believe. ~Author Unknown Walking by faith means being prepared to trust where we are not permitted to see. ~John Blanchard The Spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions, and the nearer we get to Him the more intensely missionary we become. ~Henry Martyn Are you afraid? Remember the "fear nots" of the Bible. ~Elisabeth Elliot There is unspeakable joy... for the person who knows release from guilt and the relief of forgiveness. ~Stuart Briscoe If one will not, two cannot quarrel. ~Thomas Fuller Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain. ~Author Unknown Our needs will never exhaust God's supply. ~Author Unknown Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds to, Lord empty me of me so I can be filled with you. ~Chris Sligh (Empty Me) Make me aware, make me see, that everything I am is not all about me, so take my world and turn it around, so that the obvious can finally be found. ~Salvador (Aware) This is my prayer in the desert, when all that's within me feels dry, this is my prayer in the hunger in me, my God is a God who provides. ~Hillsong United (Desert Song) This is my prayer in the fire, in weakness or trial or pain, there is a faith proved of more worth than gold, so refine me Lord through the flames. ~Hillsong United (Desert Song) I will bring praise I will bring praise, no weapon forged against me shall remain, I will rejoice I will declare God is my victory and He is here. ~Hillsong United (Desert Song) By His stripes He's paid our ransom, from His wounds we drink salvation He is the Lord, He is the Lord. ~Tenth Avenue North (Love Is Here) Lead me to the cross where Your love poured out, bring me to my knees, Lord I lay me down, rid me of myself I belong to You. ~Hillsong United (Lead Me To The Cross) More love, more power, more of You in my life. I will worship You with all of my heart, I will worship You with all of my mind, I will worship You with all of my strength, for You are my Lord. ~Michael W. Smith (More Love More Power) O the deep, deep love of Jesus, vast unmeasured, boundless, free. Rolling as a mighty ocean, in its fullness over me. Underneath me, all around me, is the current of Thy love, leading onward, leading homeward to Thy glorious rest above. ~Selah (O The Deep Deep Love Of Jesus) I come on my knees to lay down before you, bringing all that I am, longing only to know you. Seeking your face, and not only your hand, I find you embracing me, just as I am. ~Big Daddy Weave (Audience Of One) Jesus, all for Jesus, all I am and have and ever hope to be. All of my ambitions, hopes and plans, I surrender these into Your hands... For it's only in Your will that I am free. ~Robin Mark (Jesus All For Jesus) I am a flower quickly fading, here today and gone tomorrow, a wave tossed in the ocean, a vapor in the wind. Still, you hear me when I'm calling, Lord you catch me when I'm falling, and you told me who I am, I am yours. ~Casting Crowns (Who Am I) I'll praise You in this storm, and I will lift my hands For You are who You are. No matter where I am, and every tear I've cried, You hold in Your hand You never left my side, and though my heart is torn I will praise You in this storm. ~Casting Crowns (Praise You In This Storm) He's been waiting all our lives to hear us say, I am yours Lord, take my hand and lead the way. When you believe He's all you need, that will be your defining moment, as you live your life walking in His light, trusting Him completely... that will be your defining moment. ~Newsong (Defining Moment) There is hope for the helpless, rest for the weary, love for the broken heart. There is grace and forgiveness, mercy and healing, He'll meet you wherever you are, cry out to Jesus. ~Third Day (Cry Out To Jesus) I can't live by what I feel, but by the truth Your Word reveals. I'm not holding on to You, but You're holding on to me. ~Casting Crowns (East To West) In my heart, there's a fire burning, a passion deep within my soul, not slowing down, not growing cold. An unquenchable flame that keeps burning brighter, a love that's blazing like the sun, for who You are and what You've done. ~Starfield (Filled With Your Glory) When mountains fall, I'll stand, By the power of Your hand. ~Darlene Zschech (And That My Soul Knows Very Well) Father I am waiting, I need to hear from You, to know that You're approving, of what I say and do, cause nothing really satisfies, like when You speak my name, so tell me that You'll never leave and everything will be okay. In Your presence, all fear is gone... in Your presence, is where I belong... ~Jason Upton (In Your Presence) God, I've fallen to my knees, I'm bowing at your feet, I give you all of me, in you I am complete. ~Kutless (Complete) Everybody falls sometimes, gotta find the strength to rise, from the ashes and make a new beginning. Anyone can feel the ache, you think it's more than you can take, but you're stronger, stronger than you know. Don't you give up now, the sun will soon be shining, you gotta face the clouds, to find the silver lining. ~Kutless (What Faith Can Do) Life is so much more, than what your eyes are seeing. You will find your way, if you keep believing. ~Kutless (What Faith Can Do) Broken I run to you for your arms are open wide. I am weary but I know your touch restores my life. ~Kathryn Scott (Hungry) I surrender all to you, I surrender all to you, I am nothing without you, Jesus Christ, take my life it's all for you. ~Planetshakers (Surrender) Give me grace to see beyond this moment here, to believe that there is nothing left to fear, and that you alone are high above it all, for You, my God, are greater still. ~Hillsong (The Greatness Of Our God) There is nothing that can ever separate us, there is nothing that can ever separate us from Your love, no life, no death, of this I am convinced, You, my God, are greater still. ~Hillsong (The Greatness Of Our God) Jesus Your name is a shelter for the hurting, Your name is a refuge for the weak, only Your name can redeem the undeserving, Jesus Your name holds everything I need. ~Lincoln Brewster (The Power Of Your Name) Heal my heart and make it clean, open up my eyes to the things unseen, show me how to love like You have loved me. ~Hillsong (Hosanna) Break my heart for what breaks Yours, everything I am for Your kingdom's cause, as I walk from earth into eternity. ~Hillsong (Hosanna) Jesus Messiah, name above all names, blessed Redeemer, Emmanuel, the rescue for sinners, the ransom from Heaven, Jesus Messiah, Lord of all. ~Chris Tomlin (Jesus Messiah) The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger. ~Thomas 'a Kempis The definition of disappointment in life is expectations minus reality equals disappointment. The only two solutions you have to get over disappointment is to either alter your reality or alter your expectations. ~Randy Carlson Remember, the very time for faith to work is when our sight begins to fail. And the greater the difficulties, the easier it is for faith to work, for as long as we can see certain natural solutions to our problems, we will not have faith. Faith never works as easily as when our natural prospects fail. ~George Mueller. The only way out is through. ~Robert Frost Most of us have a "Do Not Disturb" sign around our necks. ~Joyce Meyer Light works most effectively in darkness. ~Christine Caine Jesus may ask you to put down your net in an impossible, unreasonable place. ~Steve Douglass All of us have areas of weakness. God wants these character flaws to show us how totally dependent we are upon Him. When we handle them properly, they drive us into a deeper, more intimate relationship with the Lord. But uncontrolled weakness wreaks havoc in a person's life. ~Charles Stanley You may go days without thinking of God, but there's never a moment when He's not thinking of you. ~Max Lucado People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway. ~Mother Teresa To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. ~C.S. Lewis If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people He gave it to. ~Dorothy Parker Sometimes God allows what He hates, to accomplish what He loves. ~Joni Eareckson Tada God doesn't require us to succeed, He only requires that you try. ~Mother Teresa Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. ~Corrie Ten Boom The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not. ~C.S. Lewis The point of your life is to point to Him. ~Francis Chan (Crazy Love) Lukewarm people give money to charity and to the church... so long as it doesn't impinge on their standard of living. Lukewarm people tend to choose what is popular over what is right. Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want to be saved from the penalty of their sin. Lukewarm people rarely share their faith with their neighbors, coworkers, or friends. Lukewarm people are thankful for their luxuries and comforts, and rarely consider trying to give as much as possible to the poor. ~Francis Chan (Crazy Love) People who are obsessed with Jesus give freely and openly without censure. Obsessed people love those who hate them and who can never love them back. ~Francis Chan (Crazy Love) People who are obsessed with Jesus aren't consumed with their personal safety and comfort above all else. Obsessed people care more about God's kingdom coming to this earth than their own lives being shielded from pain or distress. ~Francis Chan (Crazy Love) People who are obsessed with Jesus live lives that connect them with the poor in some way or another. Obsessed people believe that Jesus talked about money and the poor so often because it was really important to Him. ~Francis Chan (Crazy Love) Obsessed people are more concerned with obeying God than doing what is expected or fulfilling the status quo. A person who is obsessed with Jesus will do things that don't always make sense in terms of success or wealth on this earth. ~Francis Chan (Crazy Love) A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the sin of pride is always a battle. Obsessed people know that you can never be "humble enough," and so they seek to make themselves less known and Christ more known (Mt 5:16). ~Francis Chan (Crazy Love) People who are obsessed with Jesus do not consider service a burden. Obsessed people take joy in loving God by loving His people (Mt 13:44)(Jn 15:8). ~Francis Chan (Crazy Love) People who are obsessed with God are known as givers, not takers. Obsessed people genuinely think that others matter as much as they do, and they are particularly aware of those who are poor around the world (James 2:14-26). ~Francis Chan (Crazy Love) A person who is obsessed thinks about heaven frequently. Obsessed people orient their lives around eternity; they are not fixed only on what is here in front of them. ~Francis Chan (Crazy Love) A person who is obsessed is characterized by committed, settled, passionate love for God, above and before every other thing and every other being. ~Francis Chan (Crazy Love) People who are obsessed are raw with God; they do not attempt to mask the ugliness of their sins or their failures. Obsessed people don't put it on for God; He is their safe place, where they can be at peace. ~Francis Chan (Crazy Love) People who are obsessed with God have an intimate relationship with Him. They are nourished by God's Word throughout the day because they know that forty minutes on Sunday is not enough to sustain them for a whole week, especially when they will encounter so many distractions and alternative messages. ~Francis Chan (Crazy Love) A person who is obsessed with Jesus is more concerned with his or her character than comfort. Obsessed people know that true joy doesn't depend on circumstances or environment; it is a gift that must be chosen and cultivated, a gift that ultimately comes from God (James 1:2-4). ~Francis Chan (Crazy Love) A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the best thing he can do is be faithful to his Savior in every aspect of his life, continually saying "Thank You!" to God. An obsessed person knows there can never be intimacy if he is always trying to pay God back or work hard enough to be worthy. He revels in his role as a child and friend of God. ~Francis Chan (Crazy Love) Christians like to play it safe. We want to put ourselves in situations where we are safe 'even if there is no God.' But if we truly desire to please God, we cannot live that way. We have to do things that cost us during our life on earth but will be more than worth it in eternity. ~Francis Chan (Crazy Love) Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made? ~Francis Chan (Crazy Love) Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can't contain Him. Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate? ~Francis Chan (Crazy Love) Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers. ~Francis Chan (Crazy Love) Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, or even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen. ~Nicholas Sparks Your arms are too short to box with God. ~James Weldon Johnson What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. ~A.W. Tozer When your will is God's will, you will have your will. ~Charles Spurgeon Anything under God's control is never out of control. ~Charles Swindoll I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven. ~A.W. Tozer Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him. ~Joyce Meyer We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is. ~A.W. Tozer For years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone? ~Anne Graham I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put Him. We have kept Him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on Him in prayer, we wonder where He is. He is exactly where we left him. ~Ravi Zacharias God doesn't bless us just to make us happy; He blesses us to make us a blessing. ~Warren Wiersbe To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God. ~John Ortberg Jr. All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on God being with them. ~James Hudson Taylor A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing. ~Hudson Taylor An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power. ~Hudson Taylor Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time (to language study and practice) till you can preach fluently and intelligibly. ~Hudson Taylor Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians. ~Hudson Taylor God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supplies. ~Hudson Taylor I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done. ~Hudson Taylor Not infrequently our GOD brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do. ~Hudson Taylor One difficulty follows another very fast ~but God reigns, not chance. ~Hudson Taylor Satan may build a hedge about us and fence us in and hinder our movements, but he cannot roof us in and prevent our looking up. ~Hudson Taylor There are three great truths, 1st, That there is a God; 2nd, That He has spoken to us in the Bible; 3rd, That He means what He says. ~Hudson Taylor Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives. ~Hudson Taylor When the heart submits, then Jesus reigns. When Jesus reigns, there is rest. ~Hudson Taylor While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them. ~Hudson Taylor Let us give up our work, our thoughts, our plans, ourselves, our lives, our loved ones, our influence, our all, right into His hand, and then, when we have given all over to Him, there will be nothing left for us to trouble about, or to make trouble about. ~Hudson Taylor If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world. ~Vance Havner Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers. Your dream is the key to your future. The Bible says that, "without a vision (dream), a people perish." You need a dream, if you're going to succeed in anything you do. ~Mark Gorman God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes. ~Max Lucado If you understood him, it would not be God. ~Augustine Following the crowd is not a winning approach to life. In the end it's a loser's game, because we never become who God created us to be by trying to be like everybody else. ~Tim Tebow I should have died when I was sixteen, when I planned to commit suicide. And I was an atheist until then. I was an atheist, and what the heck, if life sucks what do you have to live for? If you're an atheist, it's just about living, you know? So at the time, I didn't want to wake up anymore and then seriously, God chased me down and proved that he was real and that he loved me. ~Lacey Mosley The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful. ~Billy Graham We must focus on prayer as the main thrust to accomplish God's will and purpose on earth. The forces against us have never been greater, and this is the only way we can release God's power to become victorious. ~John Maxwell When God is involved, anything can happen. Be open and stay that way. God has a beautiful way of bring good vibrations out of broken chords. ~Charles Swindoll Have I today done anything to fulfill the purpose for which Thou didst cause me to be born? ~John Baillie Oh Lord, let me not live to be useless. ~John Wesley Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die. ~Charles Spurgeon It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our last day. ~Matthew Henry We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains. ~Vance Havner Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life such as yours, this earth would be God's paradise. ~Phillips Brooks The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which God's grace and love are experienced. ~Eugene Peterson True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length. ~Charles Spurgeon Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer? ~A.W. Tozer Every work of God can be traced to some kneeling form. ~D.L. Moody If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees. ~Vance Havner Prayer shouldn't be casual or sporadic, dictated only by the needs of the moment. Prayer should be as much a part of our lives as breathing. ~Billy Graham Life is fragile ~handle with prayer. ~Author Unknown Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. ~Charles Spurgeon Don't wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. ~Francis de Sales Fear lurks in the shadows of every area of life. The future may look very threatening. Jesus says, "Stop being afraid. Trust me! ~Charles Swindoll The great paralysis of our heart is unbelief. ~Oswald Chambers When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him. ~Alan Redpath The Christian life doesn't get easier as one gets older. ~Alan Redpath Faith is two empty hands held open to receive all of the Lord Jesus. ~Alan Redpath Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God. ~E.M. Bounds We are either the masters or 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 change. ~John Maxwell We know so little about the future that to worry about it would be the height of foolishness. ~Charles Spurgeon Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil. ~E. Stanley Jones The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. ~George Mueller Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work. ~Peter Marshall Be patient. God is using today's difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit. ~Max Lucado It is impossible to worship God and remain unchanged. ~Henry Blackaby Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things. ~Andrew Murray The fact that we were created to enjoy God and to worship him forever is etched upon our souls. ~Jim Cymbala Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time. ~Vance Havner Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There's just too much at stake. ~Bill Hybels More often than not, when something looks like it's the absolute end, it is really the beginning. ~Charles Swindoll God doesn't always change the circumstances, but He can change us to meet the circumstances. That's what it means to live by faith. ~Warren Wiersbe After all, a crisis doesn't make a person; it reveals what a person is made of. ~Warren Wiersbe Sometimes your medicine bottle says, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of his people. He has to shake them well before they are usable. ~Vance Havner My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world. ~Billy Graham Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I wore when I was ten years old; but I have outgrown them. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years. ~Charles Spurgeon God looketh upon any thing we say, or any thing we do, and if He seeth Christ in it, He accepteth it; but if there be no Christ, He putteth it away as a foul thing. ~Charles Spurgeon Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment; trust in money and you may have it taken from you, but trust in God, and you are never to be confounded in time or eternity. ~D.L. Moody Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance. ~Oswald Chambers Walk by faith! Stop the plague of worry. Relax! Learn to say, "Lord, this is Your battle." ~Charles Swindoll Christ alone can bring lasting peace ~peace with God ~peace among men and nations ~and peace within our hearts. ~Billy Graham The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside. ~Oswald Chambers Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God. ~Jim Elliot Don't expect wisdom to come into your life like great chunks of rock on a conveyor belt. Wisdom comes privately from God as a byproduct of right decisions, godly reactions, and the application of spiritual principles to daily circumstances. ~Charles Swindoll It may not seem obvious at first glance, but the way we make decisions in life tells a lot about the kind of faith we have in Jesus Christ. ~Jim Cymbala I have since learned that the most mature believer is the one who is bent over, leaning most heavily on the Lord, and admitting his total inability to do anything without Christ. ~Jim Cymbala It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant. ~David Jeremiah If you have put your faith in Christ and have spent significant time in the Word of God, the tough times can be like a magnet that draws you to the Lord Jesus. Nothing is going to happen ~ever ~that will catch Jesus Christ by surprise. He is able to help His children work through anything, and not a single thing is going to happen in the future that can change that fact. ~David Jeremiah You asked the Holy Spirit for a miracle, and now that you've got one you're trying to argue it away. People who don't believe in miracles shouldn't pray for them. ~David Wilkerson The day you learn to be publically specific in your prayer, that is the day you will discover power. ~David Wilkerson Drugs, what a devil-inspired poison! It's death on the installment plan. ~David Wilkerson The backslider likes the preaching that wouldn't hit the side of a house, while the real disciple is delighted when the truth brings him to his knees. ~Billy Sunday The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand. ~Billy Sunday We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right. ~Ravi Zacharias These days its not just that the line between right and wrong has been made unclear, today Christians are being asked by our culture today to erase the lines and move the fences, and if that were not bad enough, we are being asked to join in the celebration cry by those who have thrown off the restraints religion had imposed upon them. It is not just that they ask we accept, but they now demand of us to celebrate it too. ~Ravi Zacharias How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past. ~David Wilkerson If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives. ~Charles Stanley Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness: Satan, the world system, and our own lustful "flesh" tendencies. ~Charles Stanley When friends abandoned him, Paul asked God not to count their actions against them. He followed the example of Jesus, who prayed for the Father to forgive His persecutors. What's your response when friends let you down? Forgiveness is the choice that pleases God every time. ~Charles Stanley When you become consumed by God's call on your life, everything will take on new meaning and significance. You will begin to see every facet of your life ~including your pain ~as a means through which God can work to bring others to Himself. ~Charles Stanley Concentrate on counting your blessings and you'll have little time to count anything else. ~Woodrow Kroll Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. ~Phillips Brooks Satan never wastes a fiery dart on an area covered in armor. ~Beth Moore True intimacy with God always brings humility. ~Beth Moore Some things don't need to be cut back, they need to be cut off. ~Beth Moore Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero. ~Erwin Lutzer If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God's ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives. ~Erwin Lutzer The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait! ~Erwin Lutzer There's no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself. ~Erwin Lutzer Success is not what you have done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you were supposed to do. ~Tony Evans One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time. ~John Piper Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go. ~John Piper There is no pit so deep that God's love is not deeper still. ~Corrie Ten Boom Run toward your trials. ~Andrew Murray God not only sees where you are, He sees where you can be. ~Joyce Meyer If you want big faith, look for a big fight. ~Author Unknown Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect unexpected things 'above all that we ask or think.' ~Andrew Murray Don't lose in the dark what you gained in the light. ~Author Unknown The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin. ~A.W. Tozer I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him. I ended up by asking Him to do His work through me. ~Hudson Taylor Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness... Always remember: you cannot carry a cross in company. Though a man were surrounded by a vast crowd, his cross is his alone and his carrying of it marks him as a man apart. Society has turned against him; otherwise he would have no cross. No one is a friend to the man with a cross. ~A.W. Tozer Heaven is full of answers to prayers for which no one ever bothered to ask. ~Billy Graham Sin remains, but no longer reigns. ~Author Unknown Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all. ~Augustine He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. ~George Herbert Trials are not enemies of faith but opportunities to prove God's faithfulness. ~Author Unknown God never asks from us what he doesn't give us first. ~Author Unknown God always gives the best to those who leave the choice with him. ~Jim Elliot Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will. ~Billy Graham If you find a path in life with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. ~Frank A. Clark There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. ~Frank A. Clark God not only orders our steps, He orders our stops. ~George Muller We would be more grateful if we knew how much of what we take for granted is planned by God. ~Author Unknown Lord, help me to put aside the things that are breaking my heart, to pray about things that break Yours. ~Author Unknown Caleb and Joshua proved that the majority are not always right. ~Author Unknown Remember the God you knew in the wilderness, and allow those memories to enable you to stand in the future. ~Author Unknown We have to walk with God or we will not get to the place he has prepared for us. ~Author Unknown And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive. ~Corrie Ten Boom If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest. ~Corrie Ten Boom The Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, apart from Me ye can do nothing. So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing! ~Watchman Nee The real question today is not when human life begins, but, what is the value of human life? The abortionist who reassembles the arms and legs of a tiny baby to make sure all its parts have been torn from its mother's body can hardly doubt whether it is a human being. The real question for him and for all of us is whether that tiny human life has a God-given right to be protected by the law -- the same right we have. ~Ronald Reagan Many people treat the Bible like a drunk treats a lightpost; for support, not illumination. ~Author Unknown The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself. ~Charles Spurgeon True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him. ~Jonathan Edwards Nothing paralyzes our lives like the attitude that things can never change. We need to remind ourselves that God can change things...outlook determines outcome. If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory. ~Warren Wiersbe It is a mindless philosophy that assumes that one's private beliefs have nothing to do with public office. Does it make sense to entrust those who are immoral in private with the power to determine the nation's moral issues and, indeed, its destiny? One of the most dangerous and terrifying trends in America today is the disregard for character as a central necessity in a leader's credentials. The duplicitous soul of a leader can only make a nation more sophisticated in evil. ~Ravi Zacharias I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine. ~Jonathan Edwards I'm tired of hearing about 'anointing.' I'm tired of hearing about how 'inspired' a new preacher is, or what new spiritual manifestation is coming down from heaven. Instead I want to see character. I want to see men who have made the hard moral decisions and thus have embodied the excellence of the Christian faith. I want to hear about people who have made every effort to add to their faith goodness... ~Gary Thomas We may not be responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the ways we react when they do happen. ~Author Unknown Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches. ~Vance Havner In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons. ~Vance Havner To a large extent, the American church has become merged with the world. It has adopted so many of the world's ideals and standards that it has lost its ability to stem the tide of crime, deception and immorality that is sweeping the nation. For millions of church members there is no deep commitment to the cause of Christ, no regularity of attendance at public worship, no sacrificial giving, no personal religious discipline. ~Billy Graham Most churches love their traditions more than they love the lost. ~Author Unknown Courage is contagious. When a brave person takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened. ~Billy Graham Our greatest value is to reproduce ourselves in the lives of others. When you leave behind a vibrant Christian who knows his calling and his commission, you can be buried, but you will live on through all those in whom you have been reproduced. ~Jerry Falwell In three decades of pastoring and counseling couples, there's only one thing we've found truly makes for a lasting marriage, both people must want to be married to each other more than they want to divorce. ~Author Unknown When a person does not know the doctrines of the Christian faith, he can easily be captured by false religions. ~Warren Wiersbe I believe in the eternal security of the believer and in the insecurity of the make-believer. ~J. Vernon McGee We have now moved from the burden of raising money to the adventure of trusting God. ~Author Unknown Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends. ~George Mueller It is not faith and works; it is not faith or works; it is faith that works. ~Author Unknown The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else. ~Oswald Chambers God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing." ~Corrie Ten Boom We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. ~Winston Churchill If God be your partner, make your plans large. ~D.L. Moody If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. ~Lewis Carroll If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time. ~Zig Ziglar Our evangelical culture tends to take the awesome reality of a transcendent god who is worthy to be feared and downsize Him so He could fit into our "buddy system." The way we talk about Him, the way we pray, and, more strikingly, the way we live shows that we have somehow lost our sense of being appropriately awestruck in the presence of a holy and all-powerful God. It's been a long time since we've heard a good sermon on the "fear of God." If God were to show up visibly, many of us think we'd run up to Him and high-five Him for the good things He has done. ~Joseph M. Stowell If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get. ~Frank A. Clark If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. If the Holy Spirit had been withdrawn from the New Testament church, 95 percent of what they did would stop, and everybody would know the difference. ~A.W. Tozer The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith. ~John Calvin I am walking toward a bright light and the nearer I get the brighter it is. ~D.L. Moody Only those who see themselves as utterly destitute can fully appreciate the grace of God. ~Erwin Lutzer I've met some people who were very proud of their humility. ~Michael Catt For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation. ~A. W. Tozer Humility is a strange thing: the moment you think you have it, you have lost it. ~Author Unknown Breakthrough happened around me when breakup happened within me. ~Jack Hayford How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself. ~C.S. Lewis Most of the world around you doesn't read the Bible. So... God gives the world a living epistle-- you. ~Kay Arthur In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up that makes us rich. ~Henry Ward Beecher Scars are the price which every believer pays for his loyalty to Christ. ~William Hendrickson Culture changes. Churches change. Life changes. God doesn't. ~James L. Wilson Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead. ~Corrie Ten Boom Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control. ~Joni Eareckson Tada Only he who can say, "The Lord is the strength of my life" can say, "Of whom shall I be afraid?" ~Alexander MacLaren In the battle of faith, money is usually the last stronghold to fall. ~Ronald Dunn Order my footsteps by Thy Word and make my heart sincere; let sin have no dominion, Lord, but keep my conscience clear. ~Isaac Watts The use of our possessions shows us up for what we actually are. ~Charles C. Ryrie Jesus came to comfort the afflicted, and to trouble the comfortable. ~Author Unknown If a single living cell was found on a distant planet, scientists would exclaim that we have found life elsewhere in the universe. So why is a single living cell found in the womb of a pregnant woman not considered life? ~Author Unknown Nothing that God has ever said about Himself will be modified; nothing the inspired prophets and apostles have said about Him will be rescinded. His immutability guarantees this. ~A.W Tozer God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good. ~A.W. Tozer When men no longer fear God, they transgress His laws without hesitation. The fear of consequences is no deterrent when the fear of God is gone. ~A.W. Tozer Faith is not about how much you believe in what you believe. Faith is about believing that the One you believe in is believable. ~Tony Evans Insisting on living in your past will kill your future. Let it go. ~Tony Evans Sometimes God lets you hit rock bottom so that you will discover He is the Rock at the bottom. ~Tony Evans Every experience God gives us, every person He puts into our lives, is the perfect preparation for a future only He can see. ~Corrie Ten Boom You know all of my fears. There's nothing your eyes can't see. When I tried to give up Lord, you never gave up on me. ~Peter Furler For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?' ~Elisabeth Elliot The gravest question any of us face is whether we do or do not love the Lord. ~A.W. Tozer A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the Lord Jesus, we shall love the Bible because it speaks to us of him. ~John Stott Love is not only something you feel, it's something you do. ~David Wilkerson Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love. ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders! ~Chuck Colson Let God's promises shine on your problems. ~Corrie Ten Boom You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God. ~Author Unknown I believe that you measure the health or strength of a church by its sending capacity rather than its seating capacity. ~Rick Warren Money is emphasized in Scripture simply because our temptation to love it is inexplicably powerful. ~Erwin Lutzer When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied? ~Charles Spurgeon Our children are messengers we send to a time we will not see. ~Author Unknown The problem with Christians today is that no one wants to kill them anymore. ~Jamie Buckingham If we don't discipline ourselves, God will make certain we are disciplined by others. ~Jamie Buckingham He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart. ~Thomas Brooks No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon. ~Phillips Brooks There will be no peace as long as God remains unseated at the conference table. ~William M. Peck Jesus Christ came to send a sword through every peace that is not based on a personal relationship to Himself. ~Oswald Chambers A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is to enter into it. ~D.L. Moody Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ~Walter Elliott It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God... ~E.M. Bounds What can God have that gives him greater satisfaction than that a thousand times a day all his creatures should thus pause to withdraw and worship him in the heart. ~Brother Lawrence I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him. ~C.S. Lewis Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give but an occasional pluck at the rope. But he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might. ~Charles Spurgeon The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less. ~Vance Havner Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition. ~Vance Havner The purpose of prayer is not to inform God of our needs, but to invite Him to rule our lives. ~Clarence Bauman I am reminded that one old saint was asked, "Which is the more important: reading God's Word or praying?" To which he replied, "Which is more important to a bird: the right wing or the left? ~A.W. Tozer The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power to reprove, rebuke and exhort. He may be the life of the party but it will be the death of the prophet. ~Vance Havner The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something." ~Francis de Sales If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy. ~Thomas Brooks Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it. ~A.W. Tozer I believe Satan exists for two reasons: first, the Bible says so, and second, I've done business with him. ~D.L. Moody You can tell whether you are becoming a servant by how you act when people treat you like one. ~Gordon MacDonald God will open up places of service for you as He sees you are ready. Meanwhile, study the Bible and give yourself a chance to grow. ~Warren Wiersbe It is futile for us to try to serve God without the power of the Holy Spirit. Talent, training, and experience cannot take the place of the power of the Spirit. ~Warren Wiersbe The Lord doesn't ask about your ability, only your availability; and, if you prove your dependability, the Lord will increase your capability. ~Author Unknown The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. ~Charles Spurgeon Reading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow. ~John Wesley Missionaries: People who leave their families for a short time so others can be with their families for eternity. ~Author Unknown A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. ~Benjamin Franklin Those whom God will employ are first struck with a sense of their unworthiness to be employed. ~Matthew Henry The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving. ~J.C. Ryle To be entirely safe from the devil's snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on the highway is safe, not when he reads the signs but when he obeys them. ~A.W. Tozer Be thankful if your job is a little harder than you like. A razor can't be sharpened on a piece of velvet. ~Author Unknown What Matthew Henry prayed after he was robbed: "I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, although the took my all, it was not much; and fourth, because it was I who was robbed and not I who robbed." ~Matthew Henry If you can't be thankful for what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped. ~Author Unknown Jesus came to pay a debt He didn't owe because we owed a debt we couldn't pay. ~Author Unknown The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all ~doing nothing. ~Benjamin Franklin Sin is the most expensive thing in the universe. Nothing else can cost so much. ~Charles Finney Sin keeps us from knowing the true nature of sin. ~Author Unknown The life of Jesus is bracketed by two impossibilities: a virgin's womb and an empty tomb. ~Peter Larson It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor. ~Martin Luther You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there's a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it. ~Leonard Ravenhill In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking. ~D.L. Moody Nobody ever outgrows Scriptures; the Book widens and deepens with our years. ~Charles Spurgeon The Bible differs from all other books in that it never wears out. Other books are read and laid aside, but the Bible is a constant companion. No matter how often we read it or how familiar we become with it, some new truth is likely to spring out at us from its pages whenever we open it, or some old truth will impress us as it never did before. Every Christian can give illustrations of this. ~William Jennings Bryan No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul' ~J.C. Ryle Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people, church members, even church workers ~yes, and, alas, even prophets, priests and preachers ~will find themselves lost when they expected to be saved, condemned when they expected approval, cast out of Heaven when they expected to be received into eternal bliss. That is the explicit meaning of the words of our Lord... (see: Matt 7:21-23.] ~John R. Rice Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell. ~Billy Sunday The test of real character is what a man does when he is tired. ~Winston Churchill If I had my ministry over again, I would devote far more time to the ministry of comfort and encouragement. ~F.B. Meyer Aren't you glad your mother was pro-life? ~Author Unknown The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem. ~Charles Spurgeon I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and passive at His feet, with no other disposition in my heart than that of merging my will into His will, and no other language in my mouth than that of prayer for the perfecting of His strength in my weakness. ~Thomas Chalmers They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud. ~John Flavel He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness. ~Francis de Sales I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. ~Blaise Pascal The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies -- probably because they are generally the same people. ~G.K. Chesterton It is much easier to repent of sins that we have already committed than to repent of those we intend to commit. ~Josh Billings Tolerance gets a lot of credit that belongs to apathy. ~Douglas Jacoby It seems that Satan first makes friends with the parents to make it easier to get their boys and girls. ~Author Unknown An empty tomb proves Christianity; an empty church denies it. ~Author Unknown There is one thing for which you should be abundantly thankful: Only you and God have all the facts about yourself. ~Author Unknown There are two authentic marks of a Christian: giving and forgiving. ~Author Unknown A cold church is like cold butter -- it never spreads very well. ~Author Unknown Sooner or later we must learn that God makes no deals. ~Author Unknown Do unto others as though you were the others. ~Author Unknown The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still. ~A.W. Tozer Temptation usually comes in through a door that has deliberately been left open. ~Arnold Glasow How many observe Christ's birth-day! How few, His precepts! ~Benjamin Franklin Many who plan to seek the Lord at the eleventh hour die at 10:30. ~Author Unknown I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet. ~Author Unknown To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. ~C.S. Lewis We may note in passing that He (Jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect on any of the people who actually met Him. He produced mainly three effects ~Hatred ~Terror ~Adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild admiration. ~C.S. Lewis I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou canst eat it all thyself. ~Charles Spurgeon Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. ~John Wesley (unverified) No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed. ~Hannah More If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere. ~Leonard Ravenhill Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die? Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand? Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you damned? ~Leonard Ravenhill Our prayers lay the track down on which God's power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails. ~Watchman Nee People use duct tape to fix everything; God used nails. ~Author Unknown Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand. ~S.D. Gordon My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil's most wanted list. ~Leonard Ravenhill When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.' ~Leonard Ravenhill How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV? ~Leonard Ravenhill If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified. ~Leonard Ravenhill Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, 'Leonard, you took Me too seriously'? ~Leonard Ravenhill The worst possible moment for an atheist is when he feels grateful and has no one to thank. ~Author Unknown Many churches are plagued with a lot of 'retired' Christians. ~Author Unknown The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves. ~D.L. Moody If a man gets drunk and goes out and breaks his leg so that it must be amputated, God will forgive him if he asks it, but he will have to hop around on one leg all his life. ~D.L. Moody Today Christians spend more money on dog food than missions. ~Leonard Ravenhill The Bible, which ranges over a period of four thousand years, records but one instance of a death-bed conversion (the thief on the cross) ~one that none may despair, and but one that none may presume. ~Thomas Guthrie If a frog turns into a prince instantly with the kiss of a fair maiden, we call it a fairy tale; if it takes him 400 million years, they call it 'Evolution.' ~Author Unknown Get right or get left! ~Author Unknown You have one new friend request! Jesus Accept/Decline. ~Author Unknown Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point. ~R.C. Sproul Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are. ~F.W. Robertson You can do what I cannot do. I can do what you cannot do. Together we can do great things. ~Mother Teresa What, at Peace with the Father, and at War with the (His) Children! It cannot be. ~John Flavel Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together. ~Vesta Kelly. Martin Luther was asked one time how he overcame the devil. He replied: "Well, when he comes knocking upon the door of my heart, and asks, 'Who lives here?' The dear Lord Jesus goes to the door and says, 'Martin Luther used to live here but he has moved out. Now I live here.' The devil, seeing the nail-pierced hands, and the nail-pierced side, takes flight immediately. ~Martin Luther If you are not willing to be used by God, ask God to make you willing to be willing. ~F.B. Meyer There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. ~John Calvin It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation. ~Augustine The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though the world might last a hundred years. ~C.S. Lewis The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself. ~Oswald Chambers God promises to keep His people, and He will keep His promises. ~Charles Spurgeon Worship seals all prayers at the front and at the back. Always pray with praise beginning and praise ending. ~David Jeremiah God does not believe in atheists, therefore atheists do not exist. ~Author Unknown Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing you were the prisoner. ~Max Lucado A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself. ~Robert Murray M'Cheyne It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God. ~A.W. Tozer Pray; and as you pray, surrender; and as you surrender, believe. ~A.W. Tozer All complaining comes from pride. ~Joyce Meyer I don't think it bothers the world so much that we Christians sin. It bothers the world that we act like we don't. ~Casting Crowns (on Facebook) If you want to make enemies, try to change something. ~Woodrow Wilson If you make a great deal of Christ, He will make a great deal of you; but if you make but a little of Christ, Christ will make but a little of you. ~R.A. Torrey The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been. ~Mark Twain If America is to survive, we must elect more God-centered men and women to public office; individuals who will seek Divine guidance in the affairs of state. ~Billy Graham Henry Varley said, "The world has yet to see what God will do with and for and through and in and by the man who is fully and wholly consecrated to Him." After hearing those words, D.L. Moody decided, "I will try my uttermost to be that man." ~Misc. The first thing a man must do if he desires to be used in the Lord's work, is to make an unconditional surrender of himself to God. ~D.L. Moody Dedication is writing your name on the bottom of a blank sheet of paper and handing it to the Lord for Him to fill in. ~Rick Renner We find comfort among those who agree with us ~growth among those who don't. ~Frank A. Clark I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. ~Dudley Field Malone Many blush to confess their faults, who never blush to commit them. ~William Secker The most important part of doctrine is the first two letters. ~David C. Egner Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism. ~Charles Spurgeon He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. ~Benjamin Franklin A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him. ~John Maxwell There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or how successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause. ~George M. Adams One compliment can keep me going for a whole month. ~Mark Twain I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet, or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition in life is to win as many as possible. ~R.A. Torrey No one is useless. They can always serve as a bad example. ~Author Unknown Out of one hundred men, one will read the Bible, the other ninety-nine will read the Christian. ~D.L. Moody Excuses are the cradle ... that Satan rocks men off to sleep in. ~D.L. Moody Let us expect that God is going to use us. Let us have courage and go forward, looking to God to do great things. ~D.L. Moody Faith is only as valid as its object. You could have tremendous faith in very thin ice and drown. . . . You could have very little faith in very thick ice and be perfectly secure. ~Stuart Briscoe Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials. ~Smith Wigglesworth Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint. ~Vance Havner The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. The winner was not the runner who finished first. It was the runner who finished with his torch still lit. I want to run all the way with the flame of my torch still lit for Him. ~Joseph Stowell A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back. ~Author Unknown All generalizations are false, including this one. ~Mark Twain I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. ~Mother Teresa Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause ~money. ~J.C. Ryle One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled. ~Vance Havner 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 God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from. ~A.B. Simpson The greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world, and make that man holy and put him back into that unholy world and keep him holy in it. ~Leonard Ravenhill Whatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry. ~Charles Spurgeon I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us. ~D.L. Moody Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope. ~A.J. Cronin There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. ~Carl Sandburg (a good analogy for Christians) True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty. ~C.S. Lewis Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change. And when we are right, make us easy to live with. ~Peter Marshall Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others. ~Author Unknown Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody. ~D.L. Moody Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether or not that person was kind. ~Billy Graham Say what you mean, mean what you say, but don't say it mean. ~Author Unknown Let there be something of benevolence, in all that I speak. ~Jonathan Edwards Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. ~Blaise Pascal The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.' ~Alfred Brendel If you can really make a man believe you love him, you have won him; and if I could only make people really believe that God loves them, what a rush we would see for the kingdom of God! ~D.L. Moody Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension. ~Martin Luther I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve because I love Jesus. ~Mother Teresa Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a basis for morality and law. ~Francis A. Schaeffer We are faced with great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. ~Chuck Swindoll So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does. ~Oswald Chambers Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. They mourned for Him, they prayed and wrestled and sought for Him day and night, in season and out, and when they found Him, the finding was all the sweeter for the long seeking. ~A.W. Tozer You do not move ahead by constantly looking in a rear view mirror. The past is a rudder to guide you, not an anchor to drag you. We must learn from the past but not live in the past. ~Warren Wiersbe If God be our God, He will give us peace in trouble. When there is a storm without, He will make music within. The world can create trouble in peace, but God can create peace in trouble. ~Thomas Watson I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was sink. When it took off from England, all kinds of passengers were aboard ~millionaires, celebrities, people of moderate means, and poor folks down in the steerage. But a few hours later when they put the list in the Cunard office in New York, it carried only two categories ~lost and saved. Grim tragedy had leveled all distinctions. ~Vance Havner A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better. ~Author Unknown The pessimist's epitaph: 'Just what I expected'. ~Author Unknown You are coming to a King, Large petitions with thee bring, For his grace and power are such, None can ever ask too much. ~John Newton Prayer is an investment. The time you dedicate to prayer isn't lost; it will return dividends far greater than what a few moments spent on a task ever could. If we fail to cultivate this discipline, prayer winds up being our last resort rather than our first response. ~Charles Swindoll The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history. ~Andrew Murray Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold. ~John Piper The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate. ~Vance Havner A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?' ~Vance Havner The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration. ~Edwin Louis Cole Every disciple needs three types of relationships in his life. He needs a 'Paul' who can mentor him and challenge him. He needs a 'Barnabas' who can come along side and encourage him. And he needs a 'Timothy,' someone that he can pour his life into. ~Howard Hendricks If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes the heart yet harder and harder. ~John Bunyan O God of Second Chances and new Beginnings, here I am again. ~Nancy Spiegelberg A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was. ~Joseph Hall As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ... Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only sown! ~D.L. Moody People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear of God before its eyes mocks at sin. We are so fond of being called tolerant and broadminded that we wink at sin when we ought to weep. ~Vance Havner There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation. ~Charles Spurgeon Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centered than God-centered. We are more concerned about our own "Victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sin grieves the heart of God. We cannot tolerate failure in our struggle with sin chiefly because we are success oriented, not because we know it is offensive to God. ~Jerry Bridges Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. ~John Piper Sin will take you farther then you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay. ~Author Unknown We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. ~Mother Teresa Some wish to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell. ~C.T. Studd If sinners be dammed, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees... and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for. ~Charles Spurgeon It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher ~George Whitefield It is a sad and shocking fact that many religious people are in Hell. ~John R. Rice God is looking for broken men who have judged themselves in the light of the cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to the end of themselves, whose confidence is not in themselves, but in God. ~Harry Ironside If you have no joy in your religion, there's a leak in your Christianity somewhere. ~Billy Sunday It is better to be a little too strict than too liberal. ~D.L. Moody I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found that I would have to go against the current. ~D.L. Moody It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it. ~Vance Havner More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book. ~Vance Havner If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't! ~Vance Havner Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips. ~Vance Havner To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience. ~Vance Havner If you are what you've always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation. ~Vance Havner "I'll give her a piece of my mind!" Have you ever said this? I wouldn't be so generous! Besides, you don't have any mind to spare. We might have more peace of mind if we didn't give away pieces of our mind! ~Vance Havner Someone else is happy with less than what you have. ~Author Unknown God has to work in a man before He can work through a man. ~Leonard Ravenhill Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man's heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven... ~Adam Clarke Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me. ~Charles L. Allen The detour is always rougher than the main road ~Vance Havner A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him. Prophets have been on the receiving end of mud more than medals. ~Vance Havner The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not. ~Vance Havner We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God. ~Vance Havner People get so used to the dark that they think it's growing brighter. It's possible to fraternize with unbelievers until false doctrine becomes less and less objectionable. ~Vance Havner God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out. ~Vance Havner When God's people are removed from this earth, you might as well try to dam up Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stem the flood of lawlessness that will engulf mankind. Thank God for the restraining Spirit today! ~Vance Havner Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians. ~Vance Havner We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to the world for the scandal of the cross. ~Vance Havner We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation. ~Vance Havner When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable. ~Vance Havner We are fighting the greatest battle of all time with the most untrained army on earth. If strict discipline is necessary in art and athletics, how can we expect to be advanced Christians and stay in kindergarten? ~Vance Havner At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture. ~Vance Havner God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be like your children." ~Vance Havner Not everyone who has made peace with God has realized the peace of God. ~Vance Havner Most of the notable turn out to be the not-able. God's greatest truths still belong to babes. ~Vance Havner Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and that is the tree of the cross. ~Vance Havner I can conceive of no greater, more romantic and interesting adventure than to undertake to live like Jesus in this complicated day. ~Vance Havner Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity ~Vance Havner The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile ~to follow his vision and speak his heart ~need not look for position, honors, prosperity. ~Vance Havner Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad. ~Vance Havner It's hard to be optimistic when you have a misty optic. ~Vance Havner When Christ possesses the will He keeps it fixed. The trouble comes when we take matters out of His hand and try to handle them ourselves. ~Vance Havner No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing. ~Vance Havner When you are going through difficulty and wonder where God is, remember the teacher is always quiet during the test. ~Author Unknown People often ask me how I keep my priorities straight in life and I tell them that it is done by constantly straightening them out! ~Joyce Meyer If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads. ~J. Oswald Sanders If you're gonna be free, you gotta stop caring what everyone thinks. ~Joyce Meyer Our life is like a tapestry. We see the underside, all the colors, threads, and knots. God sees the top, the beautiful completed work. ~Author Unknown Perhaps our question to God should be, "Father, is there anything filling my hours and days that is spiritually unhealthy?" ~Author Unknown Keep a short account of sin with God. What God convicts us of we must deal with on a daily, even moment-by-moment, basis. To do otherwise is to risk hardening our hearts to the Holy Spirit's work in our lives and distancing ourselves from God. ~Author Unknown Heaven never gets any worse, only better. Hell never gets any better, only worse. ~Author Unknown You entrust your money to banks, God entrusts His money to you. How would you feel if the bank took your money and used it to play the lottery or gamble with it? So, how does God feel? ~Tony Evans (paraphrase) I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess. ~Martin Luther Most of us throw broken things away, but God usually breaks something before He uses it. ~Author Unknown Instead of putting others in their place, put yourself in their place. ~Amish proverb The happiest people I know are those who have an obsession to the obedience of God. ~David Jeremiah Before I can preach love, mercy, and grace, I must preach sin, Law, and judgment. Preach 90% Law and 10% grace. ~John Wesley It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them. ~Charles Spurgeon The Bible is the voice of God in print. ~Tony Evans We are reflectors, and as reflectors we have one duty and that is to stay clean or we won't reflect Jesus. ~David Jeremiah When we are weakest and most despondent, Jesus is most considerate. When there is a break in our progress or we have a spell of depression, he sees the whole of our lives and in the light of that He is longsuffering with discordant details. ~Vance Havner Don't waste your sufferings. ~Warren Wiersbe A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much alive when they are dead in the sight of the Lord. God knows the difference. ~Vance Havner Are we not all immortal till our work is done? ~Robert Murray M'Cheyne Flexible people never get bent out of shape. ~Author Unknown Some people come into your life as blessings, others come into your life as lessons. ~Author Unknown Gratitude is the fuel of worship. ~Author Unknown God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use. ~Max Lucado No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. ~C.S. Lewis God can take your pain and turn it into a passion. ~Author Unknown When we work, we work. When we pray, God works. ~Hudson Taylor Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil ~it has no point. ~Author Unknown When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. ~E.W. Hove We must remember that Satan has his miracles too. ~John Calvin God's grace justifies sinners, but it never justifies sin! ~Joyce Meyer False self is an identity based on what you have, what you do, and what others think about you. In stark contrast to this is the true self in Christ, which is who we are before God and in God ~Christ living in us, as Paul put it to the churches in Galatia (Gal. 2:20). ~Basil Pennington If we don't find something greater than ourselves to serve, we will end up serving ourselves. ~Author Unknown Athanasius was told, "The whole world is against you." To which he replied, "Then I am against the whole world." ~Athanasius Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more. ~John Piper The one who spends the most time with Christ is the one who becomes most like Him. ~Author Unknown In a sense, we are better prepared to praise God than the angels are, for angels have never known the joy of redemption. ~David Jeremiah What a world this would be if God sat on a throne of justice only, and if no mercy were ever to be shown to men! ~Albert Barnes The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us. ~Jerry Bridges Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him. ~Jonathan Edwards In opposition... to all the suggestions of the devil, the sole, simple, and sufficient answer is the word of God. This puts to flight all the powers of darkness. ~Charles Hodge The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy. ~Corrie Ten Boom Faith that is not evidenced by a life of integrity is not biblical faith at all. ~David Jeremiah No trials are wasted in God's economy. ~Derek Prime and Alistair Begg If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves. ~Martyn Lloyd Jones Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today. ~Vance Havner When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured. ~Vance Havner To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock. ~Vance Havner God doesn't help those who help themselves; He helps those who can't help themselves! ~Joyce Meyer There are many who say they want to be victorious Christians, but few are willing to endure the discipline necessary to make one a good solider of Jesus Christ. There is a prize to possess, but before we possess it there is a price to be paid, and few will pay it. ~Vance Havner The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it. ~St. Jerome Faith does not replace fear; it puts fear in its proper place. No one goes through life without experiencing fear, but people who fear God (and trust in Him) handle the threats and challenges of life much differently than those crippled by fear or filled with false confidence. ~Today In The Word Your mind is like a bowling ball, if you aren't careful, it will go into the gutter. ~Author Unknown When you squeeze a lemon, you get what is inside. When you squeeze a Christian, you get what is inside. ~Author Unknown Lord, help me today not to add to anyone's burdens. ~Prayer Of A Friend of Warren Wiersbe When you are born, you cry and people rejoice. When you die, people cry, and, if you are saved, you rejoice. ~Author Unknown There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus. ~Blaise Pascal I am prepared to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. ~Winston Churchill A man's concept of God creates his attitude towards the hour in which he lives. ~G. Campbell Morgan If you want to make a man happy, don't give him more possessions. Take away his desires. ~Author Unknown A holy man is a mighty weapon in the hands of God. ~Robert Murray McCheyne Joy is not the absence of trouble but the presence of Christ. ~William VanderHaven Now since I have been converted, I am happier when I am unhappy than I was happy before I was converted. ~John McNeil Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. ~Mother Teresa Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. ~C.S. Lewis We are so busy giving our children what we never had that we forget to give them what we did have. ~James Dobson To make ends meet, put the Lord between them. ~T.J. Bach If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you. ~Peter Marshall God does not ask about our ability or inability, but our availability. ~Author Unknown Men fall in private long before they fall in public. ~J.C. Ryle The best way never to fall is ever to fear. ~William Jenkyn You have to be little to belittle. ~Author Unknown Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart. ~Corrie Ten Boom The hardest part of a missionary career is to maintain regular, prayerful Bible study. Satan will always find you something to do, when you ought to be occupied about that ~if it is only arranging a window blind! ~Hudson Taylor There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God ~admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world. ~William Wilberforce Bible study is like eating peanuts. The more you eat, the more you want to eat. ~Paul Little Lay hold of the Bible until the Bible lays hold on you. ~William Houghton God is the God of promise. He keeps his word, even when that seems impossible; even when the circumstances seem to point to the opposite. ~Colin Urquhart We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care. ~Billy Graham If you are going through difficult times today, hold steady. It will change soon. If you are experiencing smooth sailing and easy times now, brace yourself. It will change soon. The only thing you can be certain of is change. ~James Dobson Lots of people think they are charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want. ~Myrtle Reed The activities we do for God are secondary. God is looking for people who long for communication with Him. ~Erwin Lutzer Conceit is a weird disease ~it makes everybody sick except the guy who has it. ~James Dobson Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come. ~William Barclay You can have no greater sign of confirmed pride than when you think you are humble enough. ~William Law If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other motive that has been so stimulating to myself. ~Hudson Taylor What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract. ~Vance Havner Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan's landing places, especially the eye and the ear. ~William Gurnall Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust His skill and thank Him for His prescription. ~John Newton No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures. ~John Bunyan Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you must fear them or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate. ~Rick Warren To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are no adverse elements. ~Vance Havner One cannot help the evil thoughts that come, but it is the thoughts we cultivate that make the difference between good or evil. We don't have to open the door to the devil and say, "Make yourself at home." ~Vance Havner We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not a Bible standard. ~Vance Havner Jesus Christ demands more complete allegiance than any dictator who ever lived. The difference is, He has a right to it. ~Vance Havner You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way. ~Vance Havner Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today. ~Vance Havner There are two hundred and fifty-six names given in the Bible for the Lord Jesus Christ, and I suppose this was because He was infinitely beyond all that any one name could express. ~Billy Sunday God's ways are behind the scenes, but He moves all the scenes which He is behind. ~John Nelson Darby He is truly great who is little in his own eyes and makes nothing of the highest ~Thomas a' Kempis He (Jesus) became what we are that He might make us what He is. ~Athanasius If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him. ~C.T. Studd The Bible is meant to be bread for daily use, not just cake for special occasions. ~Author Unknown God's Word is the instrument by which God's Spirit transforms the Christian. ~Robert M. Horn Even when a storm is raging around us and all things seem to be against us, we shall find that we have much for which to be thankful. ~James Snowden Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there. ~Author Unknown Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency. ~Vance Havner All other men, even the greatest, the wisest, the best, have been marked by imperfection and sin, but in Christ we have a great High Priest of absolute sinlessness, and in Him we may safely and fully trust. ~J.S. Exell Spiritual maturity cannot come in a day. We cannot expect it. It takes growth, until the whole beauty of the image of Christ is formed in (us). ~Andrew Murray Stand up, stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the cross. ~George Duffield The truly wise man is he who always believes the Bible against the opinions of any man. ~R.A. Torrey God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him. ~Andrew Murray Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all. ~J.C. Ryle Take my heart and mold it; take my mind, transform it; take my will, conform it -- to Yours, to Yours, to Yours. ~Micah Stampley (Take My Life) Your words can permanently influence a life. ~Jerry Falwell When it comes to helping others, some people stop at nothing. ~Author Unknown If I walk with the world, I can't walk with God. ~Dwight Moody His is a joy which consequences cannot quench. His is a peace which circumstances cannot steal. ~Max Lucado Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible. ~Corrie Ten Boom Faith as [Jesus] characterized it is nothing less than a complete exchange of all that we are for all that He is. ~John MacArthur Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading. ~Oswald Chambers If the Lord is your shepherd, He is sufficient for all your needs. ~Tony Evans I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and He who is mighty came and in His compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall. ~St. Patrick If you and I are to be used in our sphere as D.L. Moody was used in his, we must put all that we have and all that we are in the hands of God, for Him to use as He will. ~R.A. Torrey A man may hide God from himself, and yet he cannot hide himself from God. ~William Secker Having a child means a piece of your heart is walking around in the world. ~Author Unknown The world does not hate its own. It does hate our Lord. It hates His followers. Where do you belong in this lineup? ~Vance Havner It has been estimated that most people speak enough words in one week to fill a large 500 page book. In the average lifetime, this would amount to 3,000 volumes or 1,500,000 pages. Let me ask you a question. What kind of book did you write today for your children ~your spouse ~your friends and co-workers? Did you use words to encourage someone today? ~Mary Southerland Paul was not ignorant of Satan's devices, but we are not so wise. Among his most successful devices today are these: exalting tolerance above truth; emphasizing the head more than the heart; making size more important than sort; stressing the positive to the neglect of the negative; putting happiness above holiness; majoring on this world instead of the next. ~Vance Havner Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love. ~John Stott We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. ~C.S. Lewis The commands of God are all designed to make us more happy than we can possibly be without them. ~Thomas Wilson To Christ we are to be always coming; upon Him always relying; to His precious blood always looking. ~Charles Spurgeon The true measure of God's love is that He loves without measure. ~Author Unknown I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood. ~Charles Spurgeon He (God) may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender smile of a Father who is bursting with pleasure over an imperfect but promising son who is coming every day to look more and more like the One whose child he is. ~A.W. Tozer He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love. ~C.S. Lewis Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith. ~Samuel Shoemaker O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer. ~Joseph Scriven Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ. ~Charles Spurgeon Abiding fully means praying much. ~Andrew Murray To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world. ~John Flavel We reverence God and we hallow God's name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others to Him. ~William Barclay There is a living God. He has spoken in the Bible. He means what He says and will do all He has promised. ~Hudson Taylor Two great tests of character are wealth and poverty. ~Author Unknown It is a great thing to be a really good forgiver. ~F.W. Boreham When the problem is worry, the prescription is prayer. ~David Jeremiah Gratitude develops faith. The surest path out of a slump is marked by the road sign "thank you, God." ~Max Lucado The door is closed to prayer unless it is opened with the key of trust. ~John Calvin Wisdom is the capacity to see things from God's viewpoint. ~Charles Stanley To some, Christianity is an argument. To many, it is a performance. To a few, it is an experience. ~Vance Havner God is not committed to our comfort, but He is committed to our character. ~Author Unknown I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well that he stayed there. In the fall his erstwhile companions passed overhead and his first impulse was to rise and join them, but he had fed too well and could rise no higher than the eaves of the barn. The day came when his old fellow travelers could pass overhead without his even hearing their call. I have seen men and women who once mounted up with wings like eagles but are now content to live in the barnyard of this world. ~Vance Havner Trials are to see if you believe what you say you believe. ~Tony Evans There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans. ~Corrie Ten Boom You need to be moving if you want God to show you which way to go. ~Joyce Meyer We should stop just taking "a moment of silence." Its time to cry out on our knees for God to intervene in our evil world. It's ok to pray silently, but during days like these we should pray together with our families, our classmates, co-workers and our friends as a nation. Just stop what we are doing and actually PRAY. CRY OUT to Him for healing in our country. ~My Daughter (After 26 children and teachers were murdered in a school shooting on 12-14-12) Christ is worth all, or he is worth nothing. ~George Whitefield In light of God's promises, believers who refuse to give obediently don't have a money problem ~they have a trust problem. ~Rod Rogers He who has the Holy Spirit in His heart and the Scripture in his hands has all he needs. ~Alexander MacLaren Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices. ~A.W. Tozer The world asks, "What does a man own?" Christ asks, "How does he use it? ~Andrew Murray Everything in life is a test of character. ~John Blanchard Generosity is a lovely attribute, and we only practice it when relationships are more important to us than our possessions. ~Michael Wright Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall? ~Henry Blackaby The highest honor in the church is not government but service. ~John Calvin With eternal investments there is never a loss of principle or principal. ~David Jeremiah I judge all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity. ~John Wesley Mine eyes look toward the mountains, help cometh from on high, from God who never slumbers, whose care is ever nigh. ~Author Unknown If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity. ~C.S. Lewis We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever. ~A.B. Simpson If in Jesus Christ you trust, speak for Him you surely must. ~Author Unknown Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction and therefore no conversion. I am thinking not only of the ministry of reproof and rebuke but also of the message of inspiration, of encouragement, of comfort. People go out of church at noon with the depths unstirred, the heart untouched, the conscience unpricked. ~Vance Havner Faith is believing that God is present when all we hear is silence. ~Daily Bread The same God who brought you here is the same God that will take you there! Stop worrying about how and trust Him. He who promised is faithful! ~Christine Caine Recently I prayed, "Lord, I want to know your peace at all costs. I won't listen to the devil's lies any longer. I know my salvation is not in my performance. No, Jesus, you alone plead my case. I rest in what you've done for me." Can you say the same by faith? ~David Wilkerson We must never promise ourselves any more than God has promised us. ~Matthew Henry Daniel gave all the glory to God; he took none of it for himself. There is no limit to what God will do for the believer who will let God have all the glory. ~Warren Wiersbe There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering. ~D.A. Carson The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end ~John Bunyan Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart." ~Tim Keller Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ~Helen Keller No life is great that does not point to Christ. ~Vance Havner Satan's lie is still the same today: "You can be free. Do whatever you want. It is your life. There are no divine laws; no absolute authority; and above all, no judgment. You will surely not die." ~John MacArthur We need to take down our "Do not disturb" signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy. ~Vance Havner Nobody can call himself a Christian who does not worship Jesus. ~John Stott Do not let your peace depend on what people say of you... True peace and joy is to be found in [Jesus] alone. ~Thomas a' Kempis Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. ~Augustine One filled with joy, preaches without preaching. ~Mother Teresa Ask God to fill your mouth with the words you need to say today. No issue is so small that it doesn't require God's wisdom. ~Joyce Meyer Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers. ~Vance Havner Stealing = robbing God of a chance to work through our weakness. ~Jack Pladdys (including things we don't think about like time, tithes, service) Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate. ~R. Kent Hughes Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used to call good evil and evil good. ~Chuck Colson The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight. ~D.L. Moody The Bible is a living book... not only a written word, but a spiritually living word. ~Erich Sauer You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is. ~Elisabeth Elliot Renewal and revival often begin when young people take a stand for God. ~Jim Burns There is nothing worse than a life filled with adversity from which nothing good ever comes. ~Charles Stanley We simply can't trust God's power fully until we experience it in the midst of our crisis. ~David Wilkerson If our lives are easy, and if all we ever attempt for God is what we know we can handle, how will we ever experience His omnipotence in our lives? ~Anne Graham Lotz Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. ~Francis Bacon We tend to become what the most important person in our life thinks we will become. Think the best, believe the best, and express the best in others. Your affirmation will not only make you more attractive to them, but you will help play an important part in their personal development. ~John Maxwell The dark moments of our life will last only as long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us. ~Charles Stanley -- But then I realize there is never going to be a day when I stand before God and He looks at me and says, 'I wish you would have kept more for yourself.' I'm confident that God will take care of me. ~From "Radical" by David Platt Do you believe that Jesus is worth abandoning everything for? Do you believe him enough to obey him and to follow him wherever he leads, even when the crowds in our culture ~maybe even our churches ~turn the other way? ~David Platt I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me every time, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God, it changes me. ~C.S. Lewis God is using your present circumstances to make you more useful for later roles in His unfolding story. ~Louis Giglio I am sure God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. ~C.S. Lewis The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God. ~John Piper Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong. ~Tim Keller The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity. ~Leonard Ravenhill God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair? ~C.S. Lewis Hell is not filled with people who are deeply sorry for their sins. It is filled with people who for all eternity still shake their puny fist in the face of God Almighty. ~D.A. Carson How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it... ~G.K. Chesterton There are many of us willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us willing to do little things. ~D.L. Moody If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry. ~Martin Luther Limit your thinking and expectation today to only the things God can do. ~Louie Giglio Brokenness is the bow from which God launches the arrow of healing. ~Louis Giglio God's purposes and plans will not fail. Before you spend all your prayer time telling Him about yours, ask about His. ~Louie Giglio There is a direct correlation between your appreciation of what Christ has done for you and the expression of worship ~Louie Giglio No big shocker that following Jesus is costly. The best things in life always are. ~Louie Giglio Be outrageous enough to trust God. Don't be adjusting your vision downward. Keep believing for radical things in Christ. ~Brian C. Houston If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment. ~G.K. Chesterton Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions. ~G.K. Chesterton If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction, and it's not so bad. ~C.S. Lewis We were settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves. ~David Platt In the midst of your battles, never forget that God loves you and He has a plan for you. ~Joyce Meyer All the world's thrones are occupied by rulers under God's authority. ~John Blanchard God is not always a God of immediate justice, but He is a God of ultimate justice. ~John Blanchard Perish each thought of human pride, let God alone be magnified. ~Philip Doddridge It is only the life that is lost for Him that is found in Him. ~Vance Havner Blessed is that Christian who can accept at the start by simple faith that which others reach only through years of questioning and reach it only then because they give up trying to analyze it and decide to accept it. ~Vance Havner You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition. ~Tullian Tchividjian If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth. ~Charles Swindoll As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you. ~C.S. Lewis The primary limitation in life is our low expectations for ourselves and others. When we expect minimum results, that's usually what we get. ~John Maxwell When we receive Christ as our Savior, we receive absolute assurance that we will spend eternity with God. That assurance gives us the hope and the courage to endure sorrow, disappointment, and dangerous, difficult times. ~Joel Rosenberg The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ~Winston Churchill For every look at self, take 10 looks at Christ. ~Robert Murray McCheyne A high regard for the things of this world always signals a lowering regard for God. ~Beth Moore You never know how much you really believe anything until it's truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. ~C.S. Lewis His enemies had counted on the lions taking care of Daniel. What they hadn't counted on was his God taking care of Daniel. ~Tony Evans What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become. ~John Ortberg The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness. ~R.C. Sproul No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. ~Leonard Ravenhill We must never settle for harmony at the expense of holiness, nor for peace at the expense of principle. ~John Bradford Pray = Praise, Repent, Ask, Yield ~Author Unknown God loves you more in a moment than anyone could in a lifetime. ~Author Unknown If you are God's child, you are no longer bound to your past or to what you were. You're a new creature in Jesus Christ. ~Kay Arthur I need the spiritual revival that comes from spending quiet time alone with Jesus in prayer and in thoughtful meditation on His Word. ~Anne Graham Lotz One of the best ways to encourage someone who's hurting is with your ears ~by listening. ~Barbara Johnson Bad habits are easier to make than they are to break. ~Author Unknown Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer. ~R.A. Torrey The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission. ~Alan Redpath Suffering times are a Christian's harvest time. ~Charles Spurgeon The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart. ~D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good. ~Bill Hybels In Him (God), history and prophecy are one and the same. ~A.W. Tozer In reading our newspapers today, we can see how God is setting the table, getting everything in order, preparing the way for Christ to return. ~David Jeremiah Bible prophecy helps us to better understand the future and realize the urgent need to spread the Gospel. It motivates us to personal purity and gives us hope in a hopeless age. ~Tim LaHaye Stress makes you believe that everything has to happen right now. Faith reassures that everything will happen in God's timing. ~Author Unknown I do not judge a man by the friends that he has. I judge him by the enemies that he makes. And, if he has the right enemies, he's the right kind of man. ~Author Unknown Stop focusing on what's wrong with everyone else and start focusing on how blessed you are. ~Joyce Meyer What grows us up is what puts us down. ~Charles Stanley I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our mark and be recognized. ~Vance Havner God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on Him. ~Hudson Taylor The problem of the church today is not that the Gospel has lost its power, but that the church has lost its audience. ~Paul Little There is no wisdom but that which is focused on the fear of God. ~John Calvin Nothing causes us to so nearly resemble God as the forgiveness of injuries. ~John Chrysostom Nothing in all the world is so good as the knowledge and love of Christ, and no pleasure that can be enjoyed equal to the joy of serving Him with all one's heart. ~Susan Warner God has a time for everything, a perfect schedule. He is never too soon, never too late. The when of His will is as important as the what and the how. ~Richard C. Halverson We have to believe it enough that it changes how we live. ~Francis Chan The Christian must recognize that there are no degrees in right or wrong. ~Donald Grey Barnhouse Marriage is a perpetual test of character. ~Author Unknown If you would train your children rightly, train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would. ~J.C. Ryle As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol. ~A.B. Simpson This generation must get deadly serious about the problem of Biblical illiteracy. ~Albert Mohler Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not I, but Christ." ~Vance Havner God has a place and purpose for you, somewhere for you to be and something for you to do. You never will be happy elsewhere, nor can you please God anywhere but there. ~Vance Havner What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God! ~Vance Havner Jesus has enough, is enough, and will be enough. ~Louis Giglio Jesus died for you in public, so don't live for Him in private. ~Author Unknown Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself. ~Augustine Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence. ~Augustine Happiness comes from holiness. You can't truly be happy unless you're hungry for Jesus Christ. ~David Jeremiah Nothing is needed so much as a holy indignation against sin. It is true that there is not enough love for God, and one sign of it is that there is not enough hatred for sin. ~Vance Havner The chief purpose of prayer is that God may be glorified in the answer. ~R.A. Torrey Faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It's simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step. ~Joni Eareckson Tada What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God? ~R.C. Sproul Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow. ~D.L. Moody Suffering prepares you by training you to trust God and know that He is always at work in your life. ~Charles Stanley Thou who hast given so much to me, give one more thing: a grateful heart. ~George Herbert Let's keep our chins up and our knees down ~we're on the victory side. ~Alan Redpath Gratitude as a discipline involves a conscious choice... It is amazing how many occasions present themselves in which I can choose gratitude instead of a complaint. ~Henry Nouwen If worship does not change us it has not been worship. ~Richard J. Foster Remember that God is more interested in "heart" than "art" in your singing ~or in whatever ministry you possess. ~Turning Points Magazine The person who fears God seeks to live all of life to the glory of God... All the activities of life should be pursued with the aim of glorifying God. ~Jerry Bridges Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good. ~John Piper Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace ~Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in Jesus you find everything. ~J. Oswald Sanders We should be always wearing the garment of praise, not just waving a palm branch now and then. ~Andrew Bonar The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless. ~Billy Graham God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow. ~Jerry Bridges You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside. ~Oswald Chambers Christians are in the world to be witnesses, and they must concentrate on their calling. ~Paul B. Smith God... Please keep my eyes focused on the only target worth hitting -- Christlikeness! ~Johnny Hunt Never ruin an apology with an excuse. ~Benjamin Franklin If we want to be thoroughly hot with zeal, we must go near to the furnace of the Saviour's love. ~Lady Powerscourt Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers. ~J. Sidlow Baxter To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees. ~Billy Graham Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. ~Adam Clarke A person without prayer is like a tree without roots. ~Augustine Worship is an endeavor to bring to God that which costs you something. ~David Jeremiah Who knows who's waiting right now for one of us to invite them into God's family? ~Louie Giglio Heaven's riches are moth-proof, rustproof, and burglar proof. ~John Blanchard If we put off our repentance to another day, we have a day more to repent of, and a day less to repent. ~John Mason But isn't it wrong to be motivated by reward? No, it isn't. If it were wrong, Christ wouldn't offer it to us a motivation. ~Randy Alcorn When Christ returns, and only then, will the angel's message to the shepherds be totally fulfilled: Peace on earth, goodwill toward men. ~David Jeremiah When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you're slamming the door in the face of God. ~Charles L. Allen Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter. ~Francis Chan We are so prone to expect to become good Christians by some sudden experience that lifts us all at once to higher ground without the gradual climb. We forget that we are to "grow in grace" and that normal growth is not a matter of fits and starts. ~Vance Havner The single greatest cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, then walk out the door and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable. ~Brennan Manning A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows. ~C.S. Lewis Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers that cannot be refused. ~Charles Spurgeon Integrity is keeping my commitments even if the circumstances when I made those commitments have changed. ~David Jeremiah I will therefore be prepared at all times for that which may come at any time. ~Author Unknown All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement. ~Billy Graham There is no one so far lost that Jesus cannot find him and cannot save him. ~Andrew Murray Mercifully grant that, as your holy angels always serve and worship you in heaven, so by your appointment they may help and defend us here on earth. ~Book Of Common Prayer Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them. ~William Gurnall When it comes to leaving earth for heaven, there's nothing to worry about. God wants you home so much that He'll send His own angel to meet you. And don't be surprised if the angel is wearing a big smile. ~Larry Libby Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death. ~William Gurnall To throw the Christian into the furnace is to put him into Christ's parlor; for lo! Jesus Christ is walking with him. ~Charles Spurgeon You must go forward on your knees. ~Hudson Taylor We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come. ~A.W. Tozer Before we can pray, "Thy kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, My kingdom go. ~Alan Redpath We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us. ~R.C. Sproul When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers. ~Vance Havner From Genesis to Revelation, here's the central message: God Almighty, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Spirit of God, the Triune God is in control of all things, period. ~Charles Stanley If we want to be comforted, we must make up our minds to believe every single solitary word of comfort God has ever spoken. ~Hannah Whitall Smith He is preeminent in creation because He is the Creator. He is preeminent in redemption for He is the Redeemer. He is preeminent in the church because He is the One who gave Himself for the church. ~J. Vernon McGee God's way is still the best way. ~Zig Ziglar We dare not limit God in our asking, nor in His answering. ~John Blanchard None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials. ~Charles Spurgeon Read the Bible with reverence. Think, every line you read, God is speaking to you. ~Thomas Watson Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor. ~Timothy Keller He stated His message boldly and forcefully, without compromise, whether He was speaking to the lowest outcast of society or a member of the Pharisee elite. Jesus was no respecter of persons. ~Michael Youssef We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works. ~William Gurnall It is not necessary to blow out your neighbor's light to let your own light shine. ~M.R. De Haan Satan must be defeated in the arena he dominates, this world. So Christ was sent into this world to destroy Satan's works. ~Charles Ryrie Faith tells me that no matter what lies ahead of me, God is already there. ~Author Unknown Whatever is your greatest joy and treasure, that is your god. ~Charles Spurgeon Every Christian who keeps looking up stretches his heart's capacity for Heaven. ~Joni Eareckson Tada Fellowship with God means warfare with the world. ~Charles E. Fuller If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener. ~Oswald Chambers I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming. ~George Muller The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose. ~Charles Stanley Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give. ~Ben Carson Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it. ~Thomas Chalmers How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is not by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly. ~Jerry Bridges A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities. ~Vance Havner I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death. ~Charles Spurgeon When faithfulness is most difficult, it is most necessary. ~Author Unknown Be encouraged to be an encourager. It's a spiritual art that everyone can learn. And mostly you learn by practicing it. ~Jill Briscoe The promises of God are His guarantees amid life's uncertainties. They're the basis of all our life of faith. ~David Jeremiah Too often we concentrate only on the things we can see now; but our focus should be on that place we can only envision, but will enjoy for all eternity. ~David Jeremiah Love me when I least deserve it because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself. ~Timothy Keller We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God. ~John Stott A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. ~Billy Graham We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both. ~Vance Havner You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. ~Mark Batterson Walking by faith will cause all of us to recognize that as children of God we are just pilgrims and strangers down here on this earth. ~J. Vernon McGee God's mercy and grace give me hope ~for myself, and for our world. ~Billy Graham Blessedness does not lie in externals. ~Thomas Watson God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning. ~J.I. Packer Thank God, He does not measure grace out in teaspoons. ~Amy Carmichael I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost." ~Charles Spurgeon If your prayers haven't been answered, it doesn't mean they won't be answered. In fact, they may have already been answered, but just not in the way you wanted or expected them to be. ~Stormie Omartian Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions. ~Vance Havner One of the greatest errors in the church today is the artificial distinction we have created between accepting Christ as Savior and confessing Him as Lord. We have made two experiences of it, but the New Testament makes them one. ~Vance Havner Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind; so faith takes firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances. ~Robert Murray McChayne As you study your Bible with the help of the Holy Spirit, and live out the truths that God reveals to you, you will discover new stability, strength, and confidence. ~Kay Arthur Jesus is coming back ~it could even be today. ~David Jeremiah The world today may have big problems, but what would it have been like had not hundreds of thousands of Christians given their lives sacrificially... to meet its physical and spiritual needs? ~Patrick Johnstone Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold ~it is one of the marks of a converted man. ~J.C. Ryle Yes, Satan is real, but so is Christ, and someday Satan will be defeated and Christ will rule forever. Don't be deceived, but open your heart and mind to Jesus Christ, and put your life into His hands. ~Billy Graham Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution. ~Vance Havner Every believer is a witness whether he wants to be or not. ~Donald G. Barnhouse God's plan will continue on God's schedule. ~A.W. Tozer What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God. ~Malcolm Muggeridge There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life. ~D. Martin Lloyd ~Jones The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live. ~Vance Havner God uses the tension, complexity, and challenge of doing His kingdom work to transform us into champions. ~Christine Caine In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty. ~R.C. Sproul How much would our churches be transformed if each of us made it a practice to thank God for others and then to tell those others what it is about them that we thank God for? ~D.A. Carson Don't be too quick to judge inconvenient circumstances in your life. God may be at work to protect you from something more serious. ~Turning Points Devotional The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes. ~Charles Spurgeon Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting. ~A.W.Tozer To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints. ~J.I. Packer The path to blessing and honor always goes through the land of testing and obedience. Stay on that path and trust God for where it leads. Be faithful in the little and difficult things on the way. ~Turning Points Devotional God's plans reach from an eternity past to an eternity to come. Let Him take His own time. ~William S. Plumer Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see. ~William Newton Clarke There's not a single fear, thought, feeling or need that's too big or too small for Jesus. He wants you to tell Him what's on your heart. ~Jeremy Camp Avail yourself of the greatest privilege this side of heaven. Jesus Christ died to make this communion and communication with the Father possible. ~Billy Graham (on prayer) Prayer is the key for the day; the lock of the night. ~Thomas Fuller Prayer is the answer to every problem there is. ~Oswald Chambers Trouble is one of God's great servants because it reminds us how much we continually need the Lord. ~Jim Cymbala Passion is the degree of difficulty we are willing to endure to accomplish the goal. ~Louis Giglio Greater is He that is in you than anything that surrounds you. ~Christine Caine When you're trying to achieve a goal, negative people will just bring you down. Surround yourself with the positive. ~Dave Ramsey When you follow God's will for your life, you can see how yesterday's events prepared you for today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunities. ~David Jeremiah In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you're not afraid of the dark. ~Stormie Omartian We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer Every miracle in the Bible first started as a problem. ~Author Unknown Make this a matter of prayer. Ask God to give you a burden for souls. ~Lee Roberson When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him. ~Charles Stanley Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength. ~D.L. Moody Christians have more in Jesus than just a great spiritual leader; we have a practical and effective leadership model for all organizations, for all people, for all situations. ~Ken Blanchard If you stand on the Word, you do not stand with the world. ~Vance Havner There's never been a better time to live for Christ. ~David Jeremiah If your life is jammed with activities, there's a good chance you're doing some things God really hasn't assigned. ~David Jeremiah We all have skills and abilities that God wants to use in ways we haven't imagined. ~David Jeremiah The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life. ~Billy Graham Heaven is more than your destination; it's a motivation. ~Warren Wiersbe God has given us many truths in the Bible, but His final word to all of us is Jesus! Every answer to every problem is found in Jesus. ~Jim Cymbala When was the last time you heard a testimony of someone in your church who was dramatically changed by the power of the Gospel? For some of you, it was last Sunday. But for too many people, the answer requires a long memory, and such testimonies are increasingly rare. ~Jim Cymbala Would you like to know who is the greatest saint in the world? It isn't he who prays most or fasts most. It isn't he who gives most. But it is he who is always thankful to God, who receives everything as an instrument of God's goodness, and has a heart always ready to praise God for it. ~William Law Where there is a reason for gratitude, there can always be found a reason for bitterness. It is here that we're faced with the freedom to make a decision. We can decide to be bitter or grateful. ~Henry Nouwen Unquestionably, the best evidence of a Spirit-filled life is giving thanks in everything! Spirit-filled men and women simply do not fall into the category of "grumblers, "whiners," or "complainers." ~David Jeremiah No matter how dark the clouds of our spiritual battle get, we serve a mighty and victorious King. ~David Jeremiah True love isn't based on the appeal of the recipient but on the grace of the giver. ~David Jeremiah We're never certain of courage until we're tested with a crisis. ~David Jeremiah Today is the day to be a light shining in a dark world, fueled by the joy of the Lord. ~David Jeremiah If God could change, He wouldn't be perfect, for change implies development or decline, one or the other. God does neither. ~David Jeremiah To insist on our own way betrays a lack of faith in our Lord's omniscience. ~David Jeremiah Jesus has chosen to leave His handprints on the world through our hands. ~David Jeremiah We couldn't get to where God intends us to go without adversity. ~David Jeremiah We never face a situation for which God has not supplied specific promises that provide mercy and grace to help in time of need. ~David Jeremiah We're here because today God wants us to shape the future. ~David Jeremiah When our own biographies are finished and our stories are told, may those who knew us say: That was a person who rejoiced always, prayed without ceasing, and gave thanks in all things; that was a person who carried out the will of God in Christ Jesus. ~David Jeremiah Those of us who know the biblical story know that God is in control. ~David Jeremiah We get into danger when we are tempted to elevate the approval of other people over the approval of God. ~David Jeremiah Our wise God knows how to say "No" too. His "No's" are always in our best interest, but sometimes it doesn't feel that way. ~David Jeremiah Nothing changes the fact that our King and Priest rules, reigns, and intercedes; and He administers the ages according to an overriding plan. ~David Jeremiah Our constraining love and compelling message must be reinforced with personal holiness. ~David Jeremiah We should not live our Christian life as if we are unaware of the victory that is ours. ~David Jeremiah A Christian who appreciates God's creation has a greater experience in a canoe that an unsaved man on a yacht. ~David Jeremiah The Bible tells us to come out from among them and be separate. Is any habit in your life hindering your witness today? ~David Jeremiah Although I have shared Christ personally with many thousands of people through the years, I am rather a reserved person and I do not always find it easy to witness. But I have made this my practice, and I urge you to do the same: Assume that whenever you are alone with another person for more than a few moments, you are there by divine appointment to explain to that person the love and forgiveness he can know through faith in Jesus Christ. ~Bill Bright I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel. Its ruin is getting nearer and nearer. God said to me, "Moody, here's a lifeboat. Go out and rescue as many as you can before the ship sinks." ~D.L. Moody Attempt something so great for God, it's doomed to failure unless God is in it. ~Dr. John Haggai I have found that people everywhere, all over the world, will respond to the Gospel of Jesus Christ if we present it simply, with Christian compassion. ~Billy Graham For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. ~Charles Kettering Mountaintops inspire leaders, but valleys mature them. ~Lecrae Never let success get to your head. Never let failure get to your heart. ~Lecrae Satan loves nothing better than to capitalize on our fears and blow them way out of proportion. ~David Jeremiah Satan's goal in spiritual warfare is not to hurt you. His goal is to hurt your perception of God. ~David Jeremiah God has promised to work all things together for our good; but He has not promised to explain all the machinery behind that promise. ~David Jeremiah The child of God has only one dread ~to offend his Father; only one desire ~to please and delight in Him. ~Charles Bridges No man is qualified to be a disciple of Christ, until he has been divested of self. ~John Calvin The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it. ~Matthew Henry How can you know when you are trusting in man rather than in God? If you fall apart when someone else lets you down, or if the actions of others affect your walk with God, then you know you are leaning on the arm of flesh! ~David Wilkerson Do not trust in someone or something other than God to bring you happiness and hope. What you think will solve your problem might only make you feel worse. ~David Wilkerson Our Lord is searching for people who will make a difference. Christians dare not be mediocre. We dare not dissolve into the background or blend into the neutral scenery of the world. ~Charles Swindoll Next time you're disappointed, don't panic. Don't give up. Don't run away. Be patient and let God remind you he's still in control. ~Max Lucado Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen. ~Oswald Chambers Life will be made or broken at the place where we meet and deal with obstacles. ~E Stanley Jones One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. ~G.K. Chesterton Submit each day to God, knowing that He is God over all your tomorrows. ~Kay Arthur How many people have you made homesick for God? ~Oswald Chambers There is nothing more appealing or convincing to a watching world than to hear the testimony of someone who has just been with Jesus. ~Henry Blackaby The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue. ~Oswald Chambers You will never be called upon to give anyone more grace than God has already given you. ~Max Lucado Often, in the midst of great problems, we stop short of the real blessing God has for us, which is a fresh blessing of who He is. ~Anne Graham Lotz A disciple is a follower of Christ. That means you take on His priorities as your own. His agenda becomes your agenda. His mission becomes your mission. ~Charles Stanley When feeling becomes the dominant force in a relationship, the relationship is bound for trouble because feelings change. ~Ed Young A healthy fear of God will do much to deter us from sin. ~Charles Swindoll Comparison is the root of all feelings of inferiority. ~James Dobson When God is silent, you have only one reasonable option: trust Him. Hang in there, and wait on Him. He may be quiet, but He has not quit on you. ~Charles Stanley Life is a series of choices between the bad, the good, and the best. Everything depends on how we choose. ~Vance Havner You were born with a tremendous potential. When you were born again through faith in Jesus Christ, God added spiritual gifts to your natural talents. ~Warren Wiersbe When I met Christ, I felt that I had swallowed sunshine. ~E. Stanley Jones Set goals so big that unless God helps you, you will be a miserable failure. ~Bill Bright Be so preoccupied with God's will that you haven't room for ill will. ~E. Stanley Jones Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. ~Corrie Ten Boom There is nothing anybody else can do that can stop God from using us. We can turn everything into a testimony. ~Corrie Ten Boom Weave the unveiling fabric of God's Word through your heart and mind. It will hold strong, even if the rest of life unravels. ~Gigi Graham Tchividjian There are four words I wish we would never forget, and they are, "God keeps His word." ~Charles Swindoll When you persevere through a trial, God gives you a special measure of insight. ~Charles Swindoll We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. ~Stormie Omartian Self is the root, the branches, and the tree of all the evil of our fallen state. ~Andrew Murray Bitterness only makes suffering worse and closes the spiritual channels through which God can pour His grace. ~Warren Wiersbe It's not my ability, but my response to God's ability that counts. ~Corrie Ten Boom The Christian faith is not a way to explain, enjoy or endure this world, but to overcome it. ~Vance Havner Repentance is one of the most positive words in any language. It tells us we can change direction. It assures us God will help us improve. ~Robert J. Morgan The Christian message is for those who have done their best ~and failed! ~Author Unknown God is jealous for the good of His redeemed people ~but He can never be jealous of anything or anyone. ~John Blanchard Personal ambition and empire building are hindering the spread of the gospel. ~John Stott Waiting for an answer to prayer is often part of the answer. ~John Blanchard Because God knows all things perfectly, He knows no thing better than any other thing, but all things equally well. He never discovers anything, He is never surprised, never amazed. ~A.W. Tozer Spiritual growth consists most in the growth of the root, which is out of sight. ~Matthew Henry Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay the foundation of humility. ~Augustine God created us in His image, He created us and loves us so that we may live in harmony and fellowship with Him. We are not here by chance. God put us here for a purpose, and our lives are never fulfilled and complete until His purpose becomes the foundation and center of our lives. ~Billy Graham In God's economy, a person must go down into the valley of grief before he can scale the heights of spiritual glory.... One must come to the end of "self" before one can really begin to live. ~Billy Graham Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. ~Billy Graham The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying not, "What a lovely sermon!" but, "I will do something." ~Billy Graham I believe in the sovereignty of God. God chooses His servants. I believe that God chose me for this particular task at this particular moment, but whether it is more successful than the work of others whom you have never heard of, I doubt. I think the most successful people are probably individuals whom we will never hear about until we get to Heaven. ~Billy Graham Human nature is the same the world over, and when the gospel of Christ is preached in simplicity and power, there is a response in the human soul. ~Billy Graham God can be trusted, even when life seems at its darkest. From the cross, God declares, "I love you. I know the heartaches and the sorrows and the pains you feel, but I love You." ~Billy Graham When it comes to the gospel, you be faithful and the Holy Spirit will do the communicating in a way you could never do. ~Billy Graham My wife and I read from the Psalms every day ~five Psalms and one chapter of Proverbs. The Psalms teach you how to get along with God; Proverbs teaches you how to get along with people. ~Billy Graham God's love has seen me through sickness, discouragement, and frustration. His love has sustained me during times of disappointment and bewilderment. ~Billy Graham The Lord has always arranged my life that I have had to keep dependent on Him. Over and over again, I went to my knees and asked the Spirit Of Wisdom for guidance and direction. There were times I was tempted to flee from problems and pressures and my inability to cope with them; but somehow, even in moments of confusion and indecision, it seemed I could trace the steady hand of God's sovereignty leading me on. ~Billy Graham I have learned, I believe, to "pray without ceasing." I find myself constantly in prayer and fellowship with God, even while I am talking to other people or doing other things. ~Billy Graham Every time my mother prayed with one of us, and every time my parents prayed for their sons and daughters, they were declaring their dependence on God for the wisdom and strength and courage to stay in control of life, no matter what circumstances might bring. ~Billy Graham Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys. ~Billy Graham There is no scriptural basis for segregation. The ground at the foot of the cross is level, and it touches my heart when I see whites standing shoulder to shoulder with blacks at the cross. ~Billy Graham I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right. ~Billy Graham Mohammed is dead and buried in Medinah. Jesus Christ is alive and He is sitting at the right hand of God the Father in Heaven. Who do you want to follow, the dead or the living? ~Franklin Graham Following Jesus doesn't mean everyone will like you, but it guarantees that some will hate you. ~Lecrae Only one life, 'twill soon be past; only what's done for Christ will last. ~C.T. Studd Even in your deepest despair, God still has people praying for you. ~Victor Marx I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes. ~Bob Goff Let my heart be broken with the things that break the heart of God. ~Bob Pierce Men and women, what you need.... more than anything else is a few men like Paul, and a few women with the same spirit, men and women who will stand for Christ and stand for God's Kingdom without compromise, no matter whom it hurts or what people say. ~R.A. Torrey No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good. ~Josh McDowell God can listen to no prayers without the intercession of Christ. ~John Calvin Prayer is a mighty instrument, not for getting man's will done in heaven, but for getting God's will done in earth. ~Robert Law Christlikeness is the will of God for the people of God. ~John Stott Witnessing is not just something a Christian says, but what a Christian is. ~Richard C. Halverson Of all the names on earth today, one name is more powerful than any other. Christians know it has the power to change lives, save lost souls, heal sick bodies, and secure eternity. It is the name of our beloved Savior, Jesus. ~E.V. Hill Some of your best traits and some of your finest works will grow out of the incredibly painful periods of your life. ~Charles Swindoll If you want to be a wise person, you need a Bible. ~Alistair Begg One of the most amazing miracles of all history is that Jesus predicted what would happen to Him and it happened to Him exactly as He said. ~David Jeremiah What you look at the longest will become strongest in your life. Fix your eyes on Jesus. ~Christine Caine The more you see your own flaws and sins the more precious, electrifying, and amazing God's grace appears to you. ~Tim Keller Only as we truly delight in God is it safe to give us our desires, for then they are not likely to become idols. ~John Eldredge The Christian is called upon to live a supernatural life, and he has been given the power to live that life. ~Donald Grey Barnhouse The surest mark of true conversion is humility ~J.C. Ryle Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open. ~Corrie Ten Boom The challenge of Christians is to help people fall in love with Jesus and to demonstrate that love by consistently spending time in His Word and faithfully being obedient to it. ~Janet Parshall Worship is God's way of giving us an opportunity to shift our focus from our own concerns, problems, and circumstances to the way things are in heaven. ~David Jeremiah Worry and worship are mutually exclusive. ~John Blanchard The way to cover our sin is to uncover it by confession. ~Richard Sibbes Prayer is a mighty instrument, not for getting man's will done in heaven, but for getting God's will done in earth. ~Robert Law Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped. ~Charles Stanley At the end of the day, faith means letting God be God. ~John Blanchard Sometimes when you're in a dark place you think you've been buried, but actually you've been planted. ~Christine Caine Saved people serve people. ~Christine Caine We never graduate from a life of faith. Jesus keeps calling us out of the boat and onto the water. ~Chris Tomlin The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about. ~Tim Keller The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances. ~Elisabeth Elliot. The most difficult time in your life may be the border to your promised land. ~Christine Caine If you fail to forgive, you and God are not on the same page. ~Tony Evans You are closest to your victory when life looks the darkest. Hang in there ~God has a breakthrough up ahead. ~Tony Evans Untested faith is fragile. ~Christine Caine If you are tied to a rope called yesterday, you can only go so far. ~Tony Evans Obedience is less painful than regret. ~Christine Caine Stand too close to the fire, and you'll surely be burned. The same is true when dealing with temptation. ~David Jeremiah On some few occasions I have had troubles which I could not tell to any but my God, and I thank God that I have, for I have learned more of my Lord then than at any other time. ~Charles Spurgeon Life is full of things that break down, fall apart, and go wrong. Given that reality, the more things we have, the more problems we will have. ~David Jeremiah We aren't responsible for what life and others do, but we are responsible for how we respond to the problems they cause. ~David Jeremiah A problem shared is a problem halved. ~Author Unknown Prayer can never be in excess. ~Charles Spurgeon How do you handle a crisis? Transfer the problem from yourself to God. ~Tony Evans A willingness to die for our faith is one thing. But a willingness to live for Him means dying to ourselves a thousand times daily so that His will might be done in us. ~Turning Points Magazine The completion of the Great Commission will include great suffering, but eternity will prove it is worth the price. ~David Platt There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God for a book that disposes of the devil! ~Vance Havner To Christ the devil was one of the most real persons. He recognized his person, felt and acknowledged his power, abhorred his character, and warred against his person and kingdom. ~E.M. Bounds Life is short; death is sure; sin the cause; Christ the cure. ~Author Unknown Whatever has happened in your past, remember that you are the loser if you do not deal with an unforgiving spirit. ~Charles Stanley I have one desire now ~to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it. ~Elisabeth Elliot God never withholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful ~'severe mercies' at times, but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts' desire except to give us something better. ~Elisabeth Elliot Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands. ~Elisabeth Elliot To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss. ~Elisabeth Elliot You can never lose what you have offered to Christ. ~Elisabeth Elliot God has promised to supply our needs. What we don't have now we don't need now. ~Elisabeth Elliot The work of God is done on God's timetable. His answers to our prayers come always in time ~his time. His thoughts are far higher than ours, his wisdom past understanding. ~Elisabeth Elliot If Satan can convince you that God doesn't love you, forgive you, or care for you, he will have neutralized your faith. ~David Jeremiah ^^When a man has no strength, if he leans on God, he becomes powerful. ~D.L. Moody We should respect the power of the Devil and his demons, but never fear them. ~Albert Mohler To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. ~Martin Luther When you invest yourself in the Bible, you're the richest person on earth. ~Turning Points Magazine If your world today seems confusing, be comforted by the words of the prophets of God who have told you what the future holds for you as a child of God. ~David Jeremiah Science is the chance to discover something that no man has known before, but God has known all along. ~Francis Collins Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you. ~Mother Teresa Don't let the world around you squeeze you into its own mould, but let God re-mould your minds from within. ~J.B. Phillips What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace. ~John Wesley Investments in the kingdom of God are permanently protected ~David Jeremiah God's "no" is not a rejection, it's a redirection. ~Author Unknown Don't dig up in doubt what you planted in faith. ~Elisabeth Elliot Measure your growth in grace by your sensitivity to sin. ~Oswald Chambers Reflect upon your present blessings ~of which every man has many ~not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. ~Charles Dickens You cannot bring a burden too heavy for God to lift or a problem too hard for Him to solve or a request too big for Him to answer. God does things no one else can. ~Michael Guido Christ hath crossed out the black lines of our sin with the red lines of His own blood. ~Thomas Brooks It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of man. ~John Witherspoon Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it. ~C.S. Lewis If your dream doesn't seem impossible, chances are it's not from God. ~Christine Caine He who kneels the most stands the best. ~D.L. Moody Contentment is not the absence of storms but in the presence of Jesus. ~Christine Caine God could be using you right now to achieve His will, but you might not know it until much later in hindsight. ~David Jeremiah Opportunities are always lost when we let fear overrule our faith. ~Charles Stanley Don't shine so others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see Him. ~C.S. Lewis If it were possible to lose my salvation, I would lose it. ~John MacArthur To worry about tomorrow is to forfeit your peace today. ~Tony Evans If you can't feed one hundred people, then feed just one. ~Mother Teresa I'm not a Christian because I'm strong and have it all together. I'm a Christian because I'm weak and admit I need a Savior. ~Lecrae Because God is present everywhere, we can respond by practicing His presence, by talking to Him in silent prayer during many moments of the day, especially during times of duress or fear. ~Bill Bright It is better to die for a conviction than to live with a compromise. ~Vance Havner Of all the things that will surprise us in the resurrection morning, this, I believe, will surprise us most: that we did not love Christ more before we died. ~J.C. Ryle I'm on earth temporarily, so the worst the world can do is shun me, punish me, or kill me. In 100 years, it won't matter. What will matter is if I was faithful to God's Word. ~Mike Huckabee (May 2014 ~Decision Magazine) Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. ~Ronald Reagan Integrity, the choice between what's convenient and what's right. ~Tony Dungy Joy runs deeper than despair. ~Corrie Ten Boom If I'm wrong about God then I wasted my life. If you're wrong about God then you wasted your eternity. ~Lecrae Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone ~except God. ~Billy Graham You don't leave church because of what people have done. You go to church because of what God has done. ~Richard Blackaby Faith enables us so to rejoice in the Lord that our infirmities become platforms for the display of His grace. ~Charles Spurgeon Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God. ~John Calvin The unchangeable Christ is the revelation of the unchangeable God. ~Thomas Carlyle What a wonderful feeling to realize God is using us rather than our using God. So long as we keep that spiritual dimension in our leadership, people will see God in us. ~Fred Smith As God is exalted to the right place in our lives, a thousand problems are solved all at once. ~A.W. Tozer Gods delays are often tied to our development. ~Tony Evans If we knew God, we would set the world on fire. ~Leonard Ravenhill Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer. ~William Wilberforce God's plans for your life far exceed the circumstances of your day. ~Louis Giglio No man says, 'There is no God' but he whose interest it is there should be none. ~Augustine Anger is just one letter short of danger. ~Author Unknown God's word is its own best argument. ~Vance Havner The shortest road to an understanding of the Bible is the acceptance of the fact that God is speaking in every line. ~Donald Grey Barnhouse The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to Him. ~Matthew Henry The Bible is a remarkable fountain; the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst. ~Martin Luther Our heavenly Father never takes anything from his children unless he means to give them something better. ~George Muller The church upon its knees would bring heaven upon the earth. ~E.M. Bounds The man who would know God must give time to him. ~A.W. Tozer The new Christian is like a man who has learned to drive in a country where the traffic moves on the left side of the highway and suddenly finds himself in another country and forced to drive on the right. He must unlearn his old habit and learn a new one and, more serious than all, he must learn in heavy traffic. ~A.W. Tozer Envy of another man's calling can work havoc in our own. ~Watchman Nee There is comfort in the fact that God can never be taken by surprise. ~Frank Gabelein Hell is truth seen too late. ~H.G. Adams God thinks most of the man who thinks himself least. ~John Blanchard The most holy men are always the most humble men. ~Thomas Brooks True joy glows in the dark. ~John Blanchard Never be yoked to one who refuses the yoke of Christ. ~Author Unknown The more godly any man is, the more merciful that man will be. ~Thomas Brooks Our murmuring is the devil's music. ~Thomas Watson When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~Author Unknown Poverty is a friend to prayer. ~George Swinnock We have no power from God unless we live in the persuasion that we have none of our own. ~John Owen Many people pray for things that can only come by work and work for things that can only come by prayer. ~W.E. Sangster Some people treat God as they do a lawyer; they go to him only when they are in trouble. ~Author Unknown The little estimate we put on prayer is evident from the little time we give to it. ~E.M. Bounds Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church. ~Charles Spurgeon Nothing lies outside the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God. ~John Blanchard Those who think too much of themselves don't think enough. ~Amy Carmichael Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. ~William Penn Satan never sets a dish before men that they do not love. ~Thomas Watson I know that some are always studying the meaning of the fourth toe of the right foot of some beast in prophecy and have never used either foot to go and bring men to Christ. ~Vance Havner We turn to God when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. ~Charles C. West Waiting for general revival is no excuse for not enjoying personal revival. ~Stephen Olford If the best man's faults were written in his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes. ~John Trapp Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's. ~Francois Fenelon Satan, like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish. ~Thomas Adams Temptation is the tempter looking through the keyhole into the room where you are living; sin is your drawing back the bolt and making it possible for him to enter. ~J. Wilbur Chapman Life is too short for us to do everything we want to do; but it is long enough for us to do everything God wants us to do. ~Author Unknown There can be no victory where there is no combat. ~Richard Sibbes Someone has paid for me with blood. How that knowledge lifts my sights beyond the moment's hot desire. ~Elisabeth Elliot If every Christian would tithe, the church would begin to make an impact on the world that would change it. ~R.T. Kendall The propagation of the Gospel and the founding of the church hinged entirely on twelve men whose most outstanding characteristic was their ordinariness. ~John MacArthur Don't think of Satan as a harmless cartoon character with a red suit and a pitchfork. He is very clever and powerful, and his unchanging purpose is to defeat God's plans at every turn ~including His plans for your life. ~Billy Graham You're a soul made by God, made for God, and made to need God, which means you were not made to be self-sufficient. ~Dallas Willard Despair is the masterpiece of Satan. ~John Trapp God takes highly unlikely people, takes them into highly unlikely places, gives them a highly unlikely strategy, and gives them a highly unlikely outcome. ~Christine Caine God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them. ~John Piper Depression is not a sign of lack of spirituality. The most renown spiritual leaders walked through deep depression. Including King David and Elijah. ~Lecrae Change begins at the end of your comfort zone. ~Lecrae To live according to the will of God is to know the life that wins. ~G. Christian Weiss In every generation there are those whose hearts are warmed as they hear the Scriptures opened up and the Christ of those Scriptures exalted. ~L. Nelson Bell Imagine your life wholly untouched by angst. What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats. ~Max Lucado If we would see the seed that we sow bring an abundant harvest, we must water it with our tears. ~R.A. Torrey The chief danger of the church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of trying to turn the world upside down. ~A.B. Simpson Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible. ~W. Stanley Mooneyham We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts. ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer The belief that saves is that conviction which produces the abandonment of the whole life to the King. ~G. Campbell Morgan When two people are right with Him (God), they will be right with each other. ~Francis Chan Run from churches where you're comfortable in your sins. If you come into the house of God and you've got sin in your life, and you're not convicted of it, you're at a table of devils. ~Carter Conlon A part-time Christian cannot defeat a full-time devil. ~Author Unknown You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies. ~Corrie Ten Boom True love for Christ will mean hatred of sin. ~John Benton The truth of Scripture demolishes speculation. ~R.C. Sproul The Bible says every good deed will be rewarded, no matter how insignificant and regardless of whether anybody else on earth sees it. ~Rick Warren A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. ~John Maxwell The spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world. ~Francis A. Schaeffer Chastening is not God getting even ~it is preparing that person for something better, more valuable, and worthwhile. ~R.T. Kendall The family altar would alter many a family. ~Author Unknown The Gospel is light but only the Spirit can give sight. ~A.W. Tozer There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us ~to will what God wills brings peace. ~Amy Carmichael Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ~Charles Swindoll Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. A man is powerful on his knees. ~Corrie Ten Boom The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. ~Corrie Ten Boom Don't bother to give God instructions, just report for duty. ~Corrie Ten Boom If you only pray when you're in trouble, you're in trouble. ~Author Unknown Prayer is profoundly simple and simply profound. ~Leonard Ravenhill The two prerequisites for successful Christian living are vision and passion, both of which are born in and maintained by prayer. ~Leonard Ravenhill You can't be mad at people and reach them at the same time. ~Dr. Ed Stetzer No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good. ~Josh McDowell To the child of God, there is no such thing as an accident. He travels an appointed way. ~A.W. Tozer You see, each one of us is in a greater race than any I have run in Paris, and this race ends when God gives out the medals. ~Eric Liddell We live by demands when we should live by priorities. ~J.A. Motyer We have only to be yielded, that is, willing, surrendered, and He will do the rest. He will make us according to the pattern for which, in His love, He designed us. ~Peter Marshall The weak Christians is as much a child of God as the strong one. ~Charles Spurgeon The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. ~Tertullian