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| Quotable Quotes Many, but not all of these quotes pertain to Christian life and righteousness. We are indebted to the many thinkers who have given us a short piece worth quoting. Some of these hit you right between the eyes. Some are obviously anointed. Others are simply wise or funny quotes and not all of them find agreement in the Archivist. If you would like to add a quote to the list please email David at david@riverofjoy-crimea.org |
Don't speak too much when you counsel sir. Get to the point and pray. Let God do it! ~ Keith Daniel
The preacher who neglects to preach to himself has forgotten a very important part of his audience.
We must first address our own soul. If we can move that by the words we may utter, we may hope
to have some power with the souls of others. ~ C.H. Spurgeon
We manufacture atheists with mundane Christianity. ~ Robert Wurtz II
If you ask me if I believe in the eternal security of the believer, I would say I most certainly do. And I
also believe in the insecurity of the make-believer. ~ J. Vernon McGee
Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.
~ William Booth
God is the sweetest friend, but the worst enemy. ~ Thomas Watson
Beware of a dividing spirit; shun whatever has the least aspect that way. Therefore say not "I am of
Paul, or of Apollos:" the very thing which occasioned the schism at Corinth. Say not "This is my
preacher, the best preacher in the land; give me him and take all the rest..." Do not run down any
preacher. Do not exalt any one above the rest, lest you hurt both him and the cause of God."
~ John Wesley
He that is down needs fear no fall, He that is low no pride. ~ John Bunyan
A man full of hope will be full of action. ~ Thomas Brooks
We need to weep over the immorality in our homes. We have to
weep and wail that we have broken covenant with God. ~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
We are playing church. We are so busy trying to be relevant to the world that we have become just like
the world..... AND the world is not impressed." ~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
There is nothing wrong with the command of God to 'stone the false prophet!' The problem is that the
church has discerned wrongly and stoned the true prophet! That is why there are no more true
prophets in our days, because as soon as they begin their ministry, we rub them out. This is the
reason that so many false prophets are running around, not just because it's the end of the age but
because we have disobeyed God, His command, and killed off His prophets! We are like Herod, who in
the midst of John the Baptist's ministry, chose a wrong time to listen to his conscience instead of the
Holy Spirit! ~ G.A. Jarquin
If you study the Bible without applying it to your daily life, then it would be better not to study it at all.
~ Zac Poonen
'Nobody's perfect.' This is the hypocrite's couch. This is the believer's bed of thorns. ~ Al Martin
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. ~ James Hudson Taylor
Self-condemnation is Satan's lie to prevent sinners from repenting. ~ Pastor Jan Greenley
(paraphrased)
Surrender fully! Love wholly! ~ Yolanda Diehl
When we are in hand-to-hand conflict with the world, the flesh, and the devil himself, neat little Biblical
confectionery is like shooting lions with a pea-shooter; God needs a man who will let go and deliver
blows right and left as hard as he can hit, in the power of the Holy Ghost. Nothing but forked-lightning
Christians will count. ~ C. T. Studd (1860-1931)
It's not where you've been. It's where you are going that matters. ~ (Author unknown)
God is getting us all to the place where we are nothing and He is everything. God is burning, by the
Holy Spirit, all the rubbish out of us and is making us vessels of honor, sanctified for the Master's
use. ~ Rodney Howard-Browne
I could feel the impression, like a wave of electricity going through and through me. Indeed the Holy
Ghost seemed to come in waves of liquid love, for I could not express it in any other way.
~ Charles Finney
If I
have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
~ Isaac Newton
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. ~ Victor Hugo
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
~ Colin Powell
In real love you want the other persons good. In romantic love you want the other person.
~ Margaret Anderson
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. ~ Groucho Marx
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
I didn't say it would be easy. I just said it would be the truth. ~ Morpheus
God grades on the cross, not on the curve ~ (Author unknown)
God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called. ~ (Author unknown)
Real difficulties can be overcome; only the imagined ones are unconquerable. ~ Theodor Vail
Just remember, once your over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~ Charles M. Shultz
God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things.
I am so far behind, I'll never die. ~ Gordon Heiret
I used to think I was indecisive, but now I’m not so sure. ~ Ruth Bell
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
~ Clarence Darrow
The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents,
meetings and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment
is a powerful magnet for help. ~ Napoleon Hill
Give God what's right - not what's left.
Did it ever occur to you that nothing occurs to God?
Man's way leads to a hopeless end - God's way leads to an endless hope.
A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing.
He who kneels before God can stand before anyone.
In the sentence of life, the devil may be a comma - but never let him be the period.
When praying, don't give God instructions -- just report for duty.
Don't wait for six strong men to take you to church.
We don't change God's message - His message changes us. ~ Anon, or to be assigned
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. ~ English Proverb
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
~ Sigmund Freud
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw
him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable
to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple
eloquence of his example. ~ Mario Cuomo
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~ Lydia M. Child
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later....that the man
before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a
child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called
‘Being a Father’ so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector,
who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~ Tom Wolfe
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~ Bill Cosby"
I have found the best way to give advice to your children
is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it." ~ Harry S Truman
From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that
the cross bears those who bear the cross. ~ Sadar Sundu Singh (1889-
1929)
He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays. ~ John Owen
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. ~ William Cowper
Take God for your friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and
the things you must do will work out prosperously for you. ~ St. John of the Cross
To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself,
or have angels for hearers. ~ George Whitefield
The whole of theology... takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the universe of
created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with little opposition.
~ Bertrand Russell
From the beginning, we are presented with a dilemma by the Gospels: Such a Person never could
have lived; Such a Person never could have been invented! Which horn will you choose?
~ Nathaniel Micklem
The profession of the truth by not a few is the greatest dishonour and disparagement that can be cast
upon it. The best service that many can do it is by forsaking it, and declaring that the belief of it is
inconsistent with their cursed, wicked lives. ~ John Owen
I hate the devil and I would kill him, but I see there are several clergymen present, and they have their
families to support. ~ Melville D. Landon
The observances of the Church feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, upon the whole, since the rich
keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts. ~ Sydney Smith
The beauty of the statue is already there, all I have to do
is move away the excess marble. ~ Michelangelo
Replacing Arafat is first step to statehood ~ President George W. Bush
If I see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant, just what am I supposed to do about it,
responsible citizen that I am? ~ Steven L. Tvedton
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~ Lao Tzu
All it takes for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing. - ?
Prayer is the pulse of life; by it the doctor can tell what is the condition of the heart. ~ Andrew
Murray
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet
any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of
liberty. ~ John F. Kennedy
The Present is the point at which Time touches Eternity. ~ C.S. Lewis
An eagle needs both its left and right wing to fly. ~ Rick Joyner
Without God we can't. Without us he won't. ~ Paul Sharrow
A true apostolic gift will explain the past and point to the future ~ Clay Sikes
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." ~ ?
God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can,
and the wisdom to know …it's me! ~ John G. Miller
And I’m proud to be a heretic where as least I know I’m free. And I won’t forget the Lord who died, who
gave that right to me. ~ Jack? taking liberty with Lee Greenwood’s lyrics
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings;
the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. ~ Winston Churchill
You loved me not at all, but let it go; I loved you more than life, but let it be.
~ Sonnet xi, Edna St. Vincent Millay
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly
broken. If you want to keep it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it
carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or
coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not
be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. ~ The Four Loves, C. S. Lewis
.
…the only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and
perturbations of love is Hell. ~ The Four Loves, C. S. Lewis
Marriage is not only important to healthy aging, it is often the cornerstone of adult
resilience. ~ "Aging Well," Dr. George E. Vaillant
Communications are for holy impartation; otherwise it is just egoistic trash. ~ YT
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire? ~ Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983)
God will permit in His wisdom what He could have prevented in His power…He often will not change
the anxiety of our situation until our attitude changes. We must bow to the shrine of His wisdom and
say ‘AMEN LORD! You have allowed this.’ Once we embrace it for our good, we will be set free
internally… ~ Arthur Burt
We cannot defeat what we embrace. ~ a friend of Jon Hamill
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessing of
heaven. ~ G. C. Lichtenberg
As in our daily walk we come nearer towards heaven, He will open to us more of heaven.
~ Edward B. Pusey (1809-1882)
Most of the real work a pastor does is not in the pulpit but in the unheralded service of cultivating love
and trust in personal relationships. ~ Francis Frangipane
If we faithfully seek the Lord, adversity becomes like gasoline upon our heart’s fire for God.
~ Francis Frangipane, The Stronghold of God
Inwardly, God deals mightily with our soul, breaking its addiction to man’s approval and liberating us
to truly live for Christ. ~ Francis Frangipane, Stronghold of God
God’s love will so liberate us and change our hearts when we experience it, that we are compelled to
obey Him in love, responding to His love for us. ~ Steve Thompson
A faithful and good servant is a real godsend; but truly ‘tis a rare bird in the land.
~ Martin Luther
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without
thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.
~ Fredrick Douglass
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN the orator and the prophet are many and radical, the chief being that
the orator speaks for himself while the prophet speaks for God. The orator originates his message
and is responsible to himself for its content. The prophet originates nothing but delivers the message
he has received from God who alone is responsible for it, the prophet being responsible to God for its
delivery only. The prophet must hear the message clearly and deliver it faithfully, and that is indeed a
grave responsibility; but it is to God alone, not to men. ~ A. W. Tozer
It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving. ~ Richard Braunstein
UNITY of the KINGDOM Quotes:
The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be
of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad
people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what
you are doing, who would ever have been spared? ~ Martin Luther (1483-1546)
I sometimes have a bright dream of reunion engulfing us unawares, like a great wave from behind our
backs -- perhaps at the very moment when our official representatives are still pronouncing it
impossible. Discussions usually separate us; actions sometimes unite us. ~ C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
While the local church is not the total body of Christ, it must be seen to be [that body's] particular
expression in its worship, ministry, and mission. It has authority to preach the gospel and administer
the sacraments, but does not possess that authority in isolation, only as part of the total catholic
Church. The authority of the local church can never, therefore, be absolute or autonomous, for, if it
[asserts such authority], it denies that it is a part of the larger body and confuses the Church of God
with its particular expression in the local church. It therefore requires a structure which allows it to act
with the authority of the Church of God -- because it must be Christ to its local community -- while, at
the same time, demonstrating that it possesses such authority only because it is part of the total
Church of God, whose authority is derived from its organic relationship with Christ, its
Head. ~ Ian P. M. Cundy, "The Church as Community"
Before I can accede to your pretensions I must see, not only that the Church was such in the
beginning, but, moreover, that it is according to God's will that it be restored to its primitive glory; and,
furthermore, that a voluntary union of "two or three" or two or three and twenty, or several such
bodies, are each of them entitled, in any locality, to take the name of the Church of God, when that
Church originally was an assemblage of all believers in any given locality.
You must, moreover, make it clear to me, if you assume such a place, that you have so succeeded by
the gift and power of God in gathering together believers that you can rightfully treat those who refuse
to answer to your call as schismatics, self-condemned, and strangers to God's Church. And let me
here dwell on a most important consideration, which they who are bent on making churches have
overlooked. They have had their thoughts so fully engaged in their churches that they have almost
lost sight of the Church. According to Scripture, the whole sum of the churches here on earth
compose the Church, at least the Church on earth; and the Church in any given place was no other
than the regular association together of whatever formed part of the entire body of the Church, that is
to say, of the complete body of Christ here on earth; and he who was not a member of the Church in
the place in which he dwelt, was no member of Christ's Church at all.
~ John Nelson Darby (1800-1882)
In the surrender of separation only one thing must be abandoned, namely, a failure in obedience to
Christ, hitherto unrealized, in which a Church, in common... with a neighbor Church, or with all the
severed Churches, has had a share of guilt in that trouble which is the multiplicity of the Churches. Its
share has possibly lain in the fact that the normal and necessary multiplicity of communities, gifts and
persons within the Church has by the agency of the evil one been perverted; possibly in this, that
undue place and import have been attributed to what is racial, to elements of human mentality and
ethic, or of historical persistence. This would be the disobedience which the Church would have to
consider, as it listened afresh to the voice of Christ. ~ Karl Barth, The Church and the Churches [1936]
If [instead of beginning with the fellowship,] we begin by saying that the Church exists where the Word
is truly preached and the Sacraments rightly administered, we are immediately involved in the attempt
to answer the question, "What is correct doctrine and correct administration?" In fact, the latter
question has tended to drop out of the centre of Protestant discussion, for the Word was really central
and the Sacrament was conceived essentially as the Word made visible. "The Word," says Luther, "is
the one perpetual and infallible mark of the Church." The natural result of this position is that the
question of doctrinal correctness becomes the all important one. And, <I>ex hypothesi</I>, this
question has to be discussed in isolation, apart from consideration of the character of the fellowship in
which the doctrine is taught. The Church is defined in terms of agreement about doctrine, and this
doctrinal agreement must be agreement on paper. A written theological statement becomes the one
determinative centre of the Church's life [instead of the unity of the believers in
Christ]. ~ Lesslie Newbigin, The Household of God [1953]
The attentive reader will notice two items about the New Testament, as he comes to the end of it. For
one thing, there is no book of church order, laying down a code of rules for the worship and
organization of the communities: [there is] no book corresponding to the Book of Leviticus. The other
thing is that the writings are all meant for communities, not for individuals: they reflect and
presuppose the life of a society or fellowship. Even the private notes of Paul to Philemon and of the
presbyter John to Gaius are addressed to these individuals as members of the church; and Luke's two
volumes are intended primarily -- but only primarily -- for the Christian education of his friend and
patron Theophilus. ~ James Moffatt
Recently, some Christians have recognized the existing state of the church as sinful, or at least as
faulty and mistaken. They are trying to save the Christians out of this labyrinth by reuniting the
divided churches, by forming an alliance of churches, or by trying to form an ecumenical church. For
all that, it seems very difficult to obtain the desired result, because all the present churches are still
standing on the principles of the Reformation, unable to rid themselves of the sectarian spirit inherited
from Catholicism. So the number of denominations and sects shows no sign of decreasing, and all
efforts to unite the churches seem likely to end only in the formation of yet other sects and
denominations. Yet the center of Christianity is neither institution nor organization. Nor is it even the
Bible itself, as the Reformers made it, for the Ekklesia existed before the formation of the New
Testament canon. Christians were in fellowship with God and one another, centering their faith in
Christ, long before there was any accepted New Testament. There is only one center of Christianity --
spiritual fellowship with God through Jesus Christ. ~ Kokichi Kurosaki, One Body in Christ [1954]
It may be that the grace of renewal will not be given to us in our separation, will not be given until we
stand together for the healing of the nations. ~ Gordon Rupp (1910-1986)
I cannot do everything, but I can do something.... What I can do, I should do. And
what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do. ~ Edward Everett Hale
The realm of God is dangerous. You must enter into it and not seek information about it...The day when
God is absent, when he is silent-that is the beginning of prayer. ~ Archbishop Anthony Bloom
Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or cleverness of
expression, but operates in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. ~ Arthur Wallis
God starts when we stop and God stops when we start. ~ Clay Sikes
The amount of stress in my life is directly proportional to the areas over which Jesus is not Lord. ~ ?
True religion confronts earth with heaven and brings eternity to bear upon time. ~ A.W.Tozer
A wheel doesn't turn to become a wheel. It turns because it is a wheel! ~ Arthur Burt
To fix a broken life, use the tools of the heart. ~ anon
Circumstances do not make the man, they simply reveal him to himself. A test will reveal one of two
things – rest or restlessness! ~ Clay Sikes
Lord let others read your handwriting across my life today ~ Elizabeth Sherrill
Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that you may believe, but
believe that you may understand. ~ St. Augustine (354-430)
An appeal to arms and the God of hosts is all that is left us. But we shall not fight our battle alone.
There is a just God that presides over the destinies of nations. The battle sir, is not to the strong alone.
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it
almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me
death. ~ 1775 Patrick Henry
It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great Nation was founded not by
religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason
alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here. ~ 1776 Patrick Henry
For the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophy it is of no importance whether Plato or Aristotle ever lived.
For the mystical practice of an Indian, Persian, Chinese, or Neo-Platonic mystic it is a matter of
indifference whether Rama, Buddha, Laotse, or Porphyrius are myths or not. The mystic has no
personal relation to them. It is not here a question of somebody telling me the truth which of myself I
cannot find, but of my finding an access to the depths of the world in the depths of my soul. And
everywhere the tendency is to eliminate personality. Even where religion does not have this mystical
character, it has no relation to an historical person, who communicates himself to me. That is the
characteristic essence of the Christian faith alone. Even where a prophet plays the role of a mediator
of divine truth, as for example in Islam, the religious act is not directed toward him but toward his
teaching or message. But the Christian does not believe in the teachings of Jesus -- which would not
be Christian faith, but general religion -- he believes in Christ Himself as being the Word of God.
~ Emil Brunner (1889-1966)
I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole
country will soon be rallied to the unity of our Creator. ~ Thomas Jefferson
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the
principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. ~ July 4, 1821 President John Adams
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it
would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in
our country. ~ President Calvin Coolidge
When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs. ~ Thomas а Kempis (1380-1471)
TELEVISION
Television: chewing gum for the eyes. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959)
Television is to news as bumper-stickers are to philosophy. ~ Richard Milhous Nixon
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter, but that all subject
matter is presented as entertaining. ~ Neil Postman
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you
wouldn't have in your home. ~ David Frost (b.1939)
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book. ~ Groucho Marx (1890-1977)
“Who hates his neighbor has not the rights of a child." And not only has he no rights as a child, he
has no "father". God is not my father in particular, or any man's father (horrible presumption and
madness!); no, He is only father in the sense of father of all, and consequently only my father in so far
as He is the father of all. When I hate someone or deny God is his father, it is not he who loses, but I:
for then I have no father. ~ Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Some people are kind, polite, and sweet-spirited, until you try to sit in their pews.
It is easier to preach 10 sermons than it is to live one.
The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but mosquitoes come close.
When you get to your wit's end, you'll find God lives there.
People are funny, they want the front of the bus, the middle of the road, and the back of the church.
Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your front door forever.
Quit griping about your church; if it was perfect, you couldn't belong.
The phrase that is guaranteed to wake up an audience: "And in conclusion."
If the church wants a better preacher, it only needs to pray for the one it has.
God Himself does not propose to judge a man until he is dead. So why should you?
To make a long story short, don't tell it.
Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.
Peace starts with a smile.
I don't know why some people change churches; what difference does it make
which one you stay home from?
A lot of church members who are singing "Standing on the Promises" are just sitting on the premises.
Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.
Don't put a question mark where God put a period.
Forbidden fruits create many jams.
God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
God grades on the cross, not the curve.
God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.
He who angers you, controls you!
If God is your Co-pilot - swap seats!
Prayer: Don't give God instructions - just report for duty!
The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us.
The Will of God will never take you to where the Grace of God will not protect you.
We don't change the message, the message changes us.
You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him.
Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray. ~ Charles H. Brent
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ~ George Santayana
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers — wider
freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy less. We
have bigger houses and smaller families — more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees,
but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, yet more problems; more
medicine, but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too
little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much,
and pray too seldom. ~ Bob Moorehead
God Will Use The Most 'Unusual' People On Earth To Bring Out Heaven's Best In You! ~ Bill Yount
Never mistake motion for action. - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Whether you think that you can; or that you can’t; you are usually right. - Henry Ford (1863-1947)
“You will probably accomplish exactly what you set out to accomplish, nothing more, nothing less.”
~ “a wise person, ‘Church Planting Movements’ – pg 181
As every strategist knows, crisis is as much a moment of opportunity as it is a potential tipping point
toward defeat. ~ Bart Mongoven
Where the appointment is, the provision is. ~ Arthur Burt
The greater (hearing and obeying God), always includes the lesser (my needs being met).
~ Arthur Burt
My best is my greatest enemy before God. ~ Arthur Burt
God will never reveal more truth about Himself till you obey what you know already.
Beware of being wise and prudent. ~ Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
All God’s revelations are sealed to us until they are opened to us by obedience. You will never get
them open by philosophy or thinking. Immediately you obey, a flash of light comes. Let God’s truth
work in you by soaking in it, not by worrying into it. Obey God in the thing He is at present showing
you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. We read tomes on the work of the Holy Spirit when...
five minutes of drastic obedience would make things clear as a sunbeam. We say, "I suppose I shall
understand these things some day." You can understand them now: it is not study that does it, but
obedience. The tiniest fragment of obedience, and heaven opens up and the profoundest truths of
God are yours straight away. God will never reveal more truth about Himself till you obey what you
know already. Beware of being wise and prudent. ~ Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Questions are easy, when you know the answers. ~ Mark Twain
The answers are easy, when you know the questions to ask. ~ Art Coday, M.D.
If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem ~ Eldridge Cleaver
I should take a sabbatical from taking a sabbatical ~ Ruth Bell
Capitalism: The Company - decisions according to the "best interest of the company"
Communism: The State - decisions according to the "best interest of the state"
Free Market: The Individual - decisions according to the "best interest of the individual"
Russia is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. ~ Winston Churchill
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true
criterion of the attachment of friends.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct
themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil
government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than
in bad company.
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your
preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your
confidence.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak,
and esteem to all.
Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it
is entitled to the appellation.
Twelve Rules of Spiritual Wisdom ~ Author Unknown
1. God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.
2. There is no key to happiness. The door is always open.
3. Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted.
4. Dear God, I have a problem, it's me.
5. Laugh every day, it's like inner jogging.
6. Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent
out of shape.
7. THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS IN YOUR HOME ARE THE PEOPLE.
8. As a child of God, prayer is kind of like calling home everyday.
9. He who dies with the most toys is still dead.
10. It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are done.
11. Surviving and living your life successfully requires courage. The goals and dreams you're seeking
require courage and risk taking. Learn from the turtle, it only makes progress when it sticks out it's
neck.
12. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you
really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
On the one hand, in matters of the spirit, nothing fails like success. On the other hand, in matters of the
spirit, nothing succeeds like failure. ~ Os Guinness
Honor lies in honest toil. ~ Grover Cleveland
Activity gets you busy. But productivity gets you results.
Activity consumes time. Productivity frees it.
Stop analyzing life. Just live it. Analysis is what makes it complicated.
Your today is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday.
Uncertainty is inevitable, but worrying is optional.
Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards. ~ Bill Sugleris?
Problems are purposeful roadblocks offering beneficial lessons that enhance metal strength. Inner
strength comes from struggle and endurance, not when you are free from problems.
If you look outside you will not know where you are heading. Look inside. Looking outside, you
dream. Looking inside, you awaken. Eyes provide sight. Heart provides insight.
Success is a measure as decided by others. Satisfaction is a measure as decided by you. Knowing the
road ahead is more satisfying than knowing you rode ahead. You work with the compass. Let others
work with the clock. Always look at how far you have come rather than how far you have to go. Always
count your blessing, not what you are missing.
When people suffer they ask, “Why me?”
When one prospers, he never asks, "Why me?"
Everyone wishes to have truth on their side,
but few want to be on the side of the truth.
Seek not to find who you are. Determine who you want to be.
Stop looking for a reason why you are here. Create it.
Life is not a process of discovery but of creation.
Face your past without regret.
Handle your present with confidence.
Prepare for the future without fear.
There are no unanswered prayers. At times the answer is, “NO!”
Keep the faith and drop the fear.
Don't believe your doubts or doubt your beliefs.
Life is a mystery to solve, not a problem to resolve.
Trust me. Life is wonderful if you know how to live.
Have some quiet time with the Lord your God,
and be blessed in your walk with Him.
Make God laugh. Tell him your plans. ~ Ken Hall
If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it. ~ unknown
With freedom comes responsibility. With license comes anarchy. ~ me
Freedom's potential is realized only when it is shared. ~ me
If truth is relative, then could this truth, that you say is true, that all truth is relative be relative itself and
thereby not always be true? ~ Jesse Morrell
Do more than exist ...live. Do more than touch...feel. Do more than look...observe. Do more than read...
absorb. Do more than hear...listen. Do more than think...ponder. Do more than talk...say something. ~
John H. Rhoades
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that
was the miracle. ~ AN
[About uninspired self effort] During a time of deep prayer God once spoke the following: “When you
start I stop; when you stop, I start.” ~ Clay Sykes
It’s not what you do, but why you do it. ~ Arthur Burt
As Christians, we can and often do miss the mark because we confuse entitlement with
expectation. ~ Clay Sykes
Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose. ~ Ronald Reagan
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to
help." ~ Ronald Reagan
The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that
isn't so. ~ Ronald Reagan
Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong. ~ Ronald
Reagan
I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had
run them through the U.S. Congress. ~ Ronald Reagan
The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil
service examination. ~ Ronald Reagan
Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other. ~ Ronald Reagan
If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
~ Ronald Reagan
The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.
~ Ronald Reagan
I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what
time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting. ~
Ronald Reagan
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking
resemblance to the first. ~ Ronald Reagan
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it
keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. ~
Ronald Reagan
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you
can always write a book. ~ Ronald Reagan
No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage
of free men and women. ~ Ronald Reagan
Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions,
let us win souls. I pray you, be men of action all of you. Get to work and quit yourselves like men... Our
one aim is to win souls; and this we are not to talk about, but do in the power of God.
~ Charles Spurgeon
It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. ~ Buckminster Fuller
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in
the beautiful office buildings -- and all the people sleeping in the slums. ~ Buckminster Fuller
A new, physically uncompromised, metaphysical initiative of unbiased integrity could unify the world.
It could and probably will be provided by the utterly impersonal problem solutions of the computers.
Only to their superhuman range of calculative capabilities can and may all political, scientific, and
religious leaders face- savingly acquiesce. ~ Buckminster Fuller
Because of their respective exclusivities, all the class warfare ideologies have become extinct.
Capitalism and socialism are mutually extinct. Why? Because science now finds there can be ample
for all, but only if the sovereign fences are completely removed. The basic you-or-me-not-enough-for-
both ‹ergo, someone-must-die- tenets of the class warfaring are
extinct. ~ Buckminster Fuller
I found that I was overwhelmed by the experiential evidence of a cosmic intellectual integrity at work in
the design of Universe. Thus, when I said in 1927 that I was going to try to find out and support what
the great cosmic intellectual integrity was trying to do, I committed myself as completely as humans
can to absolute faith in the wisdom of the eternal intellectual integrity we speak of as
God. ~ Buckminster Fuller
THE DARK AGES STILL REIGN over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination
are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is
locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes
and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt merely to compete with God. All are
intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Synergy – Name of the characteristic which means the behavior of the whole is unpredicted by the
behavior of its parts. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Real wealth is ideas plus energy. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
When we approach our problems on a universal, general systems basis and progressively eliminate
the irrelevancies, somewhat as we peel petals from an artichoke, at each move we leave in full visibility
the next most important layer of factors with which we must deal. We gradually uncover you and me in
the heart of now. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
The energy expended in one minute of a tropical hurricane equals the combined energy of all the U.S.
A. and U.S.S.R. nuclear weapons. Only by understanding this scheme may we continue for all time
ahead to enjoy and explore universe as we progressively harness evermore of the celestially
generated tidal and storm generated wind, water, and electrical power
concentrations. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
We may now raise our sights, in fact must raise our sights, to take the initiative in planning the world-
around industrial retooling revolution. We must undertake to increase the performance per pound of
the world’s resources until they provide all of humanity a high standard of living. We can no longer
wait to see whose biased political system should prevail over the world. You may not feel very
confident about how you are going to earn your right to live under such world-around patron-less
conditions. But I say to you the sooner you do the better chance we have of pulling out of humanity’s
otherwise fatal nose dive into oblivion. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Inspired imagination is precious rare, but progress starts there. ~ David Gerry Hallowell
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ~ Carl Sagan
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ~ Albert Einstein
They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. ~ Clint Eastwood
Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. ~ Ambrose
Bierce
Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive. ~ Elbert Hubbard
The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one. ~ Elbert Hubbard
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. ~ Elbert Hubbard
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. ~ Elbert Hubbard
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary
man. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. ~ Elbert Hubbard
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill
theirs.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give -
which is everything. ~ Katharine Hepburn
Nothing endures but change. ~ Heraclitus
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. ~ Bob Hope
I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage. ~ Bob Hope
We are the only animals that let our kids come back home. ~ Bill Cosby
There are three ways to get something done; do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do
it. ~ Mona Crane
Children really brighten up a household - they never turn the lights off ~ Ralph Bus
Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee ~ David Frost
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those
the art of living well. ~ Aristotle
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~ George Bernard Shaw
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time. ~ Lady Nancy Astor
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. ~ Aristotle
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
~ George Bernard Shaw
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will
have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. ~ Henry Ford
Our solar system consists of one star and some debris. ~ Carl Sagan
Mass distribution in our solar system: Sun: 99,865 %, Planets: 0,134% (Jupiter 0,1%), Moons*:
0,00004%, Comets*: 0,00003%, Asteroids*: 0,0000003%. (* estimation)
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. ~ Carl Sagan
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. ~ Carl Sagan
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. ~ popularized by Carl Sagan
War doesn't determine who's right - only who's left. ~ Bertrand Russell
Make crime pay. Become a Lawyer. ~ Will Rogers
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. ~ Will Rogers
The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing. ~ Will Rogers
You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
~ Will Rogers
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
~ Will Rogers
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else. ~ Will Rogers
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ~ Will Rogers
Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work. ~ Will Rogers
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. ~ Jeannette Rankin
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~ Japanese proverb
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you
die the world cries and you rejoice. ~ Translation Indian Proverb
In politics stupidity is not a handicap. ~ Napoleon
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second
hand, and without examination. ~ Mark Twain
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? ~ Harry Shearer
It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, but why he does it.
~ A. W. Tozer
We of the churches often gather our robes away from contamination, and thank God that we are not as
other men. We don’t despise God’s name; in fact, we call upon it constantly to justify ourselves... If we
object to meat-eating, we declare that God is vegetarian; if we abhor war, we proclaim a pacifist Deity.
He who turned water into wine to gladden a wedding is now accused by many of favoring that
abominable fluid, grape juice. There can hardly be a more evil way of taking God’s name in vain than
this way of presuming to speak in it. For here is spiritual pride, the ultimate sin, in action—the sin of
believing in one’s own righteousness. The true prophet says humbly, "To me, a sinful man, God
spoke." But the scribes and Pharisees declare, "When we speak, God agrees." They feel no need of a
special revelation, for they are always, in their own view, infallible. It is this self-righteousness of the
pious that most breeds atheism, by inspiring all decent, ordinary men with loathing of the enormous
lie. ~ Joy Davidman (1915-1960)
The more we fear crosses, the more reason we have to think that we stand in need of them: let us not
be discouraged when the hand of God layeth heavy ones upon us. We ought to judge of the violence
of our disease by the violence of the remedies which our spiritual physician prescribes for us. It is a
great argument of our wretchedness and of God's mercy, that, notwithstanding the difficulty of our
recovery, He vouchsafes to undertake our cure. ~ Francois Fenelon (1651-1715)
Refrain from illusions. Insist on work and not on words. Patiently search divine and scientific truth.
~ Maria Mendeleev (Dmitri Mendeleev’s mother, on her dying bed)
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is
accepted as being self-evident. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Politics: The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ~ Ambrose Bierce
There are three ways to get something done; do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do it.
~ Mona Crane
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. ~ Winston Churchill
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. ~ Will Rogers
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse
than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. ~ Will Rogers
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. ~ Samuel Butler
An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A
professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint. ~ Ben Shahn
Abstract art is the product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. ~ Al
Capp
Rembrandt painted 700 pictures. Of these, 3,000 are still in existence. ~ Wilhelm Bode
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ~
Aristotle
Not everything that can be counted, counts and not everything that counts can be counted.
~ Albert Einstein (maybe)
What comes from the heart enters into the heart. ~ Jewish Proverb
The highest form of worship is simple obedience to God's Word and voice. ~ Daniel Korakas
Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again
with Him. That is the secret of good judgment. Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices
before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the
purification of destruction. ~ Charles H. Brent (1862-1929)
[Christ] tells us plainly, and without any qualifications, that we are involved in a war in which there is
no room for neutrals. Yet people attempt to evade His statement. Generally speaking, these are the
very people who are the quickest in laying the blame upon God for all the sorrow and sin in the world.
They argue that He could prevent it. They excuse their own do-nothing attitude by making of evil's
apparent predominance a ground for doubt of His loving kindness. It never seems to occur to them to
look for the cause in mankind. ~ Hugh Redwood (b.1883), Live Coals [1935]
[Christ] tells us plainly, and without any qualifications, that we are involved in a war in which there is
no room for neutrals. ~ Hugh Redwood
Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much. ~ John Wayne
You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache. ~ Bernard M. Baruch
If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible. ~ Bernard M. Baruch
To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. ~ Bernard M. Baruch
Man is the only Animal that Blushes, or needs to. ~ Mark Twain
Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. ~ Mark Twain
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most. ~ Mark Twain
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter
don't mind. ~ Dr. Seuss
Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for the night.
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. ~ Michael Cooper
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. ~ John Steinbeck
Ignorance often comes disguised as tradition. ~ H.S. ~ Clay Sikes
Why is common sense so uncommon? ~ Tom Barrett
Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of
hell. ~ C.T. Studd
We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first. ~ Oswald J. Smith
No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once.
~ Oswald J. Smith
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 heaven on earth. ~ John Wesley
While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight; while children go hungry, as they do now I'll fight; while
men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while
there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll
fight - I'll fight to the very end! ~ William Booth
"A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience."
~ Leonard Ravenhill
"The last words of Jesus to the church (in Revelation) were 'Repent!'" ~ Leonard Ravenhill
"I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born
again." ~ Leonard Ravenhill
What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the
week to curse and gossip"
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?" ~ Leonard Ravenhill
Today's church wants to be raptured from responsibility. ~ Leonard Ravenhill
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
There's a difference between changing your opinion, and changing your lifestyle.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Our seminaries today are turning out dead men." ~ 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
"Everyone recognizes that Stephen was Spirit-filled when he was performing wonders. Yet, he was
just as Spirit-filled when he was being stoned to death." ~ Leonard Ravenhill
If a Christian is not having tribulation in the world, there's something wrong! ~ 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
If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been
crucified. ~ Leonard Ravenhill
The fundamental difference between many of us and the rich young ruler is this: He believed what
Jesus said was required of him to inherit eternal life and walked away sadly, while we don't believe
what Jesus said was required of us to inherit life and walk away rejoicing in our self deception.
~ Brother David
Are you saying that there is a price to pay to follow Jesus? I can't just believe the right things? I have
to actually do something that may encroach upon my comfort zone? Now I remember! I am to pick up
my cross daily if I want to be His disciple. ~ Dennis Curtis
"If you're having trouble trying to figure out if you're lukewarm, then let me help you out: If you're not
on fire for God in this life, then you'll be on fire in hell during the next!" ~ Unknown
Finney never made an altar call within the first twenty eight nights of preaching. Most of our
evangelists don't have twenty eight sermons. Twenty eight nights in a row and he never made an altar
call. He didn't preach the love of God. He didn't say "you're a sinner, God loves you." He said "God is
angry with the wicked every day" (Ps 7:11) which the Word of God says. He didn't preach grace, he
preached Law. He didn't preach love, he preached judgment. He didn't preach heaven, he preached
hell. He didn't say "you're a wonderful person" he said "you're a rebel". But he got results. 64% of D.
L. Moody's converts backslid, 72% of the converts Finney got stood because he knew how to attack
the human will, not just the emotions." ~ Leonard Ravenhill
"I don't believe there is a man on the whole TV that preaches salvation. They preach forgiveness.
Forgiveness is not salvation. They point out "there's a man in bed with some other man's wife in a
Motel". "Oh you know the Lord loves you just as you are." Well then why get changed? Commit
adultery as much as you like. He still loves you. Be a cheat, be a liar, be a thief, and be a failure. He still
loves you. But there's a scripture. Isn't it the Psalms 7.. where it says "God is angry with the wicked
every day." I heard somebody quote today "God loves you but hates your sin" that's bunken. God
hates you for committing the sin. Is God going to take your sins and judge them at the Judgment and
leave you alone?" ~ Leonard Ravenhill
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall
have to begin with the children. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
We need to stop asking God to bless what we are doing – and do what He is blessing.
~ Wolfgang Simson
Acts 6… seemed all pretty unincorporated, ad-hoc, temporary, minimal, a minimum of organization for
a maximum of organism. I therefore routinely advise any organization older than 5 years to reinvent
itself regularly (close down, pray, think, and start again with a fresh vision), meet at least every year for
a, ‘Let’s kill any holy cow that grazes amongst us’ - retraites (Fr: reprocessing,
reformation). ~ Wolfgang Simson
“You may not like the way these youngsters do ministry; the music, the style, the clothes, and they
have pierced what???! But they need to hear you say to them: I hate the way you do it, but I love you
for doing it, since otherwise nobody will do anything!” ~ Pastor Alex Garth of Berlin
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. ~ Helen Keller
Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things
just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going
to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already
naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. ~ Steve Jobs
One forgives to the degree that one loves. ~ François La Rochefoucaul
We cannot understand the depth of the Christian doctrine of sin if we give to it only a moral
connotation. To break the basic laws of justice and decency is sin indeed. Man's freedom to honor
principles is the moral dimension in his nature, and sin often appears as lawlessness. But sin has its
roots in something which is more than the will to break the law. The core of sin is our making
ourselves the center of life, rather than accepting the holy God as the center. Lack of trust, self-love,
pride--these are three ways in which Christians have expressed the real meaning of sin. But what sin
does is to make the struggle with evil meaningless. When we refuse to hold our freedom in trust and
reverence for God’s will, there is nothing which can make the risk of life worth the pain of it.
~ Daniel D. Williams (1910-1973)
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ~ Kahlil Gibran
The secret of freedom, courage. ~ Thucydides
When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone.
Now I realize I should have been more specific. ~ Lily Tomlin
Don’t pray, “God make me someone.” Be more specific. ~ mine
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. ~ Lao-tsu
(The following “quotes” are as yet not attributed)
“The older I get, the dumber the rest of humanity becomes!"
"The older I get, the more I become who I am."
"The person who knows less, sometimes understands more."
“The simple person believes that ‘if it feels good, do it,'
whereas the wise person believes ‘if it feels good, don’t trust it.’”
"There's a game called ‘conversation’ with rules that stipulate that you must overlook stupidity,
hypocrisy and irrelevance.”
“Thinking is a subversive activity. It undermines the power of our primitive right brain."
“Those with the bleakest prospects in their future are the most desperate to prolong life."
"To err is human. Indeed, it is our trademark."
"Truth is the one thing you can hit people over the head with, without it being felt!"
“Well, first, I want to commend you for keeping a straight face while you said that."
"When surrounded by a world of idiots the best defense is to live a good life."
“When people begin to agree with me, it is time for concern that I have taken a wrong path."
"Which serves the other: The chicken or the egg?"
"Women are most discredited by their liking of men."
When its whole significance dawns upon you [referring to evolution], your heart sinks into a heap of
sand within you. There is a hideous fatalism about it, a ghastly and damnable reduction of beauty and
intelligence, of strength and purpose, of honor and aspiration. ~ George B. Shaw
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
~ Francois de la Rochefoucauld
"When the plumbers want to be philosophers, forcing the philosophers to do their own plumbing, we
will arrive at a place wherein neither the plumbing nor the philosophy holds water."
~ Thomas D. Murray, Santa Barbara News-Press, February 15, 2000
"When the populace takes to reasoning, all is lost." ~ Voltaire
"When the well's dry, we know the worth of water." ~ Benjamin Franklin
"We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others."
~ Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims, 1678
"We are always doing something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us."
~ Joseph Addison, The Spectator, 1714
"We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies." ~ Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, 1604
"We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea." ~ Aristotle
"We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones."
~ Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims, 1678
"We know what we are, but know not what we may be." ~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1601
"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all."
~ Jean de La Bruyere, Les Caracteres,
"We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures."
~ William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 1599
"We often do good that we may do harm with impunity." ~ Francois de la Rochefoucauld
"We pardon to the extent that we love."
~ Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims, 1678
"We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire
from the world like a satisfied guest." Horace, Satires, ca 20 BC
We rarely find that people have good sense unless they agree with us.
~ Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims, 1678
We refuse praise from a desire to be praised twice. ~ La Rochefoucauld
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ~ Emile Zola
The circumstances of life, the events of life, and the people around me in life, do not make me the way I
am ...but reveal the way I am. ~ Dr. Sam Peeples
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling
that impossible which is only difficult. ~ Samuel Johnson
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
~ Aneurin Bevan
When a miracle happens, even if not to you, its nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the
warmth on your face. ~ Hugh Elliott
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be
kept alive. ~ Thomas Jefferson
'Lots To Learn!'
Sent me a fax with a stamp on it.
Thought a quarterback was a refund.
Tried to put M&M's in alphabetical order.
Thought Boyz II Men was a day care center.
Tripped over a cordless phone.....twice
spent 20 minutes looking at the orange juice box because it said, "concentrate."
put lipstick on forehead to make up mind.
Told me to meet at the corner of "WALK" and "DON'T WALK."
sat on the T.V. and watched the couch.
Took a ruler to bed to see how long he slept.
Asked for a price check at the Dollar Store.
Takes two hours to watch 60 Minutes.
Studied for a blood test - and failed.
Sold car for gas money.
Went to the airport and saw a sign that said, "Airport Left," -turned around and went home.
~ Source Unknown
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. ~ Mike Murdock
A friend is more valuable than a fortune. ~ Nathaniel Bronner
God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with. ~ Luis Palau (b.1934)
Ukraine has to learn playing by the rules and not with the rules. ~ Javier Solana
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. ~ old proverb
Be what you is, not what you ain't, 'cause when you is what you ain't, then you ain't what you is.
~ old proverb
As the twig is bent the tree inclines. ~ Virgil
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple,
that's creativity. ~ Charles Mingus
Remember, growing older is mandatory. Growing up is optional. ~ Granny Rose
We make a Living by what we get, We make a Life by what we give. ~ Granny Rose
God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. ~ Granny Rose
If God brings you to it, He’ll bring you through it. ~ Granny Rose
Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they are there. ~ Granny Rose
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping
it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little
luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that
casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable,
impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. ~ C. S. Lewis
A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos. ~ Benjamin Lee Whorf
This is the cause of all our evils—our not knowing the Scriptures.” Yet how does one get to know the
Scriptures if he does not have in his version of them, exactly what God says? ~ John Chrysostom
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to
you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. ~ Brian Tracy
The average Christian is so cold and contented with his wretched condition that there is no vacuum of
desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness. ~ A.W. Tozer
No man is ever fully accepted until he has, first of all, been utterly rejected. ~ Author unknown
The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of time-judgments. By faith he rises
above the tug of earth and the flow of time and learns to think and feel as one who has already left the
world and gone to join the innumerable company of angels and the general assembly and Church of
the First-born which are written in heaven. Such a man would rather be useful than famous and would
rather serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the Holy Spirit within him. No man
can become spiritual by himself. Only the free Spirit can make a man spiritual. ~ A.W.Tozer
What pains do children take to scrape and roll the snow together to make a snowman. But soon after it
is done, the heat of the sun dissolves it, and it comes to nothing. The greatest treasures of worldly
people are but snowmen! When death and judgment come, they melt away, and come to nothing!
'The world with its lust is passing away.' -1 John 2:17 ~ Matthew Meade, "The Almost Christian"
We stink more of the world than we stink of sack cloth and ashes. A lot of contemporary churches
today would feel more at home in a movie house rather than in a house of prayer, more afraid of holy
living than of sinning, know more about money than magnifying Christ in our bodies. It is so
compromised that holiness and living a sin-free life is heresy to the modern church. The modern
church is, quite simply, just the world with a Christian T-shirt on! ~ N. Cruz
Despite the atrociousness of it, Satan really does have "little cause to fear most preaching." Most
preaching in the modern church is completely devoid of unction. Pastors are too busy playing golf or
racquetball to bother spending time on their knees. No wonder some pastors I've heard can more
readily quote Dr. Laura then bible passages pertaining to prayer. It's disastrous. Satan need not fear
under those conditions. ~ A. Reavis
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
How do we worship our God Wholeheartedly? To answer the question we must respond to our Lord’s,
"If you love me, you will obey what I command." Jn 14:15. True Love is complete obedience. Half
obedience is no obedience. If you love Jesus, you will obey what He commands. This is true love and
true worship. ~
Unknown
A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays
because his soul is hungry for God. ~
Leonard Ravenhill
Resolved: That all men should live for the glory of God. Resolved second: That whether others do or
not, I will. ~ Jonathan Edwards
The Spirit clothed himself, He makes the record say, With Gideon, so he became As nothing in the fray,
But just a suit of working clothes The Spirit wore that day. ~ Unknown
Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly into heaven, without having blown the trumpet
loud and long for our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Let us see to it that the devil will hold a thanksgiving
service in hell, when he gets the news of our departure from the field of battle. ~ C. T. Studd
Sometimes the only way you conquer the pull of power is to set it down. ~ Tony Blair
Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you. ~ Catherine de Hueck Doherty
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists; not so good when people obey and acclaim
him; worst when they despise him. ~ Lao-tzu
Values are a stronger binding force than authority. ~ Deborah Alvarez-Rodriguez
God has called the laity to be his basic ministers. He has called some to be "player-coaches" ... to
equip the laity for the ministry they are to fulfill. This equipping ministry is of unique importance. One is
appointed to this ministry by the Holy Spirit; therefore it must be undertaken with utmost seriousness.
This is a radical departure from the traditional understanding of the roles of the laity and the clergy.
The laity had the idea that they were already committed to a "full-time" vocation in the secular world,
[and] thus they did not have time--at least, much time--to do God's work. Therefore they contributed
money to "free" the clergy to have the time needed to fulfill God's ministry. This view is rank heresy. If
we follow this pattern, we may continue to do God's work until the Lord comes again and never fulfill
God's purpose as it ought to be done. ~ Findley B. Edge (1916-2002),
The Greening of the Church [1971]
The heart's slavish and dogged devotion to its idol is what fathers of the Church have called "the
bondage of the will." This bondage becomes most painfully apparent in our lives when we earnestly
feel the need of changing but cannot; when we are attracted to another value that for one reason or
another conflicts with the desires of our true God-that value nearest and dearest to us. But our true
god lies so deeply inside us that often we are not even consciously aware of its presence or of what it
actually is. ~ Robert L. Short, The Parables of Peanuts [1968]
It's time to quit playing church and start being the Church (Matt. 18:20) ~ Keith Green, quoted by
Melody Green in the introduction to A Cry in the Wilderness, Sparrow Press, 1993.
I repent of ever having recorded one single song, and ever having performed one concert, if my music,
and more importantly, my life has not provoked you into Godly jealousy or to sell out more completely
to Jesus! ~ Keith Green
No Compromise is what the whole Gospel of Jesus is all about... 'For I tell you...no man can serve two
masters...' (Matt. 6:24). In a day when believers seem to be trying to please both the world and the Lord
(which is an impossible thing), when people are far more concerned about offending their friends than
offending God, there is only one answer...Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Him!
~ Keith Green, ‘No Compromise,’ 1978
After all our hopes and dreams have come and gone, and children sift through all we've left behind;
May the clues that they discover, become the light that leads them to the road we each must find.
~ Sung by Steve Green, "Find US Faithful"
There is a difference between, "defending," and recognizing the power of the structure in which we all
play a part, its inherent resistance to change, and the frustration that comes from being "one voice"
after a while. ~ D.S. Cunningham
This autonomy of man, this attempt of the Ego to understand itself out of itself, is the lie concerning
man which we call sin. The truth about man is that his ground is not in himself but in God-that his
essence is not in self sufficient reason but in the Word, in the challenge of God, in responsibility, not in
self-sufficiency. The true being of man is realized when he bases himself upon God's Word. Faith is
then not an impossibility or a salto mortale [mortal leap], but that which is truly natural; and the real
salto mortale (a mortal leap indeed!) is just the assertion of autonomy, self-sufficiency, God-likeness. [It
is] through this usurped independence [that] man separates himself from God, and at the same time
isolates himself from his fellows. Individualism is the necessary consequence of rational autonomy,
just as love is the necessary consequence of faith.~ Emil Brunner, The Word and The World [1931]
To ‘do it my way,’ as in the popular song is a death leap. The ‘god’ in the mirror is no God and cannot
be. Believing I can go it alone and unassisted is the same DIY lie from Eden. Pride and self-sufficiency
suck us in so easily. Believing that I am, or may become, a god is a giant step into isolation from God
and my fellow man, to death. The fearsome thing about this isolation is that it sneaks up on you only
after you have become more popular for a time because of the attractiveness of that old snaky
temptation in one so newly infected by it. “Hey man, check this [insert fashionable drug, self-help
course or religion here] out!” Spiritual poison is more potent when it is fresh. Satan knows this and
since he is into killing all whom he may, that first lie in the garden is continually reinvented. Lord, open
my eyes to see this lie in all its morphs and responsibly warn others. ~ David Gerry Hallowell [2007]
To rely only on God since the knowledge tree infection, even millenniums hence, is a radical, extremely
difficult thing to do. The first step to God reliance, is just to ask Him to bless our endeavors and in due
course thank Him for doing it. That’s infantile faith though. I am still too ego-centric. The more radical
next step but most necessary one is letting Him decide on the action itself. We must learn, like Jesus,
not to say or do anything but what we see the Father say or do! I must learn not to ask God to bless my
way, but find where God is going and what He wants of me…then do it willingly. It is hard at first.
There is a test involved. God may wait a bit before He tells us the plan. During this time we often run
ahead with our best guess, “This must be it!” If we do we have failed the test just as surely as
someone who loses interest and go off on his own trip anyway. But when we do wait to hear first, God
often only gives us a near-term revelation of what to do next. We have been waiting for a five year plan
but instead he gives us a 5 day, 5 hour or (usually) a 5 minute plan. But ultimately it is not about how
long it takes. It is about getting it right. He is the shepherd. I am but a sheep following the sound of his
voice, protected by His rod & rescued by His staff. Though he leads me through the valley of death, I
will trust Him fearlessly. ~ David Gerry Hallowell [2007]
Fear is the devil’s substitute for faith. ~ Arthur Burt
Faith is God’s antidote for fear. ~ YT
Pride is the enemy of the glory of God. The glory of man is the enemy of the glory of God.
~ Arthur Burt
The only person who can humble me is me. The only one who can humble you is you.
~ Arthur Burt
God doesn’t want to improve me. He wants to remove me. And as I go out Jesus comes in.
~ Arthur Burt
One thing I appreciate in that which is coming. It isn’t going to be localized in one man. It is going to be
scattered, delegated. It isn’t going to be a one man show. Every member is part of the whole. Every
member will have a function. If you don’t know what your function is, there will be unction on your
function. ~ Arthur Burt
The pianist sits down and touched the keys, B flat, C Sharp… But the key has no desire to be up when
the pianist takes his finger off it. Let’s learn to be like the piano. We have to come to the place where
the glory is safe. We don’t continue to sound off after the master takes his finger off
us. ~ Arthur Burt
A minister isn’t a man with his collar turned round the wrong way. You all are ministers. To come to
gatherings as spectators is totally out of the mind of God.
~ Arthur Burt
Revelation is the seed of God. If your revelation doesn’t work in the situation, you suffer evacuation
and you leave as you came in. ~ Arthur Burt
Part of the event of tabernacles is discerning the body properly. They may not look like, they may not
act like what you want them to look like and act like, but if you discern them properly by the Spirit you
will know them. There are traditions that we have all been tied to for years and years and years that
block the Spirit’s ability to direct us to the newness of God. The traditions of men make the Word of
God, or God’s ability to speak and impart to you to no effect. Tabernacles will introduce another whole
level of enlightenment, of discerning the Body properly. And just as you are drawn to, be sensitive to
the fact that there are others that you are repelled from. That doesn’t sound very Christian but it’s true.
You have to leave the old, to come into the new. And there are occasions when God will separate you
from the old to come into the new. ~ Clay Sikes
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever
cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. ~ Arthur Ashe
It's a dangerous business going out your front door. ~ JRR Tolkien
Show me someone who goes to a lot of meetings and I’ll show you someone who doesn’t have a
proper job. ~ Jeremy Clarkson
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. ~ Kenneth H. Blanchard
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain
in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. ~ Arnold Bennett
There are only two kinds of people in the world, those who are dead to sin and those who are dead in
sin. ~ Leonard Ravenhill
Several years ago the Lord spoke to me and said, “Ignorance often comes disguised as tradition."
~ Clay Sikes
Restlessness, discomfort, and even anxiety [may be a] method of Godly communication aimed at us
when our soul’s traditions have built walls around us that block the flow of the Holy Spirit to freely
communicate with us. ~ Clay Sikes
God spoke to me and said, “Anything growing will change, be open, be flexible, be willing to change.”
~ Clay Sikes
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
~ Sir Winston Churchill
The West is not accustomed to prosperous, illiberal states, though Germany had such a state in the
1930s. Such states are once again part of the global furniture. We need to revisit our cozy assumption
that prosperity and liberalism go hand-in-hand. There are other routes to prosperity and success,
whether we like it or not. We need to retain confidence in our own values without imagining that the
world can be remade in our own image. Surely, the debacle in Iraq should teach us that.
~ James Sherr [Comment: If Russia’s current confidence in a “strong” dictator de facto and
aggressive racism are any indications, she is now becoming just as dangerous as Germany was in the
30’s also. ~ DGH 6-7-2007]
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than
to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer too much, because they live in the
gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
The most important thing a father can do for his children ... is to love their mother.
~ Theodore Hesburgh
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. ~ Voltaire
To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold
payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Revival - It is God revealing Himself to man in awful holiness and irresistible power. It is such a
manifest working of God that human personalities are overshadowed, and human programmes
abandoned. It is man retiring into the background because God has taken the field. It is the Lord
making bare His holy arm, and working in extraordinary power on saint and sinner. ~ A. Wallis
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. ~ Thomas Gray
Beauty is its own excuse for being. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have to recognize that every "out-front" maneuver is going to be lonely. But if you feel entirely
comfortable, then you're not far enough ahead to do any good. That warm sense of everything going
well is usually the body temperature at the center of the herd. Only if you're far enough ahead to be at
risk do you have a chance for large rewards. ~ Barton Biggs
On Terrorism: You cannot kill a dead man. If I am truly crucified with Christ I am no longer in slavery to
fear of death. The terrorist is thwarted when his prey is fearless. Fierce dogs cower when fearless men
command them.
The use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today. But such oils may become in
the course of time as important as the petroleum and coal tar products of the present time. ~
Rudolf Diesel, 1912
The greatest nourishment to children is not what goes in their mouths ...but what comes out of ours.
~ Nathaniel H. Bronner Jr.
Adults have an obligation to be rational. If you're not rational, you run the risk of becoming road kill.
~ Dan Ferris
There is no such thing as a post-Christian society. One generation may reject the Gospel itself, but it
cannot reject it for future generations. ~ Luis Palau
By a strange paradox those who pray most, feel they pray little. ~ Leonard Ravenhill
To many, prayer is dry because they do all the talking. ~ Leonard Ravenhill
How hard is it sometimes to get leave of hearts to seek God! Jesus Christ went more willingly to the
cross than we do to the throne of grace. ~ Thomas Watson
God will fill the hungry because He Himself has stirred up the hunger. As in the case of prayer, when
God prepares the heart to pray, He prepares His ear to hear (Ps. 10: 17). So in the case of spiritual
hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, He will prepare His hand to fill.
~ Thomas Watson
If you don’t read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you are
misinformed. ~ Mark Twain
Prayer is the movement of trust, of gratitude, of adoration, or of sorrow, that places us before God,
seeing both Him and ourselves in the light of His infinite truth, and moves us to ask Him for the mercy,
the spiritual strength, the material help, that we all need. The man whose prayer is so pure that he
never asks God for anything does not know who God is, and does not know who he is himself: for he
does not know his own need of God. All true prayer somehow confesses our absolute dependence on
the Lord of life and death. It is, therefore, a deep and vital contact with Him whom we know not only as
Lord but as Father. It is when we pray truly that we really are. Our being is brought to a high perfection
by this. ~ Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island [1955]
All true prayer somehow confesses our absolute dependence on the Lord of life and death.
~ Thomas Merton
It is when we pray truly that we really are. Our being is brought to a high perfection by this.
~ Thomas Merton
You'll break the worry habit the day you decide you can meet and master the worst that can happen to
you. ~ Arnold Glasow
The use of Vegetable oils (Bio Diesel) for engine may seem insignificant today, but such oils may in
time become as important as Petroleum and Coal tar products of the present time.
~ Rudolf Diesel [1912]
One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
~ Sidney Howard
The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for
believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief. ~ T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
~ David Lloyd George
The average person explains away their failure, forever unwilling to stare into the light and see that
their sacred cow was just a cow. ~ Roy Williams
The mystery revealed, in a unique degree and form, in Christ's life, is really a universal spiritual human
law: the law of suffering and sacrifice, as the one way to joy and possession, which has existed,
though veiled till now, since the foundation of the world. ~ Friedrich von Hugel (1852-1925)
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in
order to practice being brave. ~ Mary Tyler Moore
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. ~ Benjamin Franklin
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had. ~ Margaret Mead
It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners, as it is in captive nations today. It was
understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating. A number of us decided to
pay the price for the privilege of preaching, so we excepted their terms. It was a deal: we preached and
they beat us. We were happy preaching; they were happy beating us - so everyone was happy. ~
Richard Wurmbrand
Most Christians don't hear God's voice because we've already decided we aren't going to do what He
says. ~ A.W. Tozer
I can tell how much God you have by how much entertainment you need. ~ A.W. Tozer
The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world. In their
effort to achieve restful adjustment to unregenerate society they have lost their pilgrim character and
become an essential part of the very moral order against which they are sent to protest. The world
recognizes them and accepts them for what they are. And this is the saddest thing that can be said
about them. They are not lonely, but neither are they saints. ~ A.W. Tozer
O Jesus, our crucified Redeemer, teach us not only to believe on Thee, but to abide in Thee, to take
Thy Cross not only as the ground of our pardon, but also as the law of our life. O teach us to love it not
only because on it Thou didst bear our curse, but because on it we enter into the closest fellowship
with Thyself, and are crucified with Thee. ~ Andrew Murray
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
The greatest difference between Christians and the world around them is the building where they
spend their time sleeping on Sunday. ~ Rikkert Zuiderveld
The worst torment is that of opportunities lost. ~ David Wilkerson
The one thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history. ~ Leonard Ravenhill
It is more important that God be glorified then that I be saved! ~ A.W Tozer
Until Christ works out in you an inner crucifixion which will cut you off from self-infatuation and unite
you to God in a deep union of love, a thousand Heavens could not give you peace.
~ F. J. Huegel
A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling
him; and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, then we
will anger them, or hazard our reputation with them. ~ Richard Baxter
Are the things you're living for worth Christ dying for? ~ Epitaph of Leonard Ravenhill
We need more speaking to God about men, than speaking to men about God. ~ Mother Cobb
Go empty your head and get your heart filled and you'll be better off. ~ A.W Tozer
Consider this, Christian: that all your trials and troubles, calamities and miseries, crosses and losses
which you meet in this world are all the hell you shall ever have!! ~ Thomas Brooks.
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience. ~ Laurence J. Peter
Victory belongs to the most persevering. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief. ~ Thomas Fuller
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; along the cool
sequester'd vale of life they kept the noiseless tenor of their way. ~ Thomas Gray
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he
violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. ~ Thomas Paine
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one
way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of
terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. ~ Harry S. Truman
Ordinarily we don’t get to choose how we will die, only how we will live. ~ V. Janny
Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual
experience, never by mere instruction. We dare not rest content with a neat doctrine of self-crucifixion.
That is to imitate Saul and spare the best of the sheep and the oxen. We must invite the cross to do its
deadly work within us. We must bring our self-sins to the cross for judgment. It is never fun to die. To
rip through the dear and tender stuff of which life is made can never be anything but deeply painful.
Yet that is what the cross did to Jesus and it is what the cross would do to every man to set him free.
The cross is rough and it is deadly, but it is effective. It does not keep its victim hanging there for ever.
There comes a moment when its work is finished and the suffering victim dies.
After that is resurrection glory and power, and the pain is forgotten for the joy that that veil is taken
away and we have entered, in actual spiritual experience, the Presence of the Living God.
~ A.W Tozer, "The Pursuit of God," pp. 46-47
The law of Christ, which it is our duty to fulfill, is the bearing of the cross. Thus the call to follow Christ
always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christ-like
suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke
When the solution is simple God is answering. ~ Albert Einstein
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will
last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. ~ Mark Twain
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Many do not recognize the fact as they ought, that Satan has got men fast asleep in sin and that it is
his great device to keep them so. He does not care what we do if he can do that. We may sing songs
about the sweet by and by, preach sermons and say prayers until doomsday, and he will never
concern himself about us, if we don't wake anybody up. But if we awake the sleeping sinner he will
gnash on us with his teeth. This is our work - to wake people up. ~ Catherine Booth
Spirit filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that
kindles. They serve with a devotion that consumes. They hate sin with fierceness that burns. They
rejoice with a joy that radiates. Love is perfected in the fire of God. ~ Samuel Chadwick
Are you truly a Spirit-filled Christian? Does the term "Spirit-filled" describe your doctrine or your
devotion? ~ David Smithers
How is it that the soul being of such value, and God so great, eternity so near and yet we are so little
moved? ~ William Bramwell
Pray, O pray, my brother! never, never quit your hold of the fullness of God; for time is nearly over, and
if this fullness be lost it will be lost forever. I am astonished that we do not pray more, yea, that we do
not live every moment as on the brink of the eternal world, and in the blessed expectation of that
glorious country. ~ William Bramwell
Many who do come into the secret place, and who are God's children, enter it and leave it just as they
entered, without ever so much as realizing the presence of God. And there are some believers who,
even when they do obtain a blessing, and get a little quickening of soul, leave the secret place without
seeking more. They go to their chamber, and there get into the secret place, but then, as soon as they
have got near to Him, they think they have been peculiarly blessed, and leave their chamber, and go
back into the world. Oh, how is it that the Lord's own people have so little perseverance? How is it that
when they do enter into their place of prayer to be alone, they are so easily persuaded to be turned
away empty; instead of wrestling with God to pour out His Spirit, they retire from the secret place
without the answer, and submit to it as being God's will. ~ William C. Burns
While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight; while children go hungry, as they do now I'll fight; while
men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while
there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll
fight - I'll fight to the very last. ~ William Booth
Work as if everything depended upon your work, and pray as if everything depended upon your
prayer. ~ William Booth
Go for souls and go for the worst. ~ William Booth
A real minister of the gospel is a man of prayer. Prayer is his grand employment, his safety, his first
and perpetual duty; and under grace, the grand source of his consolation. Our instructions will be
always barren, if they be not watered with our tears and prayers. ~ Thomas Coke
A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays
because his soul is hungry for God. ~ Leonard Ravenhill
A zealous man feels that like a lamp he is made to burn; and if consumed in burning, he has but done
the work for which God appointed him. Such a one will always find a sphere for his zeal. If he cannot
preach and work and give money, he will cry and sigh and pray. ~ J. C. Ryle
Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ~ Dorothy Bernard
Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should
become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you
believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society?
Then behave decently and humanely. ~ Adam Michnik
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their
work: human creation is never perfect. ~ Madeleine L'Engle
* The secret of the arts is to correct nature.
* Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
* The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
* Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.
* Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
* Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. ~ Voltaire
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light,
but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
~ Max Planck 1858-1947. German Theoretical Physicist
Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little in comparison with eternal realities.
~ Robert Murray M’Cheyne
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are
not it. ~ Bernard Bailey
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. ~ Picasso
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing, does the painter do good things. ~ Edgar Degas
The fisherman knows the sea is dangerous and terrible, but has never found these dangers sufficient
reasons for remaining ashore. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
Straight away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God. ~ Johannes Brahms
A painting is never finished, it simply stops in interesting places. ~ Paul Gardner
We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel. Man's fall, his need
of a new birth, forgiveness through atonement, and salvation as the result of faith, these are our battle-
ax and weapons of war. ~ C. H. Spurgeon
Knowledge is not about what information you have obtained but how you use it. ~ Korbin Wallace
Wrong attitudes in our lives will block the blessings of God and cause us to live below God's potential
for our lives. ~ John Maxwell
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
~ Ralph W. Emerson
Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards in
the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-
hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an
ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is
meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. ~ C.S. Lewis
Men don't follow titles, they follow courage, and if you would just lead them, they would follow you
forever, and so would I. ~ Braveheart
Lord, help me learn the secrets, that the little flowers know. That if it never rains, we will never grow.
~ known
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
But the Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him. He does not think
God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just
as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because
the sun shines on it. ~ C. S. Lewis
Dear Friend, God loves you, therefore seek Him diligently; Pray to Him earnestly. Read His Word
constantly. Jesus is the Comfort. ~ Evan Roberts
Wanna know if Jesus Christ is THE ONLY WAY to heaven? ...Ask the lost souls in hell! ~ unknown
The thought of procrastination is murder to the soul. ~ Charles G. Finney
Nothing is too big for my God to accomplish, and nothing is too little for Him to use in accomplishing it!
~ Unknown
The preacher who neglects to preach to himself has forgotten a very important part of his audience.
We must first address our own soul. If we can move that by the words we may utter, we may hope
to have some power with the souls of others. ~ C.H. Spurgeon
We manufacture atheists with mundane Christianity. ~ Robert Wurtz II
If you ask me if I believe in the eternal security of the believer, I would say I most certainly do. And I
also believe in the insecurity of the make-believer. ~ J. Vernon McGee
Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.
~ William Booth
God is the sweetest friend, but the worst enemy. ~ Thomas Watson
Beware of a dividing spirit; shun whatever has the least aspect that way. Therefore say not "I am of
Paul, or of Apollos:" the very thing which occasioned the schism at Corinth. Say not "This is my
preacher, the best preacher in the land; give me him and take all the rest..." Do not run down any
preacher. Do not exalt any one above the rest, lest you hurt both him and the cause of God."
~ John Wesley
He that is down needs fear no fall, He that is low no pride. ~ John Bunyan
A man full of hope will be full of action. ~ Thomas Brooks
We need to weep over the immorality in our homes. We have to
weep and wail that we have broken covenant with God. ~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
We are playing church. We are so busy trying to be relevant to the world that we have become just like
the world..... AND the world is not impressed." ~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
There is nothing wrong with the command of God to 'stone the false prophet!' The problem is that the
church has discerned wrongly and stoned the true prophet! That is why there are no more true
prophets in our days, because as soon as they begin their ministry, we rub them out. This is the
reason that so many false prophets are running around, not just because it's the end of the age but
because we have disobeyed God, His command, and killed off His prophets! We are like Herod, who in
the midst of John the Baptist's ministry, chose a wrong time to listen to his conscience instead of the
Holy Spirit! ~ G.A. Jarquin
If you study the Bible without applying it to your daily life, then it would be better not to study it at all.
~ Zac Poonen
'Nobody's perfect.' This is the hypocrite's couch. This is the believer's bed of thorns. ~ Al Martin
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. ~ James Hudson Taylor
Self-condemnation is Satan's lie to prevent sinners from repenting. ~ Pastor Jan Greenley
(paraphrased)
Surrender fully! Love wholly! ~ Yolanda Diehl
When we are in hand-to-hand conflict with the world, the flesh, and the devil himself, neat little Biblical
confectionery is like shooting lions with a pea-shooter; God needs a man who will let go and deliver
blows right and left as hard as he can hit, in the power of the Holy Ghost. Nothing but forked-lightning
Christians will count. ~ C. T. Studd (1860-1931)
It's not where you've been. It's where you are going that matters. ~ (Author unknown)
God is getting us all to the place where we are nothing and He is everything. God is burning, by the
Holy Spirit, all the rubbish out of us and is making us vessels of honor, sanctified for the Master's
use. ~ Rodney Howard-Browne
I could feel the impression, like a wave of electricity going through and through me. Indeed the Holy
Ghost seemed to come in waves of liquid love, for I could not express it in any other way.
~ Charles Finney
If I
have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
~ Isaac Newton
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. ~ Victor Hugo
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
~ Colin Powell
In real love you want the other persons good. In romantic love you want the other person.
~ Margaret Anderson
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. ~ Groucho Marx
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
I didn't say it would be easy. I just said it would be the truth. ~ Morpheus
God grades on the cross, not on the curve ~ (Author unknown)
God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called. ~ (Author unknown)
Real difficulties can be overcome; only the imagined ones are unconquerable. ~ Theodor Vail
Just remember, once your over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~ Charles M. Shultz
God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things.
I am so far behind, I'll never die. ~ Gordon Heiret
I used to think I was indecisive, but now I’m not so sure. ~ Ruth Bell
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
~ Clarence Darrow
The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents,
meetings and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment
is a powerful magnet for help. ~ Napoleon Hill
Give God what's right - not what's left.
Did it ever occur to you that nothing occurs to God?
Man's way leads to a hopeless end - God's way leads to an endless hope.
A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing.
He who kneels before God can stand before anyone.
In the sentence of life, the devil may be a comma - but never let him be the period.
When praying, don't give God instructions -- just report for duty.
Don't wait for six strong men to take you to church.
We don't change God's message - His message changes us. ~ Anon, or to be assigned
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. ~ English Proverb
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
~ Sigmund Freud
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw
him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable
to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple
eloquence of his example. ~ Mario Cuomo
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~ Lydia M. Child
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later....that the man
before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a
child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called
‘Being a Father’ so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector,
who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~ Tom Wolfe
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~ Bill Cosby"
I have found the best way to give advice to your children
is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it." ~ Harry S Truman
From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that
the cross bears those who bear the cross. ~ Sadar Sundu Singh (1889-
1929)
He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays. ~ John Owen
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. ~ William Cowper
Take God for your friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and
the things you must do will work out prosperously for you. ~ St. John of the Cross
To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself,
or have angels for hearers. ~ George Whitefield
The whole of theology... takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the universe of
created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with little opposition.
~ Bertrand Russell
From the beginning, we are presented with a dilemma by the Gospels: Such a Person never could
have lived; Such a Person never could have been invented! Which horn will you choose?
~ Nathaniel Micklem
The profession of the truth by not a few is the greatest dishonour and disparagement that can be cast
upon it. The best service that many can do it is by forsaking it, and declaring that the belief of it is
inconsistent with their cursed, wicked lives. ~ John Owen
I hate the devil and I would kill him, but I see there are several clergymen present, and they have their
families to support. ~ Melville D. Landon
The observances of the Church feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, upon the whole, since the rich
keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts. ~ Sydney Smith
The beauty of the statue is already there, all I have to do
is move away the excess marble. ~ Michelangelo
Replacing Arafat is first step to statehood ~ President George W. Bush
If I see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant, just what am I supposed to do about it,
responsible citizen that I am? ~ Steven L. Tvedton
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~ Lao Tzu
All it takes for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing. - ?
Prayer is the pulse of life; by it the doctor can tell what is the condition of the heart. ~ Andrew
Murray
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet
any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of
liberty. ~ John F. Kennedy
The Present is the point at which Time touches Eternity. ~ C.S. Lewis
An eagle needs both its left and right wing to fly. ~ Rick Joyner
Without God we can't. Without us he won't. ~ Paul Sharrow
A true apostolic gift will explain the past and point to the future ~ Clay Sikes
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." ~ ?
God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can,
and the wisdom to know …it's me! ~ John G. Miller
And I’m proud to be a heretic where as least I know I’m free. And I won’t forget the Lord who died, who
gave that right to me. ~ Jack? taking liberty with Lee Greenwood’s lyrics
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings;
the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. ~ Winston Churchill
You loved me not at all, but let it go; I loved you more than life, but let it be.
~ Sonnet xi, Edna St. Vincent Millay
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly
broken. If you want to keep it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it
carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or
coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not
be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. ~ The Four Loves, C. S. Lewis
.
…the only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and
perturbations of love is Hell. ~ The Four Loves, C. S. Lewis
Marriage is not only important to healthy aging, it is often the cornerstone of adult
resilience. ~ "Aging Well," Dr. George E. Vaillant
Communications are for holy impartation; otherwise it is just egoistic trash. ~ YT
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire? ~ Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983)
God will permit in His wisdom what He could have prevented in His power…He often will not change
the anxiety of our situation until our attitude changes. We must bow to the shrine of His wisdom and
say ‘AMEN LORD! You have allowed this.’ Once we embrace it for our good, we will be set free
internally… ~ Arthur Burt
We cannot defeat what we embrace. ~ a friend of Jon Hamill
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessing of
heaven. ~ G. C. Lichtenberg
As in our daily walk we come nearer towards heaven, He will open to us more of heaven.
~ Edward B. Pusey (1809-1882)
Most of the real work a pastor does is not in the pulpit but in the unheralded service of cultivating love
and trust in personal relationships. ~ Francis Frangipane
If we faithfully seek the Lord, adversity becomes like gasoline upon our heart’s fire for God.
~ Francis Frangipane, The Stronghold of God
Inwardly, God deals mightily with our soul, breaking its addiction to man’s approval and liberating us
to truly live for Christ. ~ Francis Frangipane, Stronghold of God
God’s love will so liberate us and change our hearts when we experience it, that we are compelled to
obey Him in love, responding to His love for us. ~ Steve Thompson
A faithful and good servant is a real godsend; but truly ‘tis a rare bird in the land.
~ Martin Luther
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without
thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.
~ Fredrick Douglass
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN the orator and the prophet are many and radical, the chief being that
the orator speaks for himself while the prophet speaks for God. The orator originates his message
and is responsible to himself for its content. The prophet originates nothing but delivers the message
he has received from God who alone is responsible for it, the prophet being responsible to God for its
delivery only. The prophet must hear the message clearly and deliver it faithfully, and that is indeed a
grave responsibility; but it is to God alone, not to men. ~ A. W. Tozer
It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving. ~ Richard Braunstein
UNITY of the KINGDOM Quotes:
The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be
of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad
people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what
you are doing, who would ever have been spared? ~ Martin Luther (1483-1546)
I sometimes have a bright dream of reunion engulfing us unawares, like a great wave from behind our
backs -- perhaps at the very moment when our official representatives are still pronouncing it
impossible. Discussions usually separate us; actions sometimes unite us. ~ C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
While the local church is not the total body of Christ, it must be seen to be [that body's] particular
expression in its worship, ministry, and mission. It has authority to preach the gospel and administer
the sacraments, but does not possess that authority in isolation, only as part of the total catholic
Church. The authority of the local church can never, therefore, be absolute or autonomous, for, if it
[asserts such authority], it denies that it is a part of the larger body and confuses the Church of God
with its particular expression in the local church. It therefore requires a structure which allows it to act
with the authority of the Church of God -- because it must be Christ to its local community -- while, at
the same time, demonstrating that it possesses such authority only because it is part of the total
Church of God, whose authority is derived from its organic relationship with Christ, its
Head. ~ Ian P. M. Cundy, "The Church as Community"
Before I can accede to your pretensions I must see, not only that the Church was such in the
beginning, but, moreover, that it is according to God's will that it be restored to its primitive glory; and,
furthermore, that a voluntary union of "two or three" or two or three and twenty, or several such
bodies, are each of them entitled, in any locality, to take the name of the Church of God, when that
Church originally was an assemblage of all believers in any given locality.
You must, moreover, make it clear to me, if you assume such a place, that you have so succeeded by
the gift and power of God in gathering together believers that you can rightfully treat those who refuse
to answer to your call as schismatics, self-condemned, and strangers to God's Church. And let me
here dwell on a most important consideration, which they who are bent on making churches have
overlooked. They have had their thoughts so fully engaged in their churches that they have almost
lost sight of the Church. According to Scripture, the whole sum of the churches here on earth
compose the Church, at least the Church on earth; and the Church in any given place was no other
than the regular association together of whatever formed part of the entire body of the Church, that is
to say, of the complete body of Christ here on earth; and he who was not a member of the Church in
the place in which he dwelt, was no member of Christ's Church at all.
~ John Nelson Darby (1800-1882)
In the surrender of separation only one thing must be abandoned, namely, a failure in obedience to
Christ, hitherto unrealized, in which a Church, in common... with a neighbor Church, or with all the
severed Churches, has had a share of guilt in that trouble which is the multiplicity of the Churches. Its
share has possibly lain in the fact that the normal and necessary multiplicity of communities, gifts and
persons within the Church has by the agency of the evil one been perverted; possibly in this, that
undue place and import have been attributed to what is racial, to elements of human mentality and
ethic, or of historical persistence. This would be the disobedience which the Church would have to
consider, as it listened afresh to the voice of Christ. ~ Karl Barth, The Church and the Churches [1936]
If [instead of beginning with the fellowship,] we begin by saying that the Church exists where the Word
is truly preached and the Sacraments rightly administered, we are immediately involved in the attempt
to answer the question, "What is correct doctrine and correct administration?" In fact, the latter
question has tended to drop out of the centre of Protestant discussion, for the Word was really central
and the Sacrament was conceived essentially as the Word made visible. "The Word," says Luther, "is
the one perpetual and infallible mark of the Church." The natural result of this position is that the
question of doctrinal correctness becomes the all important one. And, <I>ex hypothesi</I>, this
question has to be discussed in isolation, apart from consideration of the character of the fellowship in
which the doctrine is taught. The Church is defined in terms of agreement about doctrine, and this
doctrinal agreement must be agreement on paper. A written theological statement becomes the one
determinative centre of the Church's life [instead of the unity of the believers in
Christ]. ~ Lesslie Newbigin, The Household of God [1953]
The attentive reader will notice two items about the New Testament, as he comes to the end of it. For
one thing, there is no book of church order, laying down a code of rules for the worship and
organization of the communities: [there is] no book corresponding to the Book of Leviticus. The other
thing is that the writings are all meant for communities, not for individuals: they reflect and
presuppose the life of a society or fellowship. Even the private notes of Paul to Philemon and of the
presbyter John to Gaius are addressed to these individuals as members of the church; and Luke's two
volumes are intended primarily -- but only primarily -- for the Christian education of his friend and
patron Theophilus. ~ James Moffatt
Recently, some Christians have recognized the existing state of the church as sinful, or at least as
faulty and mistaken. They are trying to save the Christians out of this labyrinth by reuniting the
divided churches, by forming an alliance of churches, or by trying to form an ecumenical church. For
all that, it seems very difficult to obtain the desired result, because all the present churches are still
standing on the principles of the Reformation, unable to rid themselves of the sectarian spirit inherited
from Catholicism. So the number of denominations and sects shows no sign of decreasing, and all
efforts to unite the churches seem likely to end only in the formation of yet other sects and
denominations. Yet the center of Christianity is neither institution nor organization. Nor is it even the
Bible itself, as the Reformers made it, for the Ekklesia existed before the formation of the New
Testament canon. Christians were in fellowship with God and one another, centering their faith in
Christ, long before there was any accepted New Testament. There is only one center of Christianity --
spiritual fellowship with God through Jesus Christ. ~ Kokichi Kurosaki, One Body in Christ [1954]
It may be that the grace of renewal will not be given to us in our separation, will not be given until we
stand together for the healing of the nations. ~ Gordon Rupp (1910-1986)
I cannot do everything, but I can do something.... What I can do, I should do. And
what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do. ~ Edward Everett Hale
The realm of God is dangerous. You must enter into it and not seek information about it...The day when
God is absent, when he is silent-that is the beginning of prayer. ~ Archbishop Anthony Bloom
Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or cleverness of
expression, but operates in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. ~ Arthur Wallis
God starts when we stop and God stops when we start. ~ Clay Sikes
The amount of stress in my life is directly proportional to the areas over which Jesus is not Lord. ~ ?
True religion confronts earth with heaven and brings eternity to bear upon time. ~ A.W.Tozer
A wheel doesn't turn to become a wheel. It turns because it is a wheel! ~ Arthur Burt
To fix a broken life, use the tools of the heart. ~ anon
Circumstances do not make the man, they simply reveal him to himself. A test will reveal one of two
things – rest or restlessness! ~ Clay Sikes
Lord let others read your handwriting across my life today ~ Elizabeth Sherrill
Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that you may believe, but
believe that you may understand. ~ St. Augustine (354-430)
An appeal to arms and the God of hosts is all that is left us. But we shall not fight our battle alone.
There is a just God that presides over the destinies of nations. The battle sir, is not to the strong alone.
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it
almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me
death. ~ 1775 Patrick Henry
It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great Nation was founded not by
religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason
alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here. ~ 1776 Patrick Henry
For the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophy it is of no importance whether Plato or Aristotle ever lived.
For the mystical practice of an Indian, Persian, Chinese, or Neo-Platonic mystic it is a matter of
indifference whether Rama, Buddha, Laotse, or Porphyrius are myths or not. The mystic has no
personal relation to them. It is not here a question of somebody telling me the truth which of myself I
cannot find, but of my finding an access to the depths of the world in the depths of my soul. And
everywhere the tendency is to eliminate personality. Even where religion does not have this mystical
character, it has no relation to an historical person, who communicates himself to me. That is the
characteristic essence of the Christian faith alone. Even where a prophet plays the role of a mediator
of divine truth, as for example in Islam, the religious act is not directed toward him but toward his
teaching or message. But the Christian does not believe in the teachings of Jesus -- which would not
be Christian faith, but general religion -- he believes in Christ Himself as being the Word of God.
~ Emil Brunner (1889-1966)
I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole
country will soon be rallied to the unity of our Creator. ~ Thomas Jefferson
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the
principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. ~ July 4, 1821 President John Adams
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it
would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in
our country. ~ President Calvin Coolidge
When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs. ~ Thomas а Kempis (1380-1471)
TELEVISION
Television: chewing gum for the eyes. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959)
Television is to news as bumper-stickers are to philosophy. ~ Richard Milhous Nixon
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter, but that all subject
matter is presented as entertaining. ~ Neil Postman
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you
wouldn't have in your home. ~ David Frost (b.1939)
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book. ~ Groucho Marx (1890-1977)
“Who hates his neighbor has not the rights of a child." And not only has he no rights as a child, he
has no "father". God is not my father in particular, or any man's father (horrible presumption and
madness!); no, He is only father in the sense of father of all, and consequently only my father in so far
as He is the father of all. When I hate someone or deny God is his father, it is not he who loses, but I:
for then I have no father. ~ Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Some people are kind, polite, and sweet-spirited, until you try to sit in their pews.
It is easier to preach 10 sermons than it is to live one.
The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but mosquitoes come close.
When you get to your wit's end, you'll find God lives there.
People are funny, they want the front of the bus, the middle of the road, and the back of the church.
Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your front door forever.
Quit griping about your church; if it was perfect, you couldn't belong.
The phrase that is guaranteed to wake up an audience: "And in conclusion."
If the church wants a better preacher, it only needs to pray for the one it has.
God Himself does not propose to judge a man until he is dead. So why should you?
To make a long story short, don't tell it.
Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.
Peace starts with a smile.
I don't know why some people change churches; what difference does it make
which one you stay home from?
A lot of church members who are singing "Standing on the Promises" are just sitting on the premises.
Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.
Don't put a question mark where God put a period.
Forbidden fruits create many jams.
God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
God grades on the cross, not the curve.
God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.
He who angers you, controls you!
If God is your Co-pilot - swap seats!
Prayer: Don't give God instructions - just report for duty!
The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us.
The Will of God will never take you to where the Grace of God will not protect you.
We don't change the message, the message changes us.
You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him.
Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray. ~ Charles H. Brent
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ~ George Santayana
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers — wider
freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy less. We
have bigger houses and smaller families — more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees,
but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, yet more problems; more
medicine, but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too
little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much,
and pray too seldom. ~ Bob Moorehead
God Will Use The Most 'Unusual' People On Earth To Bring Out Heaven's Best In You! ~ Bill Yount
Never mistake motion for action. - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Whether you think that you can; or that you can’t; you are usually right. - Henry Ford (1863-1947)
“You will probably accomplish exactly what you set out to accomplish, nothing more, nothing less.”
~ “a wise person, ‘Church Planting Movements’ – pg 181
As every strategist knows, crisis is as much a moment of opportunity as it is a potential tipping point
toward defeat. ~ Bart Mongoven
Where the appointment is, the provision is. ~ Arthur Burt
The greater (hearing and obeying God), always includes the lesser (my needs being met).
~ Arthur Burt
My best is my greatest enemy before God. ~ Arthur Burt
God will never reveal more truth about Himself till you obey what you know already.
Beware of being wise and prudent. ~ Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
All God’s revelations are sealed to us until they are opened to us by obedience. You will never get
them open by philosophy or thinking. Immediately you obey, a flash of light comes. Let God’s truth
work in you by soaking in it, not by worrying into it. Obey God in the thing He is at present showing
you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. We read tomes on the work of the Holy Spirit when...
five minutes of drastic obedience would make things clear as a sunbeam. We say, "I suppose I shall
understand these things some day." You can understand them now: it is not study that does it, but
obedience. The tiniest fragment of obedience, and heaven opens up and the profoundest truths of
God are yours straight away. God will never reveal more truth about Himself till you obey what you
know already. Beware of being wise and prudent. ~ Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
Questions are easy, when you know the answers. ~ Mark Twain
The answers are easy, when you know the questions to ask. ~ Art Coday, M.D.
If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem ~ Eldridge Cleaver
I should take a sabbatical from taking a sabbatical ~ Ruth Bell
Capitalism: The Company - decisions according to the "best interest of the company"
Communism: The State - decisions according to the "best interest of the state"
Free Market: The Individual - decisions according to the "best interest of the individual"
Russia is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. ~ Winston Churchill
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true
criterion of the attachment of friends.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct
themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil
government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than
in bad company.
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your
preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your
confidence.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak,
and esteem to all.
Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it
is entitled to the appellation.
Twelve Rules of Spiritual Wisdom ~ Author Unknown
1. God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.
2. There is no key to happiness. The door is always open.
3. Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted.
4. Dear God, I have a problem, it's me.
5. Laugh every day, it's like inner jogging.
6. Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent
out of shape.
7. THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS IN YOUR HOME ARE THE PEOPLE.
8. As a child of God, prayer is kind of like calling home everyday.
9. He who dies with the most toys is still dead.
10. It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are done.
11. Surviving and living your life successfully requires courage. The goals and dreams you're seeking
require courage and risk taking. Learn from the turtle, it only makes progress when it sticks out it's
neck.
12. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you
really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
On the one hand, in matters of the spirit, nothing fails like success. On the other hand, in matters of the
spirit, nothing succeeds like failure. ~ Os Guinness
Honor lies in honest toil. ~ Grover Cleveland
Activity gets you busy. But productivity gets you results.
Activity consumes time. Productivity frees it.
Stop analyzing life. Just live it. Analysis is what makes it complicated.
Your today is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday.
Uncertainty is inevitable, but worrying is optional.
Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards. ~ Bill Sugleris?
Problems are purposeful roadblocks offering beneficial lessons that enhance metal strength. Inner
strength comes from struggle and endurance, not when you are free from problems.
If you look outside you will not know where you are heading. Look inside. Looking outside, you
dream. Looking inside, you awaken. Eyes provide sight. Heart provides insight.
Success is a measure as decided by others. Satisfaction is a measure as decided by you. Knowing the
road ahead is more satisfying than knowing you rode ahead. You work with the compass. Let others
work with the clock. Always look at how far you have come rather than how far you have to go. Always
count your blessing, not what you are missing.
When people suffer they ask, “Why me?”
When one prospers, he never asks, "Why me?"
Everyone wishes to have truth on their side,
but few want to be on the side of the truth.
Seek not to find who you are. Determine who you want to be.
Stop looking for a reason why you are here. Create it.
Life is not a process of discovery but of creation.
Face your past without regret.
Handle your present with confidence.
Prepare for the future without fear.
There are no unanswered prayers. At times the answer is, “NO!”
Keep the faith and drop the fear.
Don't believe your doubts or doubt your beliefs.
Life is a mystery to solve, not a problem to resolve.
Trust me. Life is wonderful if you know how to live.
Have some quiet time with the Lord your God,
and be blessed in your walk with Him.
Make God laugh. Tell him your plans. ~ Ken Hall
If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it. ~ unknown
With freedom comes responsibility. With license comes anarchy. ~ me
Freedom's potential is realized only when it is shared. ~ me
If truth is relative, then could this truth, that you say is true, that all truth is relative be relative itself and
thereby not always be true? ~ Jesse Morrell
Do more than exist ...live. Do more than touch...feel. Do more than look...observe. Do more than read...
absorb. Do more than hear...listen. Do more than think...ponder. Do more than talk...say something. ~
John H. Rhoades
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that
was the miracle. ~ AN
[About uninspired self effort] During a time of deep prayer God once spoke the following: “When you
start I stop; when you stop, I start.” ~ Clay Sykes
It’s not what you do, but why you do it. ~ Arthur Burt
As Christians, we can and often do miss the mark because we confuse entitlement with
expectation. ~ Clay Sykes
Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose. ~ Ronald Reagan
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to
help." ~ Ronald Reagan
The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that
isn't so. ~ Ronald Reagan
Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong. ~ Ronald
Reagan
I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had
run them through the U.S. Congress. ~ Ronald Reagan
The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil
service examination. ~ Ronald Reagan
Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other. ~ Ronald Reagan
If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
~ Ronald Reagan
The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.
~ Ronald Reagan
I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what
time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting. ~
Ronald Reagan
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking
resemblance to the first. ~ Ronald Reagan
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it
keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. ~
Ronald Reagan
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you
can always write a book. ~ Ronald Reagan
No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage
of free men and women. ~ Ronald Reagan
Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions,
let us win souls. I pray you, be men of action all of you. Get to work and quit yourselves like men... Our
one aim is to win souls; and this we are not to talk about, but do in the power of God.
~ Charles Spurgeon
It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. ~ Buckminster Fuller
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in
the beautiful office buildings -- and all the people sleeping in the slums. ~ Buckminster Fuller
A new, physically uncompromised, metaphysical initiative of unbiased integrity could unify the world.
It could and probably will be provided by the utterly impersonal problem solutions of the computers.
Only to their superhuman range of calculative capabilities can and may all political, scientific, and
religious leaders face- savingly acquiesce. ~ Buckminster Fuller
Because of their respective exclusivities, all the class warfare ideologies have become extinct.
Capitalism and socialism are mutually extinct. Why? Because science now finds there can be ample
for all, but only if the sovereign fences are completely removed. The basic you-or-me-not-enough-for-
both ‹ergo, someone-must-die- tenets of the class warfaring are
extinct. ~ Buckminster Fuller
I found that I was overwhelmed by the experiential evidence of a cosmic intellectual integrity at work in
the design of Universe. Thus, when I said in 1927 that I was going to try to find out and support what
the great cosmic intellectual integrity was trying to do, I committed myself as completely as humans
can to absolute faith in the wisdom of the eternal intellectual integrity we speak of as
God. ~ Buckminster Fuller
THE DARK AGES STILL REIGN over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination
are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is
locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes
and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt merely to compete with God. All are
intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Synergy – Name of the characteristic which means the behavior of the whole is unpredicted by the
behavior of its parts. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Real wealth is ideas plus energy. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
When we approach our problems on a universal, general systems basis and progressively eliminate
the irrelevancies, somewhat as we peel petals from an artichoke, at each move we leave in full visibility
the next most important layer of factors with which we must deal. We gradually uncover you and me in
the heart of now. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
The energy expended in one minute of a tropical hurricane equals the combined energy of all the U.S.
A. and U.S.S.R. nuclear weapons. Only by understanding this scheme may we continue for all time
ahead to enjoy and explore universe as we progressively harness evermore of the celestially
generated tidal and storm generated wind, water, and electrical power
concentrations. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
We may now raise our sights, in fact must raise our sights, to take the initiative in planning the world-
around industrial retooling revolution. We must undertake to increase the performance per pound of
the world’s resources until they provide all of humanity a high standard of living. We can no longer
wait to see whose biased political system should prevail over the world. You may not feel very
confident about how you are going to earn your right to live under such world-around patron-less
conditions. But I say to you the sooner you do the better chance we have of pulling out of humanity’s
otherwise fatal nose dive into oblivion. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Inspired imagination is precious rare, but progress starts there. ~ David Gerry Hallowell
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ~ Carl Sagan
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ~ Albert Einstein
They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. ~ Clint Eastwood
Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. ~ Ambrose
Bierce
Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive. ~ Elbert Hubbard
The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one. ~ Elbert Hubbard
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. ~ Elbert Hubbard
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. ~ Elbert Hubbard
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary
man. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. ~ Elbert Hubbard
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill
theirs.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give -
which is everything. ~ Katharine Hepburn
Nothing endures but change. ~ Heraclitus
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. ~ Bob Hope
I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage. ~ Bob Hope
We are the only animals that let our kids come back home. ~ Bill Cosby
There are three ways to get something done; do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do
it. ~ Mona Crane
Children really brighten up a household - they never turn the lights off ~ Ralph Bus
Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee ~ David Frost
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those
the art of living well. ~ Aristotle
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~ George Bernard Shaw
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time. ~ Lady Nancy Astor
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. ~ Aristotle
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
~ George Bernard Shaw
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will
have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. ~ Henry Ford
Our solar system consists of one star and some debris. ~ Carl Sagan
Mass distribution in our solar system: Sun: 99,865 %, Planets: 0,134% (Jupiter 0,1%), Moons*:
0,00004%, Comets*: 0,00003%, Asteroids*: 0,0000003%. (* estimation)
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. ~ Carl Sagan
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. ~ Carl Sagan
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. ~ popularized by Carl Sagan
War doesn't determine who's right - only who's left. ~ Bertrand Russell
Make crime pay. Become a Lawyer. ~ Will Rogers
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. ~ Will Rogers
The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing. ~ Will Rogers
You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
~ Will Rogers
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
~ Will Rogers
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else. ~ Will Rogers
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ~ Will Rogers
Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work. ~ Will Rogers
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. ~ Jeannette Rankin
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~ Japanese proverb
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you
die the world cries and you rejoice. ~ Translation Indian Proverb
In politics stupidity is not a handicap. ~ Napoleon
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second
hand, and without examination. ~ Mark Twain
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? ~ Harry Shearer
It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, but why he does it.
~ A. W. Tozer
We of the churches often gather our robes away from contamination, and thank God that we are not as
other men. We don’t despise God’s name; in fact, we call upon it constantly to justify ourselves... If we
object to meat-eating, we declare that God is vegetarian; if we abhor war, we proclaim a pacifist Deity.
He who turned water into wine to gladden a wedding is now accused by many of favoring that
abominable fluid, grape juice. There can hardly be a more evil way of taking God’s name in vain than
this way of presuming to speak in it. For here is spiritual pride, the ultimate sin, in action—the sin of
believing in one’s own righteousness. The true prophet says humbly, "To me, a sinful man, God
spoke." But the scribes and Pharisees declare, "When we speak, God agrees." They feel no need of a
special revelation, for they are always, in their own view, infallible. It is this self-righteousness of the
pious that most breeds atheism, by inspiring all decent, ordinary men with loathing of the enormous
lie. ~ Joy Davidman (1915-1960)
The more we fear crosses, the more reason we have to think that we stand in need of them: let us not
be discouraged when the hand of God layeth heavy ones upon us. We ought to judge of the violence
of our disease by the violence of the remedies which our spiritual physician prescribes for us. It is a
great argument of our wretchedness and of God's mercy, that, notwithstanding the difficulty of our
recovery, He vouchsafes to undertake our cure. ~ Francois Fenelon (1651-1715)
Refrain from illusions. Insist on work and not on words. Patiently search divine and scientific truth.
~ Maria Mendeleev (Dmitri Mendeleev’s mother, on her dying bed)
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is
accepted as being self-evident. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Politics: The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ~ Ambrose Bierce
There are three ways to get something done; do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do it.
~ Mona Crane
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. ~ Winston Churchill
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. ~ Will Rogers
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse
than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. ~ Will Rogers
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. ~ Samuel Butler
An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A
professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint. ~ Ben Shahn
Abstract art is the product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. ~ Al
Capp
Rembrandt painted 700 pictures. Of these, 3,000 are still in existence. ~ Wilhelm Bode
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ~
Aristotle
Not everything that can be counted, counts and not everything that counts can be counted.
~ Albert Einstein (maybe)
What comes from the heart enters into the heart. ~ Jewish Proverb
The highest form of worship is simple obedience to God's Word and voice. ~ Daniel Korakas
Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again
with Him. That is the secret of good judgment. Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices
before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the
purification of destruction. ~ Charles H. Brent (1862-1929)
[Christ] tells us plainly, and without any qualifications, that we are involved in a war in which there is
no room for neutrals. Yet people attempt to evade His statement. Generally speaking, these are the
very people who are the quickest in laying the blame upon God for all the sorrow and sin in the world.
They argue that He could prevent it. They excuse their own do-nothing attitude by making of evil's
apparent predominance a ground for doubt of His loving kindness. It never seems to occur to them to
look for the cause in mankind. ~ Hugh Redwood (b.1883), Live Coals [1935]
[Christ] tells us plainly, and without any qualifications, that we are involved in a war in which there is
no room for neutrals. ~ Hugh Redwood
Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much. ~ John Wayne
You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache. ~ Bernard M. Baruch
If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible. ~ Bernard M. Baruch
To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. ~ Bernard M. Baruch
Man is the only Animal that Blushes, or needs to. ~ Mark Twain
Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. ~ Mark Twain
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most. ~ Mark Twain
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter
don't mind. ~ Dr. Seuss
Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for the night.
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. ~ Michael Cooper
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. ~ John Steinbeck
Ignorance often comes disguised as tradition. ~ H.S. ~ Clay Sikes
Why is common sense so uncommon? ~ Tom Barrett
Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of
hell. ~ C.T. Studd
We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first. ~ Oswald J. Smith
No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once.
~ Oswald J. Smith
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 heaven on earth. ~ John Wesley
While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight; while children go hungry, as they do now I'll fight; while
men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while
there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll
fight - I'll fight to the very end! ~ William Booth
"A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience."
~ Leonard Ravenhill
"The last words of Jesus to the church (in Revelation) were 'Repent!'" ~ Leonard Ravenhill
"I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born
again." ~ Leonard Ravenhill
What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the
week to curse and gossip"
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?" ~ Leonard Ravenhill
Today's church wants to be raptured from responsibility. ~ Leonard Ravenhill
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
There's a difference between changing your opinion, and changing your lifestyle.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Our seminaries today are turning out dead men." ~ 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
"Everyone recognizes that Stephen was Spirit-filled when he was performing wonders. Yet, he was
just as Spirit-filled when he was being stoned to death." ~ Leonard Ravenhill
If a Christian is not having tribulation in the world, there's something wrong! ~ 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
If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been
crucified. ~ Leonard Ravenhill
The fundamental difference between many of us and the rich young ruler is this: He believed what
Jesus said was required of him to inherit eternal life and walked away sadly, while we don't believe
what Jesus said was required of us to inherit life and walk away rejoicing in our self deception.
~ Brother David
Are you saying that there is a price to pay to follow Jesus? I can't just believe the right things? I have
to actually do something that may encroach upon my comfort zone? Now I remember! I am to pick up
my cross daily if I want to be His disciple. ~ Dennis Curtis
"If you're having trouble trying to figure out if you're lukewarm, then let me help you out: If you're not
on fire for God in this life, then you'll be on fire in hell during the next!" ~ Unknown
Finney never made an altar call within the first twenty eight nights of preaching. Most of our
evangelists don't have twenty eight sermons. Twenty eight nights in a row and he never made an altar
call. He didn't preach the love of God. He didn't say "you're a sinner, God loves you." He said "God is
angry with the wicked every day" (Ps 7:11) which the Word of God says. He didn't preach grace, he
preached Law. He didn't preach love, he preached judgment. He didn't preach heaven, he preached
hell. He didn't say "you're a wonderful person" he said "you're a rebel". But he got results. 64% of D.
L. Moody's converts backslid, 72% of the converts Finney got stood because he knew how to attack
the human will, not just the emotions." ~ Leonard Ravenhill
"I don't believe there is a man on the whole TV that preaches salvation. They preach forgiveness.
Forgiveness is not salvation. They point out "there's a man in bed with some other man's wife in a
Motel". "Oh you know the Lord loves you just as you are." Well then why get changed? Commit
adultery as much as you like. He still loves you. Be a cheat, be a liar, be a thief, and be a failure. He still
loves you. But there's a scripture. Isn't it the Psalms 7.. where it says "God is angry with the wicked
every day." I heard somebody quote today "God loves you but hates your sin" that's bunken. God
hates you for committing the sin. Is God going to take your sins and judge them at the Judgment and
leave you alone?" ~ Leonard Ravenhill
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall
have to begin with the children. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
We need to stop asking God to bless what we are doing – and do what He is blessing.
~ Wolfgang Simson
Acts 6… seemed all pretty unincorporated, ad-hoc, temporary, minimal, a minimum of organization for
a maximum of organism. I therefore routinely advise any organization older than 5 years to reinvent
itself regularly (close down, pray, think, and start again with a fresh vision), meet at least every year for
a, ‘Let’s kill any holy cow that grazes amongst us’ - retraites (Fr: reprocessing,
reformation). ~ Wolfgang Simson
“You may not like the way these youngsters do ministry; the music, the style, the clothes, and they
have pierced what???! But they need to hear you say to them: I hate the way you do it, but I love you
for doing it, since otherwise nobody will do anything!” ~ Pastor Alex Garth of Berlin
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. ~ Helen Keller
Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things
just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going
to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already
naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. ~ Steve Jobs
One forgives to the degree that one loves. ~ François La Rochefoucaul
We cannot understand the depth of the Christian doctrine of sin if we give to it only a moral
connotation. To break the basic laws of justice and decency is sin indeed. Man's freedom to honor
principles is the moral dimension in his nature, and sin often appears as lawlessness. But sin has its
roots in something which is more than the will to break the law. The core of sin is our making
ourselves the center of life, rather than accepting the holy God as the center. Lack of trust, self-love,
pride--these are three ways in which Christians have expressed the real meaning of sin. But what sin
does is to make the struggle with evil meaningless. When we refuse to hold our freedom in trust and
reverence for God’s will, there is nothing which can make the risk of life worth the pain of it.
~ Daniel D. Williams (1910-1973)
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ~ Kahlil Gibran
The secret of freedom, courage. ~ Thucydides
When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone.
Now I realize I should have been more specific. ~ Lily Tomlin
Don’t pray, “God make me someone.” Be more specific. ~ mine
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. ~ Lao-tsu
(The following “quotes” are as yet not attributed)
“The older I get, the dumber the rest of humanity becomes!"
"The older I get, the more I become who I am."
"The person who knows less, sometimes understands more."
“The simple person believes that ‘if it feels good, do it,'
whereas the wise person believes ‘if it feels good, don’t trust it.’”
"There's a game called ‘conversation’ with rules that stipulate that you must overlook stupidity,
hypocrisy and irrelevance.”
“Thinking is a subversive activity. It undermines the power of our primitive right brain."
“Those with the bleakest prospects in their future are the most desperate to prolong life."
"To err is human. Indeed, it is our trademark."
"Truth is the one thing you can hit people over the head with, without it being felt!"
“Well, first, I want to commend you for keeping a straight face while you said that."
"When surrounded by a world of idiots the best defense is to live a good life."
“When people begin to agree with me, it is time for concern that I have taken a wrong path."
"Which serves the other: The chicken or the egg?"
"Women are most discredited by their liking of men."
When its whole significance dawns upon you [referring to evolution], your heart sinks into a heap of
sand within you. There is a hideous fatalism about it, a ghastly and damnable reduction of beauty and
intelligence, of strength and purpose, of honor and aspiration. ~ George B. Shaw
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
~ Francois de la Rochefoucauld
"When the plumbers want to be philosophers, forcing the philosophers to do their own plumbing, we
will arrive at a place wherein neither the plumbing nor the philosophy holds water."
~ Thomas D. Murray, Santa Barbara News-Press, February 15, 2000
"When the populace takes to reasoning, all is lost." ~ Voltaire
"When the well's dry, we know the worth of water." ~ Benjamin Franklin
"We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others."
~ Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims, 1678
"We are always doing something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us."
~ Joseph Addison, The Spectator, 1714
"We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies." ~ Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, 1604
"We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea." ~ Aristotle
"We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones."
~ Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims, 1678
"We know what we are, but know not what we may be." ~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1601
"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all."
~ Jean de La Bruyere, Les Caracteres,
"We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures."
~ William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 1599
"We often do good that we may do harm with impunity." ~ Francois de la Rochefoucauld
"We pardon to the extent that we love."
~ Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims, 1678
"We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire
from the world like a satisfied guest." Horace, Satires, ca 20 BC
We rarely find that people have good sense unless they agree with us.
~ Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims, 1678
We refuse praise from a desire to be praised twice. ~ La Rochefoucauld
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ~ Emile Zola
The circumstances of life, the events of life, and the people around me in life, do not make me the way I
am ...but reveal the way I am. ~ Dr. Sam Peeples
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling
that impossible which is only difficult. ~ Samuel Johnson
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
~ Aneurin Bevan
When a miracle happens, even if not to you, its nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the
warmth on your face. ~ Hugh Elliott
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be
kept alive. ~ Thomas Jefferson
'Lots To Learn!'
Sent me a fax with a stamp on it.
Thought a quarterback was a refund.
Tried to put M&M's in alphabetical order.
Thought Boyz II Men was a day care center.
Tripped over a cordless phone.....twice
spent 20 minutes looking at the orange juice box because it said, "concentrate."
put lipstick on forehead to make up mind.
Told me to meet at the corner of "WALK" and "DON'T WALK."
sat on the T.V. and watched the couch.
Took a ruler to bed to see how long he slept.
Asked for a price check at the Dollar Store.
Takes two hours to watch 60 Minutes.
Studied for a blood test - and failed.
Sold car for gas money.
Went to the airport and saw a sign that said, "Airport Left," -turned around and went home.
~ Source Unknown
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. ~ Mike Murdock
A friend is more valuable than a fortune. ~ Nathaniel Bronner
God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with. ~ Luis Palau (b.1934)
Ukraine has to learn playing by the rules and not with the rules. ~ Javier Solana
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. ~ old proverb
Be what you is, not what you ain't, 'cause when you is what you ain't, then you ain't what you is.
~ old proverb
As the twig is bent the tree inclines. ~ Virgil
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple,
that's creativity. ~ Charles Mingus
Remember, growing older is mandatory. Growing up is optional. ~ Granny Rose
We make a Living by what we get, We make a Life by what we give. ~ Granny Rose
God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. ~ Granny Rose
If God brings you to it, He’ll bring you through it. ~ Granny Rose
Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they are there. ~ Granny Rose
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping
it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little
luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that
casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable,
impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. ~ C. S. Lewis
A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos. ~ Benjamin Lee Whorf
This is the cause of all our evils—our not knowing the Scriptures.” Yet how does one get to know the
Scriptures if he does not have in his version of them, exactly what God says? ~ John Chrysostom
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to
you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. ~ Brian Tracy
The average Christian is so cold and contented with his wretched condition that there is no vacuum of
desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness. ~ A.W. Tozer
No man is ever fully accepted until he has, first of all, been utterly rejected. ~ Author unknown
The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of time-judgments. By faith he rises
above the tug of earth and the flow of time and learns to think and feel as one who has already left the
world and gone to join the innumerable company of angels and the general assembly and Church of
the First-born which are written in heaven. Such a man would rather be useful than famous and would
rather serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the Holy Spirit within him. No man
can become spiritual by himself. Only the free Spirit can make a man spiritual. ~ A.W.Tozer
What pains do children take to scrape and roll the snow together to make a snowman. But soon after it
is done, the heat of the sun dissolves it, and it comes to nothing. The greatest treasures of worldly
people are but snowmen! When death and judgment come, they melt away, and come to nothing!
'The world with its lust is passing away.' -1 John 2:17 ~ Matthew Meade, "The Almost Christian"
We stink more of the world than we stink of sack cloth and ashes. A lot of contemporary churches
today would feel more at home in a movie house rather than in a house of prayer, more afraid of holy
living than of sinning, know more about money than magnifying Christ in our bodies. It is so
compromised that holiness and living a sin-free life is heresy to the modern church. The modern
church is, quite simply, just the world with a Christian T-shirt on! ~ N. Cruz
Despite the atrociousness of it, Satan really does have "little cause to fear most preaching." Most
preaching in the modern church is completely devoid of unction. Pastors are too busy playing golf or
racquetball to bother spending time on their knees. No wonder some pastors I've heard can more
readily quote Dr. Laura then bible passages pertaining to prayer. It's disastrous. Satan need not fear
under those conditions. ~ A. Reavis
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
How do we worship our God Wholeheartedly? To answer the question we must respond to our Lord’s,
"If you love me, you will obey what I command." Jn 14:15. True Love is complete obedience. Half
obedience is no obedience. If you love Jesus, you will obey what He commands. This is true love and
true worship. ~
Unknown
A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays
because his soul is hungry for God. ~
Leonard Ravenhill
Resolved: That all men should live for the glory of God. Resolved second: That whether others do or
not, I will. ~ Jonathan Edwards
The Spirit clothed himself, He makes the record say, With Gideon, so he became As nothing in the fray,
But just a suit of working clothes The Spirit wore that day. ~ Unknown
Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly into heaven, without having blown the trumpet
loud and long for our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Let us see to it that the devil will hold a thanksgiving
service in hell, when he gets the news of our departure from the field of battle. ~ C. T. Studd
Sometimes the only way you conquer the pull of power is to set it down. ~ Tony Blair
Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you. ~ Catherine de Hueck Doherty
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists; not so good when people obey and acclaim
him; worst when they despise him. ~ Lao-tzu
Values are a stronger binding force than authority. ~ Deborah Alvarez-Rodriguez
God has called the laity to be his basic ministers. He has called some to be "player-coaches" ... to
equip the laity for the ministry they are to fulfill. This equipping ministry is of unique importance. One is
appointed to this ministry by the Holy Spirit; therefore it must be undertaken with utmost seriousness.
This is a radical departure from the traditional understanding of the roles of the laity and the clergy.
The laity had the idea that they were already committed to a "full-time" vocation in the secular world,
[and] thus they did not have time--at least, much time--to do God's work. Therefore they contributed
money to "free" the clergy to have the time needed to fulfill God's ministry. This view is rank heresy. If
we follow this pattern, we may continue to do God's work until the Lord comes again and never fulfill
God's purpose as it ought to be done. ~ Findley B. Edge (1916-2002),
The Greening of the Church [1971]
The heart's slavish and dogged devotion to its idol is what fathers of the Church have called "the
bondage of the will." This bondage becomes most painfully apparent in our lives when we earnestly
feel the need of changing but cannot; when we are attracted to another value that for one reason or
another conflicts with the desires of our true God-that value nearest and dearest to us. But our true
god lies so deeply inside us that often we are not even consciously aware of its presence or of what it
actually is. ~ Robert L. Short, The Parables of Peanuts [1968]
It's time to quit playing church and start being the Church (Matt. 18:20) ~ Keith Green, quoted by
Melody Green in the introduction to A Cry in the Wilderness, Sparrow Press, 1993.
I repent of ever having recorded one single song, and ever having performed one concert, if my music,
and more importantly, my life has not provoked you into Godly jealousy or to sell out more completely
to Jesus! ~ Keith Green
No Compromise is what the whole Gospel of Jesus is all about... 'For I tell you...no man can serve two
masters...' (Matt. 6:24). In a day when believers seem to be trying to please both the world and the Lord
(which is an impossible thing), when people are far more concerned about offending their friends than
offending God, there is only one answer...Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Him!
~ Keith Green, ‘No Compromise,’ 1978
After all our hopes and dreams have come and gone, and children sift through all we've left behind;
May the clues that they discover, become the light that leads them to the road we each must find.
~ Sung by Steve Green, "Find US Faithful"
There is a difference between, "defending," and recognizing the power of the structure in which we all
play a part, its inherent resistance to change, and the frustration that comes from being "one voice"
after a while. ~ D.S. Cunningham
This autonomy of man, this attempt of the Ego to understand itself out of itself, is the lie concerning
man which we call sin. The truth about man is that his ground is not in himself but in God-that his
essence is not in self sufficient reason but in the Word, in the challenge of God, in responsibility, not in
self-sufficiency. The true being of man is realized when he bases himself upon God's Word. Faith is
then not an impossibility or a salto mortale [mortal leap], but that which is truly natural; and the real
salto mortale (a mortal leap indeed!) is just the assertion of autonomy, self-sufficiency, God-likeness. [It
is] through this usurped independence [that] man separates himself from God, and at the same time
isolates himself from his fellows. Individualism is the necessary consequence of rational autonomy,
just as love is the necessary consequence of faith.~ Emil Brunner, The Word and The World [1931]
To ‘do it my way,’ as in the popular song is a death leap. The ‘god’ in the mirror is no God and cannot
be. Believing I can go it alone and unassisted is the same DIY lie from Eden. Pride and self-sufficiency
suck us in so easily. Believing that I am, or may become, a god is a giant step into isolation from God
and my fellow man, to death. The fearsome thing about this isolation is that it sneaks up on you only
after you have become more popular for a time because of the attractiveness of that old snaky
temptation in one so newly infected by it. “Hey man, check this [insert fashionable drug, self-help
course or religion here] out!” Spiritual poison is more potent when it is fresh. Satan knows this and
since he is into killing all whom he may, that first lie in the garden is continually reinvented. Lord, open
my eyes to see this lie in all its morphs and responsibly warn others. ~ David Gerry Hallowell [2007]
To rely only on God since the knowledge tree infection, even millenniums hence, is a radical, extremely
difficult thing to do. The first step to God reliance, is just to ask Him to bless our endeavors and in due
course thank Him for doing it. That’s infantile faith though. I am still too ego-centric. The more radical
next step but most necessary one is letting Him decide on the action itself. We must learn, like Jesus,
not to say or do anything but what we see the Father say or do! I must learn not to ask God to bless my
way, but find where God is going and what He wants of me…then do it willingly. It is hard at first.
There is a test involved. God may wait a bit before He tells us the plan. During this time we often run
ahead with our best guess, “This must be it!” If we do we have failed the test just as surely as
someone who loses interest and go off on his own trip anyway. But when we do wait to hear first, God
often only gives us a near-term revelation of what to do next. We have been waiting for a five year plan
but instead he gives us a 5 day, 5 hour or (usually) a 5 minute plan. But ultimately it is not about how
long it takes. It is about getting it right. He is the shepherd. I am but a sheep following the sound of his
voice, protected by His rod & rescued by His staff. Though he leads me through the valley of death, I
will trust Him fearlessly. ~ David Gerry Hallowell [2007]
Fear is the devil’s substitute for faith. ~ Arthur Burt
Faith is God’s antidote for fear. ~ YT
Pride is the enemy of the glory of God. The glory of man is the enemy of the glory of God.
~ Arthur Burt
The only person who can humble me is me. The only one who can humble you is you.
~ Arthur Burt
God doesn’t want to improve me. He wants to remove me. And as I go out Jesus comes in.
~ Arthur Burt
One thing I appreciate in that which is coming. It isn’t going to be localized in one man. It is going to be
scattered, delegated. It isn’t going to be a one man show. Every member is part of the whole. Every
member will have a function. If you don’t know what your function is, there will be unction on your
function. ~ Arthur Burt
The pianist sits down and touched the keys, B flat, C Sharp… But the key has no desire to be up when
the pianist takes his finger off it. Let’s learn to be like the piano. We have to come to the place where
the glory is safe. We don’t continue to sound off after the master takes his finger off
us. ~ Arthur Burt
A minister isn’t a man with his collar turned round the wrong way. You all are ministers. To come to
gatherings as spectators is totally out of the mind of God.
~ Arthur Burt
Revelation is the seed of God. If your revelation doesn’t work in the situation, you suffer evacuation
and you leave as you came in. ~ Arthur Burt
Part of the event of tabernacles is discerning the body properly. They may not look like, they may not
act like what you want them to look like and act like, but if you discern them properly by the Spirit you
will know them. There are traditions that we have all been tied to for years and years and years that
block the Spirit’s ability to direct us to the newness of God. The traditions of men make the Word of
God, or God’s ability to speak and impart to you to no effect. Tabernacles will introduce another whole
level of enlightenment, of discerning the Body properly. And just as you are drawn to, be sensitive to
the fact that there are others that you are repelled from. That doesn’t sound very Christian but it’s true.
You have to leave the old, to come into the new. And there are occasions when God will separate you
from the old to come into the new. ~ Clay Sikes
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever
cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. ~ Arthur Ashe
It's a dangerous business going out your front door. ~ JRR Tolkien
Show me someone who goes to a lot of meetings and I’ll show you someone who doesn’t have a
proper job. ~ Jeremy Clarkson
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. ~ Kenneth H. Blanchard
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain
in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. ~ Arnold Bennett
There are only two kinds of people in the world, those who are dead to sin and those who are dead in
sin. ~ Leonard Ravenhill
Several years ago the Lord spoke to me and said, “Ignorance often comes disguised as tradition."
~ Clay Sikes
Restlessness, discomfort, and even anxiety [may be a] method of Godly communication aimed at us
when our soul’s traditions have built walls around us that block the flow of the Holy Spirit to freely
communicate with us. ~ Clay Sikes
God spoke to me and said, “Anything growing will change, be open, be flexible, be willing to change.”
~ Clay Sikes
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
~ Sir Winston Churchill
The West is not accustomed to prosperous, illiberal states, though Germany had such a state in the
1930s. Such states are once again part of the global furniture. We need to revisit our cozy assumption
that prosperity and liberalism go hand-in-hand. There are other routes to prosperity and success,
whether we like it or not. We need to retain confidence in our own values without imagining that the
world can be remade in our own image. Surely, the debacle in Iraq should teach us that.
~ James Sherr [Comment: If Russia’s current confidence in a “strong” dictator de facto and
aggressive racism are any indications, she is now becoming just as dangerous as Germany was in the
30’s also. ~ DGH 6-7-2007]
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than
to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer too much, because they live in the
gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
The most important thing a father can do for his children ... is to love their mother.
~ Theodore Hesburgh
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. ~ Voltaire
To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold
payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Revival - It is God revealing Himself to man in awful holiness and irresistible power. It is such a
manifest working of God that human personalities are overshadowed, and human programmes
abandoned. It is man retiring into the background because God has taken the field. It is the Lord
making bare His holy arm, and working in extraordinary power on saint and sinner. ~ A. Wallis
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. ~ Thomas Gray
Beauty is its own excuse for being. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have to recognize that every "out-front" maneuver is going to be lonely. But if you feel entirely
comfortable, then you're not far enough ahead to do any good. That warm sense of everything going
well is usually the body temperature at the center of the herd. Only if you're far enough ahead to be at
risk do you have a chance for large rewards. ~ Barton Biggs
On Terrorism: You cannot kill a dead man. If I am truly crucified with Christ I am no longer in slavery to
fear of death. The terrorist is thwarted when his prey is fearless. Fierce dogs cower when fearless men
command them.
The use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today. But such oils may become in
the course of time as important as the petroleum and coal tar products of the present time. ~
Rudolf Diesel, 1912
The greatest nourishment to children is not what goes in their mouths ...but what comes out of ours.
~ Nathaniel H. Bronner Jr.
Adults have an obligation to be rational. If you're not rational, you run the risk of becoming road kill.
~ Dan Ferris
There is no such thing as a post-Christian society. One generation may reject the Gospel itself, but it
cannot reject it for future generations. ~ Luis Palau
By a strange paradox those who pray most, feel they pray little. ~ Leonard Ravenhill
To many, prayer is dry because they do all the talking. ~ Leonard Ravenhill
How hard is it sometimes to get leave of hearts to seek God! Jesus Christ went more willingly to the
cross than we do to the throne of grace. ~ Thomas Watson
God will fill the hungry because He Himself has stirred up the hunger. As in the case of prayer, when
God prepares the heart to pray, He prepares His ear to hear (Ps. 10: 17). So in the case of spiritual
hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, He will prepare His hand to fill.
~ Thomas Watson
If you don’t read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you are
misinformed. ~ Mark Twain
Prayer is the movement of trust, of gratitude, of adoration, or of sorrow, that places us before God,
seeing both Him and ourselves in the light of His infinite truth, and moves us to ask Him for the mercy,
the spiritual strength, the material help, that we all need. The man whose prayer is so pure that he
never asks God for anything does not know who God is, and does not know who he is himself: for he
does not know his own need of God. All true prayer somehow confesses our absolute dependence on
the Lord of life and death. It is, therefore, a deep and vital contact with Him whom we know not only as
Lord but as Father. It is when we pray truly that we really are. Our being is brought to a high perfection
by this. ~ Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island [1955]
All true prayer somehow confesses our absolute dependence on the Lord of life and death.
~ Thomas Merton
It is when we pray truly that we really are. Our being is brought to a high perfection by this.
~ Thomas Merton
You'll break the worry habit the day you decide you can meet and master the worst that can happen to
you. ~ Arnold Glasow
The use of Vegetable oils (Bio Diesel) for engine may seem insignificant today, but such oils may in
time become as important as Petroleum and Coal tar products of the present time.
~ Rudolf Diesel [1912]
One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
~ Sidney Howard
The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for
believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief. ~ T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
~ David Lloyd George
The average person explains away their failure, forever unwilling to stare into the light and see that
their sacred cow was just a cow. ~ Roy Williams
The mystery revealed, in a unique degree and form, in Christ's life, is really a universal spiritual human
law: the law of suffering and sacrifice, as the one way to joy and possession, which has existed,
though veiled till now, since the foundation of the world. ~ Friedrich von Hugel (1852-1925)
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in
order to practice being brave. ~ Mary Tyler Moore
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. ~ Benjamin Franklin
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had. ~ Margaret Mead
It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners, as it is in captive nations today. It was
understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating. A number of us decided to
pay the price for the privilege of preaching, so we excepted their terms. It was a deal: we preached and
they beat us. We were happy preaching; they were happy beating us - so everyone was happy. ~
Richard Wurmbrand
Most Christians don't hear God's voice because we've already decided we aren't going to do what He
says. ~ A.W. Tozer
I can tell how much God you have by how much entertainment you need. ~ A.W. Tozer
The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world. In their
effort to achieve restful adjustment to unregenerate society they have lost their pilgrim character and
become an essential part of the very moral order against which they are sent to protest. The world
recognizes them and accepts them for what they are. And this is the saddest thing that can be said
about them. They are not lonely, but neither are they saints. ~ A.W. Tozer
O Jesus, our crucified Redeemer, teach us not only to believe on Thee, but to abide in Thee, to take
Thy Cross not only as the ground of our pardon, but also as the law of our life. O teach us to love it not
only because on it Thou didst bear our curse, but because on it we enter into the closest fellowship
with Thyself, and are crucified with Thee. ~ Andrew Murray
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
The greatest difference between Christians and the world around them is the building where they
spend their time sleeping on Sunday. ~ Rikkert Zuiderveld
The worst torment is that of opportunities lost. ~ David Wilkerson
The one thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history. ~ Leonard Ravenhill
It is more important that God be glorified then that I be saved! ~ A.W Tozer
Until Christ works out in you an inner crucifixion which will cut you off from self-infatuation and unite
you to God in a deep union of love, a thousand Heavens could not give you peace.
~ F. J. Huegel
A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling
him; and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, then we
will anger them, or hazard our reputation with them. ~ Richard Baxter
Are the things you're living for worth Christ dying for? ~ Epitaph of Leonard Ravenhill
We need more speaking to God about men, than speaking to men about God. ~ Mother Cobb
Go empty your head and get your heart filled and you'll be better off. ~ A.W Tozer
Consider this, Christian: that all your trials and troubles, calamities and miseries, crosses and losses
which you meet in this world are all the hell you shall ever have!! ~ Thomas Brooks.
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience. ~ Laurence J. Peter
Victory belongs to the most persevering. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief. ~ Thomas Fuller
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; along the cool
sequester'd vale of life they kept the noiseless tenor of their way. ~ Thomas Gray
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he
violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. ~ Thomas Paine
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one
way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of
terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. ~ Harry S. Truman
Ordinarily we don’t get to choose how we will die, only how we will live. ~ V. Janny
Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual
experience, never by mere instruction. We dare not rest content with a neat doctrine of self-crucifixion.
That is to imitate Saul and spare the best of the sheep and the oxen. We must invite the cross to do its
deadly work within us. We must bring our self-sins to the cross for judgment. It is never fun to die. To
rip through the dear and tender stuff of which life is made can never be anything but deeply painful.
Yet that is what the cross did to Jesus and it is what the cross would do to every man to set him free.
The cross is rough and it is deadly, but it is effective. It does not keep its victim hanging there for ever.
There comes a moment when its work is finished and the suffering victim dies.
After that is resurrection glory and power, and the pain is forgotten for the joy that that veil is taken
away and we have entered, in actual spiritual experience, the Presence of the Living God.
~ A.W Tozer, "The Pursuit of God," pp. 46-47
The law of Christ, which it is our duty to fulfill, is the bearing of the cross. Thus the call to follow Christ
always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christ-like
suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke
When the solution is simple God is answering. ~ Albert Einstein
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will
last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. ~ Mark Twain
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Many do not recognize the fact as they ought, that Satan has got men fast asleep in sin and that it is
his great device to keep them so. He does not care what we do if he can do that. We may sing songs
about the sweet by and by, preach sermons and say prayers until doomsday, and he will never
concern himself about us, if we don't wake anybody up. But if we awake the sleeping sinner he will
gnash on us with his teeth. This is our work - to wake people up. ~ Catherine Booth
Spirit filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that
kindles. They serve with a devotion that consumes. They hate sin with fierceness that burns. They
rejoice with a joy that radiates. Love is perfected in the fire of God. ~ Samuel Chadwick
Are you truly a Spirit-filled Christian? Does the term "Spirit-filled" describe your doctrine or your
devotion? ~ David Smithers
How is it that the soul being of such value, and God so great, eternity so near and yet we are so little
moved? ~ William Bramwell
Pray, O pray, my brother! never, never quit your hold of the fullness of God; for time is nearly over, and
if this fullness be lost it will be lost forever. I am astonished that we do not pray more, yea, that we do
not live every moment as on the brink of the eternal world, and in the blessed expectation of that
glorious country. ~ William Bramwell
Many who do come into the secret place, and who are God's children, enter it and leave it just as they
entered, without ever so much as realizing the presence of God. And there are some believers who,
even when they do obtain a blessing, and get a little quickening of soul, leave the secret place without
seeking more. They go to their chamber, and there get into the secret place, but then, as soon as they
have got near to Him, they think they have been peculiarly blessed, and leave their chamber, and go
back into the world. Oh, how is it that the Lord's own people have so little perseverance? How is it that
when they do enter into their place of prayer to be alone, they are so easily persuaded to be turned
away empty; instead of wrestling with God to pour out His Spirit, they retire from the secret place
without the answer, and submit to it as being God's will. ~ William C. Burns
While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight; while children go hungry, as they do now I'll fight; while
men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while
there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll
fight - I'll fight to the very last. ~ William Booth
Work as if everything depended upon your work, and pray as if everything depended upon your
prayer. ~ William Booth
Go for souls and go for the worst. ~ William Booth
A real minister of the gospel is a man of prayer. Prayer is his grand employment, his safety, his first
and perpetual duty; and under grace, the grand source of his consolation. Our instructions will be
always barren, if they be not watered with our tears and prayers. ~ Thomas Coke
A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays
because his soul is hungry for God. ~ Leonard Ravenhill
A zealous man feels that like a lamp he is made to burn; and if consumed in burning, he has but done
the work for which God appointed him. Such a one will always find a sphere for his zeal. If he cannot
preach and work and give money, he will cry and sigh and pray. ~ J. C. Ryle
Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ~ Dorothy Bernard
Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should
become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you
believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society?
Then behave decently and humanely. ~ Adam Michnik
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their
work: human creation is never perfect. ~ Madeleine L'Engle
* The secret of the arts is to correct nature.
* Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
* The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
* Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.
* Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
* Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. ~ Voltaire
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light,
but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
~ Max Planck 1858-1947. German Theoretical Physicist
Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little in comparison with eternal realities.
~ Robert Murray M’Cheyne
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are
not it. ~ Bernard Bailey
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. ~ Picasso
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing, does the painter do good things. ~ Edgar Degas
The fisherman knows the sea is dangerous and terrible, but has never found these dangers sufficient
reasons for remaining ashore. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
Straight away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God. ~ Johannes Brahms
A painting is never finished, it simply stops in interesting places. ~ Paul Gardner
We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel. Man's fall, his need
of a new birth, forgiveness through atonement, and salvation as the result of faith, these are our battle-
ax and weapons of war. ~ C. H. Spurgeon
Knowledge is not about what information you have obtained but how you use it. ~ Korbin Wallace
Wrong attitudes in our lives will block the blessings of God and cause us to live below God's potential
for our lives. ~ John Maxwell
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
~ Ralph W. Emerson
Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards in
the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-
hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an
ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is
meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. ~ C.S. Lewis
Men don't follow titles, they follow courage, and if you would just lead them, they would follow you
forever, and so would I. ~ Braveheart
Lord, help me learn the secrets, that the little flowers know. That if it never rains, we will never grow.
~ known
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
But the Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him. He does not think
God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just
as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because
the sun shines on it. ~ C. S. Lewis
Dear Friend, God loves you, therefore seek Him diligently; Pray to Him earnestly. Read His Word
constantly. Jesus is the Comfort. ~ Evan Roberts
Wanna know if Jesus Christ is THE ONLY WAY to heaven? ...Ask the lost souls in hell! ~ unknown
The thought of procrastination is murder to the soul. ~ Charles G. Finney
Nothing is too big for my God to accomplish, and nothing is too little for Him to use in accomplishing it!
~ Unknown