Abortion
“The people who are today in favor of abortion are
themselves already born.” – Andrew Phipps
Action
“Sympathy is no substitute for action.” – David Livingstone
“In Germany
they came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a
Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I
wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up
because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I
didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by
that time no one was left to speak up.” – Martin Niemoller
“Our words may hide our thoughts, but our actions will reveal them.” – Unknown
Affliction
"We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in
prosperity we forget God." - Dwight L. Moody
"The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of
affliction." - Charles H. Spurgeon
"I never knew all there was in the Bible until I spent those
years in jail. I was constantly finding new treasures." - John Bunyan
"So when we see the ever blessed God, our heavenly Father,
send infirmities and crosses to rescue those He loves from sin's dominion, we
safely conclude that He thinks affliction is a far less evil than the guilt of
sin. He is too wise and too indulgent a physician to cure with such a
remedy as would be worse than the disease." - John Bunyan
“The best
way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
“I thank God for my handicaps, for through them I found
myself, my work and my God.” – Helen Keller
“In times of affliction we commonly meet with the
sweetest experience of the love of God.” – Bunyan
“The bitterest cup with Christ is better than the
sweetest cup without him.” – Ian MacPherson
Anger
"Be not long angry, for though anger may come into the bosom
of a wise man, and pass through it as a wayfaring man, it rests only in the
bosom of fools." - Matthew Henry
“An angry person is never a respected person.” - Unknown
“He who angers you controls you.” – Unknown
“Keep your temper. Nobody else wants it!” – Unknown
“A woman told Billy Sunday that she had a bad temper, but
it was over in a minute. “So is a shotgun, but it blows everything to
pieces,” was his reply
“Anger is just one letter short of danger.” – Anon.
“The anger of today is the remorse of tomorrow.” – Aanon
“The worst thing we can bring to a religious controversy
is anger.” – Matthew Henry
“People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.” –
Will Rogers
Anxiety
"Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows but only
empties today of its strength." - Charles H. Spurgeon
The beginning of anxiety is
the end of faith and the end of faith is the beginning of anxiety. -
George Mueller
Associates
“Bad people in confederacy make one another much worse than any of them would
be by themselves.” - Matthew Henry
“Associate yourself with men of good quality if you
esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”
– George Washington
Assurance
“The goats will not love the sheep; and if you love the sheep, it is an
evidence that you are a sheep yourself.” – Charles Spurgeon
Atheism
"When wicked and unprincipled persons have gone on in a course
of sin to the degree that they can scarcely hope for pardon and find that they
have reason to fear the just judgment of God for their sins, they begin at
first to wish that there were no God to punish them, which they think would be
in their best interests. And so, by degrees, they come to persuade
themselves that there is no God. Then they determine to find arguments
to back their opinion in order to prove what they are willing to believe." -
John Bunyan
“The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good
dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook.” – Louis Nizer
“It takes no brains to be an atheist.” – Dwight D.
Eisenhower
Authority
“Men are commonly more zealous to support their own
authority than God’s.” - Matthew Henry
Backslidder
Billy
Sunday once thundered, "The backslider likes the kind of preaching that
wouldn't hit the side of a barn, while the true believer longs for preaching
that brings him to his knees!"
“Nothing confirms evil men in their course like the
backsliding of the righteous.” – Vance Havner
“Backsliders begin with dusty
Bibles and end with filthy garments.” – C.H. Spurgeon
“Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.” – A.W.
Tozer
“If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both
spurs and a horse.” – Thomas Adams
Badness
of the Times
"It is folly to complain of the badness of our own times when
we have more reason to complain of the badness of our own hearts (if men's
hearts were better, the times would mend) and when we have more reason to be
thankful that they are not worse, but that even in the worst of times we enjoy
many mercies, which help to make them not only tolerable, but comfortable." -
Matthew Henry
"It is folly to cry up the goodness of former times, so as to
derogate from the mercy of God to us in our own times; as if former ages had
not the same things to complain of that we have." - Matthew Henry
Baptists
Cardinal Stanilaus Hosius, a Polish prelate and scholar and
president of the Council of Trent, said in 1524, “Were it not that the
Baptists have been grievously tormented and cut off with the knife during the
past 1200 years, they would swarm in greater numbers today than all the
reformers.”
“A fundamental Baptist is one who believes in a
supernatural Bible, which tells of a supernatural Christ who had a
supernatural birth, who spoke supernatural words, who performed supernatural
miracles, who lived a supernatural life, who died a supernatural death, who
rose in supernatural power, who ascended in supernatural glory, who intercedes
in supernatural priesthood and who one day will return in supernatural victory
to establish a supernatural kingdom on the earth.” – J. H. Melton
Bible
"Gospel signifies good news, or glad tidings; and this
history of Christ's coming into the world to save sinners is, without doubt, the
best news that ever came from heaven to earth" - Matthew Henry
"Scripture is the speech of God to man. It is this which gives it its
unity. 'The Lord, the mighty God, hath spoken, and called the earth.' The
amanuenses may differ; but the inspiring mind is the same. The instruments
may vary; but in every case the same theme is being played by the same
master-hand. We should read the Bible as those who listen to the very
speech of God. Well may it be called the Word of God." - F.B. Meyer
"There has been something so unique in these books that they have always stood
and fallen together." "Belief in one has led to belief in all. Their
hands are linked and locked so tightly that were one goes all must follow." -
F.B. Meyer "The earlier revelation was in many forms.
The earthquake, the fire, the tempest, and the still small voice-each had its
ministry. Symbol and parable, vision and metaphor, type and historic
foreshadowing, all in turn served the divine end; like the ray which is broken
into many prismatic hues. But in Jesus there is the steady shining of the
pure ray of his glory, one uniform and invariable method of revelation." - F.B.
Meyer "Nobody ever outgrows
Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years." - Charles H. Spurgeon
"You don't have to understand all about the Bible in order to
accept it. You don't have to understand the digestive processes before you
eat a meal. You don't have to understand everything about electricity
before you switch on your lights or send a telegram. Must you know all
about a trolley car in order to pay a nickel and take a ride? Can you
explain how a black cow eats green grass and gives white milk to make yellow
butter? No!" - Billy Sunday
"The Bible showed me the way of salvation. Man through the
centuries has never been able to destroy the Bible. Such attempts were as
futile as trying to dam Niagara with tooth-picks or tying to cross the Atlantic
on a grindstone drawn by cockroaches." - Billy Sunday
“Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?” –
Michael Faraday
“If all the great books of the world were given life and
were brought together in convention, the moment the Bible entered, the other
books would fall on their faces as the gods of Philistia fell when the ark of
God was brought into their presence in the temple of Dagon.” – Isaac Newton
“There’s a big difference between the books that men make
and the Book that makes men.” – Unknown
“What a Book! Vast and wide as the world, rooted in the
abysses of creation and towering up behind the blue secrets of Heaven – sunset
and sunrise, promise and fulfillment, birth and death, the whole drama of
humanity all in this Book!” – Heinrich Hein
“To what shall we compare it? It is as though one man
entered a Cathedral and struck a note on the great organ and left. Thirty-nine
other men at different periods did the same. If we were to gather these notes
together, are we to suppose that there is a means of preservation, which will
make up the great work Handel’s Messiah? Should we say it just happened? No.
We would be justified in believing that some great mind had supervised it.” -
Charles Feinberg, Ph.D.
A Bible that is falling apart
usually belongs to someone who isn’t. — C.H. Spurgeon
“The Old Testament
opens with man made in the image of God. The New Testament opens with God in
the image of man.” - Unknown
“There’s enough dust on some of your Bibles to write
damnation with your fingers.” – C.H. Spurgeon
“The Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its
best treasures.” – A.W. Tozer
“One evidence of
the value of the Holy Bible is the character of those who oppose God’s Word.” –
Unknown
“God’s Word is as
good as He is. There is an old saying that a man is as good as his word. Well,
God is as good as His Word. His character is behind what He has said.” - J.
Vernon McGee
“The Bible is
God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea and to
show you where the harbor is and how to reach it without running on rocks and
bars.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“There is no book so varied as the Bible, nor so full of
concentrated wisdom.” - Herbert Hoover
“You can recollect the sayings of great men, you treasure
up verse of renowned poets; ought you not be equally profound in your knowledge
of the words of God, so that you may be able to quote them readily when you
would solve a difficulty or overthrow a doubt?” – C.H. Spurgeon
“The Bible
which most people read is the daily life of the one who confesses that he is a
Christian and believes the Bible.” – Unknown
“The truth and
mercy revealed in the Bible can never be known without knowing the Author of the
Bible.” – Unknown
“God’s Word is
pure and sure, in spite of the Devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of
everything.” – R.A. Torrey
“Don’t try to change God’s message; Let His message change
you.” – Unknown
“Cling to the whole Bible, not a part of it. A man is not
going to do much with a broken sword.” – Moody
“Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament be
read and taught as a divine revelation in the schools and its general precepts
expounded and its glorious principles of morality inculcated? Where can the
purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the
New Testament?” - Daniel Webster
“God’s Word is its own best argument.” – Vance Havner
“The Bible was the only book Jesus ever quoted, and then
never as a basis for discussion but to decide the point at issue.” – Leon Morris
“Inerrancy is a natural corollary of inspiration. If it is
inspired of God, then God, who is God, gets it right.” - Jeff Amsbaugh
“The truly wise man is he who always believes the Bible
against the opinion of any man.” – R.A. Torrey
“The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is
the religion of Christ’s church.” – C.H. Spurgeon
“The Bible is a rock of diamonds, a chain of pearls, the
sword of the Spirit; a chart by which the Christian sails to eternity; the map
by which he daily walks; the sundial by which he sets his life; the balance in
which he weighs his actions.” – Thomas Watson
“All the knowledge you want is comprised in one book, the
Bible.” – John Wesley
“We must never edit God.” – A.W. Tozer
“While other books inform, and some few reform, this one
book transforms.” – A.T. Pierson
“Beware of reasoning about God’s Word – obey it!” – Oswald
Chambers
“The more reverence we have for the Word of God the more
joy we shall find in it.” – Matthew Henry
“Few tremble at the Word of God, Few, in reading it, hear
the voice of Jehovah, which is full of majesty.” – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
Bible Study
“A readiness to
believe every promise implicitly, to obey every command unhesitatingly, to stand
perfect and complete in all the will of God, is the only true spirit of Bible
study.” – Andrew Murray
“I like to study the Guide Book to the country where I am
going.” – Samuel Morse
“The Bible is like a diamond field – some truths lie right
up on top; others you have to dig for. I don’t have them all yet, but I keep on
digging.” – John Jasper
The Bible is not given to
increase our knowledge but to change our lives. — D.L. Moody
“What makes the
difference is not how many times you have been through the Bible, but how many
times and how thoroughly the Bible has been through you.” – Gipsy Smith
“No one can be a
good Christian who does not with holy zeal set out to know, delight in, and live
by the Word of God!” – John Rice
“A man has
deprived himself of the best there is in the world, who has deprived himself of
a knowledge of the Bible.” – Woodrow Wilson “A man has
deprived himself of the best there is in the world, who has deprived himself of
a knowledge of the Bible.” – Woodrow Wilson “The
vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the
Bible in our life and thoughts.” – George Muller
“The devil is not afraid of the Bible that has dust on it.”
– Unknown
“You ought to read your Bible each day until your heart
burns.” – Tom Malone
“I will put down all apparent inconsistencies in the Bible
to my own ignorance.” – John Newton
“I never saw a useful Christian who was not a student of
the Bible.” – D.L. Moody
“If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to
stop folk from digging into the Bible.” – J.I. Packer
“Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition.” – J.C.
Ryle
“Doers of the Word
are the best hearers.” – Thomas Watson
Blessings
"Jesus Christ is our Promised Land, and our Joshua to lead us
thither. He gives us rest. In him are orchards and vineyards, and
all manner of precious things. His comfort for our sorrow; his rest for
our weariness; his strength for our weakness; his purity for our corruption; his
ever-present help for our need. Oh, blessed Jesus, surely it is the wonder
of heaven that we make so little of thee!" - F.B. Meyer
"How many blessings I enjoy That other people don't! To
weep and sigh because I'm blind, I cannot, and I won't." - Fanny Crosby
“Pray that you may be an
example and a blessing unto others and that you may live more to the glory of
your Master.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
Blood
"Why, then, should we hesitate to speak of the blood of Christ?
It was royal blood. 'His own'; and he was a King indeed. It was
voluntarily shed: 'He offered himself'. It was pure 'innocent blood',
'without spot'. It was sacrificial. He died not as a martyr, but as
a Saviour. It flowed from his head, thorn-girt, that it might atone for
sins of thought; from his hands and feet, fast nailed, that it might expiate
sins of deed and walk; from his side, that it might wipe out the sins of our
affections, as well as tell us of his deep and fervent love, which could not be
confined within the four chambers of his heart, but must find vent in faling on
the earth. Why should we be ashamed of the blood of Christ? - F.B. Meyer
From the Cross there flows a hallowed stream,
Full of power sinners to redeem.
Let the world the blessed tidings know,
Jesus' blood can wash as white as snow.
Peace and pardon, power and life it brings,
Till the soul in holy rapture sings.
To this fountain let the sin-sick go;
Jesus' blood can wash as white as snow.
“And that there may be always such a heart in you, let me exhort
all governors of families, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, often to
reflect on the inestimable worth of their own souls, and the infinite ransom,
even the precious blood of Jesus Christ, which has been paid down for them.” -
George Whitefield
Booze
Martin Luther was a boozer. "You may comfort yourself by being
assured that we are not drinking water, but have plenty of good beer and Rhenish
wine, with which we cheer ourselves in spite of the overflowing river." - Martin
Luther January 25, 1546 A.D. ”Drink has shed more
blood, hung more crepe, sold more homes, plunged more people into bankruptcy,
armed more villains, slain more children, snapped more wedding rings, defiled
more innocence, blinded more eyes, dethroned more reason, wrecked more manhood,
dishonored more womanhood, broken more hearts, blasted more lives, driven more
to suicide and dug more graves than any other evil that has cursed the world.” –
Evangeline Booth
“O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to
be known by, let us call thee – devil!” – William Shakespeare
“The ravages of drink are greater than those of war
pestilence and famine combined.” – William Gladstone
“All that people say in favor of intoxicating liquor is a
worthless for purchase as counterfeit money, as worthless as painted water for
the thirsty. And I can say better things about the rattlesnake and the skunk
than I can about liquor.” – Robert G. Lee
“Alcohol is a poison men take into the mouth to steal away
the brain.” – William Shakespeare
“Alcoholism is a disease? If so, it is the only disease
that is contracted by an act of the will. It is the only disease that requires
a license to propagate it. It is the only disease that is bottled and sold. It
is the only disease that promotes crime. It is the only disease that is spread
by advertising. It is the only disease that is given for a Christmas present.”
– Peter L. Ream
“I have four good reasons for
being an abstainer – my head is clearer, my health is better, my heart is
lighter, and my purse is heaver.” - Dr. Thomas Guthrie 1803 – 1873 Noted
Scottish preacher
“When I was with
the Chicago Y.M.C.A. I did the saloon route for a time, handing out invitations
to men’s meetings. One day I met a young man I had known in Iowa. He was half
drunk, and a broken down, drunken bum came along. I told my friend that if he
persisted in drinking, he would become as that bum. He laughed and said he
would never be a drunkard. One year later he was down and out, his job was
gone, and his home was wrecked. Line up all the drunkards on earth and ask
them, and they will all tell you they never intended to be drunkards. They all
started out as moderate drinkers.” – Billy Sunday
“Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.” –
Herbert
“Drunkenness is the most fertile source of crime.” – Judge
Alderson
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The Tavern is sometimes called a bar. That’s true:
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A bar to Heaven, a door to Hell,
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Whoever named it, named it well!
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A bar to manliness and wealth,
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A door to want and broken health.
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A bar to honor, pride and fame,
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A door to grief and sin and shame.
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A bar to hope, a bar to prayer,
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A door to darkness and despair.
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A bar to honored, useful life,
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A door to brawling, senseless strife.
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A bar to all that’s true and brave,
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A door to every drunkard’s grave.
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A bar to joys that home imparts,
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A door to tears and aching hearts.
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A bar to Heaven, a door to Hell,
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Whoever named it, named it well!
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- Joliet, Illinois prison inmate
“Alcohol does not make people able to do things better. It
makes them less ashamed of doing them badly.” – Anon.
“I have better use for my brain than to poison it with
alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings
of an engine.” – Thomas Edison
“I never see a sign Licensed to sell spirits without
thinking that it is a license to ruin souls.” – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
Broken
“God uses broken things. It takes a broken soil to produce a crop, broken
clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give
strength,. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume… it is
Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.” – Vance Havner
Business
“Busyness in the King’s business is no excuse for neglecting the King.” – Anon.
“We have been too busy chopping wood to take time out to
sharpen the axe.” – Vance Havner
“ Of what use is it to have many irons in the fire if the
fire is going out?” – Eric Roberts
“Sometimes I think the church would be better off if we
would call a moratorium on activity for about six weeks and just waited on God
to see what he is waiting to do for us.” – A.W. Tozer
Calvary
"Lord turn our gaze upon thy cross, Counting all else not gain
but loss; For this we pray, this is our plea Lord, keep our eyes on Calvary." -
Amy Carmichael
"O wondrous love! to bleed and die, To bear the cross and shame,
That guilty sinners, such as I, Might plead Thy gracious Name." - John Newton
"It is staggering to think that Divinity would pay so much for
humanity. Think of the Innocent suffering for the guilty, the Just dying
for the unjust, 'a King dying for His enemy.' What a price!" - Bernie
Smith “Let us go to Calvary. Take off your shoes.
Bow your heads. Kneel at the Cross. Look into the face of the bleeding Son of
God. There, on crimson Calvary, the heart of God was broken for a lost world,
the blood of God was shed for redemption from sin. What a day that was! What a
tragedy! But it saves us from sin.” From Hyman J. Appelman’s Sermon outlines
and illustrations
“God has made two appointments with men: Calvary; Judgment
Day. He has issued an invitation to one and a warrant for the other. The Holy
Spirit delivers the invitation; death is the warrant. Those who come to Calvary
need not fear the Judgment.” From Hyman J. Appelman’s Sermon outlines and
illustrations
Character
"If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of
itself." - Dwight L. Moody
"Character is what you are in the dark." - Dwight L. Moody
"Character can no more be hid than you can hide fire in powder."
- Billy Sunday
"Counterfeit character is more common than counterfeit money." -
Billy Sunday
"The mockingbird will never learn to sing if he takes music
lessons from a hoot owl." - Billy Sunday "The whole issue of life, of
regeneration, of character, is a heart matter." - J. Frank Norris
"The
human eye is an index of character." - J. Frank Norris
“Some people are like wheel-barrows – useful only when
pushed and very easily upset.” – Vance Havner
“The choice we
make when a crisis confronts us reveals character.” – Bernie Smith
“Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him
while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.” – Abraham Lincoln
Be more concerned about your
character than your reputation. Your character is who you really are. Your
reputation is who others think you are. — John Wooden
“A man’s strength is shown by
what he stands for. A man’s weakness is shown by what he falls for.” – Unknown
“Make yourself an honest man,
and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.” –
Thomas Carlyle
“Dishonesty is one
of the worst sins in the world.” – Jack Hyles
“Character will
see you thru when nothing else will.” - Jack Hyles
“We must never put character in the place of faith. Our
character can never be meritorious before God; we stand before God on the basis
of his grace. Character is the evidence that we are built on the right
foundation.” – Oswald Chambers
“There can be no
friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.” – Samuel
Johnson
“Taking the line
of least resistance makes rivers and men crooked.” – unknown
“The Lord knows them that are his by name, but we must know
them by their character.” – Matthew Henry
Chastisement
“The heavenly Father has no spoiled children. He loves
them too much to allow that.” – Fred Mitchell
“The sword of justice no longer threatens us, but the rod
of parental correction is still in use.” – C.H. Spurgeon
Cheerful
"A cheerful spirit is a
great blessing; it makes the yoke of our employments easy and the burden of our
afflictions light." - Matthew Henry
“No man ever
injured his eyesight by looking on the bright side of things.” – Unknown
Children
“It is a masterpiece of the Devil to make us believe that
children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the
standard of faith if He had known that he was not capable of understanding His
words?” – D.L. Moody
“Children’s ruin is often owing very much to the parents’
indulgence.” – Matthew Henry
“If you are going to do anything permanent for the average
man, you must begin before he is a man.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Blood is thicker than water,
but you’re very foolish if you let your kids determine your convictions.” -
Richard Dion
“If you train up a
child to give pennies, it is likely that when he is old he will not depart from
it.”
“Godly parents have often been afflicted with wicked
children; grace does not run in the blood, but corruption does.” – Matthew Henry
“The primary learning system for children is by example,
and you are often that example.” - Chris Ewing
“We never know the love of our parents for us till we have
become parents ourselves.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“One night a father overheard his son pray, “Dear God, make
me the kind of man my daddy is.” Later that night, the father prayed, “Dear
God, make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.” – Anonymous
“Children speak in the field what they hear in the house.” – Scottish Proverb
“There is only one way to bring up a child in the way he should go, and that is
to travel that way yourself.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Don’t be discouraged if your children reject your advice.
Years later, they will offer it to their own offspring.” – Unknown
“Parents who do
not put their foot down will have children who will tread on their toes.” –
Unknown
“When a child is
old enough to know that he has sinned, that child is old enough to know that he
needs to be saved.” - Unknown
Christianity
"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and, if true, of
infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important."
- C.S. Lewis
"To some, Christianity is
an argument. To many, it is a performance. To a few, it is an experience." –
Vance Havner
“There is a common
worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have
enough – a cheap Christianity which offends nobody and requires no sacrifice,
which costs nothing and is worth nothing.” - J.C. Ryle
“The belief in a God all-powerful, wise and good is so essential to the moral
order of the world and to the happiness of man that arguments which enforce it
cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to
the different characters and capacities impressed with it.” – James Madison
“Christianity is not merely a program of conduct; it is the
power of a new life.” – Benjamin B. Warfield
“Christianity is not merely an assurance policy to take us
to heaven; it is a bowing of the knee to the lordship of Christ.” – Frederick P.
Wood
Church
"When we forsake the assembly of our fellow Christians we are apt
to wrap ourselves in the chill mantle of indifference." - F.B. Meyer
"Let it be observed, that slovenliness is no part of religion;
that neither this, or any text of Scripture, condemns neatness of apparel." -
John Wesley
"Well
that’s what the church is. It’s the wife of Christ, and we need to do some very
tall thinking right there." - J. Frank Norris
“One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not
constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The
first requisite is life, always.” - A.W. Tozer
“When a church wears out the linoleum on the floor of the
social hall more quickly than it wears out the carpet around the altar, you may
mark that church as carnal.” – Oliver B. Greene
"The church is a
hospital for sinners, and not a museum for saints." Vance Havner
Dr. Hyles said,
“Use your church to build your people; don’t use your people to build your
church.”
“The simplicity
which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs,
methods, organizations, and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and
attention, but can never satisfy the longing of the heart.” - A.W. Tozer
It is the Lord Jesus that is the great Master
of love: it is his school (his own church) that is the school of love. His
disciples are the disciples of love, and his family must be the family of love.
– Matthew Henry
“God put the Church in the world. Satan seeks to put the
world into the Church.” – Unknown
“Most churches are like an ailing lung with only a few
cells doing the breathing.” – Curtis Hutson
“Never before have we had so many degrees in the church and
yet so little temperature.” – Vance Havner
“Don’t stay away from church because there are so many
hypocrites. There’s always room for one more.” – A.R. Adams
“It is not always
the most gifted church which is in the most healthy state.” – Charles Spurgeon
“A person who says he believes in God but never goes to
church is like one who says he believes in education but never goes to school.”
– Franklin Clark Fry
Compassion
A.J. Gordon once said: “I have long since ceased to pray, ‘Lord, have compassion
on a lost world.’ I remember the day and the hour when I seemed to her the Lord
rebuking me for making such a prayer. He seemed to say to me, ‘I have had
compassion on a lost world, and now it is for you to have compassion.’”
Conscience
"Man's own conscience, more than a thousand witnesses, cannot
help but dictate the reality of God to him." - John Bunyan
“I am drawing near the close of my career. I am fast shuffling off the stage.
I have been, perhaps, the most voluminous author of the day. And it is a
comfort to me to think that I have tried to unsettle no man’s faith, to corrupt
no man’s principles, and that I have written nothing which, on my deathbed, I
should wish blotted out.” - Sir Walter Scott
Conviction
“I never move by
what I feel – I move by what I believe.” – Smith Wigglesworth
Counsel
"He that won't be counseled, can't be helped." - Benjamin
Franklin
Creation
“When with bold telescopes I survey the old and newly discovered stars and
planets when with excellent microscopes I discern the unimitable subtility of
nature’s curious workmanship; and when, in a word, by the help of anatomical
knives, and the light of chymical furnaces, I study the book of nature ai find
myself oftentimes reduced to exclaim with the Psalmist, How manifold are Thy
works, O Lord! In wisdom hast Thou made them all!” - Robert Boyle - Father of
modern chemistry.
“The more we learn about the wonders of our universe, the
more clearly we are going to perceive the hand of God.” – Frank Borman
Criticism
"If you wish to avoid criticism, be nothing, do nothing, say
nothing." - Elbert Hubbard
The man who slings the most mud loses the most ground. — Lucy Anderson
Cross
"It is easier to wear a cross than it is to carry one. It
is more simple to erect a cross on the church than to get the church on a
cross." - Bernie Smith
"If we try to separate the Cross from suffering and sacrifice,
all we have left is an empty theory of salvation." - Bernie Smith
Must Jesus bear the cross alone,
And all the world go free?
No! there's a cross for every one,
And there's a cross for me.
Cursed be all learning that is
not subservient to the cross of Christ. — Jonathan Witherspoon
“The most terrible warning to impenitent men in all the
world is the death of Christ. For if God spared not His own Son on whom was
only laid imputed sin, will He spare sinners whose sins are their own!” –
Charles Spurgeon
Death
"Someday you will read where Dwight L. Moody is dead, but don't
believe it. People will pass by my casket and say, 'Here lies Dwight L.
Moody,' but don't believe it. I will not be there. You can say when
you pass the casket that holds my body, 'Here is the old house where Dwight L.
Moody used to live,' for I will have a new address." - Dwight L. Moody
"The Body of Benjamin Franklin Printer (Like the cover of an old
book Its contents torn out and stript of its lettering and gilding) Lies here,
food for worms. But the work shall not be lost for it will (as he
believed) appear once more in a new and more elegant edition revised and
corrected by The Author." - Benjamin Franklin's Epitaph written by him when he
was twenty-two years old.
"Death takes no bribes." - Benjamin Franklin
"Fear not death, for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be
immortal." - Benjamin Franklin “Death may be the
king of terrors…but Jesus is the King of Kings!” – D.L. Moody
Death - Last Words
"It is very beautiful over there." - Thomas Edison
"I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of
the living soon." - John Newton
"If God by your partner, make your plans large." - Dwight L.
Moody to his sons.
"I have taken care of everything in the course of my life, only
not for death, and now I have to die completely unprepared." - Cesare Borgia
"Oh my poor soul, what is to become of you? -- Where do you go?"
- Cardinal Mazzrin
"It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!" - Thomas Hobbes
"So, now all is gone - Empire, Body and Soul!" - Henry the Eighth
"Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said
enough." - Karl Marx
Debt
Personally, I had always avoided debt and kept within my salary, though at times
only by very careful economy. Now there was no difficulty in doing this, for my
income was larger, and the country being in a more peaceful state, things were
not so dear. But the society itself was in debt. The quarterly bills which I
and others were instructed to draw were often met with borrowed money, and a
correspondence commenced which terminated the following year by my resigning
from conscientious motives. To me it seemed that the teaching of God’s Word was
unmistakable clear: Owe no man any thing. To borrow money implied, to my mind,
a contradiction of Scripture – a confession that God had withheld some good
thing and a determination to get for ourselves what He had not given. Could
that which was wrong for one Christian to do be right for an association of
Christians? Or could any amount of precedents make a wrong course justifiable?
If the Word taught me anything, it taught me to have no connection with debt. I
could not think that God was poor, that He was short of resources, or unwilling
to supply any want of whatever work was really His. It seemed to me that if
there were lack of funds to carry on work, then to that degree, in that special
development, or at that time, it could not be the work of God. – Hudson Taylor
Deceive
“We deceive ourselves if we think to mock God.” – Matthew Henry
“Satan ruins men by rocking them asleep, flattering them
into a good opinion of their own safety, and so bringing them to mind nothing
and fear nothing, and then he robs them of their strength and honour and leads
them captive at his will. When we sleep our spiritual enemies do not.” -
Matthew Henry
Devil
If you wake up in the morning
and don’t meet the devil face on it just means you’re going in the same
direction. — R.G. Lee
“What a subtle tempter Satan
is! What a deceitful thing sin is! What a foolish creature corrupted man is!
A subtle tempter indeed, who can persuade the greatest part of the world to go
willfully into everlasting fire when they have so many warnings and dissuasives
as they have.” - Richard Baxter
“Never give the
Devil a ride – he will always want to drive.” – Unknown
“Give Satan an
inch, and he’ll try to be a ruler.” – unknown
“The Devil will
let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.” -
Vance Havner
“Satan, as a master, is bad; his work much worse; and his
wages worst of all.” – Anonymous
Difficulty
“A pessimist sees the
difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every
difficulty.” – Sir Winston Churchill
Disciples
“Our Lord had no place in His program for casual
disciples.” – Vance Havner
Discouragement
“Seeds of discouragement will not grow in the thankful heart.” – Anonymous
“The heads of barley which bear the most grain always hang
the lowest.” – Blencowe
Doctrine
“It is undoubtedly true that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God;
and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God.” – George
Whitefield
“The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful, but
whether it is true. When we want to go to a place, we do not ask whether the
road leads through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road.” – Hare
Doing
“Doing leads more
surely to talking than talking to doing.” – Vance Havner
“Well done is better than well said.” – Benjamin Franklin
“The question for
each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence,
and educational advantages; but what he will do with the things he has.” –
Hamilton Wright Mabie
“Your words and
wishes are cheap if they do not find expression in your actual gifts.” – A.B.
Simpson
“To know the will
of God is the greatest knowledge. To do the will of God is the greatest
achievement.” – George W. Truett
Doubt
“It is strange we
trust each other and only doubt our Lord. We will take the word of mortals and
yet distrust His Word. But, oh, what light and glory would shine o’er all our
days, if we always would remember that He means just what He says.” - A.B.
Simpson
Duty
“Thus many are kept from doing their duty by the fear of trouble, the love of
ease, and an inordinate affection to their worldly business and advantage.
Narrow selfish spirits care not what becomes of the interests of God’s church,
so they can get, keep, and save money.” – Matthew Henry
“It is a great deal easier to
do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it is, than to face the
responsibility of not doing it.” – unknown
“The whole will of
God, containing our duty towards men is reducible to this one thing, love; for
whatsoever God hath commanded us to do towards men, is but a branch from this
root, and must flow from love as its principle.” - Matthew Poole
“You can dodge
responsibility, but you can’t dodge the results of dodging.” - Unknown
“The business of our lives is not to please ourselves but to please God.” –
Matthew Henry
Education
"You can dot every hilltop in America with a red schoolhouse, you
can erect a university in every teeming center of population until ignorance
will slink away like a wolf in a den, and yet America will sink into hell unless
her purity of heart keeps pace with her brilliancy of intellect." - Billy Sunday
Enemies
“Don’t rejoice in your enemies misfortune.” – Jack Hyles
Environment - Creature
of
"Life is what you make it. Some folks blame environment.
Bunk! You put an old devil anywhere, and he'll still be a devil. Man
is not a creature of environment. He was created to be master of it." -
Billy Sunday
Envy
"There are three ways to earn the envy of people, your kinfolks,
and sometimes preachers. 1) know more, 2) have more, 3) do more. Watch
out! Your kinfolks will never forgive you for those three things, and some
preachers will never say that’s why they hate you, but they’ll find fault with
you, that’s the price you have to pay for success." - J. Frank Norris
"Those that excel in virtue will always be an eye-sore to those
that exceed in vice, which should not discourage us from any right work, but
drive us to expect the praise of it, not from men, but from God." - Matthew
Henry
Empowerment
"It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability, that
counts." - Corrie Ten Boom “It is easy to talk
of leaving all for Christ, but when it comes to the proof – it is only as we
stand ‘complete in him’ (Col. 2:10) we can go through with it.” – Hudson Taylor
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