Religion
“I am of the
opinion that the chief danger which confronts us will be religion without the
Holy Spirit, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance,
politics without God, and heaven without hell.” – General Booth, Founder of the
Salvation Army “Still water and still religion freeze
the quickest.” – Anon.
“Do not believe the devil’s gospel, which is a chance of
salvation; a change of salvation is a chance of damnation.” – Adolph Saphir
“The greatest need of the moment is that light-hearted,
superficial religionists be struck down with a vision of God high and lifted up,
with His train filling the temple.” – A.W. Tozer
Religion - knocking
"You bleary-eyed, weak-kneed, chicken-livered bums who knock
religion! Why don't you take your rotten carcasses out of here and start a
town somewhere where there isn't any law or any religion? Oh, you
degenerates--you Bolsheviks! I'll tell you why you don't. Here your
heads are safe on your shoulders in the shadow of the churches." - Billy
Sunday
“I do not think I
could myself be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open
enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.” – Abraham Lincoln
Religion - Old Time
"That religion that is not as old as Christ and his Apostles, is
too new for me." - Joseph Hooke (A noted Baptist of the 17th century)
Reputation
"Glass, china, and reputation, are easily cracked, and never well
mended." - Benjamin Franklin
"Do not do that which you would not have known." - Benjamin
Franklin
Responsibility
“With added
knowledge there comes multiplied responsibility.” - Jack Hyles
“Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.” – John G. Holland
Resurrection
"In the sorrows of repentance, tears were supplied by the eyes.
In thanksgiving, the tongue was used to break forth in the praises of God.
All the victories over pleasure and pain below were obtained by the soul in
conjunction with the body... Should the one be glorified in heaven while the
other remains in the dust? From their first beginnings in the world below
until the grave, they both ran the same race and therefore will enjoy the same
reward." - John Bunyan
"The beautifying of a raised body and putting it into an immortal
state of glory is as easy to the Divine Power as the first framing of it in the
womb." - John Bunyan
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A Hymn of Resurrection!
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Christ the Lord is risen today.
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Sons of men and angels say.
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Raise your joys and triumphs high;
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Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.
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Love’s redeeming work is done;
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Fought the fight, the battle won.
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Lo! Our Sun’s eclipse is o’er;
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Lo! He sets in blood no more.
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Vain the stone, the watch, the seal;
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Christ hath burst the gates of Hell!
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Death in vain forbids His rise;
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Christ hath opened Paradise!
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Lives again our glorious King;
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Where, O Death, is now thy sting?
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Once He died, our souls to save;
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Where thy victory, O Grave?
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- Charles Wesley
Revival
“Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late – and
how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been
trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work. To pray
for revival while ignoring the plain precept laid down in Scripture is to waste
a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble.” - A.W. Tozer
“I am convinced from what I know of world conditions that
the only hope of our day is a religious revival.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rewards
“When a Sunday school bus driver gets on that could bus and
drives down a snowy street – the Lord will reward him for that. When a fellow
goes out calling, with the snow blowing and the wind cold – God will reward him
for that. How do we know that? Because Jesus said, ‘Even a cup of cold water
given in My name shall not go without reward.’ – Tom Malone
“There will be no
crown wearers in Heaven who were not first cross bearers while on earth.” –
Charles Spurgeon
“God is our Rewarder, but, better than that, He is our reward.” – Vance Havner
“We must not
expect to see an immediate reward for all the good we do; nor must we always
confine our efforts to places and persons which seem likely to yield us
recompenses for our labours.” – C.H. Spurgeon
Righteousness
"Don’t
be afraid of holiness, there’s no danger of getting too holy." - J. Frank Norris
“Men love
everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.” – Vance Havner
Ritualism
"The mind shrinks from the intellectual effort of grappling with
the subtle essences of things, and loves to have truth wrapped up in a form
which can easily be taken in by the eye, the ear, the sense of touch. This
explains why there is such a tendency toward ritualism in the Romanish and
Anglican Churches. Where man's spiritual life is strong, it is independent
of the outward form; but when it is weak it leans feebly on external aids."
- F.B. Meyer
"There is ever a tendency in the human heart toward a religion of
rites. It is so much easier to observe the prescriptions of an outward
ceremonial than to brace the soul to faith and love and spiritual worship." -
F.B. Meyer
"If our religion be a vain religion, how great is that vanity!" -
Matthew Henry
Salvation
"God doesn't save people on the installment plan, as one buys
furniture." - Billy Sunday “People don’t go to
heaven head first but heart first!” – Tom Malone
“Ten thousand angels would have died in Christ’s stead, but
that would not have purchased a single soul or broken one link of the chain that
bound us. It had to be Jesus. Jesus, the Son of God! Oh, how measureless is
divine love!” – Bernie Smith
“Many deceive themselves into a good opinion of their state
by a partial reformation. They think they are as good as they should be,
because, in some one particular instance, they are not so bad as they have been,
as if the correcting of one fault would atone for their persisting
in all the rest.” – Matthew Henry
The difference between
religion and salvation can be summed up in two words – do and done. - D.L.
Moody
“God can do no more than to
provide a perfect salvation, which is provided at infinite cost. When love
would pay such a price that a sinner may be saved and holiness remain
untarnished, it ill becomes finite men to tamper with these immutable
realities. Those who resent the idea of eternal retribution are, in fact,
resenting divine holiness.” - Lewis Sperry Chafer
“He who provides for this life but takes no care for
eternity is wise for a moment but a fool forever.” – Unknown
“Some folks will
stumble over a straw on the road to Heaven and climb over a Pike’s Peak in order
to get to Hell.” – B.F. McLendon
“Some men are
foolishly counting on getting to Heaven simply because they have never been in
jail.” - B. F. McLendon
“He who boasts of
being perfect is perfect in folly. I have been a good deal up and down the
world, and I never did see either a perfect horse or a perfect man, and I never
shall till two Sundays come together.” Charles Spurgeon
“We may travel the
sea of life without Christ, but what about the landing?” – Armin Gesswein
“Everyone must meet God. There are but two ways to meet
Him. We can meet Him now, in this life, in repentance and service, and be
prepared to meet Him in the judgment; or we can neglect Him now and have to meet
Him at the judgment unprepared. We must meet God.” From Hyman J. Appelman’s
Sermon outlines and illustrations
“Pilate answered the question incorrectly. The Jews
answered the question incorrectly. Paul answered the question correctly. Do
the right thing with Jesus and you will get everything worth while for time and
eternity. Do the wrong thing with Jesus and you will lose everything worth
while for time and eternity.” From Hyman J. Appelman’s Sermon outlines and
illustrations
“By nature all men are dead in trespasses and in sins,
aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the covenant of promise,
having no hope and no God in the world, prisoners in the hands of Satan, in a
state of miserable condemnation, spiritually dark, blind and sleeping; and worst
of all, they neither know it nor feel it.” From Hyman J. Appelman’s Sermon
outlines and illustrations
“ A boundless supply of all that the sinner can need in
time and eternity; mercy, grace, wisdom, love, righteousness and salvation,
enough for all, enough for each, enough for everyone.” From Hyman J.
Appelman’s Sermon outlines and illustrations
“To be a child of God involves so much – so much in the
life that now is, and so much in the life which is to come.” From Hyman J.
Appelman’s Sermon outlines and illustrations
“When the Lord Jesus entered the open door of Heaven, He
did not shut it behind Him” – John Linton
“I am not what I ought to be. Ah! How imperfect and
deficient! I am not what I wish to be. I abhor what is evil, and I would
cleave to what is good. I am not what I hope to be. Soon, soon, I shall put
off mortality, and with mortality all sin and imperfection. Yet, thought I am
not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be, nor what I hope to be. I can
truly say I am not what I once was – a slave to sin and Satan. And I can
heartily join with the apostle and acknowledge, “By the grace of God I am what I
am.” - John Newton
“Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make
converts.” – William Penn
“The wrong that man hath done to the divine majesty should
be expiated by none but man and could be by none but God.” – John Howe
“Christ’s blood has value enough to redeem the whole world,
but the virtue of it is applied only to such as believe.” – Thomas Watson
“One leak will sink a ship, and one sin, will destroy a
sinner.” – John Bunyan
Sanctification
“Every time a
Christian goes wrong, it makes it harder for a sinner to go right.” – Unknown
“Die daily – but don’t be all day about it!” – Bob Kelley
Seeker Sensitive
“The Scriptures are not geared to frivolity, and the tone
of the Gospel, while it is indeed God News, is Good News of a feast, not a
frolic. No great revival ever stared in fun-making nor ran on such fuel. There
is joy aplenty, but it is the heavenly joy of the Spirit of God and not the
silly antics of human clowning under religious auspices.” – Vance Havner
“The Devil has seldom done a cleverer thing that hinting to
the Church that part of their mission is to provide entertainment for the
people, with a view to winning them. Providing amusement for the people is
nowhere spoken of in the Scriptures as a function of the Church. The need is
biblical doctrine, so understood and felt that is sets men afire.” - Charles
Spurgeon
Self
“He that serves self has a hard master.” – Unknown
“The person who lives only for himself is engaged in a very
small business.” - Unknown
Service
"And how can we ever show our gratitude, except by serving the
living God. We are redeemed to serve; bought to be owned absolutely.
Who can refuse a service so reasonable, fraught with blessedness to
transcendent? Head! think for him whose brow was thorn-girt. Hands!
toil for him whose hands were nailed to the cross. Feet! speed to do his
behests whose feet were pierced. Body of mine! be his temple whose body
was wrung with pains unspeakable. To serve him-this is the Only true
attitude and behavior, as those who are not their own, but his." - F.B. Meyer
"The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do
not often do much, the companies never; it is the units, the single individuals,
that are the power and the might." - Charles H. Spurgeon
"Give me a person who says, This one thing I do; and not, These
fifty things I dabble in." - Dwight L. Moody
"O Lord, let me not live to be useless." - John Wesley
"Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the
ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the
people you can, As long as ever you can." - John Wesley
"I seem to have been led little by little, toward my work; and I
believe that the same fact will appear in the life of anyone who will cultivate
such powers as God has given him, and then go on, bravely, quietly, but
persistently, doing such work as comes to his hands." - Fanny Crosby
"The past has not exhausted the possibilities nor the demands for
doing great things for God." - E.M. Bounds
"You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster
you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you
have of getting somewhere." - Charles F. Kettering
"If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be
too great for me to make for Him." - C.T. Studd
"I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help
Him. I ended up by asking Him to do His work through me." - Hudson Taylor
“My heaven is to please God and glorify Him and to give my all to Him and to be
wholly devoted to His glory.” – David Brainerd
“There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing
good and finishing God’s work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing
else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God,
pleasing Him and doing His whole will.” – David Brainerd
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what
he cannot lose.” – Jim Elliot
“God did not wait
for nor seek a cheaper price to purchase our souls. He willingly gave His only
begotten Son. So God has every right to expect our all in return.” – Bernie
Smith
It is a good question for us to ask ourselves in the close of every day, "Where
have I gleaned to-day? What improvements have I made in knowledge and grace?
What have I done or obtained that will turn to a good account?" – Matthew Henry
“The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not
enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs.” – Vance Havner
We ought to attempt something
so great for God that unless God intervenes, we are bound to fail. — Bruce
Wilkinson
We can easily be too big for
God to use, but never too small for Him to use. — Lester Rolloff.
“The man who does things makes many mistakes. But he never
makes the biggest mistake of all – doing nothing.” - Benjamin Franklin
“If you have men
who will come only if they know there is a good road, I don’t want them. I want
men who will come if there is no road.” – David Livingstone
“What the church needs today are more calloused hands and
fewer calloused hearts.” – unknown
“A true faith in
Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively,
restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is
doing something for Jesus Christ.” – George Whitefield
“To be active in work for God is one thing, but to be
effective in that work is quite another thing.” – Unknown
“When a Christian
is in the wrong place, his right place will be empty.” – Unknown
“Service is love in overalls.” – Anonymous
Some people are a bit like blisters. They don’t show up
until the day is ended and the work is done.
The level of our Christian service is determined by the
degree of our personal surrender.
Shepherd
“A hunter gratifies himself at the expense of his victim, but a shepherd expends
himself for the good of the subjects of his care.” – Merrill F. Unger
Sin
"Sin will keep you from this book. This book will keep
you from sin." - Dwight L. Moody
"Sin is no little thing. It girded the Redeemer's head
with thorns and pierced His heart! Could you weigh the least sin in the
scales of eternity, you would fly from it as from a deadly serpent. Look
upon all sin as that which crucified the Saviour, and you will see it to be
exceeding sinful." - Charles Spurgeon
"Willful sinners are fools and madmen; they act contrary both
to right reason and to their true interest." - Matthew Henry
"If thou wouldest live long, live well; for folly and
wickedness shorten life." - Benjamin Franklin
"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and
let every New Year find you a better man." - Benjamin Franklin
"Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is
forbidden because it's hurtful." - Benjamin Franklin
“One great power of sin is that it blinds men so that
they do not recognize its true character.” – Andrew Murray
“It is bad to commit sin, but it is great wickedness
indeed to plead for it.” - Matthew Henry
“Sin
pays with destruction, for sin is always destructive in character. That is
true whether a nation or a man is involved.” – Bernie Smith
“Sin is the world’s best detective – it always finds you
out!” – unknown
“Sin – with that one word I
can spell all the murders, all the thefts, all the outrage, all the seduction,
all the lust, all the drunkenness, all the blasphemy, all the broken hearts,
all that blights like a pestilence and causes the misery of this world, all
with that one word, S I N.” – Billy Sunday
“Sin is deceitful. It
promises pleasure; it gives pain. It offers life; it gives death. It opens
out as bright as the morning; it closes as dark as night. It is a beast of
prey. Under a velvet paw it conceals a claw with which it wounds and
lacerates those who would stroke it. In every sin there is the seed of
another sin. It is self-propagating. It roots itself in the soul of the
sinner until it has used up every bit of good soil in the soul. It corrupts
his nature, perverts his tastes, weakens his will and scars his conscience.
And with each evil deed, inclinations towards evil become stronger and
stronger, until the sinner cannot cease from sin and he is consumed by his own
lusts. Sin is a very promising employer – and a terrible paymaster.” –
Charles A. Jeffries
“Man lives in the dark, and even his nuclear flashlight cannot pierce it. We
not only live in the dark; we get used to it. There is a slow, subtle,
sinister brainwashing process going on, and by it we are gradually being
desensitized to evil. Little by little, sin is made to appear less sinful
until the light within us becomes darkness, and how great is that darkness!
We get used to it, acclimated to it. We accept, as a matter of course, its
art, its literature, its music, its language. We learn to live with it
without an inner protest.” – Vance Havner
“ If a man should advertise that he could take a correct photograph of
people’s hearts, do you believe he would find any customers? There is not a
man among us whom you could hire to have his photograph taken if you could
photograph the real man.” – D.L. Moody
“The leprosy of the body is bad, but the leprosy of sin
is a thousand times worse. It has cast angels out of Heaven. It has ruined
the best and strongest men that ever lived.” - D.L. Moody
“Where sin had
brought men, love brought the Saviour.” - A.W. Pink
“God’s
abhorrence of sin swept forth and broke like a descending deluge upon the
Sin-Bearer.” – A.W. Pink
“There is no depression in the sin business; there is no
cut in the wages of sin.” – unknown
“The evil effects of sin are many. All sin grieves God.
Many sins are harmful to others and all sin reacts upon the transgressor, some
upon the body, and all upon the soul.” - From Hyman J. Appelman’s Sermon
outlines and illustrations
“The devil may tempt us; the flesh may tempt us; the world
may tempt us; but it is we ourselves who sin.” – Anonymous
“Men are constantly seeking remedies for bodily
infirmities, and when they find them they are glad to recommend them to others.
But man has no remedy for sin - only God.” - From Hyman J. Appelman’s Sermon
outlines and illustrations
“The blackest deed ever committed by any man. Jesus was
sold for thirty pieces of silver. Men sell Him today for less. Christians sell
Him. Sinners sell Him. It is always night to the one who betrays Christ. How
men sell Jesus today: gain; pleasure; sin; indifference. From Hyman J.
Appelman’s Sermon outlines and illustrations
“Of two evils, choose neither.” – Charles Spurgeon
“Sin makes earth a suburb of Hell.” - Unknown
“It is a miracle
of grace indeed that Jesus should forsake the thrones and royalties above to
suffer ignominiously below for you. Let your soul loose itself in wonder, for
wonder is in this way a very practical emotion. Holy wonder will lead you to
grateful worship and heartfelt thanksgiving. It will cause within you godly
watchfulness; you will be afraid to sin against such a love as this.” – Charles
Spurgeon
“Sin is bound to retard your progress. It grieves the
Holy Spirit, and you will never know the blessing and power of God on your
life and your ministry until you are ready to renounce it forever, turn from
it utterly and never indulge in it again.” – Oswald J. Smith
“God’s wounds cure; sin’s kisses kill.” – William Gurnall
Sinners
“The security of sinners often proves their ruin, and
dangers are most fatal when least feared.” – Matthew Henry
“Those who wait to repent until the eleventh hour often
die at ten-thirty.” - unknown
“As the Lord liveth, sinner,
thou standest on a single plank over the mouth of hell, and that plank is
rotten.” – Charles Spurgeon
“The best of men
are men at best.” - Unknown
Soul Winning
"I care not where I go or how I live or what I endure so that
I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are
first in my thoughts...no amount of scholastic attainment, or able and
profound exposition, of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the
absence of a deep, impassioned, sympathetic love for human souls." - David
Brainerd
“Some men’s ambition is art, some men’s ambition is fame,
some men’s ambition is gold. My ambition is the souls of men.” – William
Booth
“Send me to the nearest place to the bottomless pit.” –
Gipsy Smith
“Not called,” did you say? “Not heard the call,” I think
you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible and hear Him bid you go and pull
sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized
heart of humanity and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates
of Hell and hear the damned entreat you to go to their fathers’ houses and bid
their brothers and sister and servants and master not to come there. Then look
Christ in the face – whose mercy you have professed to obey – and tell Him
whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to
publish His mercy to the world. – William Booth
“If you found a cure for
cancer, wouldn’t it be inconceivable to hide it from the rest of mankind? How
much more inconceivable to keep silent about the cure from the eternal wages
of sin, which is death.” - Dave Davidson
“If we do not
catch men, we are in great danger of losing even the desire to catch them. Our
purposed activity is in peril of becoming a dream.” - J.H. Jowett
“To every lost
soul, Christ says: “Come unto me.” To every redeemed soul, Christ says: Go for
me.” - Unknown
“The Great
Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.” –
Hudson Taylor
“We are praying
for sinners to come to God; God is pleading with saints to go for sinners.” –
Unknown
“There is no greater honour than to be the instrument in
God’s hands of leading one person out of the kingdom of Satan into the glorious
light of heaven.” - Dwight L. Moody
“I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is
one thing more I wish I could give to them, and that is the Christian religion.
If they had that, and I had not given them one cent, they would be rich. If
they have not that, and I had given them the world, they would be poor.” –
Patrick Henry
“…the chief duty of every father is to bring his children
to God.” – Rufus C. Burleson
“This generation
of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!” – Keith
Green
“It has been well said that if a great king should bring us
a great heap of gold, and bid us take as much as we could count in a day, we
should make a long day of it; but to win souls is far nobler work. How is it
that we so soon withdraw from it?” - Charles Spurgeon
“A voyage across the ocean, does not make any man a soul
winner.” – Hudson Taylor
Sowing and Reaping
“Sooner or later
everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
Spiritual Maturity
"When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years,
having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things
as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has
revealed to me." - John Wesley
"The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies,
but its obedience." Oswald Chambers
“In all Christians, Christ is present; in some Christians, Christ is
prominent; but only in a few Christians is Christ pre-eminent.”
“The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route
to spiritual perfections. And we must not select a few favorite passages to
the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole
Christian.” - A.W. Tozer
Strife
“Mutual strifes among bretheren, if persisted in, are likely to prove a common
ruin.” – Matthew Henry
“The readiest way to destroy the spirituality of a church, and to annihilate
the influence of religion is to excite a spirit of contention.” - Albert
Barnes
Success
“The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in
the Bible: In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” –
George Washington Carver
Suffering
"Suffering is no argument of God's displeasure but a part of
the fiber of our lives." - Fanny Crosby
"O, God help us to see Him who is Invisible and
that this present suffering is just for a moment." - J. Frank Norris
“The real problem is not why some pious, humble,
believing people suffer, but why some do not.” – C.S. Lewis
Suspecting Ill
“Those who design ill themselves are commonly most apt to suspect that others
design ill.” - Matthew Henry
Temptation
“If any man thinks that he is strong enough to resist the evil at any one
point, he needs special watch there, for the Tempter comes that way.” – D.L.
Moody
Ten Commandments
About the 10 Commandments, “It may be said that this code inculcates two basic
things – it demands reverence for God and respect for man.” - William Barclay
“What a scarcity of news there would be if everyone obeyed the Ten
Commandments!” - Unknown
Thankful
“It’s not what’s in your pocket that makes you thankful,
but what’s in your heart.” – Hadley Goad
“If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t
likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.”
Thought
“Some people use language to express thought, some to conceal thought, and
others instead of thought.” – Unknown
“Bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions.” –
Anonymous
“Though sinful thoughts may rise, they must not be permitted to reign.” -
Charles Spurgeon
Time
"Today is the wise man's day; tomorrow is the fool's day.
The wise man, when he sees what ought to be done, does it today. The
foolish man, when he sees what ought to be done, says, 'I will do it
tomorrow.' The men who always do today the thing they see ought to be
done today make a success for time and eternity. The men and women who
put off until tomorrow what ought to be done today make a shipwreck of time
and eternity. The Holy Ghost saith, Today. man, in the folly of
his heart, says, Tomorrow." - R.A. Torrey
"Dost thou love life? then do not squander time; for that's
the stuff life is made of." - Benjamin Franklin
"Lost time is never found again." - Benjamin Franklin
“To me, old age is always
fifteen years older than I am.” - Bernard Baruch
Tongue
“A loose tongue may get its owner into a tight place.” – Unknown
“The words you speak today should not be harsh and bitter
because you may have to eat them tomorrow.” – Unknown
Trials
"As sure as ever God puts his children in the
furnace, he will be in the furnace with them." - Charles H. Spurgeon
"Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise physician
prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight
of them to what the case requires. Let us trust in his skill and thank
him for his prescription." - John Newton
“Troubles will make our hearts tender and help us to
appreciate the needs of others.” – Lee Roberson
“The trials we have to
undergo in the course of a year might be compared to a great bundle of
firewood too large for us to lift. God does not require us to carry them all
at once. He mercifully unties the bundle and gives us first one stick and
then another to carry. But we increase our burdens by carrying yesterday’s
stick over again and adding tomorrow’s burden before be bear it.” - John
Newton
“I don’t believe I would have
ever written all of those hymns had I been able to see.” – Fanny Crosby
When William Booth
was told blindness was approaching, the old soldier of the cross responded: “ I
have used my sight for Jesus; now I will use my blindness for Him.”
“Trials teach us
what we are; they dig up the soil and let us see what we are made of.” Charles
Spurgeon
Trinity
“Tell me how in this room there are three candles and but
one light, and I will explain to you the Trinity – the mode of the Divine
existence.” – John Wesley
Trouble
“Trouble is usually produced by those who are not
producing anything else.” – Hudson Taylor
Trust
"A loving parent would be sorely grieved if his child could
not trust him; and how ungenerous, how unkind is our conduct when we put so
little confidence in our heavenly Father who has never failed us, and who
never will." - Spurgeon
“And having thus chosen our course, let us renew our
trust in God and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.” – Abraham
Lincoln
Truth
“The greatest homage we can pay to the truth is to use
it.” – Emerson
“Nothing
ruins the truth like stretching it.” – Unknown
“God’s truth has never been popular. Wherever Christianity becomes popular,
it is not on its way to die; it has died already.” – A.W. Tozer
“When you compromise scriptural truth, you always compromise down, never up.
Compromise permits you to forfeit the higher ground and legitimizes your
choice of lower standards, lower expectations and lower dividends.” - George
Riddell III
“He who said, ‘I am the Truth,’ never made peace with a lie.” – G. Campbell
Morgan
“Christ is the Truth. On one side, this total truth
bristles with discrimination. It is bigoted, biased, dogmatic, opinionated
and fully narrow. Truth refuses to make any concessions or give any allowance
to any teaching, suggestion, ideal, doctrine, philosophy, thought or proposal
contrary to its claims. It resists anything of foreign element. Christ is
the Truth. On the other side, this total truth offers to all who will repent
and believe, everlasting love, forgiveness of all sins, the peace of God, new
life and hope and the positive assurance of a home in Heaven. It receives
“whosoever will.” In tender mercy it reaches out to all.” - Dr. Randy Pike
“I would rather believe and teach the old that is true
than the new that is false.” – R.A. Torrey
“Strong reasons make strong actions.” – Shakespeare
United States
"Our citizens should early understand that the genuine source
of correct republican principles is the Bible, particularly the New Testament,
or the Christian religion." - Noah Webster
"The things that will destroy America are
PROSPERITY-AT-ANY-PRICE, PEACE-AT-ANY-PRICE, SAFETY-FIRST INSTEAD OF
DUTY-FIRST, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life." -
Theodore Roosevelt
"It must be felt that there is no national security but in the
nation's humble acknowledged dependence upon God and his overruling
providence." - John Adams
"If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our
country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity
neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a
catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity." -
Daniel Webster
"The future success of America is not in the Constitution, but
in the laws of God upon which the Constitution is founded." - James Madison
"The Ten Commandments are the sum of the moral law." - John
Witherspoon, signer of the Declaration
"We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings that except
the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly
believe this; and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall
succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel." -
Benjamin Franklin
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for
themselves and, under a just God, cannot retain it. Having chosen our
course, without guilt and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God and
go forward without fear and with manly hearts." - Abraham Lincoln
“No people will tamely surrender their liberties, nor can
any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On
the contrary, when people are universally ignorant and debauched in their
manners, they will sink under their own weight without the aid of foreign
invaders.” – Samuel Adams
"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then
we will be a nation gone under." - Ronald
Reagan
On July 20, 1775 General Washington issued the order:
The General
orders this day to be religiously observed by the forces under his Command,
exactly in manner directed by the Continental Congress. It is therefore
strictly enjoined on all officers and soldiers to attend Divine service. And
it is expected that all those who go to worship do take their arms,
ammunitions and accoutrements, and are prepared for immediate action, if
called upon.
“America was not
built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable
determination to do the job at hand.” – Harry S. Truman
“The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the
strong; but the God of Israel is He that giveth strength and power unto His
people. Trust in Him at all times, ye people, pour out your hearts before Him;
God is a refuge for us.” – Abigail Adams (quote from America’s God and Country
Encyclopedia of Quotations by William J. Federer)
“A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a
paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom
no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men? Can he be a
patriot who, by an openly vicious conduct, is undermining the very bonds of
Society?… The Scriptures tell us “righteousness exalteth a Nation.” – Abigail
Adams (quote from America’s God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations by
William J. Federer)
“Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the
Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by
the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to
temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards
his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence toward Almighty God … What a
Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be.” – John Adams 2nd
President of the United States, a member of the Continental Congress, and a
signer of the Declaration of Independence. (quote from America’s God and
Country Encyclopedia of Quotations by William J. Federer)
“Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for
liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the
Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free
Constitution is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People in a
greater Measure, than they have it now, they may change their Rulers and the
forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting liberty.” - John Adams
2nd President of the United States, a member of the Continental
Congress, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. (quote from
America’s God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations by William J. Federer)
“This form of Government…is productive of every Thing which
is great and excellent among Men. But its Principles are as easily destroyed,
as human nature is corrupted…A Government is only to be supported by pure
Religion or Austere Morals. Private, and public Virtue is the only Foundation
of Republics.” - John Adams 2nd President of the United States, a
member of the Continental Congress, and a signer of the Declaration of
Independence. (quote from America’s God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations
by William J. Federer)
“The American
republic will endure as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue
dominant.” – James Russell Lowell
“Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is impossible that
a nation of infidels or idolaters should be a nation of freemen. It is when
people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.” – Patrick Henry
“If you want to save America, get America saved.” – Lester
Roloff
“It must be felt
that there is no national security but in the nation’s humble acknowledged
dependence upon God and his overruling providence.” – John Adams
“The future success of America is not in the
Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which the Constitution is founded.”
– President James Madison 1778
“We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings that
“except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.” I firmly
believe this; and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall
succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel.” -
Benjamin Franklin (statement he made at the Constitutional Convention, June
1787)
“It is the duty of
all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to
be grateful for His benefits and humbly to implore His protections and favor.” –
George Washington
“Neither the
wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of
a people whose manners are universally corrupt.” – Samuel Adams
“The strength of a country is the strength of its religious
convictions.” – Calvin Coolidge
“There exists in the economy and course of nature an
indissoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage… we
ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be
expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which
Heaven itself has ordained.” – George Washington
Universal
Worship
"Now,
Nebuchanezzer in his pride, wanted to establish a universal worship. That’s
been the effort ever since. That is the scheme today." - J. Frank Norris
Unrighteousness
“It must always be thought a dangerous thing to desire or
expect that God should patronize unrighteousness.” - Matthew Henry
Virgin Birth
“He who denies
the virgin birth denies Bible Christianity, smites the mother of our Lord with
shame, snatches the crown of deity from His brow, strips Him of His sinless
humanity, makes His cross a blood-stained failure and bids us face eternity
with no light in the darkness.” - I. M. Halderman
Walk
“We talk much about high ideals and deep thinking, but it
is often mixed with low walking and shallow motives.” – unknown
Wants
“It would not be better if things happened to men just as
they wished.” – Vance Havner
Wicked Men
“Sometimes God
suffers wicked men to be lifted up in successes and hopes, that their fall may
be the sorer.” - Matthew Henry
Wisdom
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our
own ignorance." - Charles H. Spurgeon
"To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be
a soul winner. That’s our business – That’s our only business!" - J. Frank
Norris
“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.” –
Charles H. Spurgeon
Witness
“A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a
Christian…and most of all, his family ought to know.” – D.L. Moody
“Preach abroad…it is the
cooping yourselves up in rooms that has dampened the work of God, which never
was and never will be carried out to any purpose without going into the
highways and hedges and compelling men and women to come in.” – Jonathan
Edwards
"We
are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly
cleanse and not just to change the taste." Vance Havner
“How long did you say you had been living here?” “Five
years next spring! Oh, my dear brother and sister, both of you professors of
religion and yet living here so long without even informing yourselves about
the condition of those nearest to your doors! What a pity! What a pity! What
will the Lord say to you?” - John Vassar
“I visit frequently forty families a day, have a meeting somewhere every night,
and speak to three Sunday schools, where practicable, every Lord’s day. I have
conversed with over three thousand people during the last three months on the
subject of personal religion, and feel that for this city a wonderful blessing
is in store.” – John Vassar
“A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.” – Unknown
“If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too
small.” – Pat Morley
“Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great
Commission has forfetted its biblical right to exist.” – Oswald J. Smith
“Lost people matter to God, and so they must matter to us.”
– Keith Wright
“The closer we get to God, the more the Devil will fight
us. The more we try to do for the souls of men, the more men will criticize us,
reproach us. If you have red blood in your veins, if you have courage in your
heart, if you have stamina in your soul, if you are willing to throw back your
hand, to square your shoulders, to stick out your jaw and cry, “Come on, old
Devil!” and then fight him to the last ditch, then brother or sister, you can be
called a true soldier of the cross.” – Hyman Appelman
“If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. And
if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees imploring
them to stay. If Hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of
our exertions.” – Charles Spurgeon
“Every action of our lives touches on some chord that
will vibrate in eternity.” - E.H. Chapin
“We don’t need any of your mountaintop experiences. When a
man gets so high that he can’t reach down to some poor sinners, there is
something wrong with his Christian experience.” – D.L. Moody
“I reckon him a Christian indeed that is neither ashamed of
the gospel nor a shame to it.” – Matthew Henry
“Sleepy Christian, let me shout in thine ears: thou are
sleeping while souls are being lost, sleeping while men are being damned,
sleeping while hell is being peopled, sleeping while Christ is being dishonored,
sleeping while the devil is grinning at thy sleepy face, sleeping while demons
are dancing round thy slumbering carcass, and telling it in hell that a
Christian is asleep. You will never catch the devil asleep; let not the devil
catch you asleep. Watch, and be sober, that ye may be always up to do your
duty.” – Charles Spurgeon
Worry
Worry is the darkroom where negatives develop. – Unknown
“Let us worry less and do more.” – Unknown
Yield
"Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. Work out what God
works in. Translate the thoughts of God into the vernacular of daily
obedience. Be as plastic to his touch as clay in the hands of the
potter, so that you may realize every ideal which is in his heart. Be
not as the horse and mule, but let your mouth be tender to every motion of the
divine purpose concerning you." - F.B. Meyer
"If only thou wouldst bend thy stubborn neck and submit to
shelter thyself in the person and work of Jesus, God's perfect holiness would
bring thee, not hurt, but blessing and help." - F.B. Meyer
It will be a new day if we would recognize that these
bodies of ours are the Temple of the Holy Ghost. - J. Frank Norris
“We can know spiritual victory only to the degree of our
resignation to His will.” – Bernie Smith
“God uses men
who are weak and feeble enough to lean on Him.” – Hudson Taylor
“Give your life to God. He can do more with it than you
can.” – D.L. Moody
“If God is going to use us for His honor and glory, if
His power is going to rest upon us, if He is going to bless our soul-winning
ministry, then our lives must be places absolutely at His disposal.” – Oswald
J. Smith
Yourself
“The
man I fear the most is the one who walks underneath this hat.” – D.L. Moody
When Abraham Lincoln was running for
President of the United States, a reporter asked him if he feared any of his
opponents. He said, “Yes one.” The reporter was somewhat surprised and said,
“Which one?” Lincoln responded by saying, “A man named Lincoln. If I am
defeated, I will be defeated by a man named Lincoln.”
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