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"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is." -Author Unknown
"Do you seek any further reward beyond that of having pleased God? In truth, you know not how great a good it is to please Him. - John Chrysostom
"The world is my parish." -John Wesley
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top . -Unknown
"Our words are the commentaries on our wills." -Antony Farindon
"It does seem to me like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most necessary." When asked about Faith vs. Works. -C.S. Lewis
Always do what you are afraid to do. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To multiply questions is not the way to improve religion. The zeal of men should be turned from curiosity of speculation to honesty of practice." -Benjamin Whichcote
"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." Send to a friend -Mother Teresa
"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark." -Francis Bacon
"Having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia..." [Mayflower Compact]
William Bradford
"All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching" -Charles Spurgeon
"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel." -G.K. Chesterton
"By perseverance the snail reached the ark." -Charles Spurgeon
"Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement." Barry LePalmer
5. The man, the whole man lies behind the sermon. Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life." Send to a friend -E.M. Bounds
"Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds on fire; it can withstand anything rather than a feeble flame; but when the surrounding atmosphere is frigid or lukewarm, it dies, chilled. -E.M. Bounds
"There is no mystery in heaven or earth so great as this—a suffering Deity, an almighty Saviour nailed to a Cross." -Sameul M. Zwemer
"The gospel alone is sufficient to rule the lives of Christians everywhere...any additional rules made to govern men's conduct added nothing to the perfection already found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ." -John Wycliffe
"Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages." -Thomas Watson
"Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn."
Charles Wesley
"There were many who saw the babe, but did not see the salvation." -Author Unknown
"When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion." -William Wilberforce
"Do you seek any further reward beyond that of having pleased God? In truth, you know not how great a good it is to please Him. Send to a friend -John Chrysostom
"Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe." -Augustine
"Church attendance is a vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man."
D.L. Moody
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. ~Charles Dickens
"The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still." -A.W. Tozer
"The weapons with which the ill dispositions of the world are to be combated are moderation, gentleness, a little indulgence of others, and a great distrust of ourselves."
Edmund Burke
"Many who plan to seek God at the eleventh hour die at 10:30."
Author Unknown
"This [pride] is the strong castle that we all keep garrisoned against heaven in every one of our hearts, which God continually layeth seige unto." -Ralph Cudworth
Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first. ~Josh Billings
"If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble; for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, so it is belovedof none but itself." -Francis Quarles
“Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies;”- John 11:25
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Emile Zola
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
Marlene Dietrich
"If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all."
C.S. Lewis
"A little lie is like a little pregnancy---it doesn't take long before everyone knows." -C.S. Lewis
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ~Robert Schuller
"He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy, He the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute."" - Augustine
"I have pain; but I have peace, I have peace." -Richard Baxter
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.- Alfred Lord Tennyson
"The gospel which they so greatly needed they would not have; the miracles which Jesus did not always choose to give, they eagerly demanded." - Charles Spurgeon
I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
Ella Maillart
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
-William Makepeace Thackeray
"If you lay down with flees, your gonna wake up with an itch". - Jason Lewis
The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
Natalie Wood
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. ~Winston Churchill
Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her? ~Helen Rowland
"Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk." -Billy Sunday
"Death stung himself to death when he stung Christ." -William Romaine
"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not." -Samuel Johnson
"The Word of God gives us great help in attaining the peace we need. It is living, very lively and active in seizing the conscience of the sinner, in cutting him to the heart, and in comforting him and binding up the wounds of the soul. It is powerful. It convinces powerfully, converts powerfully, and comforts powerfully." - Matthew Henry
"We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding." -Billy Graham
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. ~H.E. Luccock
Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading." -Oswald Chambers
"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling 'darkness' on the wall of his cell..." -C.S. Lewis
"Do you seek any further reward beyond that of having pleased God? In truth, you know not how great a good it is to please Him. -John Chrysostom
"The Holy Scriptures tell us what we could never learn any other way: they tell us what we are, who we are, how we got here, why we are here, and what we are required to do while we remain here."-A.W. Tozer
It is no marvel that the devil does not love field preaching! Neither do I; I love a commodious room, a soft cushion, a handsome pulpit. But where is my zeal if I do not trample all these underfoot in order to save one more soul? - John Wesley
"Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms."
-C.S. Lewis
"A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent." -Augustine
It would wound the soul of any Christian to have heard the dying groans of many a despairing creature, and none dare come near to comfort them. Many a robbery, many a murder, was then confessed aloud...People might be heard, even into the streets as we passed along, calling upon God for mercy through Jesus Christ, and saying, 'I have been a thief', 'I have been an adulterer', 'I have been a murderer." 1665-Daniel Defoe
Trying to maintain order during a legalized gang brawl involving 80 tough guys with a little whistle, a hanky and a ton of prayer. ~Anonymous referee, explaining his job
"I am so weak that I can hardly write, I cannot read my Bible, I cannot even pray, I can only lie still in God's arms like a little child, and trust." Last Words - Hudson Taylor
The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve." -John Stott
"The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early morning, its opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway seeking Him the rest of the day. If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day." -E.M. Bounds
"God sees hearts as we see faces."-George Herbert
"There are two freedoms: the false where a man is free to do what he likes; and the true where a man is free to do as he ought."-Charles Kingsley
