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"You never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgment hall one word that would let you imagine that He was sorry that He had undertaken so costly a sacrifice for us. When His hands are pierced, when He is parched with fever, His tongue dried up like a shard of pottery, when His whole body is dissolved into the dust of death, you never hear a groan or a shriek that looks like Jesus is going back on His commitment." - Charles Spurgeon
"Soar back through all your experiences. Think of how the LORD has lead you in the wilderness and has fed and clothed you every day. How God has borne you with your ill manners, and put up with all your murmurings and all your longings after the 'sensual pleasures of Egypt!' Think of how the Lord's Grace has been sufficient for you in all your troubles. " - Charles Spurgeon
"It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to 'dishonor God and to flatter man.'"" - Charles Spurgeon
"God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supplies" - Hudson Taylor
"When Andrew went to find his brother, he little imagined how eminent Simon would become... You may be very deficient in talent yourself, and yet you may be the means of drawing to Christ one who shall become eminent in grace and service." - Charles Spurgeon
"There is a flow to history and culture. This flow is rooted and has its wellspring in the thoughts of people... The result of their thought world flow through their fingers or from their tongues into the external world." - Francis Schaeffer
"Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God. " - Martin Luther
"A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else's way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow. " - Charles Spurgeon
"I believe I was never more acceptable to my Master than when I was standing to teach those hearers in the open fields... I now preach to ten times more people than I would if I had been confined to the churches." - George Whitefield
"Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity. " - Charles Spurgeon
"They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels." - John Calvin
"How ignorant people are to think that a life of strict devotion is dull and without comfort. It is plain that there is neither comfort nor joy to be found in anything else! " - William Law
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is awaiting us " - Joseph Campbell
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength. " - Charles Spurgeon
"Always seek peace between your heart and God, but in this world, always be careful to remain ever-restless, never satisfied, and always abounding in the work of the Lord. " - Jim Elliot
"Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren. " - Martin Luther
"None are so empty as those who are full of themselves " - Andrew Jackson
"Seeing that a pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allows us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness " - John Calvin
"Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments. " - C. S. Lewis, on the return of Jesus Christ.
"When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habits and don't know how to eliminate then effectively. " - W. Clement Stone
"What does love look like? It has hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. " - Augustine
"For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid that misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God " - John Calvin
"Oh God, let this horrible war quickly come to an end that we may all return home and engage in the only work that is worthwhile - and that is the salvation of men " - General "Stonewall" Jackson
"For I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this I believe - That unless I believe, I should not understand." - Anselm of Canterbury
"The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations " - John Wycliffe
"I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth. " - Martin Luther
"When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it, he keeps a very small stock of it within " - Charles H. Spurgeon
"Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists." - Roy Moore
"Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us." - Oswald Chambers
"Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny" ...UnKnown
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. "He that will lose his life, the same shall save it," is not a piece of mysticism for saints and heroes.---G.K. Chesterton
Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.---C.S. Lewis
The home is the original society in which each person is placed by God at birth. It is, for better or worse, the place where people are shaped-their intellect, their values, their character, their aspirations. All that a person later becomes depends upon the factors that forged him in his youth, and the home is the primary shaper of young human beings.---Philip Lancaster
Resolved: Never to do anything which I should despise or think meanly of in another---Jonathan Edwards
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it---William James
Discipline yourself...so that others don't have to---Unknown
The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact - "The Resurrection", and a single historical teaching - "The Redemption", operating on a sense of sin which they already had...against the old platitudinous, universal moral law. C. S. Lewis
There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself. D.L. Moody
We believe, that the work or regeneration, conversion, sanctification and faith, is not an act of man's free will and power, but of the mighty, efficacious and irresistible grace of God
Before an individual can be saved, he must first learn that he cannot save himself. - M.R. DeHaan, M.D.
As in the candle I know there is both light and heat, but put out the candle, and they are both gone. - John Selden
If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the Gospel be preached, he would suffer less harm. For when there is no battle for the Gospel it rusts and it finds no cause and no occasion to show its vigor and power. Therefore, nothing better can befall the Gospel than that the world should fight it with force and cunning. - Martin Luther
The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain; to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination - C. S. Lewis
All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance. - Owen Feltham
Content makes poor men rich; Discontent makes rich men poor - Benjamin Franklin
To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny - Joseph Addison
Enemy-occupied territory---that is what the world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign in sabotage. - C. S. Lewis'
When you entertain any temptation to sin, you do as wisely as he who takes those into his house whom he knows are come on purpose to spoil him of what he esteems most precious. - Lancelot Addison
You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come. - Charles Spurgeon
Temptation usually comes through a door that has deliberately been left open. - Arnold Glasow
Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on His shoulders, and He has drowned them both in Himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous. - Martin Luther
Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer - John Calvin
You are in the very center of His will as you embrace His little ones to your heart and raise them to be mighty arrows for God's Kingdom. You are at the very heart of the Kingdom of God. There is nothing more powerful that you could be doing in the whole of the world. Be encouraged. And may you be filled with the joy of the Lord as you fulfill this mighty task in your home today. - Nancy Campbell
Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one. - Oswald Chambers
Our peace and confidence are to be found not in our empirical holiness, not in our progress toward perfection, but in the alien righteousness of Jesus Christ that covers our sinfulness and alone makes us acceptable before a holy God. - Donald Bloesch
Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill them up with holy service. - Charles Spurgeon
"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
"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you." C. S. Lewis
"All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms." Blaise Pascal
"Not length, but strength, is desirable... If our prayers had less of the tail feathers of pride and more wing, they would be all the better." Charles Spurgeon
"Do not give, as the rich men do, like a hen that lays an egg, and then cackles." Henry Ward Beecher
"Love means loving the unlovable -- or it is no virtue at all. " G.K. Chesterton
"Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe." Augustine
"Man must evolve for all human conflict, a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love." Martin Luther King Jr.
"He has brought himself to this state; he has exposed his heart as a common road to every evil influence of the world, till it has become hard as a pavement. " Richard Trench
"What had happened to all those warnings of Luther's against preaching the Gospel in such a manner as to make men rest secure in their ungodly living." Dietrich Bonhoffer
"Habits of thought are not less tyrannical than other habits, and a time comes when return is impossible, even to the strongest will." Alexander Vinet
"God knows our situation, He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them." C.S.Lewis
