It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is GOD - A. W. Tozer

THE HEART OF THE HUMAN PROBLEM IS THE PROBLEM WITH THE HUMAN HEART

Be kind to the lost, for you are the only heaven they will see.

"You see, the flesh hates holiness and so do those who have dedicated their lives to making the church more like the world. Frankly, holiness is hard on the numbers and has a way of annoying the ambitious and offending the obscene." - Paul Proctor

FAITH IS BELIEVING THAT WHAT YOU CANNOT SEE WILL COME TO PASS FEAR IS BELIEVING THAT WHAT YOU CANNOT SEE WILL COME TO PASS - Edwin Louis Cole

A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usually results in a belief in anything.

Courage is the strength or choice to begin a change. Determination is the persistence to continue in that change.

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. Do not ever let anyone claim to be a true American patriot if they ever attempt to separate Religion from politics. - George Washington

If doing a good act in public will excite others to do more good, then ... 'Let your Light shine to all ...' Miss no opportunity to do good. - John Wesley

Your inner man needs to be as strong, if not stronger than, the gift and anointing God has given you to carry on His ministry in the earth. - Smith Wigglesworth

Many times disillusionment comes simply because our circumstances don't fit our concept of who God is and how He works. - Mark Wiley

I can get more out of God by believing Him for one minute than by shouting at Him all night. - Smith Wigglesworth

The Holy Spirit is not a blessing from God, He is God. - Colin Urquhart

The faith-filled life is difficult because it forces us to control our thoughts and discipline our bodies.

The greatest battles are fought in the mind.

Plenty of people are willing to give God credit, yet few are willing to give Him cash.

Possessing a Bible that's falling apart indicates a life that isn't!

True repentance has a double aspect;it looks upon things past with a weeping eye,and upon the future with a watchful eye. - Robert Smith

The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money. - J.H. Jowett

Life has burdens that no one can escape. Christianity does not remove the load: it teaches us how to bear the burdens that fall rightfully to us.

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe - Augustine

We need passion in our faith! Instead of praying, 'If I should die before I wake, we should pray,'Lord wake me up before I die!' - Tony Campolo

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word darkness on the walls of his cell. - C. S. Lewis

God is very patient. It took him years to teach me to say two words: "Lord, anything!" - A. Douglas Brown

One of the great mysteries of life is how the idiot that your daughter married can be the father of the smartest grandchildren in the whole wide world.

A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine. - Dwight Moody

Life is tragic for the person who has plenty to live on, but nothing to live for.

Nothing has happened in our first birth,that cannot be cured by our second. - Ron Hembree

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't pray, they don't. William Temple

Life is 10% what happens to you, 90% how you respond to it. - Chuck Swindoll

We may not be what we want to be, but thank God we are not what we used to be. - Tim Storey

Let your test become your testimony, let your mess become your message.

If you don't do something with life, life will do something with you.

Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. Your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace - Jerry Bridges

It would be better that you gather dung by obedience than be caught up into the third heaven by your own will -- unknown

To avoid critism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." - Elbert Hubbard

A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usually results in a belief in anything.

"Failure can be divided into those who thought and never did and into those who did and never thought." - Reverend W.A. Nance

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders. - Unknown

The Devil does not pose with horns; he is much more sneaky than that!" - Unknown

"If you were a waiter who walked in a room where half of the crowd had eaten three meals a day every day in their life and the other half had not eaten for two weeks, who would you serve first?" - Dick Varberg

All of the major religions in the world have a major leader. The difference between them and Christianity is that all of their leaders are dead and Jesus Lives! - Unknown

To move forward with the Spirit, we must relinquish our control of the present." - Unknown

Too many Christians are no longer fishers of men but keepers of the aquarium - Paul Harvey

You do not clean a fish before you catch it." - Unknown

Christ on the cross is not a mere theological precondition for salvation. He is God's enduring Word to the world saying, "See how much I love you. See how you must love one another. - Brennan Manning

It is the person and passion of Jesus Christ which defines us, and because of him we go no longer down to nothing, our end is the beginning of a perfect union with God, the Beginner of Everything. - Walter Wangerin

In the cross of Christ excess in men is met by excess in God, excess of evil is mastered by excess of love - Louis Bourdaloue

He bore in his own body our sins upon a tree. "Don't ask me to explain it. I can't explain it, I bow in humility and repentance a the cross at the wonder of it, that God should give himself for me. I bow and am redeemed! - E. Stanley Jones

You do not understand Christ till you understand the cross - P. T. Forsyth

We are not always in the condition to understand the cross, but it is of vital importance that we let god bring us at times where every commonplace mood is stripped off, and we take the shoes from off our feet and stand alone for one moment while God spells out to us the ABC of what the cross of Christ means. - Oswald Chambers

In the end there are no words, only Christ on the cross symbolizing God's agonizing involvement with His creation, Christ rising from teh dead, symbolizing God's creative promise to redeem and renew, Christ enacting in flesh and blood the absolute truths for all mankind to see. - Susan Howatch, Absolute Truths

Either the Bible will keep you away from sin, or sin will keep you away from the Bible!

God loves us the way we are, but too much to leave us that way.

If you only have the Word, you will dry up. If you only have the Spirit, you will blow up. But if you you have the Word and the Spirit, you will go up and grow up.

Never put a question mark where God puts a period.

No Jesus, No Peace. Know Jesus, Know Peace!

The more a man bows his knee before God, the straighter he stands before men.

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; for it becomes your destiny!

Only he who believes is obedient. Only he who is obedient, believes - Bonhoeffer

The prayer that sparks revival begins long before the countryside seems to awaken from its slumber in sin. It starts when men fall on their knees and cry out to God. That's where true intimacy with God takes place and we begin the journey of being transformed into the image of Christ. And as men are transformed, the course of a nation can be changed. - Wellington Boone

Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then works again - until you can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other - William Booth

All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning - Oswald Chambers

We are in God's quarry now, who or what are the stone cutters in my life.

God has the right to choose the platform on which you will preach the gospel.
- Romans 8:28; 2 Cor. 4:7

What's your problem? - David Ring on the Jerry Falwell Show

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. - Winston Churchill

Being a male is a matter of birth, being a man is a matter of being that.

Heroes are not the ones that never fail, but the ones who never give up.

The desire of love is to give. The desire of lust is to get.

The Devil has knowledge, but no wisdom.

The income of God's Word is the outcome of a change life.

The worst is not to fail, but to give up.

Wishing will never be a substitute for prayer.

You honor Jesus when you act in faith on His word.

Perception carries more weight than reality.

Sometimes people use the word faith to mean pretend - you know like saying, 'I'm set free by faith', and then pretending you're free when you're not. That isn't faith. That's a sad joke. - Keith Green

Faith creates nothing, it simply reckons upon that which is already there
- A. W. Tozer

If everyone in the church was like me, what kind of a church would it be like.

Fear brings more pain than the pain it fears - Dr. Don Jennings

The Holy Spirit never reasons what man is for God ... but from what God is to man - J. N. Darby

Grace understood and embraced will always lead to commitment. But commitment required will always lead to legalism - Jerry Bridges
BR> Busyness may not be next to godliness .. but this one thing I am sure of - laziness is sin.

If we take care of the depth of our relationship with God, He'll take care of the breadth of our relationships - Matt Afleck, SS, Victory Heights Baptist, London, Ontario

Today Jesus Christ is being dispatched as the Figurehead of a Religion, a mere example. He is that, but he is infinitely more; He is salvation itself, He is the Gospel of God. - Oswald Chambers

In the flesh, we are always trying to reduce fellowship to rules. - Keith Green

You either have to choose a limited message or a limited fellowship (Acts 20:27) - Robert Ketcham

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart

The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

We must leave to God all that depends on Him, and think only of being faithful in all that depends upon ourselves.

God sent His Son into the world as the solution to the human dilemma as He defined the human dilemma, not as we have defined it.

Are we prepared to take the patient ways of God, we must not be infected by the world's evaluation of either speed or success - John B. Phillips

Ideally when Christians meet, as Christians, to take counsel together, their purpose is not - or should not be - to ascertain what is the mind of the majority but what is the mind of the Holy Spirit - something which may be quite different - Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of Britain (Aint that the truth ... Jim)

You can't expect people to accept with their minds what you dont demonstrate by your life - Radio Bible Class Quote

Men are born with two eyes but with one tongue, that they may see twice as much as they say - Cotton

The closer you get to Christ, the farther you'll go for Him

True worship is the complete consumation by man in all of his being, intellectual, emotional and spiritual, at all times in the pursuit of the knowledge of God and in the passion and pleasure of knowing God - James Lush

There are two ways to slip easily through life ... one is to believe everything ... the other is to doubt everything ... either one allows you to go through life without thinking." - chat handle Fool

Who speaks for God? He does quite nicely for Himself. Through His holy and infalible Word - and the quiet obedience of His servants - Chuck Colson

If individuals live only seventy years, then a state, or a nation, or a civilization, which may last for a thousand years, is more important than an individual. But if Christianity is true, then the individual is not only more important but incomparably more important, for he is everlasting and the life of a state or civilization, compared with his, is only a moment - C. S. Lewis

Everytime we say, 'I believe in the Holy Spirit' we mean that we believe there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it - J. B. Phillips

You can say you are a Christian, but that doesn't make you one. The true Christian will give evidence of faith by a transformed life. The kind of faith that will take you to heaven is the kind of faith tht will produce godliness in your life here and now - Charles H. Robinson

The question, 'Who ought to be the boss?' is like asking, 'Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' 'Obviously, the man who can sin tenor.' - Henry Ford

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things - Henry Ward Beecher

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there - Charles F. Kettering

Practical holiness is the only holiness of any value in this world, and the only kind the Holy Spirit of God will endorse - Oswald Chambers

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree - Roy L. Smith

Be persuaded, timid soul, that He has loved you too much to cease loving you - Francois de la Mothe Pennelon

To be assured of our salvation is not arrogant stoutness. It is faith. It is devotion. It is not presumption. It is God's promise - St. Augustine

Adversity removes the cloak of "what we are supposed to be" to reveal the truth of what we are. - Charles Stanley

The man who removed the mountain started by carrying away the small stones - Chinese proverb

No man is uneducated who knows the Bible and no one is wise who is ignorant of its teachings - Samuel Chadwick

Before we can pray"Lord thy kingdom come" we must be willing to pray"My kingdom go" - Alan Redpath

We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work - A. W. Tozer

Be still and know that I am God - the Bible, Psalm 46:10

Life is a grindstone and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up, depends on the stuff he is made of - John Billings

The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out - D. L. Moody

Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness - Phillips Brooks

If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith - Martin Luther

There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a show-thing of Him and not use Him - Charles Spurgeon

Your life isn't spinning out of control ... You are just on the potter's wheel

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ - Oswald Chambers

The scriptures were given not to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives. - D. L. Moody

We must practice the art of long and loving meditation upon the majesty of God. This will take some effort, for he concept of majesty has all but disappeared from the human race. - A. W. Tozer

Same sun that melts the wax, hardens the clay.

God's plans are perfected when we practice His precepts. - James Lush

Only God can truly guarantee.

If Christ had practiced the kind of love we advocate nowadays, He would have lived to a ripe old age - Bold Love by Dr. Dan. B Allender

Make sure the vessel doesn't rob the treasure of its glory.

See that you do not spend your life doing what an unconverted man could do just as well. - W. MacDonald

I can complain because the rose bush has thorns or I can rejoice because the thorn bush has roses.

My goal is God Himself, not joy nor peace, nor even blessing, but Himself, my God. - Oswald Chambers

A marriage may be made in heaven, but the maintenance must be done on earth.

When God measures a man, He puts the tape around the heart instead of the head.

The grass may look greener on the other side, but it still has to be mowed.

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

An open mind like an open mouth does have a purpose; to close it upon something solid, otherwise it could end up like a city sewer, rejecting nothing. - C.S. Lewis

If you think you're going in the wrong direction always remember that God allows u-turns

Sometimes there seems to be no reason to what God does, until we see what He does with it

The kingdom of God is not going to be advanced by our churches becoming filled with people, but with people becoming filled with God

We are most like beasts when we kill, we are most like men when we judge, but we are most like Christ when we forgive

ONE DAY GOD IS SIMPLY GOING TO SPEAK
THE WORD, AND THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD
ARE GOING TO BE DISSOLVED - BIGNESS,
GLITZ, GLAMOUR, WEALTH AND POWER
WON'T MEAN MUCH IN THAT DAY.

Forgiveness is giving up my right to hurt you, for hurting me

Perservere in what ever you do, because it was by perserverance that the snail reached the ark!

Our sense of sin is in proportion to our nearness to God - Thomas Bernard

The church is in almost as much trouble as the culture, for the church has bought into the same value system: fame, success, materialism,and celebrity. We watch the leading churches and the leading christians for cues. - Charles Colson

Anyone can be sentimental about the Nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main even; if you dont believe in the resurrection, you're not a beliver - John Irving

God's promises are greater than life's problems

Each day is a fresh new parchment awaiting the handprint of God

Hope in the promises of Christ for the future takes the sting out of the present

When satan reminds you of your past, you remind him of his future

I do not understand it, but I just keep trusting my good shepherd, because I know that He will not lead me to any place He does not want me to follow

People won't care about how much we know until they know how much we care - Chuck Swindoll

Our performance in life is directly related to the thoughts we deposit in our memory bank. We can only draw on what we deposit

The hammer of God's word wears away the anvil of unbelief

Every day we are one day closer to Jesus' return, so live as though Christ died yesterday, rose today and is coming tomorrow

Don't tell them Jesus loves them until you're ready to love them too

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing

The best inheritance a father can leave his children is a good example

Now there's even a "dial-a-prayer for atheists. You call and number and nobody answers.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinay is that little extra.

It wasn't until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, I dont know. - Somerset Maugham

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; where your treasure, there your heart, where your heart, there your happiness - St. Augustine

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back - Phillips Brooks

You dont have to search for God, you only have to realize Him - Gerhart Tersteegen

There is no limit to what a man can do or where He can go if He doesn't mind who gets the credit.

Ah, if you knew what peace there is in accepted sorrow - Madame Guyon

He who often thinks of God will have a larger mind than the man who simply plods around this narrow globe ... Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing will magnify the whole soul of aman, as a devout, earnest, continued investigation of the great subject of Deity - Charles Spurgeon.

God gave burdens, also shoulders - Yiddish (not Yidden) proverb

If the laws in the material realm are so fixed and exact, is it reasonable that God would be haphazard in the spiritual realm where the eternal destinies of billions of people are at stake.
- Back to the Bible Article

Never try to teach a pig to sing, it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date - C. S. Lewis

Love is of God and from God, and He pours it into our hearts if we let Him - Amy Carmichael

The church is the assembly of believers. It includes all who believe, living or dead, or yet unborn. Visible on earth, invisible in heaven, local or worldwide, the church is not "made up" of people - the church IS THE PEOPLE. The church may be battered by cynicism, shattered by strife, enamored of the world, oftimes social instead of spiritual, prayerless instead of powerful for God, but still we need the assembly of God's people - Roy McIntyre

The church is a lot like Noahs Ark ... if it wasn't for the storm outside, you couldn't stand the smell inside

Marriage is the only union that can not be organized ... both sides think they are management

If your wife doesn't treat you as you deserve, be thankful

When you stop to think. Don't forget to start again

The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills

Man's life means: Tender teens, Teachable twenties, Tireless thirties, Fiery forties, Forceful fifties, Serious sixties, Sacred seventies, Aching eighties, Shortening breath, Death, The sod, God!

September is when millions of bright, shining, happy, laughing faces turn toward school. They belong to mothers

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to an all-knowing God - Corrie Ten Boon

You can't pour deep spirituality into a shallow life.

Count your obligations,
Name them one by one,
And it will surprise you,
What the Lord wants done.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing - Edmund Burke

When it comes to thorns ... God prefers we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut - Max Lucado

If I supply the willingness, you'll supply the power

Trust His heart .. when you can't touch His hand

You are not what you are today by accident
- Chris Higginson, Knollwood Baptist Church, 29 September 1996

JUSTICE - We get what we deserve
MERCY - We do not get what we deserve
GRACE _ we get what we do not deserve
... Sam Wilson, from Another Chance by Dean Merrill (page 133)

Christmas isn't Christmas .. till it happens in your heart

Humility is a virtue to be highly sought but never claimed, because once claimed it is forfeited - John MacArthur

The new Trinity .. I - Me - Mine

If the love of God's love can not reach me because of some shadow, I need to examine who is between us, not God as He is The Unchanging One.

Knowledge - is the ability to take things apart
Wisdom - is the ability to put them together

Faith responds - Fear retreats

Suffering - Anything I don't like that I can't change

Sacrifice - Surrendering something of value for something of greater value

WHAT WE CHOOSE WHEN WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO CHOOSE REVEALS ALOT ABOUT OURSELVES - J. Oswald Saunders

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