Quotes
The power comes with the task.
We do what we can, and God does what we can’t!
(Reinhard Bonnke)
The way forward is simple – just follow Christ!
The only thing that’s worse than being blind, is having sight but no vision.
(Helen Keller)
The fame of great men should always be judged by the methods they employed to achieve it.
(Francis de la Rochefoucauld)
Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
(Augustine)
Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible.
There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible.
Faith begins where man’s power ends.
(George Muller)
Hope is hearing the melody of the future.
Faith is to dance to it.
(Rubem Alves)
Christ is not valued at all
unless He is valued above all.
(Augustine of Hippo)
How far that little candle throws its beams.
So shines a good deed in a weary World.
(William Shakespeare)
The World has yet to see what God can do
with and for and through and in a man or
woman who is fully and wholly consecrated to Him.
(Henry Varley)
Sow an act, and you reap a habit.
Sow a habit and you reap a character.
Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
(Charles Reade)
To be good only to yourself
is to be good for nothing.
(Voltaire)
I have never met a person who has given me as much
trouble as myself.
(Dwight Moody)
When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept.
When as a youth I dreamed and talked, time walked.
When I became a full grown man, time ran.
And later, as I older grew, time flew.
Soon I shall find while travelling on, time gone.
Will Christ have saved my soul by then? Amen!
(Inscription on the clock in Chester cathedral)
Were Earth a thousand times as fair beset with gold and jewels rare,
She yet were far too poor to be a narrow cradle Lord for Thee.
(Martin Luther)
Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
(Polybius)
Nothing fails so quite totally as success without God.
(Vic Pentz)
I don’t think God is too interested in our success.
He is more interested in our faithfulness.
(Fred Smith)
Speak to the suffering, and you will never lack an audience.
There is a broken heart in every crowd.
(Joseph Parker)
I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.
(C. S. Lewis)
None of us is as smart as all of us.
There’s no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.
(D. L. Moody)
There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord,
but few of us are willing to do little things.
(D. L. Moody)
Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.
(D. L. Moody)
God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
(D. L. Moody)
God doesn’t call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
Heaven is full of answers to prayers, for which no one bothered to ask.
(Billy Graham)
If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion.
(Elbert Hubard)
Men will wrangle fvor religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it;
anything but live for it.
(C. C. Colton)
Christianity is a demanding and serious religion.
When it is delivered as easy and amusing,
it is another kind of religion altogether.
(Neil Postman)
Jesus promised His disciples three things:
that they would be entirely fearless, absurdly happy,
and that they would get into trouble.
(W. Russell Maltby)
The Church must be reminded that it is not the master
or the servant of the State, but rather the conscience of the State.
(Martin Luther King Jr)
The Church is the only cooperative society in the World
that exists for the benefit of its non members.
(William Temple)
We need not sin that Grace may abound.
We are sinners and need only to confess that Grace may abound.
(C. FitzSimons Allison)
Our World has becoime a neighbourhood
without becoming a brotherhood.
(Billy Graham)
People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
(W. Somereset Maugham)
The individual is the central, rarest, most precious
capital resource in our society.
(Peter Drucker)
God doesn’t call people who are qualified.
He calls people who are willing, and then
He qualifies them.
(Richard Parker)
What we attain too cheaply
we esteem too lightly.
The problem is not that churches are filled with empty pews,
but that the pews are filled with empty people.
(Charles Shedd)
The ‘obedience’ of Jesus is not simply submission,
but real striving, cooperation, and activity.
(John Vincent -The Eternal Vision)
Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt;
Nothings so hard, but search will find it out.
(Robert Herrick – The Eternal Vision)
Deeply the Christian believes that beneath all the flux and change of this mortal life,
God is seeking to work out His profound purpose.
(W. E. Sangster – The Eternal Vision)
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
(Theodore Hesburgh)
Without forgiveness there is no future.
(Desmond Tutu)
Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in.
Aim at Earth and you will get neither.
(C.S. Lewis)
God wishes to test you like gold in the furnace.
The dross is consumed by the flame,
but the pure gold remains, and its value increases.
(Jerome Emilian)
The person who really wants to do something finds a way.
Others find an excuse.
Are you a caretaker or a risk taker?
Your talent is God’s gift to you.
What you do with it, is your gift back to God.
(Leo Buscaglia
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
(W. R. Inge)
We need not be tomorrow what we are today, if only we use the potential implanted within us by God.
(Rabbi Samuel Silver)
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Live in peace yourself and then you can bring peace to others – a peaceable man does more good than a learned one.
(Thomas a Kempis)
Ask yourself the question: “Why am I on this planet?”
The answer: To prepare yourself to meet your Maker.
(David Pavitt)
When was the last time you did something for the first time?
A man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings.
(Henri Frederic Amiel)
None but God can satisfy the longings of our immortal soul; that, as the heart was made for God, so He alone can fill it.
(Richard Chevenix)
If you don’t know where you’re going,
how will you know when you get there?
The moment the organic unity of belief and behaviour is damaged in any way, we are incapable of living out the full humanity for which we were created.
(Eugene Peterson)
Everybody wants to see justice done – to somebody else!
(Bruce Cockburn)
The trouble with the age in which we live is that it is all signposts but no destination.
(Louis Kronenberger)
Many a Christian worker has buried his spirituality in the grave of his activity.
(Duncan Campbell)
Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in.
(Jim Wallis)
If God does not judge western culture, He will have to apologise to Sodom & Gomorrah.
(Billy Graham)
The wonder of Christmas is that the God Who lived with us can now live within us.
(Roy Lessin)
Real servants don’t try to use God for their purposes.
They let God use them for His purposes.
The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
(William James)
God is never in a hurry, but He is always on time.
You weren’t created just to consume resources,
you were put on this Earth to make a contribution.
Holy living consists in doing God’s work with a smile.
(Mother Teresa)
What you are, is God’s gift to you.
What you do with yourself is your gift to God.
(Danish proverb)
History repeats itself, it has to, because nobody listens.
(Steve Turner)
Unforgiveness is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
(Mike Murphy)
Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there.
(W.H. Auden)
A complacent self focused relationship with Christ is expensive for us and expensive for people we know who are spiritually lost.
(Ron Hutchcraft)
God respects me when I work, but He loves me when I sing.
(Indian source)
FACT: If you have food in the house, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of people in this World.
One father is worth more than a hundred schoolmasters.
Success is completing what God has asked you to do.
(Vince Williams)
Being a servant will take you places where your
talent will never take you.
(Tommy Tenney)
Atheism is a crutch for those who can’t accept the reality of God.
(Tom Stoppard)
O God You have made us for Yourself,
and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in You.
(Augustine)
Jesus is Lord! That is not negotiable.
(Franklin Graham)
Sinful man does not need a religion, but a revelation.
“I do not think that in the past 40 years I have lived one conscious hour that was not influenced by the thought of the Lord’s return.”
(Lord Shaftsbury)
Eyes that look are common. Eyes that see are rare.
(J. Oswald Sanders)
True Bible based hope is defined as: ‘A red hot, burning earnest expectation.’
(George Pearsons)
We cannot evangelize until we have been evangelized.
This happens most powerfully through solitary prayer.
(John Michael Talbot)
Confession of a Wife: “When I married Mr. Right,
I didn’t know his first name was Always!”
History is littered with examples of men who would become gods,
but only one example of God becoming man.
I want to know God’s thoughts…… the rest are details.
(Albert Einstein)
Those who don’t learn to fight worry, die young.
(Dr. Alexis Carrel)
Careful is fuelled by information. Fearful is fuelled by imagination.
(Bob Gass)
The strength of a man consists in finding out which way God is going,
then going that way himself.
(Henry Ward Beecher)
The measure of a man’s power is in the measure of his surrender.
(William Booth)
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.
To live above with saints we love, that will be our future glory.
To live below with saints we know, that’s quite another story!
More things are wrought by prayer than this World dreams of.
(Tennyson)
The World is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
We start life as a unique person, but we are in danger of ending up as a clone.
(Paul Scanlon)
GRACE is the free, undeserved goodness and favour of God to mankind.
(Matthew Henry)
HYPOCRISY: Do not live one way in private, and another in public.
(Quinntilian)
The lazier a man is, the more he plans to do tomorrow.
(Norwegian proverb)
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
(S. Kierkegaard)
Those who don’t learn from their past are doomed to repeat it. We can chart the future clearly and wisely only when we know
the path which has led us to the present.
(Adlai Stevenson)
The future starts today, not tomorrow.
(Pope John Paul 11)
What a nation needs more than anything else, is not a Christian ruler in the palace, but a Christian prophet within earshot.
(Kenneth Kaunda)
Those who forever seek the will of God are overtaken by those who do it.
(Reinhard Bonnke)
The World has lost the power to blush over its vice;
The Church has lost her power to weep over it.
(Leonard Ravenhill)
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.
(Martin Luther King, Jnr)
Discussion is an exchange of intelligence. Argument is an exchange of ignorance.
Mark Twain on the subject of ambition: It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of fight in the dog.
Unless we change direction, we are likely to end up where we were going. (Chinese proverb)
Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to. (Mark Twain)
Growing old is a time when you hand back to God those gifts that you won’t need in the life to come.
(John Hapgood)
God’s purpose in all trouble, is to drive us closer to Himself.
The anointing of the Holy Spirit is unlimited. It is we that set the limits. (Benny Hinn)
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
There are two important days in our lives – the day we were born, and the day we discovered why.
(John Andrews)
The Devil deserves zero tolerance.
The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.
(Dean Inge)
Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
(Corrie ten Boom)
A study of over 12 thousand people conducted by a university in Sweden, has found that people
who regularly sing together, live longer than those who don’t.
(The Times)
Over 1.3 billion people in the World have to live on less than 70p a day.
Procrastination is not only the thief of time, it is the grave of opportunity.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Take the dragon and the gift is yours.
(Noela Evans)
God is never too early, never too late. He is always just on time.
(C. B. Fugett)
If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.
(C. H. Spurgeon)
‘Fear Not’ is found 366 times in the Bible. One for every day of the year including leap year.
(Josif Tson)
I’m not what I ought to be, I’m not what I hope to be, and I’m not what I will be.
But, thank God, I’m not what I used to be!
(John Newton)
Give authority to some people and they grow. Give authority to others and they swell.
You live and learn, or you don’t live long.
The best news the World ever heard came from a graveyard! Jesus Lives!
The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the World.
(W.S. Ross)
Put first things first and you get second things thrown in.
But put second things first and you lose both.
(C.S. Lewis)
Men may spurn our appeal, reject our message, oppose our reasoning, despise our person. But they are helpless against our prayers.
(Sidlow Baxter)
We have become a nation that knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.
If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
(Geena Davis)
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
(Lin Yutang)
Our destiny is determined, not by what we possess, but by what possess us.
(John Maxwell)
If God is your partner, make your plans big!
(D.L. Moody)
If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees.
If you want a hundred years of prosperity, grow people.
(Chinese Proverb)
My interest is in the future because I’m going to spend the rest of my life there.
(Charles Kettering)
If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things.
Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
(C.S. Lewis)
The reason I am a Christian is not that it is nice, but that it is true.
(John Stott)
Most of the great reformers were motivated by compassionate Christian principles:
Wilberforce and slavery, Elizabeth Fry and prisons, John Groom with housing for the disabled, and Thomas Barnardo with destitute children.
Am I making a difference in my generation?
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift…..that’s why it’s called the Present.
(Eleanor Roosevelt)
God is not a man that He should lie; He doesn’t change His mind like we do.
Has He ever promised and not carried it though?
(Numbers 23. 19 The Bible)
At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.
(Blaise Pascal – Mathematician/scientist)
You can give the Devil too much or too little attention.
(C.S. Lewis)
70 million Christians have been killed for their faith in 220 countries across 20 centuries.
(Dr. David Barrett)
Never despise what you don’t understand.
(William Penn)
Death is the World’s greatest preacher.
(J. Nelson Parr)
Be the change you want to see in the World.
(Gandhi)
To share often and much, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
The anointing of the Holy Spirit is unlimited.
It is we that set the limits.
(Benny Hinn)
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Discussion is an exchange of intelligence, argument is an exchange of ignorance.
Our lives begin to end, the day we become silent about the things that matter.
(Martin Luther King, Jr)
Your witness is only as strong as your character.
Jedsus was put to death because He put His preaching into practice.
(Michael Crosby)
Our current culture is in danger of dying from consumption,
in its abuse of the natural world and its resources.
(Robert Warren)
A leader is not an administrator who loves to run the lives of others, but someone who carries water for his people so they can get on with their jobs. (Robert Townsend)
Prayer is an exchange. We leave our burdens, worries and sin in the hands of God. We come away with oil of joy and the garment of praise. (F.B. Meyer)
In Hannah (Samuel’s mother) we see harvest sown in years of suffering, sorrow giving beauty to the soul. It maybe to fit you to be the parent of some priceless gift to the World. (F.B. Meyer)
Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you will get neither. (C.S. Lewis)
Battles will not be fought and won by the careless and the casual, who serve only when they feel like it. (Jeff Lucas)
It is right to be contended with what we have, never with what we are. (James Mackintosh)
Figure out what went wrong, not who was wrong, when communication breaks down. (Tom Nash)
Christ could be born a thousand times in Galilee But all in vain until He is born in you and me. (Angleus Silesius)
Prompt to move but firm to wait – knowing things rashly sought are rarely found. (William Wordsworth)
Peace reigns where our Lord reigns. (Julian of Norwich)
We don’t go to church with a bib, waiting to be fed; We go with an apron, ready to serve. (John Ed Mathison)
If you want something you’ve never had before, then you must do something you’ve never done before. (Mike Murdock)
I am weary of people who have an opinion about everything but a heart for nothing. (Paul Reid)
The ability to see faults, is a cheap and common gift. (Gene Saunders)
Churches are playing ‘trivial pursuits’ while a World out there goes to Hell. (Jeff Lucas)
The Gospel is like water; No man can live without it.
(Reinhard Bonnke)
We talk of the Second Coming of Christ when half the World has never heard of the first.
(Oswald J. Smith)
If there are a thousand steps between us and God, He will take all but one. He will leave the final one for us.
The choice is ours. (Max Lucado)
He that would have fruit must first climb the tree.
(Thomas Fuller)
Shallow men believe in luck. (Ralph Emerson)
Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe.
(American proverb)
Growing old is a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. (Andre Maurois)
A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
(James Joyce)
It takes character to cope with life when duty rather than excitement is the sustaining force.
Seven prayer-less days make one spiritually weak!
Bank on God for a higher rate of interest.
You cannot lose your footing on your knees.
Fight truth decay – brush up your Bible every day.
Run to Church to keep spiritually fit.
The English love the Gospel because they can debate it.
The Welsh love the Gospel because they can sing it.
The Scotch love the Gospel because its for free.
The Irish love the Gospel because they can fight over it.
Success is the ability to survive failure.
What we leave IN our children is more important than what we leave TO them.
Vision is the ability to see the opportunities within your current circumstances.
You can tell when your kids are growing up. They stop asking you where they came from and start refusing to tell you where they’re going.
God can do wonders with a broken heart if you give Him the pieces. (Victor Alfsen)
A friend is one who knows all about you, but loves you just the same.
Backbone people: The WISHBONES, who spend their time wishing for success instead of working for it.
The JAWBONES, who talk about success but do very little else.
The KNUCKLEBONES, who knock everything that everyone else is doing.
The BACKBONES, who get under the load and get the job done.
If you are not lighting any candles, don’t complain about the dark!
God gives every bird his food, but He does not throw it into the nest. (J.G.Holland)
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. (Thomas Eddison)
Do you love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of. (Benjamin Franklin)
If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.
(Pope John Paul 11)
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind, and won’t change the subject. (Sir Winston Churchill)
I love trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things.
(Willa Cather)
The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me. (Martin Luther)
We are always complaining that our days are few and acting as though there will be no end to them. (Seneca)
If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend on it, you have more business than God intended you should have. (D.L. Moody)
Sometimes God calms the storm – and sometimes He lets the storm rage and calms His child. (Author unknown)
What really matters is what happens IN us, not TO us. (James Kennedy)
Anyone can love the ideal Church. The challenge is to love the REAL Church. (Bishop McKinney)
You will invest your life in something, or you will throw it away on nothing. (Haddon Robinson)
Did you know…….
That the Bible is available in more than 2000 languages?
That there are 2930 characters in the Bible, and the action takes place in 1551 places?
That the Bible is the number one most shoplifted book in America?
(Joy magazine)
For some Christians in certain parts of the World, “Cell Group” is every night!
(Release – The voice of persecuted Christians)
Resist the many pressures to privatize faith. It is one of the most precious gifts the Christian has to give to a fragmented World.
(Robert Warren)
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify Him.
They would ask Him to dinner, and hear what He had to say, and make fun of it.
(Thomas Carlyle)
EGO simply means, Edging God Out.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
(Francis de Sales)
Adversity: Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
(Winston Churchill)
The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.
(Albert Einstein)
Some people use their faith and conscience like a bus – they only ride it when it’s going their way.
Jesus promised His disciples three things: That they would be completely fearless, Absurdly happy, and in constant trouble. (G. K. Chesterton)
Some Christians give the impression they have been baptised in vinegar!
(A Box of Delights)
“You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow up civilisation to pieces, turn the World upside down, and bring peace to a battle-torn Planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.”
(Mahatma Ghandi)
Brains and beauty are God’s gifts: character is your own achievement.
(A Box of Delights)
“Our children need our presence more than our presents.”
(Jesse Jackson)
A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.
We are all damaged goods in recovery.
May we live here like strangers and make this World not a house, But an Inn, where we eat and sleep, expecting to be on our journey tomorrow.
(Charles Spurgeon)
Pagan police officers have been given the right to take eight days off work a year to celebrate “religious holidays,” including Hallowe’en and the Summer Solstice.
(Daily Telegraph)
Ten thousand steps, roughly. That’s the distance you travel sunrise to sunset each and every day.
It adds up to about 115.000 miles in a lifetime – or more than four times circling the Earth.
The only thing more expensive than education, is ignorance.
(Benjamin Franklin)
Has this World been to kind to you that you should leave with regret?
There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
(C.S.Lewis)
The Cross isn’t something you just wear -
The Cross is what we are supposed to bear.
“If anyone would come after Me,” said Jesus,
“He must deny self, take up his cross daily,
And follow Me.”
I have never met a man who has given me so much trouble as myself.
(Dwight Moody)
Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
(Herbert Spencer)
‘Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try
(William Edward Hickson)
You can fool some of the people all of the time,
And all of the people some of the time.
But you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
(Ascribed to Abraham Lincoln)
No man is an island, entire of itself;
Every man is a piece of the Continent,
A part of the main.
(John Donne)
Variety’s the very spice of life,
That gives it all it’s flavour.
(William Cowper)
Only a third of churchgoers read the Bible daily, and only two thirds reported that the Bible was regularly taught at their churches. (Idea Magazine)
I am greater than the stars, for I know that they are up there, but they do not know that I am down here.
(Archbishop William Temple)
A recent national opinion poll has revealed that TWICE as many British people read their horoscope each week, as the Bible.
Marilyn Monroe the actress was visited by Billy Graham, the evangelist, during the presentation of a show. He said that the Spirit of God had sent him to witness to her. After hearing what Billy Graham had to say, Marilyn Monroe said: ‘I don’t need your Jesus.’ A week later she was found dead in her apartment.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
(Henry Longfellow)
Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess baggage, the shorter the trip.
(Arnold Glasow)
Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called Conscience.
(George Washington)
Certain things cannot be seen except with eyes that have wept. (Veullot)
Listen to Me, I have created you and cared for you since you were born. I will be your God through all your lifetime, even when your hair is white with age. I made you and I will care for you. I will carry you along and be your Saviour. (Isaiah 46. 3-4)
The fruit of the Spirit is not what we can make ourselves DO for a moment, But what God makes us to BE for a lifetime. (Wayne Jacobsen)
Less than 3% of Europeans have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. (Greater Europe Mission)
Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God. (William Carey – missionary to India – father of modern missions)
The World produces enough food for everyone, yet over 1,000 million people go to bed hungry every night. A fairer distribution of the World’s resources is the only answer. (Tear Fund)
The heart of the human problem, is the problem of the human heart.
Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice before everyone has heard the Gospel once? (Oswald Smith)
The man who built the Titanic was asked how safe the ship would be: he replied “Not even God can sink it.” l Think you know what happened to the Titanic.
When St. Francis sent his friars out to the villages and cities of the World, he told them: “Preach the Gospel everywhere, use words if necessary.”
Only 1.1% of the people in Europe actively follow Jesus Christ. (Greater Europe Mission)
Sow a thought – reap an act. Sow an act – reap a habit. Sow a habit – reap a character. Sow a character – reap a destiny.
Inscription on a tombstone in Sheffield: ‘As you are now so once was I. As l am now so you will be. Prepare yourself to follow me.’ Someone has written underneath: ‘To follow thee I’m not content until I know which way you went.’
Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.
(Mark Twain)
Over 2000 languages still do not have any of the Bible translated. (Wycliffe)
God is not mocked: John Lennon of Beatle fame claimed that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ. He was shot dead.
All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. (Edmunde Burke)
All it takes is one man! Joan of Arc was only one woman but she saved France.
Martin Luther was one man but he nailed 95 theses to the church door at Wittenberg and altered the course of Church history! One man, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn with nothing but a pen in hand, stood up against the entire Soviet Union.
P. U. S. H - Pray Until Something Happens!
Notice on the Faith School in Bristol: Live as if Christ died yesterday, rose today, and will come again tomorrow!
Crucify us, torture us, condemn us, destroy us. The more we are hewn down by you, the more numerous do we become. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. (Tertullian – Early Church Father)
I set myself on fire, and the whole world came to watch me burn. (Wesley)
Live today as the first day of the rest of your life.
Life on Earth offers many choices – eternity only offers two: Heaven or Hell.
In a survey in the United Kingdom, more than 50% of people couldn’t name the Four Gospels.
God give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things that should be changed, And the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
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)
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible! (St. Francis of Assisi)
Over 40% of the World’s population has never heard the Gospel. (Joshua Project)
Every life without Christ is a mission field. Every life with Christ is a missionary.
The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience. While the error of age is to believe that experience is a substitute for intelligence.
(Lyman Bryson)
To reject the past and ignore the future is both selfish and foolish. (Warren Wiersbe)
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but really great people make you feel that you too can become great. (Mark Twain)
Speak when you’re angry, and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret. (Lawrence Perer)
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
(William Bennettt)
EGO’ simply means ‘edging God out.
‘Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.(Francis de Sales)
If we are going to wait until every possible hindrance has been removed before we do a work for the Lord, we will never attempt to do anything. (T.J.Bach)
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage. (W. Clement Stone)
The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never to forget the presence of Christ. (William Barclay)
Adversity: Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it. (Winston Churchill)
Seen on a church noticeboard: If evolution is true, how come mothers still have only two hands?(Donna Waldeyer)
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel. (John Ruskin)
Man said Jesus was too bad to live.
But God said He’s too good to die!
People don’t care how much you know
until they know how how much you care.
Life without God is a roundabout.
You get off where you got on
and you’ve lost your money
When your output exceeds your intake
your upkeep will be your downfall.
(Mark Twain)
When I was born – I cried and people rejoiced.
I want to live my life in such a way that when I die,
people will cry – and I will rejoice.
Lord, we could be on fire for You
if only we could put ourselves out.
One who knows he’s going to Heaven
will not want to go alone.
Seen on a church noticeboard: ‘If God seen to be far away. guess who’s moved!’
The Son of God became the Son of Man. to make the sons of men the sons of God.
God has put our sins in the sea of His forgetfulness. and erected a sign: ‘No Fishing’
Are we keeper of aquariums or fishers of men?
The Christian is the keyhole through which others see God.
Whereas Christ turned water into wine, the church has succeeded in doing something more difficult. It has turned wine into water.
