"If we love Christ our devotion will not remain a secret." - Anonymous

"The gravest question any of us face is whether we do or do not love the Lord." - A. W. Tozer

"If you claim to love Christ and yet are living an unholy life, there is only one thing to say about you. You are a bare faced liar." - D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

"One of our greatest learning tasks is how to give and receive love." - Anonymous

"A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the Lord Jesus, we shall love the Bible because it speaks to us of him." - John R. W. Stott

"Love for Christ is a love of willing as well as a love of feeling, and it is psychologically impossible to love Him adequately unless we will to obey His words." - A. W. Tozer

"To love someone is to seek his or her best and highest good. - Anonymous

"Love means deliberate self-limitation, we deliberately identify ourselves with the interests of our Lord in everything." - Oswald Chambers

"Love without return is like a question without an answer." - Anonymous

"Agape love is to want the best for someone else, regardless of their merit or your cost." - Michael Catt

"Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do." - David Wilkerson

"It's ironic that in the game of tennis 'love' is nothing but in life it is everything." - Michael Catt

"Love springs spontaneously, that is, it is not premeditated, but love does not develop like that. Both naturally and spiritually love requires careful developing; love won't stay if it is not sedulously cultivated. If I am not careful to keep the atmosphere of my love right by cultivation, it will turn to lust." - Oswald Chambers

"Christian love is 'the tie that binds.' Love is the evidence of salvation: 'We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren' (1 John 3:14). It is the 'spiritual lubrication' that keeps the machinery of life running smoothly." - Warren W. Wiersbe

"Love can never be deep unless it is pure." - Anonymous

"Love rules without a sword and binds without a cord." - Anonymous

"Any old woman can love God better than a doctor of theology can." - Saint Bonaventure

"What we love we shall grow to resemble." - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known." - Walt Disney, in Walter Wagner, You Must Remember This

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I would rather be blind and deaf and dumb, and lose my taste and smell, than not love Christ. To be unable to appreciate Him is the worst of disabilities, the most serious of calamities. It is not the loss of a single spiritual faculty, but it proves the death of the soul." - Charles Spurgeon

"The strongest evidence of love is sacrifice." - Caroline Fry

"There is nothing you can do to make God love you more. There is nothing you can do to make God love you less. His love is unconditional, impartial, everlasting, infinite, perfect!" - Richard C. Halverson

"Amazing love, how can it be, that Christ my God would die for me." - Hymn

"We like someone because. We love someone although." - Henri de Montherlant

"Suffering is the true cement of love." - Paul Sabatier

"The first duty of love is to listen." - Paul Tillich

"Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike?" - John Wesley

"He who does not love sinners cannot pray aright for them. When we love sinners, then prayer is fervent. And when we love Jesus, then will the prayer be earnest. Love is the flaming torch to kindle the pile of our devotions." - Charles Spurgeon

Love

"What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone." — Winston Churchill

"There can be no courage in men unless God supports them by his Word." — John Calvin

"Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow." — D. L. Moody

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky." — C. S. Lewis

Courage

"If we tamely give up our rights in this contest, a century to come will not restore us in the opinion of the world; we shall be stamped with the character of poltroons and fools and be despised and trampled upon, not by this haughty, insolent nation but by all mankind." — Ben Franklin

"There are two non-God religions. Nazism and Communism - two peas . . . Tweedledum and Tweedledee. You leave out God and you substitute the devil. You leave out love and you substitute hate." — Winston Churchill

"The future belongs to the free." — Ronald Reagan

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." — Abraham Lincoln

"The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ." — R. C. Sproul

"The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion." — John F. Kennedy

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." — Thomas Jefferson

"Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power." — John Quincy Adams

"Many free countries have lost their liberty and ours may lose hers — but if she shall, be it my proudest pleasure not that I was the last to desert but that I never deserted her." — Abraham Lincoln

"No man has a right to do as he pleases unless he pleases to do right." — Anonymous

"This is liberty: to know that God alone matters." — Donald Haukey

"The modern controversy over human rights calls urgently for a theological recovery of the metaphysical foundations of these rights. Human rights are grounded in God's transcendent will for man made in his image. The basis of human rights is not supplied by positive law nor can these rights be reliably defined by analyzing human nature or human experience." — Carl Henry

"Evil comes from the abuse of free will." — C. S. Lewis

Freedom

"I don't want yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth, even if it costs them their jobs." - Samuel Goldwyn

"Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom." - J. Paul Getty

"There's just three things I'd ever say: If anything goes bad, I did it.

"If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you." - Paul (Bear) Bryant

"The longer the title, the less important the job." - George McGovern

"Your ability to make a decision is no better than the information you've been given." -Michael Catt

"Management is nothing more than motivating people." - Lee Iacocca

"Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you're doing can be handled by someone else."

"As a manager, you're paid to be uncomfortable. If you're comfortable, it's a sure sign you're doing things wrong." - Peter Drucker

"There are no office hours for leaders." - Cardinal Gibbons

"Power for good flows through you from God. It does not originate with you." - W. F. Smith

"To get people to follow the straight and narrow path, stop giving them advice and start leading the way." - Howard Hendricks

"A bulldog can whip a skunk, but it's not worth it." - Vance Havner

"It is not enough to have great qualities; we should also have the management of them," - La Rochefoucauld

"Leaders are developed by challenges." - James E. Burke

"Much has been said about my management style, a style that's worked successfully for me during eight years as governor of California and for most of my presidency. The way I work is to identify the problem, find the right individuals to do the job, and then let them go to it. I've found this invariably brings out the best in people. They seem to rise to their full capacity, and in the long run you get more done." - Ronald Reagan, 1987

"I don't believe a chief executive should supervise every detail of what goes on in his organization. The chief executive should set broad policy and general ground rules, tell people what he or she wants them to do, then let them do it; he should make himself (or herself) available, so that the members of his team can come to him if there is a problem. If there is, you can work together and, if necessary, fine-tune the policies. But I don't think a chief executive should peer constantly over the shoulders of the people who are in charge of a project and tell them every few minutes what to do," - Ronald Reagan

"A leader is judged in terms of what others do to obtain the results that he is placed there to get." - Vince Lombardi

"If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others -learn to manage and control yourself." - William I. H. Boetcker

"The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders!" - Chuck Colson

Management

"The story of Easter is the story of God's wonderful window of divine surprise." – Carl Knudsen

"Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer;
Death is strong, but Life is stronger;
Stronger that the dark, the light;
Stronger than the wrong, the right;
Faith and Hope triumphant say
Christ will rise on Easter Day."
– Phillips Brooks

"O chime of sweet Saint Charity,
Peal soon that Easter morn
When Christ for all shall risen be,
And in all hearts new-born!"
– James Russell Lowell

"If Easter means anything to modern man it means that eternal truth is eternal. You may nail it to the tree, wrap it up in grave clothes, and seal it in a tomb; but "truth crushed to earth shall rise again." Truth does not perish; it cannot be destroyed. It may be distorted; it has been silenced temporarily; it has been compelled to carry its cross to Calvary's brow or to drink the cup of poisoned hemlock in a Grecian jail, but with an inevitable certainty after every Black Friday dawns truth's Easter morn." – Donald Harvey Tippet

"On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer." – Douglas Horton

"Easter is not a passport to another world; it is a quality of perception for this one." – W.P. Lemon

"There is a stage in a child's life at which it cannot separate the religious from the merely festal character of Christmas or Easter. I have been told of a very small and very devout boy who was heard murmuring to himself on Easter morning a poem of his own composition which began 'Chocolate eggs and Jesus risen.' This seems to me, for his age, both admirable poetry and admirable piety. But of course the time will soon come when such a child can no longer effortlessly and spontaneously enjoy that unity. He will become able to distinguish the spiritual from the ritual and festal aspect of Easter; chocolate eggs will no longer seem sacramental. And once he has distinguished he mustput one or the other first. If he puts the spiritual first he can still taste something of Easter in the chocolate eggs; if he puts the eggs first they will soon be no more than any other sweetmeat. They will have taken on an independent, and therefore a soon withering, life." – C. S. Lewis

The Story of Easter

"This world has no importance. Once a man realizes that, he wins freedom." - Camus

"If liberty is to be saved, it will not be by the doubters, the men of science or the materialists; it will be by religious conviction, by the faith of individuals, who believe that God wills man to be free but also pure." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing freeness of speech." - Ben Franklin

"The soul of freedom is deathless; it cannot, and will not perish." - Winston Churchill

"No man can follow Christ and go astray." - William H. P. Faunce

"There is no true liberty except the liberty of the happy who cleave to the eternal law." - Augustine

"True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will." - Jonathan Edwards

"The freedom of the Christian is freedom in the law." - A. H. Strong

"Freedom is the privilege and power to become all that God wants you to become. Freedom is the opportunity to fulfill your potential to the glory of God." - Warren W. Wiersbe

"Those who have a true love of freedom will do everything in their power to keep the freedom that they have." - Billy Graham

"Freedom of speech means nothing to a people who are too weak in their convictions to speak out against the evil that is eating at the heart of the nation like a cancer." - Billy Graham

"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too." - W. Somerset Maugham

"Freedom. People cry for freedom, but freedom without Jesus, is just another wall. - Wayne Watson from the song 'Freedom' written after the fall of the Berlin wall

Freedom

"Never be afraid to test yourself by your critic's words." - Martin Luther

"I had rather that true and faithful teachers should rebuke and condemn me, and reprove my ways, than that hypocrites should flatter me and applaud me as a saint." - Martin Luther

"When people kick us, it is sometimes a sign that we are in front of them." - Percy Ray

"Prophets of God have usually been on the receiving end of more mud than medals." - Vance Havner

"Don't defend your church or your organization against criticism. If the criticism is false it can do no harm. If it is true you need to hear it and do something about it." - A. W. Tozer

"Don't be a quitter because somebody criticizes you. Many a choir singer has performed until somebody hurt her feelings. Then the nightingale became a raven croaking, 'Nevermore!'" - Vance Havner

"Our Lord allows no room for criticism in the spiritual life, but He does allow room for discernment and discrimination." - Oswald Chambers

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do." - Ben Franklin

"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism." - Norman Vincent Peale

"The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself and less from others." - John Wesley

"Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic." - Jean Sibelius

"I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition. He would be a missionary simpleton who expected plain sailing in any work of God." - James O. Fraser

"Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a Missionary…" - C. T. Studd

"Young man, sit down; when God pleases to convert the heathen, he will do it without your aid or mine." - said to discourage a young William Carey.

"One pastor had a sign on his desk that read LOOK BEYOND THE CRITIC. It reminded him to see the Lord on the throne, to see the total church ministry and the many friends who loved him, and to see the purposes God wanted to achieve." - Warren W. Wiersbe

Criticism

"Never put yourself in the position where you have to evacuate the message in order to accommodate the method." - Vance Havner

"Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution." - Vance Havner

"Error in the pulpit is like fire in the hayloft." - Oswald Chambers

"Preaching about the life of Jesus awakens an immense craving, but it leaves us wiht the luxury of sympathy with ourselves - 'Oh well, I know that is very high and holy, but I was not born that way and God cannot expect that kind of life from me.' We like to hear about the life of Jesus, about His teaching and His works, about His sympathy and tenderness, but when we stand face to face with Him in the light of God and He convicts us of sin, we resent it." - Oswald Chambers

"Concentrate on God's centre in your preaching, and though your crowd may apparently pay no attention, they can never be the same again." - Oswald Chambers

"Where God gives the gift, the 'foolishness of preaching' is still mighty. But best of all is a team of two; one to delivery the preliminary intellectual baragge, and the other to follow up with a direct attack on the heart." - C. S. Lewis, Present Concerns: Essays by C.S. Lewis, page 66.

"Some people accuse us of too much emotionalism. I say we have too little. That is why we are losing church people to other interests. We need not only to capture their minds, we've got to touch their hearts. We've got to make people feel their faith." - Billy Graham

"Paul's message was always Christ. Never seek satisfaction in any doctrine about Jesus. Press through to Him and touch Him for yourself! And don't spend your time explaining theories about Christ. Present Him. Men are not drawn to a doctrine or a phrase with any lasting profit. The sad finish of many a sect bears ample testimony to that. Don't try to attach people to a phrase; get them joined to Christ through saving faith and they are His to stay!" - Vance Havner

"I feel sorry for the church that decides to call a man to the pulpit because 'his personality simply sparkles!'" - A. W. Tozer

"If He should give me a thousand lives, today, and ask me to choose what calling I would have them follow, I would….choose that every one of the thousand lives should be a preacher for Him." - George W. Truett, Follow Thou Me.

Preaching

"Christ chose this weapon (the Word) out of all the others, and used it in His earliest conflict, so, too, He used it when no man was near. The value of Holy Scripture is not alone seen in public teaching or striving for truth, its still small voice is equally powerful when the servant of the Lord is enduring personal trial in the lone wilderness. The severest struggles of a true Christian are usually unknown to any buy himself. Not in the family do we meet the most subtle temptations, but in the closet, not in the shop so much as in the recesses of our own spirit do we wrestle with principalities and powers. For these dread duels, 'It Is written' is the best sword and shield. Scripture to convince another man is good; but Scripture is most required to console, defend and sanctify our own soul." - C. H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon's Expository Encyclopedia, Vol.15, p. 222

"The Bible not only explains God, it explains the world in which we live, it explains not only things that are right, but things that are wrong." - Oswald Chambers

"Men do not reject the Bible because they find faults in it, but because it finds faults in them." - Winston Churchill

"We believe that the most scientific view, the most up-to-date and rationalistic conception, will find its fullest satisfaction in taking the Bible story literally." - Winston Churchill

"God's Word is such perfect truth and righteousness that it needs no patching or repair; in its course it makes a perfectly straight line, without any bends in any direction." - Martin Luther

"We have the truth and we need not be afraid to say so." - J. C. Ryle

"If you want to understand the Bible, get on your knees.... You will learn more in one hour of prayerful communion with the Spirit than in a thousand years in all the schools of human culture." - A. T. Pierson

"The Holy Spirit who inspired the Scriptures will expect obedience to the Scriptures, and if we do not give that obedience we will quench him." - A. W. Tozer

The Bible

"This, too, shall pass." -- William Shakespeare

"Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then clusters when there is hardly time to breathe."-- May Sarton

"Pain is never permanent."-- Saint Teresa of Avila

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."-- C. S. Lewis

"Pain and suffering are not necessarily signs of God's anger; they may be exactly the opposite."-- William Bridges

"Suffering times are teaching times."-- William Bridges

"A man is not known by his effervescence but by the amount of real suffering he can stand."-- C. T. Studd

"The Scriptures show conclusively that tribulation is a natural by-product of genuine Christianity."-- William E. Cox

"There never yet was an unscarred saint." -- Anonymous

"God sometimes puts his children to bed in the dark."-- Anonymous

"I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter." -- Christopher Morley

"When you and I hurt deeply, what we really need is not an explanation from God but a revelation of God."-- Warren Wiersbe

Dealing with Difficulties