"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates

Life

"One of the most difficult places in the world to be Christ-like is in your own homes. There are reasons for this. First, the closeness of family living often brings out the worst in us as well as the best. Secondly, we occasionally feel a need of "letting our hair down." Where might this be done? We choose not to do it at work or in the marketplace or in the school. Usually we choose the home. And we take each other for granted in the home. That has a positive and a negative. On the positive side, it's a good thing when your behavior, your disposition, and your dependability are such that others can rely on you and can "take you for granted." But it's a sad thing when this taken-for-grantedness disregards our feelings, our needs, our ideals, and our ambitions. Perhaps the home is one of the most difficult places to display Christ-likeness, but there is no place in all of life that needs it more than does the family." - Jerry Hayner

Family

"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today.  Have you used one to say 'thank you?'" - William A. Ward

"Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone." - G.B. Stern

"There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed.  If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude." - Robert Brault

"When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?" - G.K. Chesterton

"As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world." - Terri Guillemets

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." - G.K. Chesterton

"You say grace before meals.  All right.  But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink." - G.K. Chesterton

"If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get." - Frank A. Clark

"The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!" - Henry Ward Beecher

Gratitude

"One example is worth a thousand arguments." - Gladstone

"If you want your neighbor to see what the Christ spirit will do for him, let him see what it has done for you." - H. Beecher

Example

"Controversy, it should be stressed, flows from the collision of truth with falsehood. Controversy, however, should not result from the manner in which the truth is presented. In other words, in a confrontational situation, controversy should be the result of the message, not the messenger." - John W. Whitehead

Controversy

"Real contentment must come from within. You and I cannot change or control the world around us, but we can change and control the world within us." - Warren W. Wiersbe

Contentment

"Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches." - Vance Havner

"In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they chose for social reasons." - Vance Havner

Church

"Christianity means to the merchant that he should be honest; to the judge it means that he should be just; to the servant, that he should be faithful; to the school boy, that he should be diligent; to the street-sweeper, that he should sweep clean; to every worker, that his work shall be well done." - Anonymous

"For what constitutes a Christian is not accepting the Christian’s creed, but accepting Christ as Savior and Lord. It is a question of personal loyalty and love." - Sir Robert Anderson

"The only way to keep to keep Christianity out of the school system is to keep Christians out of it." - Harold Wiltz

True Christianity is "essentially dogmatic…Jesus Christ was not 'broad-minded' in the popular sense of the word; He was not prepared to accept as valid all views on every subject. Jesus Christ was not afraid to dissent from official doctrines He knew to be wrong [or not politically correct] and to expose error." - John R. Stott

"True Christianity, it should be emphasized, speaks to all of life, not just to a narrowly 'religious' concerns." - John W. Whitehead

"The complacency of Christians is the scandal of Christianity." - A. W. Tozer

Christianity

"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." - Andre Gide

Vision

All quotes are from Del Fehsenfeld, Jr.

"True revival is that divine moment when God bursts upon the scene and displays His glory."

"Revival awakens in our hearts an increased awareness of the presence of God, a new love for God, a new hatred for sin, and a hunger for His Word."

"The 'glory' comes when God takes over. He fills the church with His presence and power. When He takes over, all the credit goes to Him."

"Revival is not just evangelism, excitement, or emotionalism. It is the extraordinary movement of the Holy Spirit!"

Revival

Four Lessons on Life:
1) Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up.
2) If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy.
3) Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder--they helped to get you higher.
4) If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

Life

"I concede that we cannot better express ourselves than by humbly supplicating the Supreme Ruler of the World---That the rod of tyrants may be broken into pieces, and the oppressed made Free---That wars may cease in all the Earth, and that the confusions that are and have been among the Nations may be overruled for the promoting and speedily bringing on the holy and happy period, when the Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ may be everywhere established, and all the people willingly bow to the Sceptre of Him who is the Prince of Peace."
- Governor Samuel Adams, calling Massachusetts to prayer in 1797

Prayer