"The shortest path to domestic peace and marital peace is communication." - Author unknown
"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety." - Aesop
"[Peace is] the tranquility of order". - Augustine of Hippo
"My soul can see no other remedy pleasing to God than peace. Peace, peace, therefore, for the love of Christ crucified!" - Catherine of Siena
"Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"But the real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Live, "Worship"
"Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you are, and something you give away!" - Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
"Make peace with what is." - Judith Guest, Errands
"Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth". - Matthew Henry
"Let peace begin with me." - Janice Jackson Miller
"Peace is the masterpiece of reason." - J. Muller
"We are not a postwar generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming." - Corrie ten Boom
"First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others." - Thomas à Kempis
"If we will have peace without a worm in it, lay we the foundations of justice and good will." - Oliver Cromwell
"The springs of human conflict cannot be eradicated through institutions, but only through the reform of the individual human being." - Douglas MacArthur
"In God alone can man meet man." - George MacDonald
"Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace." - G. Weatherley
"The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord: And the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, be amongst you and remain with you always." - Book of Common Prayer
"Peace is not arbitrary. It must be based upon definite facts. God has all the facts on his side; the world does not. Therefore God, and not the world, can give peace." - Billy Graham
"What peace can they have who are not at peace with God?" - Matthew Henry
"Always long and pray that the will of God may be fully realized in your life. You will find that the man who does this walks in the land of peace and quietness." - Thomas à Kempis
"Emotional peace and calm come after doing God's will and not before." - Erwin W. Lutzer
"A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is to enter into it." - D. L. Moody
"Where there is peace, God is." - Walt Whitman
"Washington has a large assortment of peace monuments. We build one after every war." - Don MacLean
"Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading." - anonymous
"The most amiable man on earth can live at peace with his neighbor only as long as his neighbor chooses." - anonymous
"Universal peace sounds ridiculous too the head of an average family" - Kin Hubbard
"When a person finds no peace within himself it is useless to seek it elsewhere." - Bits & Pieces
"When somebody gets arrested for disturbing the peace these days, I'm amazed that he found any." - Rudy Mano
"In heaven there is perfect peace; for there is perfect holiness, and there is God, who is love." - Matthew Henry
"Solid peace cannot be enjoyed where there is no true grace; first grace, then peace. Peace without grace is mere stupidity; but grace may be true where there is for a time no actual peace." - Matthew Henry
Peace
"The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own." - Saint Augustine of Hippo in Confessions
"I take no pride in what I did…but pray that in some small way I have righted the wrong I committed so many years ago." - from a letter in an envelope containing $150 in cash as restitution for a stolen canoe. The Bradgate, Iowa, postmaster found the letter the day after Easter from an anonymous correspondent who said he was a railroad brakeman passing through town when he stole the 17-foot fiberglass canoe from behind a house in 1973.
"Repentance is always difficult, and the difficulty grows still greater by delay." - Samuel Johnson in The Quotable Johnson (Christianity Today: October 6, 1997)
"There's a lot of spiritual smog in the churches. Nothing will blow that out except the same wind that blew at Pentecost." - author unknown
"One thief on the cross was saved, that none should despair; and only one, that none shold presume." - J. C. Ryle
"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
"The man who knows his sins is greater than one who raises a dead man by his prayer." - Isaac the Syrian
"Don't ever be afraid to admit you were wrong. It's like saying you're wiser today than you were yesterday." - author unknown
"May be old fashion, but as long as there is sin, it will never be outdated." - author unknown
"People who admit they're wrong get a lot farther than people who prove they're right." - Beryl Pfizer
"Within the next few hours if we really opened our hearts to repentance and faith for an unscheduled invasion of God, we could meet the demonism of this age with the demonstration of the Holy Spirit and power." - Vance Havner
"Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin." - J. C. McCauley
"One day an unidentified man placed an envelope with $400 on an employee's desk in the office of the Public Service Co. in a Colorado city. In the envelope along with the money was a note which said, "once a thief, now a Christian. This is to pay for the electricity I stole from your company several years ago." Too many modern Christians have lost sight of what the Bible means when it talks of repentance. Many think that repentance is little more than shaking their heads over their sins and saying, "My; but I'm sorry I did that!" and then continue to live just as they have lived before. True repentance means "to change, to turn away from, to go in a new direction," "Godly sorrow worketh repentance" (2 Cor. 7:10)." - Lee Roy Davis
"By repentance we understand (1) the recovery of the right mind in a sinful person awakened by the Word of the Gospel and the Holy Spirit, and received by true faith, by which the sinner immediately acknowledges his innate corruption and all his sins accused by the Word of God; and (2) grieves for them from the heart, and not only bewails and frankly confesses them before with a feeling of shame; but also (3) with indignation abominates them; and (4) now zealously considers the amendment of his ways and constantly strives for innocence and virtue in which conscientiously to exercise himself all the rest of his life." - Christianity Today, 1/8/01
Repentance
To give thanks sincerely, one must give more than thanks." - Anonymous
"Thanksgiving is not a natural virtue; it is a fruit of the Spirit, given by him." - Jerry Bridges
"How worthy it is to remember former benefits when we come to beg for new." - Stephen Charnock
"Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving and pay your vows to the Most High." - Psalm 50:14 NRSV
"With thankful hearts offer up your prayers and requests to God." - Philippians 4:6 CEV
"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks." - St. Ambrose
"A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ and whose whole comportment and whose activity have their root in the sentiment of gratitude." - John Baillie
"Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grows. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he gives." - Henry Ward Beecher
"Thanksgiving is good but thanks-living is better." - Matthew Henry
"Thou has given so much to me…Give me one thing more-a grateful heart." - George Herbert
"Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies." - Charles Edward Jefferson
"Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road." - John Henry Jowett
"Thankfulness is a soil in which pride does not easily grow." - Michael Ramsay
"Gratitude to God makes even a temporal blessing a taste of heaven." - William Romaine
"If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God." - Alexander Schmemann
"From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving." - Jeremy Taylor
"The Christian is suspended between blessings received and blessings hoped for, so he should always give thanks." - Marvin Richardson (M.R.) Vincent
"Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart-rendered to God for his goodness." - Nathaniel Parker Willis
"God gave you the gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"" - William A. Ward
"The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than those-who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving." - H. W. Westermeyer
"Seeds of discouragement will not grow in the thankful heart."
"Most of us don't realize how much we have to be thankful for until we have to pay taxes on it."
"We do not always get what we ask from God, but we always have reason to thank Him."
"Even though we can't have all we want, we ought to be thankful we don't get all we deserve."
"The unthankful heart, like my finger in the sand, 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; only the iron in God's sand is gold!" - Henry Ward Beecher
"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
"Chrysostom…had the curious thought that a Christian could even give thanks for Hell, because Hell was a threat and a warning to keep him in the right way."
"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues." - Cicero
"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give, in the measure as I have received, and am still receiving." - Albert Einstein
"It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life." - Elisabeth Elliot
"If you would enter deeply into the meaning of thanksgiving, cultivate the mood of expectant love, the attitude of awe before the marvelous, and the openheartedness that turns in confidence to that source from whence we sprung." - Henry David Gray
"On the night Matthew Henry was robbed he prayed this prayer: 'I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, although the took my all, it was not much; and fourth, because it was I who was robbed and not I who robbed.'"
"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are." - Mary Jean Irion
"Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. It gives us something to sharpen our souls on. The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future." - E. Stanley Jones
"The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms, or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God, and who has a heart always ready to praise Him." - William Law
"Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had." - Susan L. Lenzkes
"Gratitude is the memory of the heart." - Massieu
"Not what we say about our blessings but how we use them is the true measure of our thanksgiving." - W. T. Purkiser
"Were there no God we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank." - Christina Rossetti
"Our biggest problem in the church today is this vast majority of Sunday morning Christians who claim to have known the Master's cure and who return not on Sunday night or Wednesday night or during revivals to thank Him by presence, prayer, testimony and support of His church. In fact, the whole Christian life is one big "Thank You," the living expression of our gratitude to God for His goodness. But we take Him for granted and what we take for granted we never take seriously."
Thanksgiving
"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard
"Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans." - Robert Balzer
"Biology defines life as 'the metabolic activity of protoplasm.' But there are times when it seems even worse than that."
"Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess." - Charles Colson
"The difficulties of life are intended to make us better-not bitter." - Grit
"Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds a man down or polishes him depends upon the kind of stuff he is made of." - Supervision
"Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level." - Joan Welsh
"Do you ever get the feeling that life is a violin solo and you're wearing mittens?"- Robert Orben
"Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it." - Irving Berlin
"Life is a continual process of getting used to things we never expected." - Bits and Pieces
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." - Norman MacEwan
"The tragedy of life is not that a man loses but that he almost wins." - Heywood Broun
"The troublesome thing about life is not that it is rational or irrational, but that it is almost rational." - G. K. Chesterton
"Life that has no faith has no foundation on which to stand when life tumbles in." - C. Neil Strait
"In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season." - Bill Vaughan
"Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still." - Lou Erickson
"We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance." - Paul Boese
"We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages-we don't throw it away all at once." - Robert A. Cook
"If you're not doing something with your life, it doesn't matter how long it is." - Peace Corps Commercial
"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." - William James
"Life is a lot like tennis-the one who can serve best seldom loses." - American Druggist
"Life is currently described in one of four ways: as a journey, as a battle, as a pilgrimage, and as a race. Select your own metaphor, but the finishing necessity is all the same. For if life is a journey, it must be completed. If life is a battle, it must be finished. If life is a pilgrimage, it must be concluded. And if it is a race, it must be won." - J. Richard Sneed
"When a patient completes tests at the Mayo Clinic he is frequently given a card on which is a diagram of a cross. On each arm of the cross is a word representing a main element by which a normal human being lives. The words are "work, play, love, worship." If the person examined seems to be short on one of these, it is indicated. Lopsided living is a common cause of ill health and boredom. The Mayo analysis is close to the Christian prescription for the cure of boredom." - David A. MacLennan
"The man who lives by himself and for himself is liable to be corrupted by the company he keeps. "
"It is but a few short years from diapers to dignity and from dignity to decomposition." - Don Herold
"Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter." - Fred Propp, Jr.
"Enjoy yourself. These are the good old days you're going to miss in 2015." - Ohio Grange
"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude." - G. K. Chesterton
"Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others." - William A. Ward
"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration but its donation." - Corrie Ten Boom
"We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all; and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us." - Warren Wiersbe
"A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too."
"Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith." - Samuel Shoemaker
"We'll have all eternity to celebrate our victories, but only one short hour before sunset in which to win them." - Robert Moffat
"Life is short. Plans for each day should be lived in the realization that it is God who will decide if we shall live. Our decision is whether or not to do His will." - Donald A. Miller
"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together." - William Shakespeare
"There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire and the other is to get it." - George Bernard Shaw
"Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Sit loosely in the saddle of life." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Three things will make life worth living: a self fit to live with; a faith fit to live by; and a purpose fit to live for."
"You're not ready to live your life until you know what you want written on your tombstone."
"Take time to think, it's the source of power.
Take time to play, it's the secret of youth.
Take time to read, it's the fountain of knowledge.
Take time to be friendly, it's the road to happiness.
Take time to laugh, it's the music of the heart.
Take time to give, it's the feeling of joy.
Take time to work, it's the price of success.
Take time to worship, it's the essence of reality, the fountain of wisdom, and food for the soul.""Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction." - Louisa May Alcott
"Your life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can spend it only once." - Lillian Dickson
"Your perception of life is mostly a reflection of what you look like on the inside."
"We live in a pill culture. We have pain pills, sleeping pills, birth control pills, pills to make you grow, pills to stunt your growth, pills to promote sexual potency, and pills to control conduct. Secular society has extended life…but offered nothing worth living for." - Philip J. Hogan
Ten Rules for Life:
- Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
- Never trouble another person for what you can do.
- Never spend your money before you have earned it.
- Never buy what you don't want because it's cheap.
- Beware of pride. It will cost you far more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
- Remember that we seldom repent of having eaten too little.
- Remember that nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
- Remember that worry will cause much pain over things that will never happen.
- Take things always by the smooth handle.
- When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
Two centuries ago the German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, asked three questions about life:
- What can I know?
- What should I do?
- What may I hope?
- Immanuel Kant
"In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back." - Charlie Brown
"Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span." - Thomas Browne
"Life is one long process of getting tired." - Samuel Butler
"In the end, everything is a gag." - Charlie Chaplin
"Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love." - Henry Drummond
"Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value to which all other values are subordinate." - Albert Einstein
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." - Robert Frost
"We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed." - Thomas Fuller
"Life is love." - Goethe
"Don't take life too serious. You'll never escape it alive anyway." - Elbert Hubbard
"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." - William James
"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can." - Danny Kaye
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller
"The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are." - C. S. Lewis
"Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave to wealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to have done nothing and succeeded at it." - Erwin W. Lutzer
"Our life is but a span." - New England Primer
"Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls." - French proverb
"Life is a daring adventure, or it is nothing." - Author unknown
"Is life worth living? That depends on the liver." - Author unknown.
"I don't know what I want, and I won't be happy until I get it." - Author unknown
"I asked God for all things, that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things." - Author unknown
"The only things you live to regret are the risks you didn't take." - Author unknown
"No wise man wants a soft life." - King Alfred the Great
"Here is a test to see if your mission on earth is finished. If you are alive, it isn't." - Francis Bacon
"Whatever you are doing, in company or alone, do it all to the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31). Otherwise, it is unacceptable to God." - Richard Baxter
"The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may." - Martin Luther King
"Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life." - C. S. Lewis
"One can live on less when he has more to live for." - S. S. McKenny
"Let God have your life; he can do more with it than you can." - D. L. Moody
"The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills, wills." - Richard J. Needham
"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it." - William Osler
"The meaning of earthly existence is not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prosperity, but in the development of the soul." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Let us endeavour so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." - Mark Twain
"O Lord, let me not live to be useless!" - John Wesley
"Live your life and forget your age." - Frank Bering
"Life is but a day at most." - Robert Burns
"One life - a little gleam of time between two eternities." - Thomas Carlyle
"Life is not measured by length but by depth. Birthdays tell us how long we have been on the road, not how far we have traveled." - Vance Havner
"Let us live as people who are prepared to die, and die as people who are prepared to live." - James S. Stewart
"Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death." - George Whitefield
"We are immortal till our work is done." - George Whitefield
"Life asks no questions that faith cannot answer." - Anonymous
"This life is all the heaven the worldling has, and all the hell the saint ever sees." - Anonymous
"Life is a long lesson in humility." - James M. Barrie
"Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; to the one it is exceedingly long, to the other exceedingly short." - Henry Ward Beecher
"Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's paradise." - Phillips Brooks
"The quality of life is more important than life itself." - Alexis Carrel
"What makes life dreary is absence of motive." - George Eliot
"Nothing is trivial here if heaven looks on." - Vance Havner
"The business of our lives is not to please ourselves but to please God." - Matthew Henry
"Whatever we do in this life is seed." - Thomas Manton
"Make sure the thing you are living for is worth dying for." - Charles Mayes
"We must not live only to live." - Richard Sibbes
Life
"It is possible to be diligent in our religion yet distant in our relationship." - Anonymous
"It is religion without love that has been responsible for most of the misery of the world." - Anonymous
"Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself." - Martin Buber
"If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it?" - Benjamin Franklin
"Religion is what keeps a nation from chaos - from falling asunder like uncemented sand." - A. A. Hodge
"Religion's in the heart, not in the knee." - Douglas Jerrold
"Formal religion always makes fertile soil for false religion." - Gilbert W. Kirby
"The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns." - Martin Luther
"A cheap religion is always a cheat religion." - Thomas V. Moore
"There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion." - J. I. Packer
"Religion is union between God and the soul." - Paul Sabatier
"People can be inoculated against religion by small injections of it." - W. E. Sangster
"No man's religion ever survives his morals." - Robert South
"I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine." - C. H. Spurgeon
"Religion is nothing if it is not the foundation of our whole life." - Robert Thornton
"No religion has ever been greater than its idea of God." - A. W. Tozer
"Religion is the first and the last thing, and until a man has found God, and been found by God, he begins at no beginning and works to no end." - H. G. Wells
"A man may have as many religious changes in the year as there are changes in the moon, and be unchanged after all." - Rowland Hill
"There are no non-religious activities; only religious and irreligious." - C. S. Lewis
"The heart of true religion is to glorify God by patient endurance and to praise him for his gracious deliverances." - J. I. Packer
"When people say that all religions are basically the same, they are actually saying that they know little or nothing about world religion." - R. C. Sproul
"If your religion does not make you holy it will damn you. It is simply pageantry to go to hell in." - C. H. Spurgeon
"For the true Christian the one supreme test for the present soundness and ultimate worth of everything religious must be the place our Lord occupies in it." - A. W. Tozer
"That religion is suspicious which is full of faction and discord." - Thomas Watson
"Unpractical religion is unscriptural religion." - James Wolfendale
"A religion without mystery must be a religion without God." - Anonymous
"One's religion is what he is most interested in." - J. M. Barrie
"Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns." - John Calvin
"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair." - G. K. Chesterton
"One mark of the low state of affairs among us is religious boredom." - A. W. Tozer
"We are paying a frightful price for our religious boredom. And that at the moment of the world's mortal peril." - A. W. Tozer
"The religious snob is devoid of truth. Snobbery and truth are irreconcilable." - A. W. Tozer
"Religion without the Son of God is worldly religion." - A. W. Tozer
"The whole religious machine has become a noisemaker." - A. W. Tozer
"Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before." - A. W. Tozer
"If true religion consisted in outward practices, then it could be destroyed by laws forbidding those practices." - A. W. Tozer
"Religion is disengaged from practical life and retired to the airy region of fancy where dwell the sweet insubstantial nothings which everyone knows do not exist but which they nevertheless lack the courage to repudiate publicly." - A. W. Tozer
"We settle for words in religion because deeds are too costly." - A. W. Tozer
"There is probably not another field of human activity where there is so much waste as in the field of religion." - A. W. Tozer
"Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon." - A. W. Tozer
"True religion is removed from diet and days, from garments and ceremonies, and placed where it belongs-in the union of the spirit of man with the Spirit of God." - A. W. Tozer
"In this dim world of pious sentiment all religions are equal and any man who insists that salvation is by Jesus Christ alone is a bigot and a boor." - A. W. Tozer
"When religion has said its last word, there is a little that we need other than God Himself." - A. W. Tozer
"To the absence of the spirit may be traced that vague sense of unreality which almost everywhere invests religion in our times." - A. W. Tozer
"It was religion that put Christ on the cross, religion without the indwelling Spirit." - A. W. Tozer
"The deadening effect of religious make-believe on the human mind is beyond all describing." - A. W. Tozer
"We fear extremes and shy away from too much ardor in religion as if it were possible to have too much love or too much faith or too much holiness." - A. W. Tozer
"The one thing that religious persons want most is to be changed, to be made over from what they are into something they desire to be." - A. W. Tozer
"We spend much time today trying to arouse indifferent church members to do religious work, time that could be spent more profitably in getting them right with God and each other. After that, they are ready to go to work. Simply recruiting more Ephesians to more works and more labor without their first love only worsens a situation that is bad enough now." - Vance Havner
"Sacrilegious sinners may be more violent and vulgar, but our greatest problem is religious sinners." - Vance Havner
"Christians can get into a religious rut and fall into a mere form of godliness without power. But the true disciple is a rebel against this age because the friend of the world is the enemy of God. The Christian life is a revolution and a revolution is the opposite of a rut, which is only a grave with both ends knocked out." - Vance Havner
Religion
"Covetousness is dry drunkenness." - Thomas Watson
"He is not a covetous man, who lays up something providentially; but he is a covetous man, who gives out nothing willingly." - William Secker
"A poor man doth want many things, a rich miser wants everything." - John Boys
"It is the love, not the lack of money, that makes men churls." - John Trapp
"It is a common saying that a hog is good for nothing whilst he is alive: not good to bear or carry, as the horse; nor to draw, as the ox; nor to give milk, as the cow; nor to keep the house, as the dog; but fed only to the slaughter."
"So a covetous, rich man, just like a hog, doth no good with his riches whilst he liveth, but when he is dead his riches come to be disposed of. "The riches of a sinner are laid up for the just." - Andrew Willet
"They are fools that fear to lose their wealth by giving, but fear not to lose themselves by keeping it." - John Trapp
"Covetousness is called idolatry, which is worse than infidelity, Colossians 3:5; for it is less rebellion not to honour the king, than to set up another king against him…" -- Henry Smith
"Antichrist is Mammon's son." - John Milton
"To dispense our wealth liberally, is the best way to preserve it." - Isaac Barrow
"We must be convinced that covetousness, I mean that our covetousness, is a vice; for it holds something of a virtue, of frugality, which is not to waste that which one hath; and this makes us entertain thoughts that it is no vice; and we often say that it is good to be a little worldly; a little covetousness we like well; which shows that we do not indeed and in heart, hold it to be a sin. For if sin be naught, a little of sin cannot be good. As good say, a little poison were good, so it be not too much." - Richard Capel
"Covetousness puts money above manhood." - Billy Graham
'Take heed and beware of covetousness.'
'Take heed and beware of covetousness.'
'Take heed and beware of covetousness.'
What if I should say nothing else these three or four hours?" - Hugh Latimer, preaching before King Edward VI"We are most of us far too ready to "seek great things" in this world: let us "seek them not" (Jeremiah 45:5)." - J. C. Ryle
"Greatness and riches are a perilous possession for the soul." - J. C. Ryle
"Much trouble is caused by our yearnings getting ahead of our earnings." - Anonymous
"Covetousness is the blight that is withering our church life in all directions." - Samuel Chadwick
"He is much happier that is always content, though he has ever so little, than he that is always coveting, though he has ever so much." - Matthew Henry
"The soul of man is infinite in what it covets." - Ben Jonson
"The itch of covetousness makes a man scratch what he can from another." - Thomas Watson
"I have heard thousands of confessions, but never one of covetousness." - Francis Xavier
"Wealth is the devil's stirrup whereby he gets up and rides the covetous." - Thomas Adams
"Seeking empties a life; giving fills it." - Anonymous
"Faith is the sovereign antidote to covetousness." - John Calvin
"Covetousness is commonly a master-sin and has the command of other lusts." - Matthew Henry
"Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich people from an inordinate delight in it." - Matthew Henry
"There are two sins which were Christ's sorest enemies, covetousness and envy. Covetousness sold Christ and envy delivered him." - Thomas Manton
"We may love money without having it, just as we may have money without loving it." - J. C. Ryle
Covetousness
"According to a survey conducted by Robert Half International, Inc., working parents are willing to cut their pay and hours by as much as 21 percent to spend more time with their families; 76 percent would also forfeit career advancement for more family or personal time. The simplicity trend has almost become its own religion." - Leadership Winter 1997
"With the appearance of the two-bathroom home, Americans forgot how to cooperate. With the appearance of the two-car family, we forgot how to associate, and with the coming of the two-television home, we forgot how to communicate." - Dr. John Baucom, quoted in New Man, Jul/Aug 1997, page 15
"Despite the pessimistic headlines announcing that the strong family in America is an endangered species, I refuse to give up hope. Who says 'endangered' means 'doomed'? If we're ingenious enough to preserve the bison, whooping crane, and humpbacked whale, I'm convinced we can preserve the family." - Charles Swindoll in The Strong Family, Zondervan, 1994
"The family is not one of several alternative lifestyles; it is not an arena in which rights are negotiated; it is not an old-fashioned barrier to a promiscuous sex life; it is not a set of cost-benefit calculations. It is a commitment for which there is no feasible substitute. No child ought to be brought into the world where that commitment from both parents is lacking." - James Q. Wilson, quoted in Readers Digest, March 1996, pg. 32
"When we envision the church as an idealized family, we are not capable of welcoming the stranger. When family is the only metaphor we use, people with whom we cannot achieve intimacy, or with whom we do not want to be intimate, are squeezed out. Since intimacy often depends on social and economic similarities, church then becomes a place of retreat rather than true hospitality. Such a church does everything in its power to eliminate the strange and cultivate the familiar. Such a church can neither welcome the stranger nor allow the stranger in each of us to emerge." - Molly Marshall, quoted in The Other Side, Nov/Dec 1996, page 57
"A survey reported in the Wall Street Journal found that out of 100 CEOs 85 say they would like more family time, but only seven said they actually expect to make it happen. - Vital Ministry, Sep/Oct 1997, page 49
"Fathering is not a pure science. All fathers fail, but the mark of a true father is what he does after he fails. - Ken Canfield, quoted in Ministries Today, May/Jun 1996, page 106
"Kevin's father used to say, 'If the son's not a better man than his father, they're both failures.' - Kevin A. Miller, editor of Leadership
Family
"I believe in the sun even when it is not shining. I believe in love even when feeling it not. I believe in God even when He is silent." - Inscription on a cellar wall in Germany where Jews hid from Nazis
"The only thing that can defeat the faith God has given you…is you. You must use your faith, exercise your faith, engage your faith. Until it is pressed into service, faith is only potential. To use the old exercise cliché, you must 'use it or lose it!'" - Andrew Merritt in My Faith Is Taking Me Someplace
"Remember it is the very time for faith to work when sight ceases. The greater the difficulties, the easier for faith; as long as there remain certain natural prospects, faith does not get on even as easily as where natural prospects fail." - George Mueller, quoted in Streams in the Desert
"At its best, our age is an age of searchers and discoverers. At its worst, it is an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it. The fiction that celebrates this last state will be the least likely to transcend its limitations, since, when the religious need is banished successfully, it usually atrophies, even in the novelist. The sense of mystery vanishes. A kind of reverse evolution takes place. The whole range of feeling is dulled." - Flannery O'Connor in "Mystery and Manners", Christianity Today: February 9, 1998
The Just Shall Live By Faith
Charles Wesley in The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, Vol. II"O that I might the power receive
The simple life of faith to live.
A stranger by the world unknown,
To live, shut up with Christ alone!
Jesus, my real Life Thou art,
Inspire
Thyself into my heart,
And fill'd with purity drive
I live, thro' endless ages thine.""I feel like God's leading me out, so I'm kind of sleeping with my shoes on. When God parts the sea, you don't want to say, 'Oh rats, where are my sandals?'"
"The amazing thing about the whole joy of Christianity is it's something you can't find, it's something that has to find you. Once we submit ourselves to God, the things of God chase us down like dogs, and you can't escape them. I think we can stifle the Spirit. We can thwart the work of God in our own lives. We can choose to nourish that which should be crucified and ignore that which should be nourished, but God ain't done with any of us."
"Faith is walking with God. The biggest problem with life is that it's just daily. You can never get so healthy that you don't have to continue to eat right…Spiritually, we're in much the same place…it's not what you did, and not what you say you're going to do, it's what you do today.'"
"Our faith becomes real when we focus on what never changes instead of our ever-changing opinions." - Rich Mullins, CCM November, 1997
"We have now moved from the burden of raising money to the adventure of trusting God." - Author unknown
"If our faith is something that really does not make a very big difference, if it is actually not crucial that we or others believe, no wonder it seems boring to our young. Anything we don't care much about can't be very interesting. The things we do care about, however, we inevitably talk about…If faith is real, it seeks expression. It will communicate and profess. It will have the energy of passion." - John F. Kavanaugh in The Word Encountered
"Faith in God will not get for you everything you may want, but it will get for you what God wants you to have. The unbeliever does not need what he wants: the Christian should want only what he needs." - Vance Havner in By the Still Waters
"At various times, Jesus publicly denounced sinners as snakes, dogs, foxes, hypocrites, fouled tombs, and dirty dishes. So that His hearers would not miss the point. He sometimes referred to the objects of His most intense ridicule both by name and by position, and often face to face. Christ did not affirm sinners; He affirmed the repentant. He well understood that sometimes it is wrong to be nice." - Theologian Michael Bauman, quoted in Tabletalk, June 1996, page 58
"Faith is the vitamin that makes all we take from the Bible digestible and makes us able to receive it and assimilate it. If we do not have faith, we cannot get anything." - A.W. Tozer in Rut, Rot or Revival
"It is your living faith in the adequacy of the One who is in you, which releases His divine action through you." - W. Ian Thomas in The Saving Life of Christ
"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 Mueller
Faith
"Never deprive someone of hope-it may be all they have." - Author unknown
"A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings, but makes her rejoice in them." - Joseph Addison
"When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God." - Charles Allen
"What can be hoped for which is not believed?" - Augustine of Hippo
"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." - Francis Bacon
"The glory of the star, the glory of the sun-we must not lose either in the other. We must not be so full of the hope of heaven that we cannot do our work on the earth; we must not be so lost in the work of the earth that we shall not be inspired by the hope of heaven." - Phillips Brooks
"The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith." - John Calvin
"If you do not hope you will never discover what is beyond your hopes." - Clement of Alexandria
"All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope." - Alexander Dumas
"Great hopes make great men." - Thomas Fuller
"If it were not for hopes, the heart would break." - Thomas Fuller
"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out." - Vaclav Havel
"The word which God has written on the brow of every man is hope."- Victor Hugo
"It is more serious to lose hope than to sin." - John of Carpathos
"Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor." - Samuel Johnson
"Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage." - Samuel Johnson
"The future is as bright as the promises of God." - Adoniram Judson
"There is no better or more blessed bondage than to be a prisoner of hope." - Roy Z. Kemp
"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope." - Martin Luther King
"We stand in life at midnight; we are always at the threshold of a new dawn." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"My only hope is that I shall be clothed with the righteousness of Jesus Christ." - M. Lloyd-Jones
"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No husbandman would sow a grain of corn if he hoped not it would grow up and become seed…Or no tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby." - Martin Luther
"Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment." - Napoleon
"The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity - hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory - because at the Father's will Jesus Christ became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross." - J. I. Packer
"Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man." - Pliny the Elder
"It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope." - Jean Paul Richter
"Our ground of hope is that God does not weary of mankind." - Ralph W. Sockman
"Do not look to your hope, but to Christ, the source of your hope." - C. H. Spurgeon
"Without Christ there is no hope." - C. H. Spurgeon
"While I breathe, I hope." - Anonymous
"Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship." - Henry Ward Beecher
"My hope is built on nothing less / Than Jesus' blood and righteousness." - William Bradbury
"Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless." - G. K. Chesterton
"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow." - G. K. Chesterton
"Of all delusions perhaps none is so great as the thought that our past has ruined our present, that the evils we have done, the mistakes we have committed, have made all further Hope impossible." - Archbishop Goodier
"It is silly not to hope…Besides I believe it is a sin." - Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
"Hope is the mother of faith." - Walter Savage Landor
"I live in hope." - Proverb (French)
"Christ is our hope of glory and the glory of our hope." - Anonymous
"A man full of hope will be full of action." - Thomas Brooks
"We are refugees from the sinking ship of this present world order, so soon to disappear; our hope is fixed in the eternal order, where the promises of God are made good to his people in perpetuity." - F. F. Bruce
"When you stop hoping you are on the vestibule of hell, for there is no hope there." - A. J. Cronin
"Hope is the only tie which keeps the heart from breaking." - Thomas Fuller
"Faith and a good conscience are hope's two wings." - William Gurnall
"The ground of our hope is Christ in the world, but the evidence of our hope is Christ in the heart." - Matthew Henry
"The Christian hope is the hope of a time when even the possibility of our sinning will be over. It is not the hope then of a return to the condition of Adam before the Fall but the hope of an entrance into a far higher condition." - J. Gresham Machen
"From Christ's death flow all our hopes." - J. C. Ryle
"Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6)." - William Gurnall
"If a Jew pawned his bed-clothes, God provided mercifully that it should be restored before night: "For," saith He, "That is his covering: wherein shall he sleep?" (Exodus 22:27). Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: "My flesh," saith David, "shall rest in hope." - William Gurnall
"Nothing more unbecomes an heavenly hope than an earthly heart." - William Gurnall
"Hope is faith in the future tense." - Peter Anderson
"Bless God that there is in us resurrection life, and that there awaits us a resurrection morn!" - J. J. Bonar
"Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds." - Thomas Brooks
"Hope is never ill when faith is well." - John Bunyan
"Where there is no hope there is no faith." - William Gouge
"He that was our help from our birth ought to be our hope from our youth." - Matthew Henry
"Our fear must save our hope from swelling into presumption, and our hope must save our fear from sinking into despair." - Matthew Henry
"Hoping is disciplined waiting." - E. Hoffmann
"Hope is the mother of patience." - William Jenkyn
"My future is as bright as the promises of God." - Adoniram Judson
"I am walking toward a bright light and the nearer I get the brighter it is." - D. L. Moody
"The future belongs to those who belong to God. This is hope." - W. T. Purkiser
"The nature of hope is to expect that which faith believes." - Richard Sibbes
"The Christian hope is not a matter for tickling our minds but for changing our lives and for influencing society." - Stephen Travis
Hope
"Money is like muck, no good except it be spread." - Francis Bacon
"Jesus talked a great deal about money and the problems it causes men - in fact, one-fifth of all Jesus had to say was about money." - Billy Graham
"Honor and profit lie not all in one stack." - George Herbert
"God pity the nation whose factory chimneys rise higher than her church spires." - John Kelman
"Money is emphasized in Scripture simply because our temptation to love it is inexplicably powerful." - Erwin W. Lutzer
"If a man's religion does not affect his use of money, that man's religion is vain." - Hugh Martin
"When I have any money, I get rid of it as quickly as possible, lest it find a way into my heart." - John Wesley
"If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall." - Bill Earle
"We spend money we don't have, to buy things we don't need, to impress people we don't like." - Michael Catt
"Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy." - Frank A. Clark
"Most Americans are members of the debt set." - Frank Tyger
"One-sixth of Matthew, Mark, and Luke and 12 of Jesus' 38 parables, have to do with money." - David Allen
"Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil." - Henry Fielding
"Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can." - John Wesley
"Money is an excellent servant and a terrible task master." - Michael Catt
"Easy credit is what makes people uneasy later." - anonymous
"Sign in a loan company: Loans - for those who have everything but haven't paid for all of it yet."
"Nothing makes time go faster than buying on it." - Balance Sheet
"I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches." - Thomas Jefferson
"My wife has just one extravagance. Our checking account." - anonymous
"Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail." - Josh Billings
"In the battle of faith, money is usually the last stronghold to fall." - Ron Dunn
Money
"God has his hours and his delays. - J. A. Bengel
"I have lived, seen God's hand through a lifetime, and all was for best." - Robert Browning
"Providence is crowned by the end of it." - Stephen Charnock
"God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm."
- William Cowper"The longer I live, the more faith I have in providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of providence." - Jeremiah Day
"Sometimes providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards." - John Flavel
"God's providences often seem to contradict his purposes, even when they are serving them." - Matthew Henry
"Everything that happens to me can help me along in my Christian life." - E. Stanley Jones
"Nothing is or can be accidental with God." - Henry W. Longfellow
"Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder - in the life to come." - Martin Luther
"God not only orders our steps; he orders our stops." - George Muller
"God rules and overrules." - William S. Plumer
"We need never fear that God will be dethroned, or over-reached or defeated." - William S. Plumer
"God's providence is all exercised through Christ." - Augustus H. Strong
"I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe." - A. W. Tozer
"It is a sin as much to quarrel with God's providence as to deny his providence." - Thomas Watson
"If a Christian has to change his plans, it is always because God has something better in store." - Phil Webb
"All the world's thrones are occupied by rulers under God's authority." - anonymous
"The same God who controls the sun cares for the sparrow." - anonymous
"There are no accidents in the life of a Christian." - Rowland Bingham
"What God intends, he decrees; what God permits, he has foreseen." - Arthur C. Custance
"If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in our circumstances." - George Muller
"Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation." - Richard Sibbes
"Not a drop of rain falls in vain." - John Trapp
"God is to be trusted when his providences seem to run contrary to his promises." - Thomas Watson
"God is not defeated by human failure." - William J. C. White
"God gives, but man must open his hand." - Proverb (German)
"God gives the milk but not the pail." - Proverb (German)
"I firmly believe in divine Providence. Without belief in Providence I think I should go crazy. Without God the earth would be a maze without a clue." - Woodrow Wilson
"God is to be trusted when His providences seem to run contrary to His promise. God promised David to give him the crown, to make him king; but providence turns contrary to His promise; David was pursued by Saul, was in danger of his life; but all this while it was David's duty to trust God. The Lord doth oftentimes, by cross providence, bring to pass His promise. God promised Paul the lives of all that were with him in the ship; but now the providence of God seems to run quite contrary to His promise; the winds blow, the ship splits and breaks in pieces; and thus God fulfilled His promise; upon the broken pieces of the ship, they all come safe to shore. Trust God when providences seem to run quite contrary to promises." - Thomas Watson
"Grace makes the promise and providence the payment." - John Flavel
"God from eternity, decrees or permits all things that come to pass, and perpetually upholds, directs and governs all creatures and all events; yet so as not in any wise to be the author or approver of sin nor to destroy the free agency and responsibility of intelligent creatures." - James Boyce
"Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence." - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"God never does anything to you that isn't for you." - Elizabeth Elliott
"I have lived a long time and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see that God governs in the affairs of men." - Benjamin Franklin
"That power which erring men call chance." - John Milton
"We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to His glory and our own advantage." - John Newton
"God writes straight with crooked lines." - Spanish proverb
"Man proposes but God disposes." - Thomas á Kempis
"A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly problems. It is almost equally true that a clear and full apprehension of the universal providence of God is the solution of most theological problems." - B. B. Warfield
"We are immoral until our work on earth is done." - George Whitefield
Providence
"When a thing has been said and said well; have no scruple. Take it and copy it." -Anatole France
"Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism." - George Moore
"There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him." - Benjamin Franklin
"What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before." - Mark Twain
"Originality is undetected plagiarism." - William R. Inge
"Genius borrows nobly." - Emerson
"Nothing is said which has not been said before." - Terence
"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgement." - Josh Billings
"Stealing a ride on someone else's train of thought." - Russell E. Curran
"Borrowing, if it be not bettered by the borrower." - John Milton
"The highest form of compliment and the lowest form of larceny." - Anonymous
"Plagiarist: an educated pickpocket and a literary body-snatcher." - Anonymous
"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other." - Eric Hoffer
"One Sunday morning after attending a church service, Mark Twain approached the pastor and said, 'I enjoyed your service this morning. I welcomed it like an old friend. In fact, I have a book at home containing every word of it.' The minister said, 'You have not!' Twain insisted, 'Yes, I have. I'll send it to you.' The next day, someone delivered a copy of an unabridged dictionary."
"To take the thought or style of another writer." - Ambrose Bierce
"Another man's ideas dressed up." - Solomon Bushkin
"The only 'ism' Hollywood believes in." - Dorothy Parker
"An act which aids the novice." - Anonymous
Plagiarism