"I believe in the security of the believers, but I also believe in the insecurity of make-believers." - J. Vernon McGee 

Eternal Security

"A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God." - Leonard Ravenhill

Knowledge

"A person who does not walk intimately with Christ cannot expect God's blessing, leadership, or protection. How arrogant it is for us to believe that we can be and do anything empowered by the Spirit, unless we develop intimacy with Jesus." - Tom Elliff

Intimacy

"I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my power and domination." - Alexander the Great

"The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces." - Thomas Aquinas

"It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between the alternatives they have not chosen themselves." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence." - Vince Lombardi

"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude." - Colin Powell

Excellence

"Sometimes I think the whole Christian world is made up of just two groups: those who speak their faith and accomplish significant things for God, and those who criticize and malign the first group." - Don Basham, "On the Tip of My Tongue," New Wine (June 1986). Christianity Today, Vol. 30, No. 12.

Christianity

"As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity agaisnt the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Musselmen; and as the said States never have entered in to any war or act of hostility against an Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."

- Treaty of Peace and Friendship Between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli, of Barbary, Article 11. Cited in Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America, Hunter Miller, ed., vol. 2, docs. 1-40: 1776-1818. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1931).

Religion

"The man who is truly forgiven and knows it is a man who forgives."
- D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

"Forgiveness: man's deepest need and highest achievement."
- Horace Bushnell

"Only one petition in the Lord's Prayer has any condition attached to it; it is the petition for forgiveness."
- William Temple

"If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men."
- St. Augustine

"There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site."
- Sidney J. Harris

"God buried our sins in the depths of teh sea adn then put up a sigh that reads, "No fishing."
- Corrie Ten Boom

Forgiveness

by Vance Havner

Paul was not ignorant of Satan's devices, but we are not so wise. Among his most successful devices today are these:

- Exalting tolerance above truth.
- Emphasizing the head more than the heart.
- Making size more important than sort.
- Stressing the positive to the neglect of the negative.
- Putting happiness above holiness.
- Majoring on this world instead of the next.

Satan’s Devices

"We didn't do this for ourselves, but for our religion. Our religion is being destroyed. Let this be a lesson to enemies of our religion." - The reported confession of one of the Muslims who tortured and murdered three Christians at a Protestant publishing house in eastern Turkey

Islam

"Regardless of what happened today, my responsibility was to glorify God." - Zach Johnson, winner of the Masters golf tournament

God’s Glory

"Now that reading has become more difficult, I probably read the Bible less but pray more. Of course, over the years I've memorized many passages from the Bible, and I'm especially thankful now that I did this. I wish we gave more attention to Bible memorization in our churches today." - Billy Graham

Bible

"The government may use its voice and its regulatory authority to show its profound respect for the life within the woman." - Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the Supreme Court which upheld the constitutionality of a ban on partial-birth abortion

Abortion