"Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow." - Swedish Proverb

Worry

"There's a lot of hypocrisy sometimes within certain religious groups. And I just wish people could maybe preach less and act more, you know. That would be nice." - Billy Bob Thornton, actor

Hypocrisy

"Wherever the heart is, the feet don't hesitate to go." - Togo Saying

Heart

"It's a value system, a belief system." - Whole Foods Markets Inc. co-founder John Mackey, telling The Wall Street Journal that the "organic-food lifestyle" is not a fad "any more than Christianity is a fad for Christians."

Values

"Almost all moral education is indoctrination. It's the reason we have public schools." - U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf on a lawsuit brought by Massachusetts parents who object to their 5-year-old son being taught in kindergarten to approve of homosexuality. The school district they are suing has asked Wolf to dismiss the lawsuit.

Education

"Our greatest value is to reproduce ourselves in the lives of others.  When you leave behind a vibrant Christian who knows his calling and his commission, you can be buried but you will live on through all those in whom you have been reproduced." - Jerry Falwell

Discipleship

"What we are afraid to do before men, we should be afraid to think before God."                   
- Anonymous

"To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice."
- C. H. Spurgeon

Meditation

"The love for our enemies takes us along the way of the cross and into fellowship with the Crucified. The more we are driven along this road, the more certain is the victory of love over the enemy's hatred. For then it is not the disciple's own love, but the love of Jesus Christ alone, who for the sake of his enemies went to the cross and prayed for them as he hung there."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"God wants us to have love. We must be careful not to settle for sex."
- Max Anders

"The one who loves Biblically is no Pollyanna; he recognizes the waywardness of the heart. However, he also recognizes God's power to change the same heart. Love is anchored ultimately in God, not in a rose-tinted view of the innate virtue of others."
- Doug McIntosh, The Golden Rule - Love Full Circle, p. 44

"Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Love

“Knowledge without experience makes us pharisaical.
Experience without knowledge makes us prodigals.
Knowledge not practiced in experience makes us a hypocrite.
Experience not based upon knowledge makes us a heathen.”                                                         
- Unknown

Knowledge

"Happiness comes through the discipline of service, not the inflation of the ego."
- James H. Jauncey

"Another of the delusions in life is that pleasure seeking will itself bring happiness. It never can for long. But let us fully understand that pleasure is a gift of God, as long as it does not involve any element of sin." 
- James H. Jauncey

Happiness

"The Gospel is a declaration, not a debate."
- James S. Stewart

Gospel

"Tell me in light of the cross, isn't it a scandal that you and I live today as we do?"
- Alan Redpath

"There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives."
- Oswald Chambers

"It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness."
- E. M. Bounds

"Whatever weakens your reason, impairs your tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish for spiritual things then it is sin for you, however innocent it may be in itself."
- Suzanna Wesley

"Whatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry."
- Charles H. Spurgeon

"Many Christians have what we might call a 'cultural holiness.' They adapt to the character and behavior pattern of Christians around them. As the Christian culture around them is more or less holy, so these Christians are more or less holy. But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God."
- Jerry Bridges

"Every man is as holy as he really wants to be."
- A. W. Tozer

Personal Holiness