"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
"There is good biblical evidence that God not only suffered in Christ, but that God in Christ suffers with his people still. . . . It is wonderful that we may share in Christ's sufferings; it is more wonderful still that he shares in ours."
- John R. W. Stott, The Cross of Christ"Unless God is on the balance and throws his weight as a counterbalance, we shall sink to the bottom of the scale. If it is not true that God died for us, but only a man died, we are lost. But if God's death and God lie dead in the opposite scale, then his side goes down and we go upward like a light or empty pan. But he could not have sat in the pan unless he became a man like us, so that it could be said: God dead, God's passion, God's blood, God's death."
- Martin Luther, Formula of Concord"It is a good think to learn early that God and suffering are not opposites but rather one and the same thing and necessarily so; for me, the idea that God himself suffers is far and away the most convincing piece of Christian doctrine."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison
Suffering
"Fashion is one of the top issues for teen girls and one of the facets of the larger discussion about sexual purity. Teaching girls to look at their attire through God's perspective is one of those places where the rubber meets the road in both parenting and youth ministry."
- Dannah Gresh commenting in her article, "Fashionable and Modest? Absolutely!"
Sexual Purity
"O Jesus! Meek and humble of heart, hear me. From the desire of being esteemed, deliver me, Jesus. From the desire of being loved, deliver me, Jesus. From the desire of being extolled...from the desire of being honored...from the desire of being praised...from the desire of being preferred to others...from the desire of being consulted...from the desire of being approved...from the fear of being humiliated...from the fear of being despised...from the fear of suffering rebukes...from the fear of being calumniated...from the fear of being forgotten...from the fear of being ridiculed....from the fear of being wronged...from the fear of being suspected...."
- from Litany of Humility
Desire and Fear
“The concern, of course, is that a church who weds the spirit of this age will find itself a widow in the next.” - W. R. Inge, former Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London
Church
"Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me;Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me;Christ to right of me, Christ to left of me;Christ in my lying, Christ in my sitting, Christ in my rising;Christ in the heart of all who think of me,Christ on the tongue of all who speak of me,Christ in the eye of all who see me,Christ in the ear of all who hear me." - Saint Patrick
Christian Living