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Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
-- Mother Teresa
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In our speech, in our plans of living, in our dealings w/ others, in our conduct and walk in and out of the church-all should be done as becomes the gospel.
-- Albert Barnes
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If you judge people, you have not time to love them.
-- Mother Teresa
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To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
-- Daniel Webster
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If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles.
-- C.S. Lewis
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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
-- Napoleon Hill
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God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.
-- Thomas Watson
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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers
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God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
-- Jim Elliot
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"Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith.
-- A W Tozer
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You are a finished product in God but a raw material on the earth.
-- Edward Ezekiel Isouve
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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
-- Ronald Reagan
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When God is going to do greatness, He incubates you in obscurity.
-- T.D. Jakes
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The great value of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
-- James Truslow Adams
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We're all in the same garden. I hope you're not eating from the wrong tree.
-- Justin Holland
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Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
-- Daniel Webster
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Speaking truth at the wrong time, and in the wrong situation, is like telling someone to turn on a bridge; someone's going to get wet.
-- Chronically Christian
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For the man who prays in his heart, the whole world is a church.
-- Sylvain of Athos
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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
-- Napoleon Hill
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If you have great challenges, have greater faith.
-- Leinani Kamaka
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How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?
-- Oscar Wilde
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Our lives end the day we become silent about the things that matter.
-- Martin Luther
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A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.
-- Mark Twain
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An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.
-- A.W. Tozer
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A state of mind that sees God in everything is evidence of growth in grace and a thankful heart.
-- Charles Finney
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There is a place where God, through the power of the Holy Ghost, reigns supreme in our lives.
-- Smith Wigglesworth
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The devil’s fears are always falsehoods. If fear comes from Satan, then we can conclude there is nothing to fear.
-- John Lake
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Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness.
-- Martin Luther
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For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.
-- Thomas a' Kempis
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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
-- Corrie Ten Boom
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If you have great challenges, have greater faith.
-- Leinani Kamaka
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
-- Pascal
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One great power of sin is that it blinds men so that they do not recognize its true character.
-- Andrew Murray
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90% of the friction of daily life is caused by the wrong tone of voice.
-- Unknown
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Remember, you may choose your sin, but you cannot chose the consequences.
-- Jenny Sanford
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Relying on God has to start all over everyday, as if nothing as yet been done.
-- C.S.Lewis
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If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.
-- C.S. Lewis
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God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.
-- William Gurnall
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Are there not millions of us who would rather go sleeping to hell; than sweating to heaven?
-- Thomas Watson
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Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord.
-- Walter Cradock
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Look around in the world, and you may see some in every place who are objects of pity, bereaved by sad accidents of all the comforts of life, while in the meantime Providence has tenderly preserved you.
-- John Flavel
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If you least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it.
-- Vavasor Powell
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We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.
-- Thomas Watson
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Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.
-- Jeremiah Burroughs
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If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in grace according to his thoughts and meditations upon the person of Christ, and the glory of Christ’s kingdom, and of His love.
-- John Owen
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A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.
-- Thomas Watson
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Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.
-- Thomas Brooks
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
-- William Gurnall
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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose.
-- Jim Elliot
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Any method of evangelism will work if God is in it.
-- Leonard Ravenhill
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling 'darkness' on the wall of his cell...
-- C.S. Lewis
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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is "Thank You", it will be enough.
-- Meister Eckhart
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Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.
-- Billy Graham
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The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.
-- Billy Sunday
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No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.
-- Hannah More
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A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.
-- Dwight L. Moody
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True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.
-- Charles Baudelaire
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The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God
-- C. S. Lewis
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God puts Christ's enemies as a footstool beneath His feet, for their salvation as well as their destruction.
-- Origen
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A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.
-- Augustine
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A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.
-- Charles Spurgeon
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The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Where, say some, is the king of America? I'll tell you, friend, He reigns above.
-- Thomas Paine
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The Christian Life is about relationships, not performance.
-- Neil Franks
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Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying us at the moment.
-- C.S. Lewis
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In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views.
-- Albert Einstein
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One of the first things which a physician says to his patient is, ~Let me see your tongue.~ A spiritual advisor might often do the same.
-- Nehemiah Adams
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Involuntary ignorance is not charged against you as a fault; but your fault is this---you neglect to inquire into the things you are ignorant of.
-- Augustine
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If religion has done nothing for your temper, it has done nothing for your soul.
-- James B. Clayton
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What a man says and what a man is must stand together.
-- Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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The world is sick of Christians making such extraordinary claims while living such ordinary lives.
-- C H Spurgeon
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Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
-- G.K. Chesterton
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The highest and most profitable lesson is the true knowledge and lowly esteem of ourselves.
-- Thomas A` Kempis
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Faith in Christianity is based on evidence. It is reasonable faith. Faith in the Christian sense goes beyond reason but not against it.
-- Paul LIttle
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The chief danger of the 20th century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and Heaven without Hell.
-- William Booth
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Compassion costs. It is easy enough to argue, criticize and condemn, but redemption is costly, and comfort draws from the deep. Brains can argue, but It takes heart to comfort.
-- Samuel Chadwick
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When your will is God's will, you will have your will.
-- Charles Spurgeon
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That Book, Sir, is the rock on which our Republic rests.
-- President Jackson
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Leave out the cross and you have killed the religion of Jesus. Atonement by the blood of Jesus is not an arm of Christian truth; it is the heart of it.
-- Charles Spurgeon
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Our Lord Jesus Christ, the word of God, of his boundless love, became what we are that he might make us what he himself is.
-- Iranaeus
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"Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith.
-- A.W. Tozer
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I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.
-- Dan Wilcox
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The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.
-- Kendall Hailey
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Habits of thought are not less tyrannical than other habits, and a time comes when return is impossible, even to the strongest will.
-- Alexander Vinet
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Having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia... [Mayflower Compact]
-- William Bradford
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A baptism of holiness, a demonstration of godly living is the crying need of our day.
-- Duncan Campbell
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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weeds.
-- Luther Burbank
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It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man.
-- Author Unknown
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One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
-- George Herbert
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Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.
-- Leaves of Gold
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He that does a base thing for a friend burns the golden thread which ties their hearts together.
-- Jeremy Taylor
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It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to 'dishonor God and to flatter man.
-- Charles H. Spurgeon
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...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely god; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world. For it is not well for god to be alone.
-- G.K. Chesterton
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There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
-- Edmund Burke
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St. John makes the denial of the incarnation of the Son of God the criterion of Antichrist, and consequently the belief in this truth the test of Christianity.
-- Philip Schaff
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A God all mercy is a God unjust.
-- Edward Young
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A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope
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I shall pass this way but once, any good thing I can do, any kindness I can show to another human being,let me do it now,let me not defer it nor neglect it , for I shall not pass this way again.
-- Henry Drummond
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
-- Abraham Lincoln
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Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.
-- John Stott
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The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.
-- John Stott
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