Action
“Sympathy is no substitute for action.” – David Livingstone
“In Germany
they came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a
Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I
wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up
because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I
didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by
that time no one was left to speak up.” – Martin Niemoller
Affliction
"We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in
prosperity we forget God." - Dwight L. Moody
"The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of
affliction." - Charles H. Spurgeon
"I never knew all there was in the Bible until I spent those
years in jail. I was constantly finding new treasures." - John Bunyan
"So when we see the ever blessed God, our heavenly Father,
send infirmities and crosses to rescue those He loves from sin's dominion, we
safely conclude that He thinks affliction is a far less evil than the guilt of
sin. He is too wise and too indulgent a physician to cure with such a
remedy as would be worse than the disease." - John Bunyan
“The best
way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
Anger
"Be not long angry, for though anger may come into the bosom
of a wise man, and pass through it as a wayfaring man, it rests only in the
bosom of fools." - Matthew Henry
“An angry person is never a respected person.” - Unknown
Anxiety
"Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows but only
empties today of its strength." - Charles H. Spurgeon
The beginning of anxiety is
the end of faith and the end of faith is the beginning of anxiety. -
George Mueller
Associates
“Bad people in confederacy make one another much worse than any of them would
be by themselves.” - Matthew Henry
Atheism
"When wicked and unprincipled persons have gone on in a course
of sin to the degree that they can scarcely hope for pardon and find that they
have reason to fear the just judgment of God for their sins, they begin at
first to wish that there were no God to punish them, which they think would be
in their best interests. And so, by degrees, they come to persuade
themselves that there is no God. Then they determine to find arguments
to back their opinion in order to prove what they are willing to believe." -
John Bunyan
Authority
“Men are commonly more zealous to support their own
authority than God’s.” - Matthew Henry
Badness
of the Times
"It is folly to complain of the badness of our own times when
we have more reason to complain of the badness of our own hearts (if men's
hearts were better, the times would mend) and when we have more reason to be
thankful that they are not worse, but that even in the worst of times we enjoy
many mercies, which help to make them not only tolerable, but comfortable." -
Matthew Henry
"It is folly to cry up the goodness of former times, so as to
derogate from the mercy of God to us in our own times; as if former ages had
not the same things to complain of that we have." - Matthew Henry
Baptists
Cardinal Stanilaus Hosius, a Polish prelate and scholar and
president of the Council of Trent, said in 1524, “Were it not that the
Baptists have been grievously tormented and cut off with the knife during the
past 1200 years, they would swarm in greater numbers today than all the
reformers.”
Bible
"Gospel signifies good news, or glad tidings; and this
history of Christ's coming into the world to save sinners is, without doubt, the
best news that ever came from heaven to earth" - Matthew Henry
"Scripture is the speech of God to man. It is this which gives it its
unity. 'The Lord, the mighty God, hath spoken, and called the earth.' The
amanuenses may differ; but the inspiring mind is the same. The instruments
may vary; but in every case the same theme is being played by the same
master-hand. We should read the Bible as those who listen to the very
speech of God. Well may it be called the Word of God." - F.B. Meyer
"There has been something so unique in these books that they have always stood
and fallen together." "Belief in one has led to belief in all. Their
hands are linked and locked so tightly that were one goes all must follow." -
F.B. Meyer "The earlier revelation was in many forms.
The earthquake, the fire, the tempest, and the still small voice-each had its
ministry. Symbol and parable, vision and metaphor, type and historic
foreshadowing, all in turn served the divine end; like the ray which is broken
into many prismatic hues. But in Jesus there is the steady shining of the
pure ray of his glory, one uniform and invariable method of revelation." - F.B.
Meyer "Nobody ever outgrows
Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years." - Charles H. Spurgeon
"You don't have to understand all about the Bible in order to
accept it. You don't have to understand the digestive processes before you
eat a meal. You don't have to understand everything about electricity
before you switch on your lights or send a telegram. Must you know all
about a trolley car in order to pay a nickel and take a ride? Can you
explain how a black cow eats green grass and gives white milk to make yellow
butter? No!" - Billy Sunday
"The Bible showed me the way of salvation. Man through the
centuries has never been able to destroy the Bible. Such attempts were as
futile as trying to dam Niagara with tooth-picks or tying to cross the Atlantic
on a grindstone drawn by cockroaches." - Billy Sunday
“Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?” –
Michael Faraday
“If all the great books of the world were given life and
were brought together in convention, the moment the Bible entered, the other
books would fall on their faces as the gods of Philistia fell when the ark of
God was brought into their presence in the temple of Dagon.” – Isaac Newton
“I like to study the Guide Book to the country where I am
going.” – Samuel Morse
“There’s a big difference between the books that men make
and the Book that makes men.” – Unknown
“The Bible is like a diamond field – some truths lie right
up on top; others you have to dig for. I don’t have them all yet, but I keep on
digging.” – John Jasper
“What a Book! Vast and wide as the world, rooted in the
abysses of creation and towering up behind the blue secrets of Heaven – sunset
and sunrise, promise and fulfillment, birth and death, the whole drama of
humanity all in this Book!” – Heinrich Hein
“To what shall we compare it? It is as though one man
entered a Cathedral and struck a note on the great organ and left. Thirty-nine
other men at different periods did the same. If we were to gather these notes
together, are we to suppose that there is a means of preservation, which will
make up the great work Handel’s Messiah? Should we say it just happened? No.
We would be justified in believing that some great mind had supervised it.” -
Charles Feinberg, Ph.D.
The Bible is not given to
increase our knowledge but to change our lives. — D.L. Moody
A Bible that is falling apart
usually belongs to someone who isn’t. — C.H. Spurgeon
“The Old Testament
opens with man made in the image of God. The New Testament opens with God in
the image of man.” - Unknown
Blessings
"Jesus Christ is our Promised Land, and our Joshua to lead us
thither. He gives us rest. In him are orchards and vineyards, and
all manner of precious things. His comfort for our sorrow; his rest for
our weariness; his strength for our weakness; his purity for our corruption; his
ever-present help for our need. Oh, blessed Jesus, surely it is the wonder
of heaven that we make so little of thee!" - F.B. Meyer
"How many blessings I enjoy That other people don't! To
weep and sigh because I'm blind, I cannot, and I won't." - Fanny Crosby
Blood
"Why, then, should we hesitate to speak of the blood of Christ?
It was royal blood. 'His own'; and he was a King indeed. It was
voluntarily shed: 'He offered himself'. It was pure 'innocent blood',
'without spot'. It was sacrificial. He died not as a martyr, but as
a Saviour. It flowed from his head, thorn-girt, that it might atone for
sins of thought; from his hands and feet, fast nailed, that it might expiate
sins of deed and walk; from his side, that it might wipe out the sins of our
affections, as well as tell us of his deep and fervent love, which could not be
confined within the four chambers of his heart, but must find vent in faling on
the earth. Why should we be ashamed of the blood of Christ? - F.B. Meyer
From the Cross there flows a hallowed stream,
Full of power sinners to redeem.
Let the world the blessed tidings know,
Jesus' blood can wash as white as snow.
Peace and pardon, power and life it brings,
Till the soul in holy rapture sings.
To this fountain let the sin-sick go;
Jesus' blood can wash as white as snow.
“And that there may be always such a heart in you, let me exhort
all governors of families, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, often to
reflect on the inestimable worth of their own souls, and the infinite ransom,
even the precious blood of Jesus Christ, which has been paid down for them.” -
George Whitefield
Booze
Martin Luther was a boozer. "You may comfort yourself by being
assured that we are not drinking water, but have plenty of good beer and Rhenish
wine, with which we cheer ourselves in spite of the overflowing river." - Martin
Luther January 25, 1546 A.D. ”Drink has shed more
blood, hung more crepe, sold more homes, plunged more people into bankruptcy,
armed more villains, slain more children, snapped more wedding rings, defiled
more innocence, blinded more eyes, dethroned more reason, wrecked more manhood,
dishonored more womanhood, broken more hearts, blasted more lives, driven more
to suicide and dug more graves than any other evil that has cursed the world.” –
Evangeline Booth
“O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to
be known by, let us call thee – devil!” – William Shakespeare
“The ravages of drink are greater than those of war
pestilence and famine combined.” – William Gladstone
“All that people say in favor of intoxicating liquor is a
worthless for purchase as counterfeit money, as worthless as painted water for
the thirsty. And I can say better things about the rattlesnake and the skunk
than I can about liquor.” – Robert G. Lee
“Alcohol is a poison men take into the mouth to steal away
the brain.” – William Shakespeare
“Alcoholism is a disease? If so, it is the only disease
that is contracted by an act of the will. It is the only disease that requires
a license to propagate it. It is the only disease that is bottled and sold. It
is the only disease that promotes crime. It is the only disease that is spread
by advertising. It is the only disease that is given for a Christmas present.”
– Peter L. Ream
“I have four good reasons for
being an abstainer – my head is clearer, my health is better, my heart is
lighter, and my purse is heaver.” - Dr. Thomas Guthrie 1803 – 1873 Noted
Scottish preacher
Calvary
"Lord turn our gaze upon thy cross, Counting all else not gain
but loss; For this we pray, this is our plea Lord, keep our eyes on Calvary." -
Amy Carmichael
"O wondrous love! to bleed and die, To bear the cross and shame,
That guilty sinners, such as I, Might plead Thy gracious Name." - John Newton
"It is staggering to think that Divinity would pay so much for
humanity. Think of the Innocent suffering for the guilty, the Just dying
for the unjust, 'a King dying for His enemy.' What a price!" - Bernie
Smith
Character
"If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of
itself." - Dwight L. Moody
"Character is what you are in the dark." - Dwight L. Moody
"Character can no more be hid than you can hide fire in powder."
- Billy Sunday
"Counterfeit character is more common than counterfeit money." -
Billy Sunday
"The mockingbird will never learn to sing if he takes music
lessons from a hoot owl." - Billy Sunday "The whole issue of life, of
regeneration, of character, is a heart matter." - J. Frank Norris
"The
human eye is an index of character." - J. Frank Norris
“Some people are like wheel-barrows – useful only when
pushed and very easily upset.” – Vance Havner
“The choice we
make when a crisis confronts us reveals character.” – Bernie Smith
“Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him
while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.” – Abraham Lincoln
Be more concerned about your
character than your reputation. Your character is who you really are. Your
reputation is who others think you are. — John Wooden
“A man’s strength is shown by
what he stands for. A man’s weakness is shown by what he falls for.” – Unknown
Cheerful
"A cheerful spirit is a
great blessing; it makes the yoke of our employments easy and the burden of our
afflictions light." - Matthew Henry
Children
“It is a masterpiece of the Devil to make us believe that
children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the
standard of faith if He had known that he was not capable of understanding His
words?” – D.L. Moody
“Children’s ruin is often owing very much to the parents’
indulgence.” – Matthew Henry
“If you are going to do anything permanent for the average
man, you must begin before he is a man.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Blood is thicker than water,
but you’re very foolish if you let your kids determine your convictions.” -
Richard Dion
“If you train up a
child to give pennies, it is likely that when he is old he will not depart from
it.”
Christianity
"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and, if true, of
infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important."
- C.S. Lewis
Church
"When we forsake the assembly of our fellow Christians we are apt
to wrap ourselves in the chill mantle of indifference." - F.B. Meyer
"Let it be observed, that slovenliness is no part of religion;
that neither this, or any text of Scripture, condemns neatness of apparel." -
John Wesley
"Well
that’s what the church is. It’s the wife of Christ, and we need to do some very
tall thinking right there." - J. Frank Norris
“One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not
constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The
first requisite is life, always.” - A.W. Tozer
Compassion
A.J. Gordon once said: “I have long since ceased to pray, ‘Lord, have compassion
on a lost world.’ I remember the day and the hour when I seemed to her the Lord
rebuking me for making such a prayer. He seemed to say to me, ‘I have had
compassion on a lost world, and now it is for you to have compassion.’”
Conscience
"Man's own conscience, more than a thousand witnesses, cannot
help but dictate the reality of God to him." - John Bunyan
“I am drawing near the close of my career. I am fast shuffling off the stage.
I have been, perhaps, the most voluminous author of the day. And it is a
comfort to me to think that I have tried to unsettle no man’s faith, to corrupt
no man’s principles, and that I have written nothing which, on my deathbed, I
should wish blotted out.” - Sir Walter Scott
Counsel
"He that won't be counseled, can't be helped." - Benjamin
Franklin
Creation
“When with bold telescopes I survey the old and newly discovered stars and
planets when with excellent microscopes I discern the unimitable subtility of
nature’s curious workmanship; and when, in a word, by the help of anatomical
knives, and the light of chymical furnaces, I study the book of nature ai find
myself oftentimes reduced to exclaim with the Psalmist, How manifold are Thy
works, O Lord! In wisdom hast Thou made them all!” - Robert Boyle - Father of
modern chemistry.
Criticism
"If you wish to avoid criticism, be nothing, do nothing, say
nothing." - Elbert Hubbard
The man who slings the most mud loses the most ground. — Lucy Anderson
Cross
"It is easier to wear a cross than it is to carry one. It
is more simple to erect a cross on the church than to get the church on a
cross." - Bernie Smith
"If we try to separate the Cross from suffering and sacrifice,
all we have left is an empty theory of salvation." - Bernie Smith
Must Jesus bear the cross alone,
And all the world go free?
No! there's a cross for every one,
And there's a cross for me.
Cursed be all learning that is
not subservient to the cross of Christ. — Jonathan Witherspoon
Death
"Someday you will read where Dwight L. Moody is dead, but don't
believe it. People will pass by my casket and say, 'Here lies Dwight L.
Moody,' but don't believe it. I will not be there. You can say when
you pass the casket that holds my body, 'Here is the old house where Dwight L.
Moody used to live,' for I will have a new address." - Dwight L. Moody
"The Body of Benjamin Franklin Printer (Like the cover of an old
book Its contents torn out and stript of its lettering and gilding) Lies here,
food for worms. But the work shall not be lost for it will (as he
believed) appear once more in a new and more elegant edition revised and
corrected by The Author." - Benjamin Franklin's Epitaph written by him when he
was twenty-two years old.
"Death takes no bribes." - Benjamin Franklin
"Fear not death, for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be
immortal." - Benjamin Franklin
Death - Last Words
"It is very beautiful over there." - Thomas Edison
"I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of
the living soon." - John Newton
"If God by your partner, make your plans large." - Dwight L.
Moody to his sons.
"I have taken care of everything in the course of my life, only
not for death, and now I have to die completely unprepared." - Cesare Borgia
"Oh my poor soul, what is to become of you? -- Where do you go?"
- Cardinal Mazzrin
"It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!" - Thomas Hobbes
"So, now all is gone - Empire, Body and Soul!" - Henry the Eighth
"Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said
enough." - Karl Marx
Deceive
“We deceive ourselves if we think to mock God.” – Matthew Henry
“Satan ruins men by rocking them asleep, flattering them
into a good opinion of their own safety, and so bringing them to mind nothing
and fear nothing, and then he robs them of their strength and honour and leads
them captive at his will. When we sleep our spiritual enemies do not.” -
Matthew Henry
Devil
If you wake up in the morning
and don’t meet the devil face on it just means you’re going in the same
direction. — R.G. Lee
“What a subtle tempter Satan
is! What a deceitful thing sin is! What a foolish creature corrupted man is!
A subtle tempter indeed, who can persuade the greatest part of the world to go
willfully into everlasting fire when they have so many warnings and dissuasives
as they have.” - Richard Baxter
Duty
“Thus many are kept from doing their duty by the fear of trouble, the love of
ease, and an inordinate affection to their worldly business and advantage.
Narrow selfish spirits care not what becomes of the interests of God’s church,
so they can get, keep, and save money.” – Matthew Henry
“It is a great deal easier to
do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it is, than to face the
responsibility of not doing it.” – unknown
Education
"You can dot every hilltop in America with a red schoolhouse, you
can erect a university in every teeming center of population until ignorance
will slink away like a wolf in a den, and yet America will sink into hell unless
her purity of heart keeps pace with her brilliancy of intellect." - Billy Sunday
Environment - Creature
of
"Life is what you make it. Some folks blame environment.
Bunk! You put an old devil anywhere, and he'll still be a devil. Man
is not a creature of environment. He was created to be master of it." -
Billy Sunday
Envy
"There are three ways to earn the envy of people, your kinfolks,
and sometimes preachers. 1) know more, 2) have more, 3) do more. Watch
out! Your kinfolks will never forgive you for those three things, and some
preachers will never say that’s why they hate you, but they’ll find fault with
you, that’s the price you have to pay for success." - J. Frank Norris
"Those that excel in virtue will always be an eye-sore to those
that exceed in vice, which should not discourage us from any right work, but
drive us to expect the praise of it, not from men, but from God." - Matthew
Henry
Empowerment
"It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability, that
counts." - Corrie Ten Boom
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