Failure
"More people fail from lack of purpose than from lack of talent."
- Billy Sunday
"Half the ills that curse the world come from eagerness to
achieve success in realms you cannot reach. If fate clips your wings and
casts you on the humbler plains of life, be a hero there. There is plenty
of room for heroism in the common walks of life." - Billy Sunday
"The world is full of unsuccessful men letting empty buckets down
into empty wells and drawing up nothing but hot air." - Billy Sunday
“If the Lord fails me at this time, it will be the first time.” – George Muller
“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give
you the formula for failure – which is: try to please everybody.” - Herbert
Swope
Faith
"A string of opinions no more constitutes faith than a string of
beads constitutes holiness." - John Wesley
"God likes to see a man leave the misty, fog-covered valleys and
climb the sunlit hills." - Billy Sunday
"Where reason ends, faith
begins." - J. Frank Norris
"Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows
the One who is leading." - Oswald Chambers
Faith enables the believing soul to treat the future as present and the
invisible as seen. — J. Oswald Sanders
“A little faith will bring
your soul to Heaven; a great faith will bring Heaven to your soul.” – Charles
Spurgeon
“Faith expects from God what is beyond all expectation.” –
Andrew Murray
“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God
whose ways you may not understand at the time.” – Oswald Chambers
“To learn strong
faith is to endure great trials. I have learned my faith by standing firm amid
severe testings.” – George Mueller
“Faith will not
always get for us what we want, but it will get what God wants us to have.” –
Vance Havner “How many believers have but little
faith, and seem quite content to have little!” - From Hyman J. Appelman’s
Sermon outlines and illustrations
Father
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their
mother.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“A good father reflects the love of the heavenly Father.” –
Unknown
Fear
“I don’t think you need to be afraid of life. Our hearts are very frail; and
there are places where the road is very steep and very lonely. But we have a
wonderful God.” – John Gossip
Fear of God
“Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of
charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.” – Matthew Henry
When you fear God, you fear
nothing else. When you don’t fear God, you fear everything else. - Oswald
Chambers
Fellowship with God
"Unbelief cannot live in the sunlight of fellowship with God." -
F.B. Meyer
“No one ever said at the end of his days: ‘I have read my bible
too much; I have thought of God too much; I have prayed too much; I have been
too careful with my soul.” – J.C. Ryle
“All we want in Christ, we shall find in Christ. If we want
little, we shall find little. If we want much, we shall find much; but if, in
utter helplessness, we cast our all on Christ, He will be to us the whole
treasury of God.” – Henry Benjamin Whipple “When we
get to the place where there’s nothing left but God, we find that God is all we
need.” – Unknown
“Trying to live the Christian life without fellowship with
Him is like being perpetually hungry without eating food.” – Dr. Paul Fedena
“God’s honor is worth seeking. Man’s honor doesn’t amount
to much.” - D.L. Moody
Fence
“Don’t move the fence until you find out why they set it
there!” – Unknown
Flattery
“More servants of the Lord have been rendered useless by
giving heed to flattery than by suffering ridicule and persecution.” – Unknown
Foolish
“As foolish as
engineers who have no room for electric power, the library with no place for
books, the body with no place for blood, or lungs with no place for air, are
they who have no room for Jesus.” – R.G. Lee
Forgetting God
“In nothing is the corrupt memory of man more treacherous than in this, that it
is apt to forget God; because out of sight, he is out of mind; and here begins
all the wickedness that is in the world: they have perverted their way, for they
have forgotten the Lord their God.” – Matthew Henry
“He that forgets his friend is ungrateful unto him; but he
that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.” – John Bunyan
Forgive
George Herbert said, "He who cannot forgive others breaks
the bridge over which he must pass himself."
Benjamin Franklin stated, "Doing an injury puts you below
your enemy; revenging makes you but even with him; forgiving sets you above
him."
“Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to
bury the faults of your friends.” – Beecher
Freedom
“Freedom prospers
when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.” –
Ronald Reagan
Friendship
“Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.” – French
Proverb
Future - Your
"Your success in life tomorrow will be determined by what you
said 'yes' or 'no' to today." - Billy Sunday
"When you are doing the little things, you are qualifying to do
the big things later on." - Billy Sunday “Never
be afraid to entrust the unknown future to a known God.” – unknown
Giving
“We make a living by what we get; we make a
life by what we give.” – Sir Winston Churchill
“Lord, help us to
give according to our income, lest Thou turn things around and give us incomes
according to our giving.” – Unknown
“Spirit-led giving
and spending never produce spiritual bankruptcy.” – Unknown
“Let our giving be
according to our earnings, lest the Lord make our earnings to be according to
our giving.” – Unknown
“We are always
making an offering. If we do not give to God, we give to the Devil. It is a
continuous process going on all the time.” – Vance Havner
“Giving is true having.” – Charles Spurgeon
“If you give only when asked, maybe you’ve waited too
long.” – Unknown
“A miser insisted that he was a proportionate giver. He
explained afterward that he gave in proportion to the amount of religion he
possessed.” - Unknown
God
“A little boy
being asked, “How many Gods are there?” replied, “One!” “How do you know
that?” “Because,” said the boy, “there is only room for one, for He fills
heaven and earth.” – Unknown “That God is good is
taught or implied on every page of the Bible and must be received as an article
of faith as impregnable as the throne of God.” A.W. Tozer
“God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a
tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails.” – C.H. Spurgeon
“He who is ready to believe the goodness of God shall
always see fresh goodness to believe in, and he who is willing to declare the
works of God shall never be silent for lack of wonders to declare.” - Charles
Spurgeon
God Is Faithful
“God writes with a
pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips and acts with a hand
that never fails.” – Unknown
“Our Heavenly
Father never takes anything from His children unless He means to give them
something better.” – George Muller
God With Us
“We cannot expect the presence of God with us, unless we thus seek it in the way
he has appointed.” - Matthew Henry
“Be assured, if you walk with
Him and look to Him and expect help from Him, He will never fail you.” – George
Muller
God's Work
“Difficulties afford opportunities for learning God’s
faithfulness which otherwise we should not have. It gives me great comfort to
remember that the work is His and that He knows how best to carry on and is
infinitely more interested in it than we are.” – Hudson Taylor
Did it ever occur to you that
nothing ever occurred to God? — Bill Sasser
“The rule that governs my life is this: Anything that dims
my vision of Christ or takes away my taste for Bible study or cramps my prayer
life or makes Christian work difficult is wrong for me, and I must, as a
Christian, turn away from it.” - J. Wilbur Chapman
Gossip
"I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter
of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others,
and proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody." - Benjamin
Franklin
Grace
"A man can no more take in a supply of grace for the future than
he can eat enough today to last him for the next six months or take sufficient
air into his lungs at once to sustain life for a week to come. We must
draw upon God's boundless stores of grace from day to day as we need it." - D.L.
Moody “Grace is but Glory begun, and Glory is but
grace perfected.” – Jonathan Edwards
Growth
“In the Christian
life there are many promotions in spiritual growth, but there is no graduation.”
– Unknown
“The best
Christians we have among us are only Christians in the making. They are by no
means finished products.” – Unknown
Habits
"Any fool can form a bad habit, but it takes a real man to break
one. Every man has been knocked down once or twice, but it is the getting
up that counts." - Billy Sunday
Happiness
"Oh, what a happy soul I am, Although I cannot see! I am
resolved that in this world Contented I will be." - Fanny Crosby
Hate “Human
hate is a deadly blight that does worse damage to the hater than to the hated.
Its cure is found in the love of Christ. When that love comes in hate goes
out. They cannot keep house together.” - Unknown
Heart
“There is no merit
in my staying away from the theater if I want to go there. There is no value in
my abstaining from the foolish novel or the intoxicating cup if I am all the
time wishing I could have them. My heart is there, and my soul is defiled by
the desire for evil things. It is love of the world that stains us.” – A.B.
Simpson
“We cannot avoid
growing old, but we can avoid growing cold.” - R.H. Stoll
“Christ will never
do more through you than He has been permitted to do in you.” – Unknown
“God has no reward
for prayerless, faithless, loveless work.” – Unknown
“We should give God the same place in our hearts that he holds in the universe.”
– Anon
Heaven
"Probably when we get to heaven, our views, joys, and holy
exercises will so far surpass anything that we have ever experienced in this
life, that we shall be hardly able to recognize that we had any religion while
in this world." - Charles Finney
"We’re just the same individual on the other side as we are here,
minus sin and corruption and death." - J. Frank Norris
"He may well be called the God of glory, for by His glorious
presence, He makes heaven what it is. Rivers of pleasure, tranquil
cheerfulness, joy, and splendor perpetually spring from the Divine Presence to
all the blessed inhabitants of heaven, the place of His happy residence and seat
of His eternal empire." - John Bunyan
"When you go walking down the street in Heaven, you walk on gold.
People kill for gold down here, but in Heaven we will walk on it!" - Tom Malone
"This world loses its appeal when the steps become tottering,
when the hearing becomes dim, when the faded eyes cannot see as they once did.
When loved ones are nearly all gone on ahead, then all the riches or fame or
pleasures of this world are baubles and trash." - John R. Rice
“No, it is not the jasper walls and the pearly gates that are going to make
Heaven attractive. It is the being with God.” – D.L. Moody
“So part we sadly in this troublous world, To meet with joy
in sweet Jerusalem.” – Shakespeare
Heirs “We
were chaff: now we are wheat. We were dross; now we are gold. We were ravens;
now we are doves. We were goats; now we are sheep. We were thorns; now we are
grapes. We were thistles; now we are lilies. We were strangers; now we are
citizens. Hell was our inheritance; now Heaven is our possession. We were
children of wrath; now we are sons of mercy. We were bondslaves to Satan; now
we are heirs of God and coheirs with Jesus Christ.” – James Bisse (1581)
Hell
"I stand firm in my belief that the Bible is the word of God and
I believe in Hell not Hades - Hell H-E-Double L! with fire and brimstone! It is
not furnished with modern conveniences and they won't serve you any booze on a
tray!" - Billy Sunday “When I was pastor of a
country church, a farmer didn’t like the sermons I preached on Hell. He said,
“Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus.” I said, “That’s where I got my
information about Hell.” – Vance Havner
“Oh, for a full Heaven and an
empty Hell!” – Richard Baxter
“If God would give me the
privilege to go to Hell and preach one sermon and give the invitation, I could
depopulate Hell in fifteen minutes by just one sermon! They who are there would
give the world to get out, and you – big fool – are trying to get in! Don’t do
it!” - Billy Sunday
“Consider the fearful danger
you are in! It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of
the fire of wrath that you are held over….You hang by a slender thread with the
flames of divine wrath flashing about it and ready every moment to singe it and
burn it asunder.” – Jonathan Edwards
“Disbelief in Hell does not put out its fires. Disbelief
in poison does not do away with the deadliness of poison. You might believe you
could play with nitroglycerine without danger, but that belief will not keep men
from picking up your fragments in a basket. Disbelief and unbelief do not alter
facts. THERE IS A HELL!” – R.G. Lee
History
“Christ is the great central fact in the world’s history. To Him everything
looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him. All the
great purposes of God culminate in Him. The greatest and most momentous fact
which the history of the world records is the fact of His birth.” – Charles H.
Spurgeon
Holy Spirit
“The Holy Spirit is to many Christians the forgotten Helper, the ignored
Comforter and the misrepresented Power.” – T.J. Bach
“The only way to keep a broken vessel full is to keep it
always under the tap.” – D.L. Moody
“If the Holy Spirit guides us at all, he will do it
according to the Scriptures, and never contrary to them.” – George Muller
Home
“As you walk
through your house, how many things can be found that would give evidence to a
stranger that it is a Christian home?” – Richard Dion
Hope
"Foreboding is the prophet of ill; Hope of good. Foreboding
cries, We shall certainly fall by the hand of; Hope replies, No weapon that is
formed against us shall prosper. Foreboding cries, Who shall roll away the
stone? Hope sings merrily, The Lord shall go before us, and make the
crooked places straight. Foreboding, born of unbelief, cries, The people
are great and tall, and the cities are walled up to heaven; Hope already
portions out the land and chooses its inheritance." - F.B. Meyer
Humble
“He that is down needs fear no fall; he that is low, no pride. He that is
humble ever shall have God to be his guide.” – John Bunyan
“The person who is
all wrapped up in himself is overdressed.” – Unknown
“A Christian minister once said, “I was never of any use until I found out that
God did not intend me to be a great man.” – Unknown
Hypocrisy
"Clean your finger, before you point at my spots." - Benjamin
Franklin “Nothing is more generally known than our
duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less
practiced.” - George Whitefield
Idleness
"Idleness is a sin that is its own punishment." - Matthew Henry
Individual Soul Liberty
Dr. George Truett, speaking from the steps of our National Capitol in 1917,
said: The individual is segregated from family, from church, from state and from
society, from dearest friends or institutions, and brought into direct personal
dealings with God. Everyone must give account of himself to God.
There can be no sponsors or deputies or proxies in such a vital matter. Each one
must repent for himself and believe for himself, and be baptized for himself,
both in time and in eternity." - George Truett
"However, it is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man
should worship according to his own convictions; one man's religion neither
harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel
religion - to which freewill and not force should lead us - the sacrificial
victims even being required of a willing mind. You will render no real
service to your gods by compelling us to sacrifice. For they can have no
desire of offerings from the unwilling, unless they are animated by a spirit of
contention, which is a thing altogether undivine." - Tertullian
"Religion cannot be imposed by force; the matter must be carried on by words
rather than by blows, that the will may be affected. Torture and piety are
widely different; nor is it possible for truth to be united with violence, or
justice with cruelty. Nothing is so much a matter of free will as
religion." - Justin Martyr
Importance
“The things that really count are the things we cannot
count.” – Unknown
“I will place no value on anything I have or may possess,
except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.” – David Livingstone
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