Religion - knocking
"You bleary-eyed, weak-kneed, chicken-livered bums who knock
religion! Why don't you take your rotten carcasses out of here and start a
town somewhere where there isn't any law or any religion? Oh, you
degenerates--you Bolsheviks! I'll tell you why you don't. Here your
heads are safe on your shoulders in the shadow of the churches." - Billy
Sunday
Religion - Old Time
"That religion that is not as old as Christ and his Apostles, is
too new for me." - Joseph Hooke (A noted Baptist of the 17th century)
Reputation
"Glass, china, and reputation, are easily cracked, and never well
mended." - Benjamin Franklin
"Do not do that which you would not have known." - Benjamin
Franklin
Resurrection
"In the sorrows of repentance, tears were supplied by the eyes.
In thanksgiving, the tongue was used to break forth in the praises of God.
All the victories over pleasure and pain below were obtained by the soul in
conjunction with the body... Should the one be glorified in heaven while the
other remains in the dust? From their first beginnings in the world below
until the grave, they both ran the same race and therefore will enjoy the same
reward." - John Bunyan
"The beautifying of a raised body and putting it into an immortal
state of glory is as easy to the Divine Power as the first framing of it in the
womb." - John Bunyan
Revival
“Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late – and
how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been
trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work. To pray
for revival while ignoring the plain precept laid down in Scripture is to waste
a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble.” - A.W. Tozer
Rewards
“When a Sunday school bus driver gets on that could bus and
drives down a snowy street – the Lord will reward him for that. When a fellow
goes out calling, with the snow blowing and the wind cold – God will reward him
for that. How do we know that? Because Jesus said, ‘Even a cup of cold water
given in My name shall not go without reward.’ – Tom Malone
Righteousness
"Don’t
be afraid of holiness, there’s no danger of getting too holy." - J. Frank Norris
Ritualism
"The mind shrinks from the intellectual effort of grappling with
the subtle essences of things, and loves to have truth wrapped up in a form
which can easily be taken in by the eye, the ear, the sense of touch. This
explains why there is such a tendency toward ritualism in the Romanish and
Anglican Churches. Where man's spiritual life is strong, it is independent
of the outward form; but when it is weak it leans feebly on external aids."
- F.B. Meyer
"There is ever a tendency in the human heart toward a religion of
rites. It is so much easier to observe the prescriptions of an outward
ceremonial than to brace the soul to faith and love and spiritual worship." -
F.B. Meyer
"If our religion be a vain religion, how great is that vanity!" -
Matthew Henry
Salvation
"God doesn't save people on the installment plan, as one buys
furniture." - Billy Sunday “People don’t go to
heaven head first but heart first!” – Tom Malone
“Ten thousand angels would have died in Christ’s stead, but
that would not have purchased a single soul or broken one link of the chain that
bound us. It had to be Jesus. Jesus, the Son of God! Oh, how measureless is
divine love!” – Bernie Smith
“Many deceive themselves into a good opinion of their state
by a partial reformation. They think they are as good as they should be,
because, in some one particular instance, they are not so bad as they have been,
as if the correcting of one fault would atone for their persisting
in all the rest.” – Matthew Henry
The difference between
religion and salvation can be summed up in two words – do and done. - D.L.
Moody
“God can do no more than to
provide a perfect salvation, which is provided at infinite cost. When love
would pay such a price that a sinner may be saved and holiness remain
untarnished, it ill becomes finite men to tamper with these immutable
realities. Those who resent the idea of eternal retribution are, in fact,
resenting divine holiness.” - Lewis Sperry Chafer
Service
"And how can we ever show our gratitude, except by serving the
living God. We are redeemed to serve; bought to be owned absolutely.
Who can refuse a service so reasonable, fraught with blessedness to
transcendent? Head! think for him whose brow was thorn-girt. Hands!
toil for him whose hands were nailed to the cross. Feet! speed to do his
behests whose feet were pierced. Body of mine! be his temple whose body
was wrung with pains unspeakable. To serve him-this is the Only true
attitude and behavior, as those who are not their own, but his." - F.B. Meyer
"The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do
not often do much, the companies never; it is the units, the single individuals,
that are the power and the might." - Charles H. Spurgeon
"Give me a person who says, This one thing I do; and not, These
fifty things I dabble in." - Dwight L. Moody
"O Lord, let me not live to be useless." - John Wesley
"Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the
ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the
people you can, As long as ever you can." - John Wesley
"I seem to have been led little by little, toward my work; and I
believe that the same fact will appear in the life of anyone who will cultivate
such powers as God has given him, and then go on, bravely, quietly, but
persistently, doing such work as comes to his hands." - Fanny Crosby
"The past has not exhausted the possibilities nor the demands for
doing great things for God." - E.M. Bounds
"You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster
you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you
have of getting somewhere." - Charles F. Kettering
"If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be
too great for me to make for Him." - C.T. Studd
"I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help
Him. I ended up by asking Him to do His work through me." - Hudson Taylor
“My heaven is to please God and glorify Him and to give my all to Him and to be
wholly devoted to His glory.” – David Brainerd
“There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing
good and finishing God’s work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing
else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God,
pleasing Him and doing His whole will.” – David Brainerd
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what
he cannot lose.” – Jim Elliot
“God did not wait
for nor seek a cheaper price to purchase our souls. He willingly gave His only
begotten Son. So God has every right to expect our all in return.” – Bernie
Smith
It is a good question for us to ask ourselves in the close of every day, "Where
have I gleaned to-day? What improvements have I made in knowledge and grace?
What have I done or obtained that will turn to a good account?" – Matthew Henry
“The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not
enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs.” – Vance Havner
We ought to attempt something
so great for God that unless God intervenes, we are bound to fail. — Bruce
Wilkinson
We can easily be too big for
God to use, but never too small for Him to use. — Lester Rolloff.
Sin
"Sin will keep you from this book. This book will keep
you from sin." - Dwight L. Moody
"Sin is no little thing. It girded the Redeemer's head
with thorns and pierced His heart! Could you weigh the least sin in the
scales of eternity, you would fly from it as from a deadly serpent. Look
upon all sin as that which crucified the Saviour, and you will see it to be
exceeding sinful." - Charles Spurgeon
"Willful sinners are fools and madmen; they act contrary both
to right reason and to their true interest." - Matthew Henry
"If thou wouldest live long, live well; for folly and
wickedness shorten life." - Benjamin Franklin
"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and
let every New Year find you a better man." - Benjamin Franklin
"Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is
forbidden because it's hurtful." - Benjamin Franklin
“One great power of sin is that it blinds men so that
they do not recognize its true character.” – Andrew Murray
“It is bad to commit sin, but it is great wickedness
indeed to plead for it.” - Matthew Henry
“Sin
pays with destruction, for sin is always destructive in character. That is
true whether a nation or a man is involved.” – Bernie Smith
“Sin is the world’s best detective – it always finds you
out!” – unknown
“Sin – with that one word I
can spell all the murders, all the thefts, all the outrage, all the seduction,
all the lust, all the drunkenness, all the blasphemy, all the broken hearts,
all that blights like a pestilence and causes the misery of this world, all
with that one word, S I N.” – Billy Sunday
Sinners
“The security of sinners often proves their ruin, and
dangers are most fatal when least feared.” – Matthew Henry
“Those who wait to repent until the eleventh hour often
die at ten-thirty.” - unknown
“As the Lord liveth, sinner,
thou standest on a single plank over the mouth of hell, and that plank is
rotten.” – Charles Spurgeon
Soul Winning
"I care not where I go or how I live or what I endure so that
I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are
first in my thoughts...no amount of scholastic attainment, or able and
profound exposition, of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the
absence of a deep, impassioned, sympathetic love for human souls." - David
Brainerd
“Some men’s ambition is art, some men’s ambition is fame,
some men’s ambition is gold. My ambition is the souls of men.” – William
Booth
“Send me to the nearest place to the bottomless pit.” –
Gipsy Smith
“Not called,” did you say? “Not heard the call,” I think
you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible and hear Him bid you go and pull
sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized
heart of humanity and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates
of Hell and hear the damned entreat you to go to their fathers’ houses and bid
their brothers and sister and servants and master not to come there. Then look
Christ in the face – whose mercy you have professed to obey – and tell Him
whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to
publish His mercy to the world. – William Booth
“If you found a cure for
cancer, wouldn’t it be inconceivable to hide it from the rest of mankind? How
much more inconceivable to keep silent about the cure from the eternal wages
of sin, which is death.” - Dave Davidson
“If we do not
catch men, we are in great danger of losing even the desire to catch them. Our
purposed activity is in peril of becoming a dream.” - J.H. Jowett
Spiritual Maturity
"When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years,
having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things
as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has
revealed to me." - John Wesley
"The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies,
but its obedience." Oswald Chambers
Suffering
"Suffering is no argument of God's displeasure but a part of
the fiber of our lives." - Fanny Crosby
"O, God help us to see Him who is Invisible and
that this present suffering is just for a moment." - J. Frank Norris
Suspecting Ill
“Those who design ill themselves are commonly most apt to suspect that others
design ill.” - Matthew Henry
Thankful
“It’s not what’s in your pocket that makes you thankful,
but what’s in your heart.” – Hadley Goad
“If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t
likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.”
Time
"Today is the wise man's day; tomorrow is the fool's day.
The wise man, when he sees what ought to be done, does it today. The
foolish man, when he sees what ought to be done, says, 'I will do it
tomorrow.' The men who always do today the thing they see ought to be
done today make a success for time and eternity. The men and women who
put off until tomorrow what ought to be done today make a shipwreck of time
and eternity. The Holy Ghost saith, Today. man, in the folly of
his heart, says, Tomorrow." - R.A. Torrey
"Dost thou love life? then do not squander time; for that's
the stuff life is made of." - Benjamin Franklin
"Lost time is never found again." - Benjamin Franklin
“To me, old age is always
fifteen years older than I am.” - Bernard Baruch
Trials
"As sure as ever God puts his children in the
furnace, he will be in the furnace with them." - Charles H. Spurgeon
"Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise physician
prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight
of them to what the case requires. Let us trust in his skill and thank
him for his prescription." - John Newton
“Troubles will make our hearts tender and help us to
appreciate the needs of others.” – Lee Roberson
“The trials we have to
undergo in the course of a year might be compared to a great bundle of
firewood too large for us to lift. God does not require us to carry them all
at once. He mercifully unties the bundle and gives us first one stick and
then another to carry. But we increase our burdens by carrying yesterday’s
stick over again and adding tomorrow’s burden before be bear it.” - John
Newton
“I don’t believe I would have
ever written all of those hymns had I been able to see.” – Fanny Crosby
Trust
"A loving parent would be sorely grieved if his child could
not trust him; and how ungenerous, how unkind is our conduct when we put so
little confidence in our heavenly Father who has never failed us, and who
never will." - Spurgeon
Truth
“The greatest homage we can pay to the truth is to use
it.” – Emerson
United States
"Our citizens should early understand that the genuine source
of correct republican principles is the Bible, particularly the New Testament,
or the Christian religion." - Noah Webster
"The things that will destroy America are
PROSPERITY-AT-ANY-PRICE, PEACE-AT-ANY-PRICE, SAFETY-FIRST INSTEAD OF
DUTY-FIRST, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life." -
Theodore Roosevelt
"It must be felt that there is no national security but in the
nation's humble acknowledged dependence upon God and his overruling
providence." - John Adams
"If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our
country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity
neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a
catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity." -
Daniel Webster
"The future success of America is not in the Constitution, but
in the laws of God upon which the Constitution is founded." - James Madison
"The Ten Commandments are the sum of the moral law." - John
Witherspoon, signer of the Declaration
"We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings that except
the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly
believe this; and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall
succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel." -
Benjamin Franklin
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for
themselves and, under a just God, cannot retain it. Having chosen our
course, without guilt and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God and
go forward without fear and with manly hearts." - Abraham Lincoln
Universal
Worship
"Now,
Nebuchanezzer in his pride, wanted to establish a universal worship. That’s
been the effort ever since. That is the scheme today." - J. Frank Norris
Unrighteousness
“It must always be thought a dangerous thing to desire or
expect that God should patronize unrighteousness.” - Matthew Henry
Wicked Men
“Sometimes God
suffers wicked men to be lifted up in successes and hopes, that their fall may
be the sorer.” - Matthew Henry
Wisdom
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our
own ignorance." - Charles H. Spurgeon
"To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be
a soul winner. That’s our business – That’s our only business!" - J. Frank
Norris
Witness
“A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a
Christian…and most of all, his family ought to know.” – D.L. Moody
Yield
"Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. Work out what God
works in. Translate the thoughts of God into the vernacular of daily
obedience. Be as plastic to his touch as clay in the hands of the
potter, so that you may realize every ideal which is in his heart. Be
not as the horse and mule, but let your mouth be tender to every motion of the
divine purpose concerning you." - F.B. Meyer
"If only thou wouldst bend thy stubborn neck and submit to
shelter thyself in the person and work of Jesus, God's perfect holiness would
bring thee, not hurt, but blessing and help." - F.B. Meyer
It will be a new day if we would recognize that these
bodies of ours are the Temple of the Holy Ghost. - J. Frank Norris
“We can know spiritual victory only to the degree of our
resignation to His will.” – Bernie Smith
Yourself
“The
man I fear the most is the one who walks underneath this hat.” – D.L. Moody
When Abraham Lincoln was running for
President of the United States, a reporter asked him if he feared any of his
opponents. He said, “Yes one.” The reporter was somewhat surprised and said,
“Which one?” Lincoln responded by saying, “A man named Lincoln. If I am
defeated, I will be defeated by a man named Lincoln.”
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