"Cheer up! You're worse than you ever thought and God's grace is greater than you ever imagined." — Jack Miller, missionary now with the Lord
"In the blessed union of Christ and His Church, there is eternal humility and eternal exaltation. The former is in the everlasting incarnation: 'Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever'. The latter is in the destiny of the Church: ruling forever with the exalted Christ on His throne."
"It is your belief about yourself, reality, and God which motivates your behaviors. Any real change can only occur on this level." — David E. Longacre
"The modern retreatist has reduced the Christian Faith to an existential panacea, the church to a psychotherapeutic clinic, and the Christian to self-absorbed religious consumer." — Andrew Sandlin
"Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New." — Francis Bacon
"Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought." — Henri L. Bergson
"One thing the national news media will always ignore is the practice of lawful self-defense. For example, most people are probably not aware of the fact that American citizens use a firearm to defend themselves more than 2.4 million times EVERY YEAR. That is more than 6,500 times EVERY DAY. This means that, each year, firearms are used 60 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives." — Chuck Baldwin
Defintion of a WORLD VIEW - "A network of presuppositions which are not tested by natural science and in terms of which all experience is related and interpreted." — Greg Bahnsen
"A Christian will not do even ordinary things without sanctifying them first. He dedicates himself, his person, and his actions to God, and looks for God's hand in all things. A fleshly minded person sees a purpose only in what he himself does. But a Christian looks for God's higher purposes. He will see God in adversities and afflictions, working to make him humble. In fact, the Christian makes everything a spiritual matter. He or she knows that all things great and small are ordained by a loving heavenly Father." — R. Sibbes, paraphrased
"Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents." — John Taylor Gatto
"...here we are advanced to a higher form in God's school, and have books put into our hands wherein are many things dark and hard to be understood, which we do not apprehend the meaning of so suddenly and so certainly as we could wish, the study of which requires a more close application of mind, a greater intenseness of thought, and the accomplishing of a diligent search, which yet the treasure hid in them, when it is found, will abundantly recompense." — Matthew Henry, in the preface to his commentaries on Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Solomon
"If the first Christians had not believed that Christ rose from the dead there would have been no church and no New Testament. If Christianity had been founded merely on the moral teaching of Jesus, it would no doubt have flourished for a short time as a well-meaning deviation from orthodox Judaism. It would quickly have lost its identity amid the innumerable varieties of religion and philosophy which occupied the minds of the ancient world." — Source Unknown
"Horse Racing is said to be the sport of kings. The sport of slinging mud has, however, a wider following. Pillorying the Puritans, in particular, has long been a popular pastime both sides of the Atlantic, and most people's image of Puritanism still has on it much disfiguring dirt that needs to be scraped off." — J.I. Packer
Only if you struggle long and hard with objections to your faith will you be able to provide grounds for your beliefs to skeptics, including yourself, that are plausible rather than ridiculous or offensive. And, just as important for our current situation, such a process will lead you, even after you come to a position of strong faith, to respect and understand those who doubt. — Tim Keller
"The indwelling Christ does not occupy a rocking chair, remaining idle within the heart." — Given O. Blakely
"The earth is supposed to be saved by the community. But the community that has stopped being what it is will be hopelessly lost. The call of Jesus Christ means being the salt of the earth or being destroyed. It means following Christ..." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in Discipleship
"Just as old or bleary-eyed men and those with weak vision, if you thrust before them a most beautiful volume, even if they recognize it to be some sort of writing, yet can scarcely construe two words, but with the aid of spectacles will begin to read distinctly; so Scripture, gathering up the otherwise confused knowledge of God in our minds, having dispersed our dullness, clearly shows us the true God." — John Calvin
"Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade in public. Never clothe them in vulgar and shoddy attire." — George W. Crane
"You take issue with animals talking. Given atheist/evolutionary assumptions, you're an animal, and you're talking! You find the miracles of the Bible ridiculous, and yet you believe that the universe came into existence from pre-existing matter that at one time was concentrated into an object (that no one ever saw) about the size of a marble. You also believe that this super-heated inorganic, sterile material exploded, and in time brought forth organic life with mind, logic, morality, and billions of talking animals like yourself. So please don’t lecture me until you solve the inherent problems of your own theory." — Gary DeMar, correspondence with a skeptic
"Duty is ours...results are God's." — John Quincy Adams
"We are going to win, because they love life and we love death," said Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah.
He has also said: "Each of us lives his days and nights hoping more than anything to be killed for the sake of Allah."
Shortly after 9/11, Osama bin Laden told a reporter: "We love death. The U.S. loves life. That is the big difference between us."
"The Americans love Pepsi-Cola, we love death," explained Afghani al Qaeda operative Maulana Inyadullah.
Sheik Feiz Mohammed, leader of the Global Islamic Youth Center in Sydney, Australia, preached: "We want to have children and offer them as soldiers defending Islam. Teach them this: There is nothing more beloved to me than wanting to die as a mujahid."
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a speech: "It is the zenith of honor for a man, a young person, boy or girl, to be prepared to sacrifice his life in order to serve the interests of his nation and his religion."
"To meditate in God's word is to discourse with ourselves concerning the great things contained in it, with a close application of mind, a fixedness of thought, till we be suitably affected with those things and experience the savour and power of them in our hearts." — Matthew Henry, commenting on the First Psalm
"Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow." — Theodore Epp, founding director and speaker of the Back to the Bible radio program
"Every Pharaoh needs a Joseph, every David needs a Nathan, every Herod needs a John the Baptist, every Ahab needs an Elijah, and every Saul needs a Samuel." — Pastor Dr. Joseph Sserwadda
"Those who refuse to trust God and believe His truth, inescapably put their trust in man and adopt false belief systems. 'He who sits in the heavens laughs, The LORD scoffs at them' (Psalm 2:4). God turns their own ways into a snare and a pitfall to them. In due time He makes the foolishness of their doctrine plain for all to see."
"The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart." — Benjamin Franklin
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