Quotes

Turning anyone away from your church for any reason demonstrates that you may not be acquainted with the One who touched lepers, healed the sick, and ate with sinners.

Dustin Benge

“To live entirely for the Lord is to live indeed, all else is merely existing.” —

Charles Spurgeon

We stop too frequently in the presence of puddles when we worship a God who splits seas.

Luke Lezon

Stop entertaining a Jezebel when you’ve been praying for a Ruth.

PR.

Jesus never gives any instruction on The posture of prayer. The place of prayer. The time of prayer. The length of prayer. He simply says, “When you pray.” Stop worrying about mechanics and just pray.

Dustin Benge

You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.

~John Maxwell~

Without sound doctrine founded upon Scripture, our cry for “love and unity” becomes a quick path to compromise.

Dustin Benge

Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service.

~Jack Hyles~

“Sometimes we don't need another chance to express how we feel or to ask someone to understand our situation. Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then let’s see something to prove it.” --

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When you step obediently into what God has called you to do, He does not promise you clarity in every step, but that you can trust and know He is with you in every step.

Step, stride, run. He surrounds you.

Luke Lezon

Obedience is the truest expression of our love for Christ. Not our emotional bursts of "worship" or our tears or solemn promises or extended hours of prayer. No, love expressed is obedience to His will as He has revealed it to us.

~A.W. Tozer~

“To be wise is to be a craftsman at living, an artisan of life.”

Ron Jenson

The Father is the source of all blessing, and the Son is the channel of all blessing, [and] it is through the Holy Spirit at work in us that all truth becomes living and operative in our lives.

~Billy Graham~

“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”

T.S. Eliot’s lament:

The gospel is not believing in our faith but believing in Jesus Christ, the supreme object of our faith.

Dustin Benge

If you knew what God was preparing you for, you would understand the pain that you are going through.

PR.

So many people run around in their fleshly ways trying to do things for God -- we're busy serving on one committee or another, trying to run the church, demanding recognition and disappointed when we don't get it -- active like termites and having about the same destructive effects.

PR.

The Spirit has wrought in you your faith and love and hope, and every grace. There is not a jewel upon the neck of your soul which he did not place there.

~C.H. Spurgeon~

The problem is never Scripture but our unwilling hearts to believe what Scripture clearly teaches.

Dustin Benge

Stop making your sin so much more special than everyone else's. Repent. Take the blood. Praise the Lord. And move on.

Bob Forrest

In heaven, Christ and his Church shall celebrate their joyous nuptials. This affinity is more lasting so is it nearer than earthly wedlock. Let the love of husband be never so pure and fervent, it is but a faint picture of the flame which burns in the heart of Jesus. Passing all human union is that mystical cleaving unto the Church, for which Christ left his Father, and became one flesh with her.

~C.H. Spurgeon~

Forward is your only way; you are shut up to it. You have no armor for your backs; and whatever dangers lie in front, there are ten thousand times as many behind. It is onward or nothing; nay onward or dishonor; onward or death.

~C.H. Spurgeon~