Quotes

Love means loving the unlovable - or it is no virtue at all.

- G. K. Chesterton

"God hates pride with a perfect hatred." —

Charles Spurgeon

'There is nothing - and I delight in this, and therefore often repeat it - there is nothing, once you are inside it, that is so rational, so logical.. as the Christian faith.' -

Dr. D Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Before my father died, he said the worst thing about growing old was that other men stopped seeing you as dangerous. I’ve always remembered how being dangerous was sacred, a badge of honor. You live your life by a code, an ethos. Every man does. It’s your shoreline. It’s what guides you home. And trust me, you’re always trying to get home. —

Lieutenant Rorke Denver, Act of Valor

“The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives eventually become our lives… The choice is ours.”

In the novel Peace Like a River, Jeremiah Land, the father figure in the story, put it this way: “We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves."

Dallas Willard taught in The Divine Conspiracy, “the most important things in our human lives are nearly always things that are invisible.”

As believers, we can’t just settle for a happy little life in the middle of an unseen but very real war. We, out of love, have to be armed to fight the evil one, the fallen world, and the flesh in the heart of every person to protect our hearts, the hearts of those we love, and the hearts of those entrusted to our care.

The Christian will desire to see the beauty of God in his house, that his soul might be ravished in the excellency of the object, and that the highest powers of his soul, his understanding, will, and affections might be fully satisfied, that he might have full contentment.

~Richard Sibbes~

If you aren’t in the “Oh no” valley now or haven’t been there recently, I bet you know people who are the greeters. They are easy to spot because when a great idea comes their way, their first reaction is always: “Oh no. It’ll never work. Why try? Give up! You’re wasting your time. Be more realistic.” These phrases are the coin of the realm for people in a constant state of “Oh no.” Don’t be one of them.

Don’t make the entire focus of your life pursuing physical things at the exclusion of pursuing God.

We cannot attain the presence of God. We’re already totally in the presence of God. What’s missing is awareness.

~David Brenner~

C.S. Lewis said, “We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at sea. We are far too easily pleased.”

• This world desperately needs a great reset. We need more than a simple tune-up. We need a total transformation.

We don't need to be afraid, but we do need to be aware that this world faces great tribulation. But, Jesus will accomplish the great global reset! Let's trust Him wholly!

We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little...

~R.A. Torrey~

“The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.”

our afflictions may be the key to our fruitfulness as carriers of Jesus’ love.

What feels like the scent of death to us may end up becoming the scent of life for others as we learn to comfort others in their affliction with the comfort that we, in our affliction, have received from God.

The places where we are weakest and most frail are where we can be best used by God because it's evident that it's by His strength, His power, and His grace!

God has given us two hands––one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

~Billy Graham~

Another superior aspect of the new covenant of grace is the sacrifice we have in Jesus Christ, our great High Priest. The sacrifices under the old covenant were offered repeatedly, and they involved the blood of animals. In both respects, the sacrifice of Jesus is far better.

Do not let the critical opinion of others get in the way of the service God has called you to perform. And it doesn't matter if someone in your life doesn't understand -- they don't need to -- our obedience to God is all that is required.