Abigail Adams - "I feel no anxiety at the large armament designed against us. The remarkable interposition of heaven in our favor cannot be too gratefully acknowledged. He who fed the Israelites in the Wilderness, who clothes the lilies of the field and who feeds the young ravens when they cry, will not forsake a people engaged in so righteous a cause, if we remember His loving kindness."

Abigail Adams - "The only sure and permanent foundation of virtue is religion. Let this important truth be engraven upon your heart... Justice, humanity and benevolence are the duties you owe to society in general. To your Country the same duties are incumbent upon you with the additional obligation of sacrificing ease, pleasure, wealth and life itself for its defense and security."

Abraham Clark - "Nothing short of the Almighty Power of God can Save us - it is not in our Numbers, our Union, or our Valour that I dare trust."

Abraham Lincoln - "I do not doubt that our country will finally come through safe and undivided. But do not misunderstand me... I do not rely on the patriotism of our people... the bravery and devotion of the boys in blue... (or) the loyalty and skill of our generals... But the God of our fathers, Who raised up this country to be the refuge and asylum of the oppressed and downtrodden of all nations, will not let it perish now. I may not live to see it... I do not expect to see it, but God will bring us through safe."

Abraham Lincoln - "I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side."

Abraham Lincoln - "If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications of affairs, to keep my reason on its seat. But I am confident that the Almighty has His plans, and will work them out; and, whether we see it or not, they will be the best for us."

Abraham Lincoln - “The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.” 

Abraham Lincoln - "The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities."

Abraham Lincoln - “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the constitution.”

Abraham Lincoln - "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some people all of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all of the time."

Abraham Lincoln - "You cannot make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak."

Agatha Christie - If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life."

A. H. Strong - "The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not sound. Repairs may last a long time. Christ designs to make us both safe and sound. Justification gives the first - safety; sanctification gives us the second - soundness."

A. H. Strong - "The work of Jesus in the world is twofold. It is a work accomplished for us, destined to effect reconciliation between God and man; it is a work accomplished in us, with the object of effecting our sanctification. By the one a right relation is established between God and us; by the other, the fruit of the reestablished order is secured. By the former, the condemned sinner is received into the state of grace; by the latter the pardoned sinner is associated with the life of God... How many express themselves as if, when forgiveness with the peace which it procures has been once obtained, all is finished and the work of salvation is complete! They seem to have no suspicion that salvation consists in the health of the soul, and that the health of the soul consists in holiness. Forgiveness is not the reestablishment of health; it is the crisis of convalescence. If God thinks fit to declare the sinner righteous, it is in order that he may by that means restore him to holiness."

Albert Benjamin Simpson - "Be brave. Cowards always get hurt. Brave men generally come out unharmed."

Albert Benjamin Simpson - "Have you ever learned the beautiful art of letting God take care of you and giving all your thought and strength to pray for others and for the kingdom of God? It will relieve you of a thousand cares."

Albert Benjamin Simpson - "It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life."

Albert Benjamin Simpson - "When God wants to bring more power into our lives., He brings more pressure. He is generating spiritual force by friction."

Albert Cemus - "A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon the world."

Albert Einstein - "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

Albert Einstein - "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."

Albert Einstein - "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

Albert Einstein - "God Almighty does not throw dice."

Albert Einstein - "I'm not an atheist, and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human beings toward God. We see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations."

Albert Einstein - "I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details."

Albert Einstein - "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

Albert Einstein - "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

Albert Einstein - "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

Albert Einstein - “The meaning of relativity has been widely misunderstood. Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll . . . It does not mean that everything in life is relative.”

Albert Einstein - "The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible."

Albert Einstein - "When the solution is simple, God is answering."

Alexander MacAlister - "I think the widespread impression of the agnosticism of scientific men is largely due to the attitude taken up by a few of the great popularizers of science, like Tyndall and Huxley. It has been my experience that the disbelief in the revelation that God has given, in the life and work, death and resurrection of our Savior, is more prevalent among what I may call the camp followers of science than amongst those to whom scientific work is the business of their lives."

Alexis de Toqueville - "I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and ample rivers, and it was not there; in her fertile fields and boundless prairies, and it was not there; in her rich mines and her vast world commerce, and it was not there. Not until I went to the churches in America and heard her pulpits aflamed with righteousness did I understand her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if she ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."

Alexis de Toqueville - "In the United States, if a political character attacks a sect, this may not prevent even the partisans of that very sect, from supporting him; but if he attacks all the sects together, every one abandons him and he remains alone."

Alexis de Toqueville - "In the United States the sovereign authority is religious... there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the soul of men than in America, and there can be no greater proof of its utility and of its conformity to human nature than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth."

Alexis de Toqueville - "Religion in America... must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions of that country; for if it does not impart a  taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of it. Indeed, it is in this same point of view that the inhabitants of the United States themselves look upon religious belief. I do not know whether all Americans have a sincere faith in their religion - for who can search the human heart? - But I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to a class of citizens or a party, but it belongs to the whole nation and to every rank of society."Alexis de Toqueville - "The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their mind, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other."Alexis de Toqueville - "The safeguard of morality is religion, and morality is the best security of law as well as the surest pledge of freedom."

Alexis de Toqueville - "Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer I stayed there, the more I perceived the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things. In France, I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united and that they reigned in common over the same country."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson - "And so the Word had breath, and wrought/ With human hands the creed of creeds/ In loveliness of perfect deeds,/ More strong than all poetic thought./ Ring in the valiant man and free,/ The larger heart, the kindlier hand;/ Ring out the darkness of the land,/ Ring in the Christ that is to be."

Alfred Lord Tennyson - "...so forecast the years / And find in loss a gain to match / And reach a hand through time to catch / The far-off interest of tears."

Amy Carmichael - "A cup brimful of sweetness cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jarred."

Amy Carmichael - "Even though we must walk in the land of fear, there is no need to fear. The power of His resurrection comes before the fellowship of His sufferings."

Amy Carmichael - "If a sudden jar can cause me to speak an impatient, unloving word, then I know nothing of Calvary love."

Amy Carmichael - "If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider 'not spiritual work' I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is the interesting and exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love."

Amy Carmichael - "If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say 'You do not understand', or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love."

Amy Carmichael - "It is not the place where we are, or the work that we do or cannot do that matters, it is something else. It is the fire within that burns and shines, whatever be our circumstances."

Amy Carmichael - "Love knows how to do without what it naturally wants. Love knows how to say, 'What does it matter.'"

Amy Carmichael - "The word 'comfort' is from two Latin words meaning 'with' and 'strong' - He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft, weakening commiseration; it is true, strengthening love."

Ancient Fable - “A merchant in Baghdad one day sent his servant to the market. Before very long the servant cam back, white and trembling, and in great agitation said to his master: ‘Down in the market place I was jostled by a woman in the crowd, and when I turned around I saw that it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture. Master, please lend me your horse, for I must hasten away to avoid her. I will ride to Samarra and there I will hide, and Death will not find me.’ The merchant lent him his horse and the servant galloped away in great haste. Later the merchant went down to the market place and saw Death standing in the crowd. He went over to her and he asked, ‘Why did you frighten my servant this morning? Why did you make that threatening gesture.’ Death responded, ‘That was not a threatening gesture. It was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I have an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.’”

Andre Marie Ampere - "Believe in God, in His providence, in a future life, in the recompense of the good; in the punishment of the wicked; in the sublimity and truth of the doctrines of Christ, in a revelation of this doctrine by a special divine inspiration for the salvation of the human race.

Andy Stanley - "Acknowledging weakness doesn't make a leader less effective. On the contrary, in most cases it is simply a way of expressing that he understands what everyone else has known for some time. When you acknowledge your weaknesses to the rest of your team, it is never new information."

Andy Stanley - "As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past."

Andy Stanley - "Is Christianity fair? It is certainly not fair to God. Christians believe that God sent His Son to die for your sins and mine. Fairness would demand that we die for our own sins."

Andy Stanley - "Rebellion never goes without consequences."

Andy Stanley - "The God of Christianity never claims to be fair. He goes beyond fair. The Bible teaches that He decided not to give us what we deserve - that's mercy. In addition, God decided to give us exactly what we didn't deserve - we call that grace."

Andy Stanley - "The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. Consequently, he will never lead."

Andy Stanley - "We hurt most who we love the most. Bad grammar, painful truth."

Andy Stanley - "Your character is who you really are."

Ann Frank - "That's the difficulty in these times: ideals, dreams, and cherished hopes rise within us, only to meet the horrible truth and be shattered. It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet, I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe."

Anne Bronte - "He that dare not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose."

Anne Graham Lotz - "Do you sometimes feel that you just can't take one more thing? Even in your misery, be mindful that the very weight of your burdens and the intensit going to use in your life to trigger an experience of personal revival."

Anne Graham Lotz - "If our lives are easy, and if all we ever attempt for God is what we know we can handle, how will wieever experience His omnipotence in our lives?

Anne Graham Lotz - "One way t o drive Satan to distraction, and to overcome him, is through praise of Jesus."

Anne Graham Lotz - "Our love for Christ is more important to Him than all of our service to Him. Strict obedience and serveice are not enough. Love for Jesus must come first."

Anne Graham Lotz - "The kind of trust God wants us to have cannot be learned in comfort and ease."

Anonymous - "Every family has its crosses. Divorce is when the adults put down the cross and the children pick it up."

Anonymous - Nearly all God's jewels are crystalized tears."

Anonymous (spoken by a scholar from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) - "One of the things we were asked to look into was what accounted for success, in fact, the preeminence of the West all over the world. We studied everything we could from the historical, political, economic, and cultural perspective. At first, we thought it was because you had the best political system. Next we focused on your economic system. But in the past twenty years, we have realized that the heart of your culture is your religion: Christianity. That is why the West has been so powerful. The Christian moral foundation of social and cultural life was what made possible the emergence of capitalism and then the successful transition to democratic politics. We don't have any doubt about this."

Anonymous - "The rich are not the ones who have much, but are the ones who need the least."

Anonymous (written by a young RAF before being shot down in 1940) - "The universe is so vast and so ageless that the life of one man can only be justified by the measure of his sacrifice."

Antony Flew - "Science has shown, by almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved. I have been persuaded that it is simply out of the question that the first living matter evolved out of dead matter and then developed into an extraordinarily complicated creature. My whole life has been guided by the principle of Plato's Socrates: follow the evidence wherever it leads. The conclusion is - there must have been some intelligence."

St. Augustine - "And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, yet pass over the mystery of themselves without a thought."

St. Augustine - "Credo ut intelligam" ("I believe in order that I may understand.")

St. Augustine - "Faith is to believe what you d0 not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe"

St. Augustine - "Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others."

St. Augustine - "For Grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them."

St. Augustine - "For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise."

St. Augustine - "He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king."

St. Augustine - "His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation."

St. Augustine - "Humility is first, second and third in Christianity."

St. Augustine - "I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters."

St. Augustine - "I look forward, not to what lies ahead of me in this life and will surely pass away, but to my eternal goal. I am intent upon this one purpose, not distracted by other aims, and with this goal in view I press on, eager for the prize, God's heavenly summons. Then I shall listen to the sound of Your praise and gaze at Your beauty ever present, never future, never past. But now my years are but sighs. You, O Lord, are my only solace. You, my Father, are eternal. But I am divided between time gone by and time to come, and its course is a mystery to me. My thoughts, the intimate life of my soul, are torn this way and that in the havoc of change. And so it will be until I am purified and melted by the fire of Your love and fused into one with You."

St. Augustine - "It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result."

St. Augustine - "Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of."

St. Augustine - "Si fallor sum" ("If I am mistaken, then I must exist.")

St. Augustine - "Sin is to a nature what blindness is to an eye. The blindness of an evil or defect which is a witness to the fact that the eye was created to see the light and, hence, the very lack of sight is the proof that the eye was meant... to be the one particularly capable of seeing the light. Were it not for this capacity, there would be no reason to think of blindness as a misforture."

St. Augustine - "The Law is not in fault, but our evil and wicked nature; even as a heap of lime is still and quiet until water is poured on it, but then it begins to smoke and burn, not from the fault of the water, but from the nature of the lime, which will not endure it."

St. Augustine - "The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder."

St. Augustine - "What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith."

St. Augustine - "Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?"

A. W. Pink - "Our first postulate is that because God is God, He does as He pleases, only as He pleases, always as He pleases; that His great concern is the accomplishment of His own pleasure and the promotion of His own glory that He is the Supreme Being, and therefore Sovereign of the universe."

A. W. Tozer - "Could it be that we see the battle where the battle is not and the conflict where God does not find it? Could it be that the conflict is not with a harlot, a gambler and the worldly businessman, but with the religionists? And could it be that the trouble with the world is the kind of religion that we have? I believe the clash with Jesus, in this story, could not be with the sinner, for He came to die for sinners. The conflict was with a group that had a correct and proper understanding; they could look at a need and not care, behold men and not feel a tremor of sympathy. They spoke of their respectability, congratulated themselves once a day on their creedal correctness, and yet, had no heart for the poor, love for the harlot and no sympathy for the ignorant. That is a description of the religionists, not only of Jesus' time, but of ours as well."

A. W. Tozer - "If He put tribulation before you and said He will give you patience by giving you a little trouble along the way, wouldn't you take a little trouble? You say, 'Lord, I want all my highways paved." the Lord says, 'I'm sorry, I can't accommodate you. I'm going to let you run over some bumps occasionally, so you will have patience.' You do not like the bumps, but you like the patience, and if you want the patience, you will have to take the bumps. And what is patience but experience?"

A. W. Tozer - "If man had written the Gospels - say Shakespeare or Eugene O'Neill - the story of the gospel would have been drastically different. They would have placed the prince in halls and palaces and had him walking among the great. They would have had him surrounded by the important and significant of the time. Potentates and kings would have been His companions. But how sweetly common was the real God-man; though He had inhabited all eternity, He had come down and was subject to the rising and the setting of the sun."

A. W. Tozer - "If you go after the money and don't care about the people, we're hirelings and not shepherds."

A. W. Tozer - "O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need of further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, that so I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, 'Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.' Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long."

A. W. Tozer - "Regret for a sinful past will remain until we truly believe that for us in Christ that sinful past no longer exists."

A. W. Tozer - "Shall it be a religion or shall it be Christ? Shall it be churchianity or shall it be Jesus Christ? Shall it be pride or shall it be humility in Jesus Christ?"

A. W. Tozer - "The kingdom of God is not in words. Words are only incidental and can never be fundamental. When evangelicalism ceased to emphasize fundamental meanings and began emphasizing fundamental words, and shifted from meaning to words and from power to words, they began to go down hill."

A. W. Tozer - "When we try to imagine what God is like we must of necessity use that-which-is-not-God as the raw material for our minds to work on; hence whatever we visualize God to be, He is not, for we have constructed our image out of that which He has made and what He has made is not God. If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand."

A. W. Tozer - "Whoever defends himself will have himself for his defense, and he will have no other. But let him come defenseless before the Lord and he will have for his defender no less than God Himself."

A. W. Tower - "With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack?"

St. Benedict - "Pray as if everything depended on God and work as if everything depended on you."

Benjamin Disraeli - "The secret of success is consistency of purpose."

Benjamin Franklin - "1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution... perform without fail what you resolve. (5) Frugality... i.e. waste nothing. (6) Industry: Lose no time; be always employ'd... (7) Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently... (8) Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries... (9) Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting... (10) Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body... (11) Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles... (12) Chastity (13) Humility : Imitate Jesus...."

Benjamin Franklin - "A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over."

Benjamin Franklin - "Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none."

Benjamin Franklin - "He does not possess wealth; it possess him."

Benjamin Franklin - "He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face."

Benjamin Franklin - "If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it?"

Benjamin Franklin - "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious they have more need of masters."

Benjamin Franklin - "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

Benjamin Franklin - "Work as if you were to live 100 years; pray as if you were to die tomorrow."

Benjamin Franklin - "You will see in this my notion of good works, that I am far from expecting to merit heaven by them. By heaven we understand a state of happiness, infinite in degree, and eternal in duration. I can do nothing to deserve such rewards... Even the mixed imperfect pleasures we enjoy in this world, are rather from God's goodness than our merit, how much more such happiness of heaven!"

Benjamin Rush - "By removing the Bible from schools we would be wasting so much time and money in punishing criminals and so little pains to prevent crime. Take the Bible out of our schools and there would be an explosion in crime."

Benjamin Rush - "I have alternatively been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat."

Benjamin Rush - "The only foundation for...a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republic governments."

Beth Moore - "He brought my life passion from my life pain."

Beth Moore - "I don't know a single person who truly seems to bear the mark of God's presence and power in his or her life who hasn't been asked by God to be obedient in a way that was dramatically painful."

Beth Moore - "It is not about never doubting, it is about coming out on the other side with twice the faith you had going into your doubt."

Beth Moore - "Let's all wise up. Some of us aren't fighting the fire; we're playing with fire. Flirting with the devil. Stop it! Stop it now before all hell literally breaks loose."

Beth Moore - "No matter what authority Satan and his subjects have temporarily been allowed in this world system, Christ can pull rank anytime He wants to."

Beth Moore - "No sin, no matter how momentarily pleasurable, comforting, or habitual, is worth missing what God has for us."

Beth Moore - "Satan knows that the only offensive weapon we have to raise against him is the sword of the Spirit, the Word of God. He can't keep it from being powerful, but if he can tempt us to think little of it, he knows it will never be powerful in us."

Beth Moore - "Satan never wastes a fiery dart by aiming at a spot covered by armor. The bull's eye is located dead center in our inconsistency. That's where the enemy plans to bring us down."

Beth Moore - "Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception."

Beth Moore - "The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave."

Beth Moore - "There is not a single soul that jealousy looks good on. Nobody! It looks ugly on everybody and it makes us act ugly - it makes us act out of character."

Bill Hybels - "Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they're left alone to settle, they'll focus on the objects of our greatest affection."

Bill Hybels - "You don't have to be any more talented, any richer, any slimmer, any smarter, any more or less of anything to partner with God. All you have to be is willing to be used by him in everyday ways."

Bill Johnson - "To live by men's praises means you will die by their criticisms." 

Billy Graham - "All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die."

Billy Graham - "Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened."

Billy Graham - "God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters."

Billy Graham - "The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing circumstances and the most bitter environments. It is the kind of happiness that grins when things go wrong and smiles through the tears."

Billy Graham - "The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless."

Billy Graham - "We have resorted to every means to win back the position that Adam lost. We have tried through education, through philosophy, through religion, through governments to throw off our yoke of depravity and sin. All our knowledge, all our inventions, all our developments and ambitious plans move us ahead only a very little before we drop back again to the point from which we started. For we are still making the same mistake that Adam made - - we are still trying to be king in our own right, and with our own power, instead of obeying God's law."

Billy Graham - "When our faith becomes nothing more than a series of rules and regulations, joy flees and our love for Christ grows cold."

Blaise Pascal - "Faith indeed tells us what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them."

Blaise Pascal - "Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God."

Blaise Pascal - "How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing - in fact, he has been happier in life than his nonbelieving friends. If, however, there is a God and a heaven and hell, then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends will have lost everything in hell!"

Blaise Pascal - "It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace."

Blaise Pascal - "I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true."

Blaise Pascal - “Let us weigh up the gain and loss involved in calling heads that God exists. If you win, you win everything. If you lose, you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then: wager that He does exist.”

Blaise Pascal - "Nothing is so important to man as his own state, nothing is as formidable as his eternity; and thus it is not natural that there should be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and the perils of everlasting suffering."

Blaise Pascal - "People are generally better persuaded by the reasons they themselves have discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others."

Blaise Pascal - “reason’s final step is to recognize that there are an infinite number of things which surpass it.” 

Blaise Pascal - "We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth."​

Bob Passantino - "It is an extraordinary claim to say this vast and complex universe came from nothing and was caused by nothing. It's an extraordinary claim to tell us the incredible order we see throughout the universe was caused by blind chance. It's an extraordinary claim to argue that the innate sense of right and wrong that all of us share - even when it condemns our own actions - came about by non-moral mindlessness or mere human consensus. It's certainly an extraordinary claim to say that a man who has all of the character and credentials to back up his claim to be the Son of God - and who rises from the dead to prove it - is really a self-deluded fool or, worse yet, a deceiver. In conclusion, no, the evidence is far too weak to believe the extraordinary claim of atheism that there is no God behind these things."

Booker T. Washington - "Character, not circumstances, makes the man."

Bruce Barton - "The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority."

Bruce Barton - "Voltaire spoke of the Bible as a short-lived book. He said that within a hundred years it would pass from common use. Not many people read Voltaire today, but his house has been packed with Bibles as a depot of a Bible society."

Cal Thomas - "All we are asking for is balance. I would like to think that I could walk into a public library and find not only works by Gloria Steinem but also those of Phyllis Schlafly. I would  like to think a teenager could be taught in sex education that a serious alternative to abortion is teenage abstinence, or should pregnancy occur, that adoption might be preferable. I am not trying, as the ad says, to shove religion down anyone's throat. But I do think everyone has a right, and that the Christian voice is being chocked off."

Carl Becker - "Without this historical knowledge, this memory of things said and done, his today will be aimless and his tomorrow without significance."

Carlos Pena Romulo - "Never forget, Americans, that yours is a spiritual country. Yes, I know you're a practical people. Like others, I've marveled at your factories, your skyscrapers, and your arsenals. But underlying everything else is the fact that America began as a God-loving, God-fearing, God-worshipping people."

Catherine Marshall - "A Christian has no business being satisfied with mediocrity. He's supposed to reach for the stars. Why not? He's not on his own anymore. He has God's help now."

Catherine Marshall - "Despite disappointments, the Christian is obligated to pray for the sick because we are bidden to do so and because the crumb of our caring is but a morsel broken from the whole loaf of the Father's infinite and tender love."

Catherine Marshall - "Evil is real - and powerful. It has to be fought, not explained away, not fled. And God is against evil all the way. So each of us has to decide where we stand, how we're going to live our lives. We can try to persuade ourselves and wink at evil. We can say that it isn't so bad after all, maybe even try to call it fun by clothing it in silks and velvets. We can compromise with it, keep quiet about it , and say it's none of our business. Or we can work on God's side, listen for His orders on strategy against the evil, no matter how horrible it is, and know that He can transform it."

Catherine Marshall - "Satan cannot create anything new, cannot create anything at all. He must steal what God has created. Thus he twists love and God's wonderful gift of sex into lust and sadism and myriad perversions. He disfigures the heart's deep desire to worship God and persuades us to bow before lesser gods of lust or money or power."

Catherine Marshall -"The cross stands as the final symbol that no evil exists that God cannot turn into a blessing. He is the living Alchemist who can take the dregs from the slag-heaps of life - disappointment, frustration, sorrow, disease, death, economic loss, heartache - and transform the dregs into gold."

Charles Baudelaire - "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."

Charles Finney - Because sinners are not converted by direct contact of the Holy Spirit, but by the truth, employed as a means. To expect the conversion of sinners by prayer alone, without the employment of truth, is to tempt God."

Charles Finney - "Be honest about it. Would you take all these pains about your looks if everybody was blind?"

Charles Finney - "Often, without being at all aware of it, men judge themselves, not by God's rule, but by their own."

Charles Finney - "The end for which Christ lives, and for which He has left His church in the world, is the salvation of sinners."

Charles Finney - "The reason why wicked men and devils hate God is, because they see Him in relation to themselves. Their hearts rise up in rebellion, because they see Him opposed to their selfishness."

Charles Finney - "There is a fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, which is founded in love. There is also a slavish fear, which is a mere dread of evil, and is purely selfish."

Charles Finney - "Understand now what lying is. Any species of designed deception. If the deception is not designed it is not lying. But if you design to make an impression contrary to the naked truth, you lie."

Charles Finney - "You hear the word, and believe it in theory, while you deny it in practice. I say to you, that 'you decveive yourselves'."

Charles Habib Malik - "The good (in the United States) would never have come into being without the blessing and power of Jesus Christ... Whoever tries to conceive the American word without taking full account of the suffering and love and salvation of Christ is only dreaming. I know how embarrassing this matter is to politicians, bureaucrats, businessmen and cynics; but, whatever these honored men thing, the irrefutable truth is that the soul of America is at its best and highest, Christian."

Charles Ryrie - "Son of God": "What does it mean? Though the phrase 'son of' can mean 'offspring of', it also carries the meaning, 'of the order of'. Thus in the Old Testament 'sons of the prophets' meant of the order of prophets (1Kings 20:35), and 'sons of the singers' meant the order of the singers (Neh 12:38). The designation 'Son of God' when used of our Lord means of the order of God and is a strong and clear claim to full Deity."

​Charles Spurgeon - "Another note in the praise of this most blessed, but much neglected duty, is that it fixes the truth upon them memory. You complain of short memories; you say that what you have heard you can scarcely remember to another day. If thy paint by thin, and thou canst not make thy picture stand out in glowing colours, lay on many coats of thy paint, and so wilt thou do what thou wannest. If thy memory will not retain the truth the first time, then think it over and over, and over again, and so, by having these several coats of paint, as it were, the whole matter shall abide."

Charles Spurgeon - "Do what you may, strive as earnestly as you can, live as excellently as you please, make what sacrifices you choose, be as eminent as you can for everything that is lovely and of good repute, yet none of these things can be pleaseing to God unless they be mixed with faith."

Charles Spurgeon - "Faith goes up the stairs that love has made and looks out the window which hope has opened."

Charles Spurgeon - "God knows where every particle of the handful of dust has gone; he has marked in his book the wandering of every one of its atoms. He hath death so open before His view, that He can bring all these together, bone to bone, and clothe them with the very flesh that robed them in the days of yore, and make them live again."

Charles Spurgeon - "He casts our sins behind His back, He blots them out; He says that though they be sought for, they shall not be found."

Charles Spurgeon - "Hope sees a crown in reserve, mansions in readiness, and Jesus Himself preparing a place for us, and by the rapturous sight she sustains the soul under the sorrows of the hour."

Charles Spurgeon - "If you rest on the finished work of Jesus you have already the best evidence of your salvation in the world; you have God's word for it; what more is needed?"

Charles Spurgeon - "I met another man who considered himself perfect, but he was thoroughly mad; and I do not believe that any of the pretenders to perfection are better than good maniacs... for while a man has got a spark of reason left in him, he cannot, unless he is the most impudent of impostors, talk about being perfect."

Charles Spurgeon - "I must pour out my heart in the language which his Spirit gives me; and more than that, I must trust in the Spirit to speak the unutterable groanings of my spirit, when my lips cannot actually express all the emotions of my heart."

Charles Spurgeon - "It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength."

Charles Spurgeon - "I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary."

Charles Spurgeon - "Lost! Lost! Lost! Better a whole world on fire than a soul lost! Better every star quenched and the skies a wreck than a single soul to be lost!"

Charles Spurgeon - "Of two evils, choose neither."

Charles Spurgeon - "On the other hand, there is no doctrine more hated by worldlings, no truth of which they have made such a football, as the great stupendous, but yet most certain doctrine of the Sovereignty of the infinite Jehovah. Men will allow God to be everywhere except upon His throne. They will allow Him to be in His workshop to fashion the worlds and to make stars. They will allow Him to be in His almonry to dispense His alms and bestow His bounties. They will allow Him to sustain the earth and bear up the pillars thereof, or light the lamps of Heaven, or rule the waves of the ever-moving ocean; but when God ascends His throne, His creatures then gnash their teeth; and when we proclaim an enthroned God, and His right to do as He wills with His own, to dispose of His creatures as He thinks well, without consulting them in the matter, then it is that we are hissed and execrated, and then it is that men turn a deaf ear to us, for God on His throne is not the God they love. They love Him anywhere better than they do when He sits with His scepter in His hand and His crown upon His head. But it is God upon the throne that we love to preach. It is God upon His throne whom we trust. It is God upon His throne of whom we speak. I believe He has a right to do as He wills with His own, and that He exercises that right."

Charles Spurgeon - "Sanctification grows out of faith in Jesus Christ. Reemember holiness is a flower, not a root; it is not sanctification that saves, but salvation that sanctifies."

Charles Spurgeon - "To be laughed at is no great hardship to me. I can delight in scoffs and jeers. Caricatures, lampoons, and slanders are my glory. But that you should turn from your own mercy, this is my sorrow. Spit on me, but, oh, repent! Laugh at me, but, oh, believe in my Master! Make my body as the dirt of the streets, but damn not your own souls!"

Charles Spurgeon - "The child of God knows his good works do not make him acceptable to God, for he was acceptable to God by Jesus Christ long before he had any good works."

Charles Spurgeon - "The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father."

Charles Spurgeon - "The Holy Spirit can cast out the evil spirit of the fear of man. He can make the coward brave."

Charles Spurgeon - "The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on teh black horse of affliction."

Charles Spurgeon - "The wicked man, when he dies, is driven to his grave, but the Christian comes to his grave."

Charles Spurgeon - "True prayer is the trading of the heart with God, and the heart never comes into spiritual commerce with the ports of heaven until God the Holy Ghost puts wind into the sails and speeds the ship into its haven."

Charles Spurgeon - "We think that we do well to be angry with the rebellious, and so we prove ourselves to be more like Jonah than Jesus."

Charles Spurgeon - "What is it to bring the man out of his sepulchre if you leave him dead? Why lead him into the light if he is still blind? We thank God, that he who forgives our iniquities also heals our diseases."

Charles Spurgeon - "Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom."

Charles Spurgeon - "You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter."

Charles Stanley - "Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us."

Charles Stanley - "God wants us to seek Him more than anything else, even more than we seek answers to prayer. When we come to God in prayer, sometimes our hearts are so full of what we want that we leave God out. Our minds become consumed with the gift rather than the giver."

Charles Stanley - "If we walk in the Spirit daily, surrendered to His power, we have the right to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers."

Charles Stanley - "Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work."

Charles Stanley - "The Holy Spirit's power cannot be harnessed. His power cannot be used to accomplish anything other than the Father's will. He is not a candy dispenser. He is not a vending machine. He is not a genie waiting for someone to rub His lamp the right way. He is holy God."

Charles Stanley - "The reason so many of us struggle so intensely with adversity is that we have yet to adopt God's perspective and priorities."

Charles Stanley - "We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive."

Charles Swindoll - "Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot."

Charles Swindoll - "A story without context is like a diamond without a mounting. The stone may be beautiful lying loose on a table, but when it is carefully mounted in the right setting it can dazzle you with its brilliance and sparkling beauty."

Charles Swindoll - “Hardship is the investment we make today in order to reap greater rewards tomorrow.”

Charles Swindoll - “Humor gives us permission to be vulnerable with dignity. It keeps us from taking ourselves too seriously.” 

Charles Swindoll - "If you never get criticized, chances are you aren't getting anything done."

Charles Swindoll - “In terms of balance, you can’t continually sacrifice today on the altar of tomorrow or you’ll never enjoy life; contentment will always lie somewhere just over the horizon and you’ll never enjoy the blessings God has given you in the here and now.”

Charles Swindoll - "Lead with action and let the feelings follow."

Charles Swindoll - "No one is immune to temptation. Not even a hero. Not even a nobody. Not even people like you and me. Lust is never very far away. And just when you least expect it, there it is again."

Charles Swindoll - “Prayer keeps my focus on God’s approval rather than the applause of people.” 

Charles Swindoll - "...Success doesn't ruin a person; success reveals a person. Curiously, most people can handle adversity with grace, but very few can handle life at the top. If you're enjoying great success, don't fool yourself into thinking that it's your reward for being God's favored child. Better to consider it a trial. Do with success what you do during any other difficult time. Pray. Hold it loosely. Seek wise counsel. Don't be afraid of it...but regularly ask the Lord to keep you safe and aware. Look for lessons. This trial, just like any other, is an opportunity to grow. Furthermore, it's temporary. It may have taken you years to get here, but it can vanish in a flash. As Solomon wrote, 'Riches make themselves wings; they fly away."

Charles Swindoll - “The discipline of interpretation is not subjective; if you read the passage and you do not arrive at the meaning originally intended by the human author, you are wrong, plain and simple. You have misinterpreted his writing. People often say, ‘Every time I read a passage, I get something new out of it’ but they aren’t describing interpretation; they are referring to application.”

Charles Swindoll - "The Lord delights to surprise us with His goodness, if only we will unlock the door of obedience with the key of faith - which He has given - and then push it open and walk through."

Charles Swindoll - “There are three common mistakes we make on our journey from earth to heaven.  Running before we are sent. Retreating after we have failed. Resisting when we are called.” 

Charles Swindoll - “Yet the sermon isn’t my responsibility; in the final analysis, it’s God’s. He wants a great message for His people. It’s not like I have to convince Him to help me. He’s not holding His help until I pray long enough or fervently enough to satisfy His vanity. He wants His word explained, proclaimed, understood, and applied more than I do! After all it is His Word that reveals His will, which is to be done for His glory. My responsibility, therefore, is to become the means of God’s doing what He already wants to do. I am merely His co-laborer. He called me to do this, not because He desperately needs me, and not because He cannot proclaim His own Word or do so through others, but because it pleases Him to use me - my voice, my personality, my style, my whatever. Prayer, then, isn’t a punctuation at the end of my effort; prayer is my first introduction to what He wants to do on any given occasion - Sunday or otherwise.”

Charlton Heston - I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an idealist and a romantic.

Charlton Heston - Let me make a short, opening, blanket comment. There are no "good guns". There are no "bad guns". Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.

Charlton Heston - Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind. Before you claim to be a champion of free thought, tell me: Why did political correctness originate on America's campuses? And why do you continue to tolerate it? Why do you, who're supposed to debate ideas, surrender to their suppression? Let's be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death and should scare you too, that the superstition of political correctness rules the halls of reason. You are the best and the brightest. You, here in the fertile cradle of American academia, here in the castle of learning on the Charles River, you are the cream. But I submit that you, and your counterparts across the land, are the most socially conformed and politically silenced generation since Concord Bridge. And as long as you validate that ... and abide it ... you are — by your grandfathers' standards — cowards.

Charlton Heston - "Political correctness is tyranny with manners."

Chuck Colson - "Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems."

Chuck Colson - "Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin."

Chuck Colson - "People who cannot restrain their own basic instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue a society can be ruled only by fear, a truth that tyrants understand all too well."

Chuck Colson - "People who rejecttranscendent authority can no longer persuade one another through rational arguments; everything is reduced to personal opinion. Debates about ideas thus degenerate into power struggles; we're left with no moral standard by which to measure the common good. For that matter, how can there be a 'common good' without an objective standard of truth?"

Chuck Colson - "The evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ is more powerful than anything else we believe. By His resurrection Jesus proved He is who He says He is. Be confident in this truth. Stand on the Holy Word of God. Don't sell the world a false bill of goods. Preach the word. Defend the faith. Live the faith."

Chuck Colson - "To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living."

Chuck Colson - "We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization."

Chuck Colson - "You are called not to be successful or to meet any of the other counterfeit standards of this world, but to be faithful and to be expended in the cause of serving the risen and returning Christ."

Cicero -Not to know what happened before one was born is always to remain a child."

Clarence E. Manion - "Look closely at these self-evident truths, these imperishable articles of American Faith upon which all our government is firmly based. First and foremost is the existence of God. Next comes the truth that all men are equal in the sight of God. Third is the fact of God's great gift of unalienable rights to every person on earth. Then follows the true and single purpose of all American Government, namely, to preserve and protect these God-made rights of God-made man."

Confucius - "If the people are governed by laws and punishment is used to maintain order, they will try to avoid the punishment but have no sense of shame. If they are governed by virtue and rules of propriety are used to maintain order, they will have a sense of shame and will become good as well."

Confucius - "In carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your obvious desire be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass; the grass is bound to bend when the wind blows across it."

Corrie Ten Boom - "Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance."

Corrie Ten Boom - "Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see."

Corrie Ten Boom - "Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness."

Corrie Ten Boom - "He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely."

Corrie Ten Boom - "I have experienced His presence in the deepest hell that man can create. I have really tested the promises of the Bible, and believe me, you can count on them."

Corrie Ten Boom - "Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people."

Corrie Ten Boom - "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."

Corrie Ten Boom - "No pit is so deep that the Lord is not deeper still."

Corrie Ten Boom - "The Lord never makes a mistake. One day, when we are in heaven, I'm sure we shall see the answers to the whys."

Cotton Mather - "Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy."

Craig Miner - "Teachers and students of history, Bridenbaugh wrote, had lost 'the priceless asset of shared culture.' Without the connection to the past there could be no confident movement into the future, the 'cult of the contemporary' notwithstanding. 'Mankind,' Bridenbaugh concluded, 'is faced with nothing short of the loss of its memory.'"

Christ Baker - "For philosophical orators, truly free, frank speech is a task, not a gift or birthright that we all have simply as Americans."

Chris Baker - "Still, for speech to do the work it should, it is not enough to have the character of a protester, but for the protesters to have character."

C. S. Lewis - "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."

C. S. Lewis - "A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

C. S. Lewis - "A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee."

C. S. Lewis - "As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you."

C. S. Lewis - "But if we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain. Theology says to you in effect, 'Admit God and with Him the risk of a few miracles, and I in return will ratify your faith in uniformity as regards the overwhelming majority of events."

C. S. Lewis - "Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride - pride at his own humility - will appear."

C. S. Lewis - "Consequently, Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be a word without meaning."

C. S. Lewis - "Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment."

C. S. Lewis - "God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."

C. S. Lewis - "God whispers to us in our pleasure, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains."

C. S. Lewis - "Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered."

C. S. Lewis - "Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less."

C. S. Lewis - "I am trying to prevent anyone from saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: "I am ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claims to be God." That is one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things that Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse."

C. S. Lewis - "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but by it I see everything else."

C. S. Lewis -"In God's dimension, so to speak, you find a being who is three Persons while remaining one Being, just as a cube is six squares while remaining one cube."

C. S. Lewis - "It would be impossible to accept naturalism itself if we really and consistently believed naturalism. For naturalism is a system of thought. But for naturalism all thoughts are mere events with irrational causes. It is, to me at any rate, impossible to regard the thoughts which make up naturalism in that way and, at the same time, regard them as a real insight into external reality...If it is true, then we can know no truths. It cuts its own throat."

C. S. Lewis - “My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such violent reaction against it? .... Of course I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if I did that, then my argument against God collapsed too--for the argument depended on saying that the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my fancies. Thus in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist--in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless -I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality--namely my idea of justice--was full of sense.”

C.S. Lewis - That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is out chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it.

C. S. Lewis - "The Christian way is different; harder and easier. Christ says, 'Give me All. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work; I want you. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half-measures are any good... Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked - the whole outfit. I give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you myself; my own shall become yours."

C. S. Lewis - "The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."

C. S. Lewis - "The most dangerous ideas are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed."

C. S. Lewis - "The naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment one attends to this it is obvious that one's own thinking cannot be merely a natural event, and that therefore something other than nature exists. The Supernatural is not remote or abstruse; it is a matter of daily and hourly experience, as intimate as breathing."

C. S. Lewis - "There are no Ordinary people, you have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors."

C. S. Lewis - "There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."

C. S. Lewis - "To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbles and little luxuries; avaid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will cahnge. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."

C.S. Lewis - "To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees."

C. S. Lewis - "The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."

C.S. Lewis - "To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees."

C. S. Lewis - "We have not, in fact, proved that science excludes miracles: we have only proved that the question of miracles, like innumerable other questions, excludes laboratory treatment."

C. S. Lewis - "We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful."

C. S. Lewis - "You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."

Czeslaw Milosz - “A true opium of the people is the belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders, we are not going to be judged.”

Dale Carnegie - "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." 

Dallas Willard - “As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.”

Dallas Willard - “Today we are apt to downplay or disregard the importance of good thinking to strong faith; and some, disastrously, even regard thinking as opposed to faith.”

Dallas Willard - "Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation."

Dallas Willard - "When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, "Now what are we going to do about the darkness?" It's gone!"

Dallas Willard - “Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.”

Daniel O'Connell - "Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong."

Daniel Webster - "The Gospel is either true history, or it is a consummate fraud; it is either a reality or an imposition. Christ was what He professed to be, or He was an imposter. There is no other alternative. His spotless life in His earnest enforcement of the truth - His suffering in its defense, forbid us to suppose that He was suffering an illusion of a heated brain. Every act of His pure and holy life shows that He was the author of truth, the advocate of truth, the earnest defender of truth, and the uncompromising sufferer for truth."

Daniel Webster - "This is the Book. I have read the Bible through many time, and now make it a practice to read it through once every year. - It is a book of all others for lawyers, as well as divines; and I pity the man who cannot find in it a rich supply of thought and of rules for conduct. It fits man for life - it prepares him for death."

David Jeremiah - "Above all else, He loves you and chose to measure that love out not in words, but in blood. He loves you enough to give you the greatest gift conceivable. Would such a love allow you to suffer without purpose?"

David Jeremiah - "Answers to prayer have to be on God's schedule, not ours. He hears us pray, and He answers according to His will in His own time."

David Jeremiah - "It is possible to be at the top of Christian service, respected and admired, and not have that indispensable ingredient by which God has chosen to work in His world today - the absolute sacrificial agape love of the Eternal God."

David Jeremiah - "It is possible to live the Christian life just on the surface, knowing only enough to carry on an intelligent conversation in the church foyer with another equally uninformed believer, but when that happens you are vulnerable to the attack of the deceiver."

David Jeremiah - "Men are not sent to hell because of being murderers or liars, they are sent to hell because they are unrighteous."

David Jeremiah - "The Bible says that love is a responsibility. We are commanded to love. God doesn't ask us if we feel like it, He tells us in His Word that it is our responsibility to love."

David Jeremiah - "The very thing that most qualifies us to pray is our helplessness."

David Josiah Brewer - (Supreme Court Opinion in the 1892 Supreme Court Case of "Church of the Holy Trinity vs. United States") "No purpose of action against religion can be imputed to any legislation, state or national, because this is a religious people. This is historically true. From the discovery of this continent to the present hour, there is a single voice making this affirmation.... There is no dissonance in these declarations. There is a universal language pervading them all, having one meaning; they affirm and reaffirm that this is a religious nation. These are not individual sayings, declarations of private persons: they are organic utterances; they speak the voice of the entire people... Christianity, general Christianity, is, and always has been, a part of the common law... not Christianity with an established church... but Christianity with liberty of conscience to all men."

David M. S. Watson - "Evolution is a theory universally accepted not because it can be proven by logically coherent evidence to be true, but because the only alternative, special creation, is clearly incredible."

David Noebel - "Who would seriously want to listen to anything emanating from a quasi-chimpanzee's irrational bundle of mental accidents and energies?"

David Nutting - “Creationists are not anti-science. It is just that someone has snuck in during the middle of the night and changed the definition of science. It used to be the search of knowledge, now it is a search for naturalism and only naturalism. I believe this was purposely done to exclude any mention of creation or intelligent design in the classroom.” 

David Wilkerson - "A humble person is not one who thinks little of himself, hangs his head and says, "I'm nothing." Rather, he is one who depends wholly on the Lord for everything, in every circumstance."

David Wilkerson - "As far as the Lord is concerned, the time to stand is in the darkest moment. It is when everything seems hopeless, when there appears no way out, when God alone can deliver."

David Wilkerson - "At its heart, legalism is a desire to appear holy. It is trying to be justified before men and not God."

David Wilkerson - "God does sometimes change our trying circumstances. But more often, He doesn't - because He wants to change us."

David Wilkerson - "Our faith is not meant to get us out of a hard place or change our painful condition. Rather, it is meant to reveal God's faithfulness to us in the midst of our dire situation."

David Wilkerson - "'To die is gain!' That kind of talk is absolutely foreign to our modern, spiritual vocabularies. We have become such life worshippers, we have very little desire to depart to be with the Lord."

Dean Alfange - "I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon. I seek opportunity to develop whatever talents God gave me - not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficience, nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any earthly master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations and to help face the world boldly and say - 'This, with God's help, I have done.' All this is what it means to be an American."

Dennis Rainey - "You will either be a missionary or a mission field."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer  (executed by Hitler April 9, 1945) - "If I see a madman driving a car into a group of innocent bystanders, then I can't, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe and then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try and wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver."

Dinesh D’Souza - “An unbiased look at the history of science shows that modern science is an invention of medieval Christianity, and that the greatest break throughs in scientific reason have largely been the work of Christians. Even atheist scientists work with Christian assumptions that, due to their ignorance of theology and history, are invisible to them.” 

Dinesh D’Souza - “Carl Sagan helpfully suggests that in order to dispel all doubts about His existence, ‘God could have engraved the Ten Commandments on the moon.’ Pascal supplies a plausible reason for what he calls the hiddenness of God. Perhaps, he writes, God wants to hide Himself from those who have no desire to encounter Him while revealing Himself to those whose hearts are open to Him. If God were to declare Himself beyond our ability to reject Him, then He would be forcing Himself on us. Pascal remarks that perhaps God wants to be known not by everyone but only by the creatures who seek Him.” 

Dinesh D’Souza - “Consider this; why do we experience suffering and evil as unjust? If we are purely material beings, then we should no more object to mass murder than a river objects to drying up in a drought. Nevertheless we are not like rivers. We know that evil is real, and we know that it is wrong. But if evil is real, then good must be real as well. How else would we know the difference between the two? Our ability to distinguish between good and evil, and to recognize these as real, means that there is a moral standard in the universe that provides the basis for this distinction. And what is the source for that moral standard if not God?” 

Dinesh D’Souza - “For those who think of American history in largely secular terms, it may come as news that the greatest events of our history were preceded by massive religious revivals. The First Great Awakening, a Christian revival that swept the country in the mid-eighteenth century, created the moral foundation of the American Revolution… The Second Great Awakening, which started in the early nineteenth century and coursed through New England and New york and then through the interior of the country, left in its wake the temperance movement, the movement for women’s sufferage, and most importantly, the abolitionist movement.” 

Dinesh D’Souza - “God does not want to reign over an empire of automatons. Freedom of choice means that we are free to do good and we are also free to do evil. Man can be a saint only in a world where he can also be a devil. Thus the existence of evil in the world is entirely consistent with a God who despises evil but values freedom.”

Dinesh D’Souza - “Heaven is God’s domain, where He is eternally present. Hell is where God is eternally absent. God doesn’t reject the atheist; the atheist rejects God. God doesn’t dispatch the atheist to hell; the atheist wishes to close his eyes and heart to God, and God reluctantly grants him his wish. In a sense, the gates of hell are locked from the inside.”

Dinesh D’Souza - “Historian Joseph Needham explains that despite the wealth and sophistication of China in ancient and medieval times, science never developed there because ‘there was no confidence that the code of natures’s laws could ever be unveiled and read, because there was no assurance that a divine being, even more rational than ourselves, had ever formulated such a code capable of being read.”

Dinesh D’Souza - “If determinism is true, then no one in the world can ever refrain from anything that he or she does. The whole of morality - not just this morality or that morality but morality itself - becomes an illusion. Our whole vocabulary of praise and blame, admiration and contempt, approval and disapproval would have to be eradicated. If someone murdered his neighbor, or exterminated an entire population, we would have no warrant to punish or even criticize that person because, after all, he was simply acting in the manner of a computer program malfunctioning or a stone involuntarily rolling down a hill.”

Dinesh D’Souza - “If there is a divine being who has created the universe with special concern for us human beings, then it is entirely reasonable to suppose that, absent our ability to find Him, He would find His way to us.”

Dinesh D’Souza - “My conclusion is that, contrary to popular belief, atheism is not primary an intellectual revolt; it is a moral revolt. Atheists don’t find God invisible so much as objectionable. They aren’t adjusting their desires to the truth, but rather the truth to fit their desires.” 

Dinesh D’Souza - “Naturalism and materialism are not scientific conclusions; rather, they are scientific premises. They are not discovered in nature but imposed upon nature. In short, they are articles of faith.” 

Dinesh D’Souza - “One may say that capitalism civilizes greed in much the same way that marriage civilizes lust. Both institutions seek to domesticate wayward or fallen human impulses in socially beneficial ways.” 

Dinesh D’Souza - “Science also relies on the equally unsupported belief that the rationality of the universe is mirrored in the rationality of our human mind. So where did Western man get this faith in a unified, ordered, and accessible universe? How did we go from chaos to cosmos? My answer, in a word, is Christianity.” 

Dinesh D’Souza - “...scientific enterprise is a faith-based proposition no less mysterious than any religious dogma. This is the presumption, quite impossible to prove, that the universe is rational. Scientists take for granted the idea that the universe operates according to laws, and that these laws are comprehensible to the human mind.” 

Dinesh D’Souza - “The Bible is unique among the documents of ancient history in positing an absolute beginning.” 

Dinesh D’Souza - “The movement and contingency of the world cannot be without some ultimate explanation. Since God is by definition outside the universe, He is not part of the series. Therefore the rules of the series, including the rules of causation, would not logically apply to Him. Think of God as the author of a novel. The events in the narrative have a certain coherence and logic. Something that occurs in the beginning of the story causes a crisis for one of the characters in the middle of the story… But the author is the cause of the story on an entirely different level. The rules of causation that apply within the novel do not apply to its creator.”

Dinesh D’Souza - “The effort to teach our children hostility to religion, and specifically to Christianity, is especially strange considering that Western civilization was built by Christianity. The problem is not that our young people know too much about Christianity, but that they know too little… One in ten Americans apparently believe that Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife.” 

Dinesh D’Souza “The nuclear family, the idea of limited government, the Western concept of the rule of law, and our culture’s high emphasis on the relief of suffering all derive from this basic Christian understanding of the dignity of fallible human beings.” 

Dinesh D’Souza - “The presence of moral disagreement does not indicate the absence of universal morality. How can the fact of behavior, however eccentric and diverse, invalidate the norm of what is right?” 

Dinesh D’Souza - “The problem of evil is not a problem of knowledge, but a problem of will.”

Dinesh D’Souza - “The question for secular morality is, in seeking the inner self, which self are you seeking? What principle do you have that distinguish the good inner self from the bad inner self?... secular morality most prevalent forms is irresponsible. It offers no check on those who invoke ‘self-discovery’ as an excuse to engage in behavior traditionally considered improper and immoral.”

Dinesh D’Souza - “The separation of the realms should not be a weapon against Christianity; rather, it is a device supplied by Christianity to promote social peace, religious freedom, and a moral community.” 

Dinesh D’Souza - “The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these values seem to have taken a life of their own, and this gives us the illusion that we can get rid of Christanity and keep the values. THis, Nietzsche says, is an illusion. Our Western values are what Nietzsche terms ‘shadows of gods.’ Remove the Christian foundation, and the values must go too.”

D. L. Moody - "God, being a perfect God, had to give a perfect Law, and the Law was given not to save men, but to measure them. I want you to understand this clearly, because I believe hundreds and thousands stumble at this point. They try to save themselves by trying to keep the Law; but it was never meant for men to save themselves by....Ask Paul why {the Law} was given. Here is his answer, 'That every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God' (Romans 3:19). The Law stops every man's mouth. I can always tell a man who is near the kingdom of God; his mouth is stopped. This, then, is why God gives us the Law - to show us ourselves in our true colors."

Donald Miller - "...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion."

Justice Douglas - "The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State. Rathe, it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert or union or dependency one on the other. That is the common sense of the matter. Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other

Douglas MacArthur - "Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory."

Douglas MacArthur - "History fails to record a singly precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster."

Dounglas Pagels - "Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can."

Dwight D. Eisenhower - "In this way (adding 'under God' to the pledge) we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and future; in this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war."

Dwight D. Eisenhower - "The purpose of a devout and united people was set forth in the pages of the Bible... 1) to live in freedom (2) to work in a prosperous land... and (3) to obey the commandments of God... This Biblical story of the Promised land inspired the founder of America. It continues to inspire us..."

Dwight D. Eisenhower - "The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth."
Edgar Allan Poe - "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

Dwight Lyman Moody - "Christ came down to save us from a terrible hell, and any man who is cast down to hell from here must go in the full blaze of the gospel, and over the mangled body of the Son of God."

Dwight Lyman Moody - "Every true work of God has had its bitter enemies - not only outside, but also inside - just as in the days of Nehemiah."

Dwight Lyman Moody - "If you don't enter the kingdom of heaven by God's way, you cannot enter at all."

Dwight Lyman Moody - "I hunted all through the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ's funeral sermons, but I couldn't find any. I found He broke up every funeral He ever attended! Death couldn't exist where He was."

Dwight Lyman Moody - "It is a favorite thing with infidels to set their own standard, to measure themsleves by other people. But that will not do in the Day of Judgment. Now we will use God's law as a balance weight."

Dwight Lyman Moody - "Lust is the devil's counterfeit for love. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than a pure love and there is nothing so blighting as lust."

Dwight Lyman Moody - "Satan is willing to have us worship anything, however sacred - the Bible, the crucifix, the church - if only we do not worship God Himself."

Dwight Lyman Moody - "The best work usually meets the strongest opposition."

Dwight Lyman Moody - "The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him."

Dwight Lyman Moody - "We have got nowadays so that we divide lies into white lies and black lies, society lies and business lies, etc. The Word of God knows no such letting-down of the standard."

Dwight Lyman Moody - "We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it."

Dwight Lyman Moody - "Wouldn't it be well to give some of your bouquets before a man dies, and not go and load down his coffin? He can't enjoy them then."

Edmund Burke - "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

Edmund Burke - "The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime."

Edmund Burke - "Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition."

Edmund Burke - "I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on law exported to the Plantations."

Edmund Burke - "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors."

Edmund Burke - "There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature, and of nations."

Edmund Burke - "What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without restraint. Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites... Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."

Edwin Gaustad - "If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood."

Edwin Gaustad - "It should be noted immediately that 'toleration' was not the word that Williams would have used, for toleration implied some kind of concession  by a ruler or a bishop who had the sacred right to persecute but on some occasions graciously chose not to."

Edwin Gaustad - "Often called an infidel, atheist, or arch demon, Jefferson sincerely believed that he had not rejected Christianity, only purified it. He was more attached to the 'pure wheat' of Jesus' teaching than were many others, who accepted the wheat all mixd up with the chaff. 'I am a real Christian,' Jefferson explained in 1803, in that I am 'sincerely attached' to the instructions of Jesus, preferring Jesus' teaching to that of all others."

Edwin Gaustad - "One common thread bound the states together in peace even as it held them together in war: the fear of tyranny, of all tyranny, civil and ecclesiastic. Americans in the eighteenth century understood tyrannical authority to be all of one piece. Lordly bishops like lordly princes paid little attention to ordinary folk, made few if any concessions to "majority will", and spoke seldom if at all of natural or inalienable rights bestowed upon humankind. For fourteen hundred years, by this line of revolutionary thinking, church and state had joined in a powerful alliance designed to cramp or suppress those rights and liberties. For fourteen hundred year, tyranny presented a united front, thereby forcing those who would declare their independence to fight a revolution to resist all tyranny, whether of church or state, for in the final analysis all tyranny was one. Such at least was the pervasive assumption of those Americans who had won a revolution and signed a treaty of peace. And because of that common conviction, the American Revolution must be seen as a struggle for religious no less than civil liberty."

Edwin Gaustad - "The first phrase of the First Amendment spoke to the freedom uppermost in Jefferson's mind when it provided that, 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.' Here a double guarantee could be found: first, that government would do nothing to give official endorsement to a religion or to set one faith above another; second, that government would do nothing to inhibit the freedom of religion."

Edwin Milton Royle - "De sunflower ain't de daisy, 
And de melon ain't de rose.
Why is dey all so crazy
To be sumpin' else dat grows? 
Jes' stick to the place you's planted, and do de bes' you knows, 
Be de melon or de rose.

De song thrush ain't de robin.
And de catbird ain't de jay.
Why is dey all a-throbbin' to outdo each other's lay?
Jes' sing de song God gave you, and let your heart be gay.
Be de catbird or de jay.

Doan't ye be what you ain't,
Jes' you be what you is.
Ef a man is what he isn't,
Den he isn't what he is. 
Ef you's jes' a little tadpole,
Doan't you try to be de frog.
Ef you's de tail doan't you try to wag de dog.
Jes' pass de plate ef you can't exhort and preach;
Ef you's es' a little pebble,
Doan't ye try to be de beach.
Ef a man is what he isn't, den he isn't what he am,
And as sure as I'm a-talkin' he isn't worth a --
Doan't ye be what you ain't,
Jes' you be what you is.
Ef a man is what he isn't
Den he isn't what he is;
And as sure as I'm a-talkin',
He's gwyne to get his."

Elias Boudinot - "'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.' - Let it then (as workmanship of the same Divine hand) be our peculiar constant care and vigilant attention to inculcate this sacred principle, and to hand it down to posterity... Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow."

Elisabeth Elliot - "Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us."

Elisabeth Elliot - "Have we the humility to thank our Father for the gift of pain?"

Elisabeth Elliot - "If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'."

Elisabeth Elliot - "I will offer to Him both my tears and my exultation. Nothing we offer to Him will be lost."

Elisabeth Elliot - "Most of the time we like the idea of our own freedom. There are times when we do not at all like the idea of the freedom of others. If we suffer because of their freedom, let us remember that they suffer because of ours."

Elisabeth Elliot - "Our Heavenly Healer often has to hurt us in order to heal us. We sometimes fail to recognize His mighty love in this, yet we are firmly held always in the Everlasting Arms."

Elisabeth Elliot - "Refresh me today in Your love, so that in Your coolness I may stand the heat."

Elisabeth Elliot - "The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires."

Elisabeth Elliot - "When the Constitution declares that 'all men are created equal,' it is not referring to intelligence, good looks, good humor, height, weight, or income. It is talking about certain rights, 'inalienable', in that they cannot be taken away."

Elizabeth George - "Because He is God, He is able to weave together every single aspect and event in your life and produce something good."

Elizabeth George - "Find the gold. Whatever has happened to you in the past, and whatever is happening in your life now, look for the hidden blessing, the lesson to be learned, or the character trait to be forged. Trust that, since God has allowed these experiences, somewhere there is gold for you."

Elizabeth George - "The soul of a child is the loveliest fower that grows in the garden of God."

E. M. Bounds - "We are constantly straining to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel. This trend of the day has a tendency to lose sight of the man or sink the man in the plan or organization. God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men..."

Eric Irivuzumugabe - "I don't mean to say that God was the author of the genocide - I do not believe that. Only the devil and his fallen angels, with the cooperation of a deceived people who have rejected God, could execute such a plan. But I believe God uses the evils allowed in this world to draw us to him. The paradox is clearly there."

Eric Liddell - "I have no formula for winning the race. Everyone runs in her own way, or his own way. And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within. Jesus said, 'Behold, the Kingdom of God is within you. If with all your hearts, you truly seek me, you shall ever surely find me.' If you commit yourself to the love of Christ, then that is how you run a straight race."

Eric Ludy - "But the commission is now. The time to speak is when the Spirit of God boils the message so hot within you that it must come out. The time to write is when God Almighty presses his thumb against your heart and forces the words out like a steaming geyser."

Eric Ludy - "I had a God who knew my every desire. He also knew how I would fall. And yet he was waiting on the other side of my failure and my shattered dreams with some dreams of his own..."

Eric Ludy - "The principle is this: We must not allow anything into our life that feeds our point of weakness. A soldier doesn't dance through a mind field any more than we should play with a hand grenade. When the enemy's entry points are boarded up, it frees us to hear clearly the voice of our Commander."

Eric Ludy - "We as young men need just one of our peers to stand up and trust his God completely and without reserve. We need just one who will start climbing the rugged mountain cliffs in the direction of his King. We need just one to hear the call of the wild, to charge the fields of Bannockburn and fight for something that really matters. I appeal to you, as a young man, to consider that throughout history, it has often been when one young man stood up to be counted that the course of a nation was forever altered."

Erich Auerbach - “Christ has not come as a hero and king but as a human being of the lowest station. His first disciples were fishermen and artisans. He moved in the everyday milieu of the humble folk. He talked with publicans and fallen women, the poor and the sick and children.” 

Evelyn Husband - "I stood at the door of the New Year and I said, 'Give me a light that I might see my way safely into the unknown.' But a voice came to me and said, 'Instead, step into the darkness and take the hand of God - for it will be to you better than the light and safer than a known way."