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?"