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 way"

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 - "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 - "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 reject transcendent 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."

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.”

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

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."

St. Francis' Prayer - "Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in dying that we are born to eternal life."

Francis Bacon - "Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

Francis Bacon - "A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion." 

Francis Bacon - "All good moral philosophy is but the handmaid of religion."

Francis Bacon - "But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and the angels to be lookers on."

Francis Bacon - "He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other." 

Francis Bacon - "Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing." 

Francis Bacon - "There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power."

Francis Bacon - "There never was found, in any age of the world, either philosophy, or sect, or religion, or law, or discipline, which did so highly exalt the good of the community, and increase private and particular good as the holy Christian faith. Hence, it clearly appear that it was one and the same God that gave the Christian law to men, who gave the laws of nature to the creatures."

Francis Marion - "Who can doubt that God created us to be happy, and thereto made us to love one another? It is plainly written as Gospel. The heart is sometimes so embittered that nothing but Divine love can sweeten it, so enraged that devotion can only becalm it, and so broken down that it takes all the forces of heavenly hope to raise it. In short, the religion of Jesus Christ is the only sure and controlling power over sin."

Francis Schaeffer - "All men bear the image of God. They have value not because they are redeemed, but because they are God's creation in God's image."

Francis Schaeffer - "It is only as we consciously bring each victory to His feet, and keep it there as we think of it - and especially as we speak of it - that we can avoid the pride of that victory, which can be worse than the sin over which we claim to have had the victory."

Francis Schaeffer - "If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions."

Francis Schaeffer - "If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong."

Francis Scott Key - "The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find his Word in his greatest darkness, 'a lantern to his feet and a lamp unto his paths.' He will therefore seek to establish for his country in the eyes of the world, such a character as shall make her not unworthy of the name of a Christian nation..."

Franklin D. Roosevelt - "We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic... Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity."

Franklin Graham - "I believe when we are in the Lord's will and following Christ, we are His responsibility, and He will look after us. Until He has accomplished His purpose through us, nothing can touch us without His permission - we're 'bullet-proof', so to speak."

Franklin Pierce - "It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged  dependence upon God and his overruling providence."

Franz Joseph Haydn - "When I think of my God, my heart dances within me for joy, and then my music has to dance, too."

Fred Stoecker - "Praise is God's sunlight in the heart, it destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit. It is the oil of gladness that lubricates life's activities. It keeps the heart pure and the eye clear. Praise is essential to the knowledge of God and His will. The strength of a life is the strength of it's song. Pressure is permitted to strengthen the attitude and spirit of praise. It takes a man to sing in the dark when the storm and battle are raging, and it is such singing that makes the man."

Fred Thomas - "Beauty is often birthed in struggle."

Frederick Buechner - "It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle."

Frederick Buechner - "Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredome and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladneess: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace."

Frederick Buechner - "Much as we wish, not one of us can bring back yesterday or shape tomorrow. Only today is ours, and it will not be ours for long, and once it is gone it will never in all time be ours again. Thou only knowest what it holds in store for us, yet even we know something of what it will hold. The chance to speak the truth, to show mercy, to ease another's burden. The chance to resist evil, to remember all the good times and good people of our past, to be brave, to be strong, to be glad."

Frederick Buechner - "Stop trying to protect, to rescue, to judge, to manage the lives around you... Remember that the lives of others are not your business. They are their business. They are God's busineess... Even your own life is not your business. It also is God's Business. Leave it to God."

Frederick Buechner - "To confess your sins to God is not to tell God anything God doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the Golden Gate Bridge."

Frederick Buechner - "The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt."

Frederick Buechner - "The love for equals is a human thing - of friend for friend, brother for brother. It is to love what is loving and lovely. The world smiles. The love for the less fortunate is a beautiful thing - the love for those who suffer, for those who are poor, the sick, the failures, the unlovely. This is compassion, and it touches the heart of the world. The love for the more fortunate is a rare thing - to love those who succeed where we fail, to rejoice without envy with those who rejoice, the love of the poor for the rich... The world is always bewildered by its saints. And then there is the love for the enemy - love for the one who does not love you but mocks, threatens, and inflicts pain. The tortured's love for the torturer. This is God's love. It conquers the world."

Frederick Buechner - "The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."

Frederick Buechner - "What we hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full humanness, and yet that is often just what we also fear more than anything else. It is important to tell at least from time to time the secret of who we truly are and fully are... because otherwise we run the risk of losing track of who we truly and fully are and little by little come to accept instead the highly edited version which we put forth in hope that the world will find it more acceptable than the real thing. It is important to tell our secrets too because it makes it easier... for other people to tell us a secret or two of their own."

Fredrich Nietzche - "He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how."

Fyodor Dostoevsky - "Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground is the heart of men."

Fyodor Dostoevsky - "If there is no God, then everything is permissible."

Fyodor Dostoevsky - "If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once." 

Galileo Galilei - "I am inclined to think that the authority of Holy Scripture is intended to convince men of those truths which are necessary for their salvation, which, being far above man's understanding, can not be made credible by any learning, or any other means than revelation by the Holy Spirit."

George Bancroft - "Puritanism had exalted the laity... For him the wonderful counsels of the Almighty had appointed a Saviour; for him the laws of nature had been compelled and consulted, the heavens had opened, the earth had quaked, the Sun had veiled his face, and Christ had died and risen again."

George Bernard Shaw - "This is the true joy of life; the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature, instead of a feverish selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy."

George Hanson - "The simple faith of the Christian who believes in the Resurrection is nothing compared to the credulity of the sceptic who will accept the wildest and most improbable romances rather than admit the plain witness of historical certainties. The difficulties of belief may be great; the absurdities of unbelief are greater."

George MacDonald - "Where did you come from, Baby dear?
Out of the everywhere into here.

Where did you get your eyes so blue?
Out of the sky as I came through.

What makes the light in them sparkle and spin?
Some of the starry spikes left in.

Where did you get that little tear?
I found it waiting when I got here.

What makes your forehead so smooth and high?
A soft hand stroked it as I went by.

What makes your cheek like a warm white rose?
I saw something better than anyone knows.

Whence that three-corner'd smile of bliss?
Three angels gave me at once a kiss.

Where did you get this pearly ear?
God spoke, and it came out to hear.

Where did you get those arms and hands?
Love made itself into hooks and bands.

Feet, whence did you come, you darling things?
From the same box as the cherub's wings.

How did they all come just to be you?
God thought of me, and so I grew.

But how did you come to us, you dear?
God thought of you, and so I am here."

George Santayana - "Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace."

George Santayana - "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

George Washington - "... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance."

George Washington - "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."

George Washington - "of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable support."

George Washington - "The hand of Providence has been so conspicuous in all this (the course of the war) that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more wicked that has not gratitude to acknowledge his obligations; but it will be time enough for me to turn Preacher when my present appointment ceases"

George Washington - "We ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself have ordained."

George Washington - "While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest Glory to laud the more distinguished Character of Christian. The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good."

George Washington Carver - "Years ago I went into my laboratory and said, "Dear Mr. Creator, please tell me what the universe was made for?" The Great Creator answered, "You want to know too much for that little mind of yours. Ask for something more your size, little man." Then I asked. "Please Mr. Creator, tell me what man was made for?" Again the Great Creator replied, "You are still asking too much. Cut down on the extent and improve your intent." So then I asked, "Please, Mr. Creator, will you tell me why the peanut was made?" "That's better, but even then it's infinite. What do you want to know about the peanut?" "Mr. Creator, can I make milk out of the peanut?" "What kind of milk do you want? Good Jersey milk or just plain boarding house milk?" "Good Jersey milk." And then the Great Creator taught me to take the peanut apart and put it together again. And out of the process have come forth all these products!"

George Whitefield - "As God can send a nation or people no greater blessing, than to give them faithful, sincere, and upright ministers; so the greatest curse that God can possibly send upon a people in this world, is to give them over to blind, unregenerate, carnal, lukewarm, and unskillful guides."

George Whitefield - "Come away, my dear brethren, fly, fly, fly for your lives to Jesus Christ; fly to a bleeding God, fly to a throne of grace; and beg of God to break your heart; beg of God to convince you of your actual sins; beg of God to convince you of your original sin; beg of God to convince you of your self-righteousness; beg of God to give you faith, and to enable you to close with Jesus Christ."

George Whitefield - "If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation; how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose lives have been one continual rebellion against God?"

George Whitefield - "Know, by sad experience, what it is to be lulled to sleep with a false peace. Long was I lulled asleep; long did I think myself a Christian, when I knew nothing of the Lord Jesus Christ."

Gerard Rudolph Ford - "Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first - the most basic - expression of Americanism. Thus the founding fathers of America saw it, and thus with God's help, it will continue to be."

Gerald Schroder - “These commentaries were not composed in response to cosmological discoveries as an attempt to force an agreement between theology and cosmology… Theology presents a fixed view of the universe. Science, through its progressively improved understanding of the world, has come to agree with theology.”

Gigi Graham Tchividjian - "A fish is free as long as it stays in the water. If it suddenly declares that it wants its freedom to fly in the air like a bird, disaster occurs. A train is free as long as it stays on the track. However, if it demands freedom to take off down a major highway, the result is destruction and devastation. We too can only experience true freedom in its fullest if we remain within the framework of freedom. Often this requires accepting responsibility and practicing discipline."

Gigi Graham Tchividjian - "Whether your gift is mighty or humble, whether you exercise it in the marketplace or at the podium, in the executive suite or in the schoolroom, in the office or at home, your main task or gift or ministry is to be a light in a dark world."

G. K. Chesterton - "All denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind; and the modern [skeptic] doubts not only the institution he denounces, but the doctrine by which he denounces it. Thus he writes one book complaining that imperial oppression insults the purity of women, and the writes another book... in which he insults it himself... As a politician, he will cry out that war is a waste of life, and then as a philosopher, that all life is waste of time. A Russian pessimist will denounce a policeman for killing a peasant, and then prove by the highest philosophical principles that the peasant ought to have killed himself. A man denounces marriage as a lie and then denounces aristocratic profligates for treating it as a lie... The man of this school goes first to a political meeting where he complains that savages are treated as if they were beasts; then he takes his hat and umbrella and goes to a scientific meeting, where he proves that they practically are beasts. In short, the modern revolutionist, being an infinite skeptic, is forever engaged in undermining his own mines. In his book on politics he attacks men for trampling on morality; in his book on ethics he attacks morality for trampling on men. Therefore the modern man in revolt has become practically useless for all purposes of revolt. By rebelling against everything he has lost his right to rebel against anything."

G. K. Chesterton - Courage is almost a contradictory term. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. 'He that will lose his life, the same shall take it.' is not a piece of mysticism 

G. K. Chesterton - "Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions."

G. K. Chesterton - "I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that ,while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid."

G. K. Chesterton - "Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness come from being weary of pleasure." 

G. K. Chesterton - "Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth is to shut it again on something solid."

G. K. Chesterton - "People havae fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There was never anything so perilous or exciting...It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad."

G. K. Chesterton - "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried."

G. K. Chesterton - "The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not); it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them."

G. K. Chesterton - "The triangle of truism, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it."

G. K. Chesterton - "When people stop believing in the truth, they don't believe in nothing, they believe in anything."

Gordon Dalbey - "As they prayed, [the pastor] on impulse invited the man to recall the dream, even in all its fear. Hesitantly, the man agreed , and soon reported that indeed, the lion was in sight and headed his way. [The Pastor] then instructed the man, 'When the lion comes close to you, try not to run away, but instead, stand there and ask him who or what he is, and what he is doing in your life...can you try that?' Shifting uneasily in his chair, the man agreed, then reported what was happening. 'The lion is snorting and shaking his head, standing right there in front of me... I ask him who he is... and - Oh! I can't believe what he's saying! He says, 'I'm your courage and your strength. Why are you running away from me?''"

Gouverneur Morris - "Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God."

Hannah Whitall Smith - "Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed."

Hannah Whitall Smith - "Foundations to be reliable must always be unshakable."

Hannah Whitall Smith - "God's slavation is not a purchase to be made, nor wages to be earned, nor a summit to be climbed, nor a task to be accomplished; but it is simply and only a gift to be accepted, and can only be accepted by faith."

Hannah Whitall Smith - "If our hearts are full of our own wretched "I ams" we will have no ears to hear His glorious, soul-satisfying "I Am."

Hannah Whitall Smith - "Our lives are full of supposes. Suppose this should happen or suppose that should happen; but what could we do and how would we bear it? But, if we are living in the "high tower" of the dwelling place of God, all these supposes will drop out of our lives."

Hannah Whitall Smith - "Put together all the tenderest love you know of, multiply it by infinity, and you will begin to see glimpses of the love and grace of God."

Hannah Whitall Smith - "The Bible is a statement, not of theories, but of actual facts... things are not true because they are in the Bible, but they are only in the Bible because they are true."

Harry S. Truman - "We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God... With God's help the future of mankind will be assured in a world of justice, harmony, and peace."

Harvey Mackay - "A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves."

Henri Nouwen - "Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the 'Beloved'"

Henry Blackaby - "Regardless of what we say, it's what we do that reveals what we as a church or individual actually believe about God and His will for us."

Henry Blackaby - "Watch to see where God is working and join Him!"

Henry Blackaby - "When we hear His call and respond accordingly, there will be no limit to what God can and will do through His people. But if we do not even recognize when He is speaking, we are in trouble at the very heart of our relationship to Him."

Henry Drummond - "All fruits grow - whether they grow in the soil or in the soul; whether they are fruits of the wild grape or the True Vine. No man can make things grow. He can get them to grow by arranging all the circumstances and fulfilling all the conditions. But the growing is done by God."

Henry Drummond - "Banish forever from your minds the idea that religion is subtraction. It does not tell us to give things up, but rather gives us something so much better that they give themselves up."

Henry Drummond - "Be in the company of good books, beautiful pictures, and charming, delightful, and inspiring music; and let all that one hears, sees, reads, and thinks lift and inspire higher."

Henry Drummond - "He is training us to a kind of faithfulness whose high quality is unattained by any other earthly means."

Henry Drummond - "He told us - and it is only because we are so accustomed to it that we do not wonder more at the magnificence of the conception - that when our place in this world should know us no more there would be another place ready for us."

Henry Drummond - "It is your business to restore the integrity and the righteousness in the high places of this land, and let the people see examples which will be helpful to them in their Christian life."

Henry Drummond - "It matters little whether we go to foreign lands or stay at home, as long as we are sure that we are where God puts us."

Henry Drummond - "Let a man remember that the great thing is not to think about religion, but to do it."

Henry Drummond - "One has to do a great deal more than display his Christianity. He must not only talk it, but live it."

Henry Drummond - "So Godlike a gift is intellect, so wondrous a thing is consciousness, that to link them with the animal world seems to trifle with the profoundest distinction in the Universe."

Henry Drummond - "When a man is wrapped up in himself, seeking only his own, he finds he is seeking a very shallow object, and very soon gets to the end of it; hence all the springs of life have nothing to act upon, and depression follows."

Henry Ford - "Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right."

Henry Ward Beecher - "A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school to Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better."

Henry Ward Beecher - "Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. 'By their fruits ye shall know them.'"

Henry Ward Beecher - "'I can forgive but I cannot forget' is only another way of saying 'I cannot forgive.'"

Henry Ward Beecher - "If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere."

Henry Ward Beecher - "Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and still man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard."

Henry Ward Beecher - "There is not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs, than with his own children, servants, and neighbors."

House Committee on the Judiciary report by Mr. Meacham in 1854 - "What is an establishment of religion? It must have a creed, defining what a man must believe; it must have rites and ordinances, which believers must observe; it must have ministers of defined qualifications, to teach the doctrines and administer the rites; it must have tests for the submissive and penalties for the non-conformist. There never was an established religion without all these... Down to the Revolution, every colony did sustain religion in some form. It was deemed peculiarly proper that the religion of liberty should be upheld by a free people. Had the people, during the Revolution, had a suspicion of any attempt to war against Christianity, that Revolution would have been strangled in its cradle. At the time of the Constitution and the amendments, the universal sentiment was that Christianity should be encouraged, not any one sect. Any attempt to level and discard  all religion would have been viewed with universal indignation. The object was not to substitute Judaism or Mohammedanism, or infidelity, but to prevent rivalry among the sects to the exclusion of others. It must be considered as the foundation on which the whole structure rests. Laws will not have permanence or power without the sanction of religious sentiment, - without a firm belief that there is a power above us that will reward our virtues and punish our vices. In this age there can be no substitute for Christianity; that, in its general principles, is the great conservative element on which we must rely for the purity and permanence of free institutions."

Howard Hendricks - "Children are not looking for perfect parents, but they are looking for honest parents."

Howard Hendricks - "Has it ever occurred to you that love is the greatest positive force in existence?"

Howard Hendricks - "Show me a man's closest companions and I can make a fairly accurate guess as to what sort of man he is, as well as what sort of man he is likely to become."

Howard Hendricks - "The home marks a child for life."

Howard Hendricks - "The genius of the Word of God is that it has staying power; it can stand up to repeated exposure. In fact, that's why it is unlike any other book. You may be an expert in a given field. If you read a book in that field two or three times you've got it. But that's never true of the Bible. Read it over and over again, and you'll see things that you've never seen before."

Hugh Huwitt - "Jonathan Swift wrote that it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. It is also better to repeat yourself and be thought a scold than to speak only once and never be heard."

Hupert Yockey - "We are not dealing with anything like a superficial resemblance between DNA and a written text. We are not saying DNA is like a message. Rather, DNA is a message. True design thus returns to biology."

Bishop of Ignatius of Antioch - (Upon hearing he was to be killed by being thrown to the lions) - "I am the wheat of Christ: I am going to be ground with the teeth of wild beasts, that I may be found pure bread."

Bishop Ignatius of Antioch - "Jesus Christ who was of the race of David, who was the Son of Mary, who was truly born and ate and drank, was truly persecuted under Pontius Pilate, was truly crucified and died in the sight of those in heaven and on earth and those under the earth; who moreover was truly raised from the dead, His Father having raised Him, who in the like fashion will so raise us also who believe on Him."

Bishop Ignatius of Antioch - "Now I begin to be a disciple. I care for nothing, of visible or invisible things, so that I may but win Christ. Let fire and the cross, let the companies of wild beasts, let breaking of bones and tearing of limbs, let the grinding of the whole body, and all the malice of the devil, come upon me; be it so, only may I win Christ Jesus!"

Immanuel Kant - "In the life and the Divine doctrine of Christ which are recorded in the Gospel, example and precept conspire to call men to the regular discharge of every moral duty for its own sake, and to the universal practice of pure virtue. "He can't be wrong whose life is in the right." The Sermon on the Mount, in particular, which Jesus obviously had the intention of introducing among the Jews, that we can not avoid considering it the Word of God. Beyond doubt, Christ is the Founder of the first true Church; that is, that Church which, purified from the folly of superstition and the meanness of fanaticism, exhibits the moral kingdom of God upon the earth as far as can be done for man."

Immanuel Kant - "The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity."

James Abram Garfield - "Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature... If the next centennial does not find us a great nation.. it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces."

J. B. S. Haldane - “If my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain, I have no reason to suppose my beliefs are true… and hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms.” 

J. I. Packer - "But man's eyes are blind through sin, and he can discern no part of God's truth till the Spirit opens them. Inner illumination, leading directly as it does to a deep, inescapable conviction, is thus fundamental to the Spirit's work as a teacher."

J. I. Packer - "But that is not because these principles are traditional; it is because they are biblical. There is certainly an arrogant, hide-bound type of traditionalism, unthinking and uncritical, which is carnal and devilish. But there is also a respectful willingness to take help from the Church's past in order to understand the Bible in the present; and such traditionalism is spiritual and Christian."

J. I. Packer - "But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and imaginative form in which they are sometimes couched, would be no less a violation of the canons of evangelical literalism than the allegorizing of the Scholastics was."

J. I. Packer - "Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading to Him."

J. I. Packer - "For dishonest thinking, however well-intentioned, can only discredit the cause it serves, and must in the long run boomerang disastrously on those who indulge in it."

J. I. Packer - "God's Word is not presented in Scripture in the form of a theological system, but it admits of being stated in that form, and, indeed, requires to be so stated before we can properly grasp it - grasp it, that is, as a whole. Every text has its immediate context in the passage from which it comes, its broader context in the book to which it belongs, and its ultimate context in the Bible as a whole; and it needs to be rightly related to each of these contexts if its character, scope and significance is to be adequately understood."

J. I. Packer - "God then does not profess to answer in Scripture all the questions that we, in our boundless curiosity, would like to ask about Scripture. He tells us merely as much as He sees we need to know as a basis for our life of faith."

J. I. Packer - "Infallible denotes the quality of never deceiving or misleading and so means wholly trustworthy and reliable; inerrant means wholly true. Scripture is termed infallible and inerrant to express the conviction that all its teaching is the utterance of God who cannot lie, whose word, once spoken, abides for ever, and that therefore it may be trusted implicitly."

J. I. Packer - "It is Deism which depicts God as the passive onlooker rather than the active governor of His world, and which assures us that the guarantee of human freedom lies in the fact that men's actions are not under God's control. But the Bible teaches rather that the freedom of God, who works in and through His creatures, leading them to act according to their nature, is itself the foundation and guarantee of the freedom of their action."

J. I. Packer - "It is not his business to argue men into faith, for that cannot be done; but it is his business to demonstrate the intellectual adequacy of the biblical faith and the comparative inadequacy of its rivals, and to show the invalidity of the criticisms that are brought against it. This he seeks to do, not from any motive of intellectual self-justification, but for the glory of God and His gospel."

J. I. Packer - "Moreover, the whole purpose of God's mighty acts is to bring man to know Him by faith; and Scripture knows no foundation for faith but the spoken word of God, inviting our trust in Him on the basis of what He has done for us."

J. I. Packer - "The biblical authors wrote of God's sovereignty over His world, and of man's experiences within that world, using such modes of speech about the natural order and human experience as were current in their days, and in a language that was common to themselves and their contemporaries. This is saying no more than that they wrote to be understood. Their picture of the world and things in it is not put forward as normative for later science, andy more than their use of Hebrew and Greek is put forward as a perfect model for composition in these languages."

J. I. Packer - "The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by which its life is marred."

J. I. Packer - "The Evangelical is not afraid of facts, for he knows that all facts are God's facts; nor is he afraid of thinking, for he knows that all truth is God's truth, and right reason cannot endanger sound faith."

J. I. Packer - "The gospel does in truth proclaim the redemption of reason. Obscurantism is always evil, and wilful error is always sin., All truth is God's truth; facts, as such, are sacred, and nothing is more un-Christian than to run away from them."

J. I. Packer - "The infallibility and inerrancy of biblical teaching does not, however, guarantee the infallibility and inerrancy of any interpretation or interpreter of that teaching; nor does the recognition of its qualities as the Word of God in any way prejudge the issue as to what Scripture does, in fact, assert. This can be determined only by careful Bible study."

J. I. Packer - "The very quality of books to read and facts to master with which the twentieth-century man is confronted encourages him to think broadly and superficially about much, but hinders him from thinking deeply and thoroughly about anything."

J. I. Packer - "The words and lives of Christian men must be in continual process of reformation by the written Word of their God. This means that ecclesiastical traditions and private theological speculations may never be identified with the word which God speaks, but are to be classed among the words of men which the Word of God must reform."

James Madison - "Because the policy of the bill (Establishment of Religion by Law) is adverse to the diffusion of the light of Christianity. The first wish of those who ought to enjoy this precious gift, ought to be, that it may by imparted to the whole race of mankind. Compare the number of those who have as yet received it, with the number still remaining under the dominions of false religions, and how small is the former! Does the policy of the bill tend to lessen the disproportion? No; it at once discourages those who are strangers to the light of Truth, from coming into the regions of it. Whilst we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess, and to observe the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to those whose minds have not yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us. If this freedom be abused, it is an offense against God, not against man: To God, therefore, not to man, must an account of it be rendered."

James Madison - "Religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and, therefore, that all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience, unpunished and unrestrained by the magistrate, unless under color of religion any man disturb the peace, the happiness, or safety of society, and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity toward each other."

Jared Williams - "A memory is worth a thousand tears. Tears of joy or tears of sorrow; that is up to you."

Jared Williams - "Although it would be great to live in a world with no hate, pain or evil, I would not trade it out for the world if it meant loosing the love, joy, and beauty of this world."

Jared Williams - "An education is only as good as how you use it."

Jared Williams - "Don't miss today on account of yesterday's sorrows."

Jared Williams - "Eternity is not a number. Eternity likewise cannot be a measurement of time. Therefore, to save sanity, time must have a beginning. For if time is eternal, time ceases to exist."

Jared Williams - "Failure is not the act of falling down, but giving up. The disaster is not when you fall, but when you fail to get up."Jared Williams - "Faith is a relationship, not a roadmap. Let God lead you. Trouble will come, Let God lead you through it. It may be a torrid storm, but after comes a rainbow and the bounty of the harvest."

Jared Williams - "Hope and Love can triumph over despair, but it is the object of that hope, and the person of that love that makes all the difference in the world."

Jared Williams - "Infinity will always be one more than you can count. By definition, it passes all expectations. God is infinite! He will always pass your expectations!" 

Jared Williams - "I say there is hope not because hope is the only thing that can keep me going but I say there is hope because it is true. I do not say it is true on some blind faith clinging to some purpose I have failed to obtain but because it has been promised by a reliable source outside of myself."

Jared Williams - "It's because the Bible is God's word that we cannot shy away from the hard questions. I go ahead and ask the hard questions because perseverance may bring answers. Answers may bring understanding and understanding opens windows into the heart of God."

Jared Williams - "Just like priorities, faith is set by the mind, but it is realized through your actions."

Jared Williams - "Knowledge is useless unless you have the wisdom to know how to use it, the understanding to know where to use it and the discernment to know when to use it."

Jared Williams - "Only one thing is more burdensome than the tears of a child, only one thing more heart-wrenching - that is the tears of the mother."

Jared Williams - "Our love is not true without obedience, but our obedience is pointless without love."

Jared Williams - "Reflection in the still waters brings direction in the storms, but it is only in the maelstrom that the truth is tested."

Jared Williams - "Reckless love is not reckless because it is without forethought, but because it is given without thought to self. And to the world, that is foolishness, but to us, it is the world!" 

Jared Williams - "Experiences from the senses without logic to balance it is highly deceiving, but logic without  the use of the senses is a mind caught in a fantasy."

Jared Williams - "Pain and strength are two sides of the same coin. You cannot go very far in one without finding the other."

Jared Williams - "People often say you should make sure to follow your passions: but rather you should make sure your passions follow you."

Jared Williams - "Tears in the eyes of a child brings tears to the heart of the Father, but the laughter in the heart of a child brings tears to the eyes of the Father."

Jared Williams - "The difference between being single in the world and being a Christian single: in the world, they search for someone to fill the void in their heart, in Christianity they search for someone to share the overflow of their heart."

Jared Williams - "The eternal perspective pales all deference and fear."

Jared Williams - "The greatest evidence against Christianity is Christians. Much of the time it is the Christians who destroy and distort the Truth of the Bible by the actions and words of their witness. Thank goodness Christianity is not founded upon it's followers, but upon what the Bible says about the Savior and who He is." 

Jared Williams - "The laughter of a child is like a drop of rain in a barren land, as to a breath of light amongst this despotic world."

Jared Williams - The wonder of being created for community is that being servant-ly is kingly."

Jared Williams - "Think where you live, otherwise you will constantly dance upon the lines of insanity."

Jared Williams - "To forget where you came from is to forget who you are. Who you will be, well now that is up to you."

Jared Williams - "To ignore the future is to walk into a brick wall, but to ignore the past is like walking into the brick wall... again"

Jared Williams - "True honor is humility. To nobly give out of strength even when it does not benefit you. Charity is not giving in expectation of receiving but receiving contentment in giving of your complete accord."

Jared Williams - "When Agape love is on top, all others fall in line. It matters not recognition or what others do for you, you are called to love unconditionally, continuously giving of yourself. Focus on Agape, and all else will fall in line. Focus on Agape, and nothing else will matter."

Jared Williams - "When denominations Capitalize on the small stuff, they misspell the name of Jesus. They spell it jesUS. When you call yourself a Christian, whether or not you want to be, you become ambassadors of Christ. People around you see you as a Christian and they will measure you up as such and by you will judge Christianity. So when all the Churches speak of this great jesUS, all they see is a typo... jest us. They see that it's just us. And that is a travesty."

Jaroslav Pelikan - "Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about him, Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history of Western culture for almost twenty centuries. If it were possible, with some sort of supermagnet, to pull out of that history every scrap of metal bearing at least a trace of his name, how much would be left? It is from his birth that most of the human race dates its calendars, it is by his name that millions curse and in his name that millions pray."

Jay Strack - "Jesus loves you just as you are, but he loves you too much to leave you that way."

Jean Jacques Rousseau - "Everything is good when it leaves the hands of the Creator; everything degenerates in the hands of man."

Jedidiah Morse - "Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all the blessings which flow from them, must fall with them."

Jeff Myers - Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is action in spite of fear. Courageous people never really overcome their fears. They just become determined to push through them and to use that adrenaline to their advantage." 

Jeff Myers - "When the people of a nation stop communicating, they lose the common purpose that made them great. Their cities become ghost towns. People live aimlessly because they have no cause for which they are willing to die. The cry of the populace is 'Just leave me alone'. Perhaps the ultimate hell is that the wish will be granted. It is not unlikely that our own nation will collapse not through an explosive roar, but through a deafening silence. This silence must be broken in our generation. We may never get another chance."

Jennifer Roback Morse - "And the health risks associated with these hormonal contraceptives are so well known that the World Health Organization has classified them as a "Class One carcinogen": that is, a substance known to cause cancer in humans. But we continue to prescribe powerful and dangerous hormones to perfectly healthy young women. Many doctors stopped prescribing hormone replacement therapy to post-menopausal women, because it increases the risk of strokes and heart attacks. But doctors seemingly have no qualms about prescribing very similar hormones to younger women for contraception. The women whose health has been compromised or damaged by hormonal contraception are victims of the Suxual Revolution."

Jennifer Roback Morse - "At the center of the universe, is a deep abiding love. We are called to be part of it. We Catholics and Christians are not ashamed to believe this. We invite everyone to accept the challenge to live as if we were all loved into existence."

Jennifer Roback Morse - "The modern world is living out the Revolutionary view of sexuality and of the cosmos. We act as if we believe that we are alone in a meaningless and indifferent universe, as if we ourselves have no intrinsic value, that our sexual acts have no meaning apart from the meaning we assign them, that our sexual acts are simply the actions of mindless particles bumping into each other from no particular cause at all, and with no particular purpose in mind. In other words, the hook-0up culture is a metaphor for our beliefs about the cosmos. And the rich and powerful people of our country are enforcing this view of the cosmos and of sexuality upon us all, whether we like it or not."

Jennifer Roback Morse - "The Sexual Revolution offered us women this deal: you can particiapate in higher education and the labor market, as long as you agree to chemically neuter yourselves during your twenties, and endure expensive, humiliating, and possibly dangerous infertility treatment during your thirties and forties."

Jennifer Roback Morse - "Yet the women's misery is socually invisible. Despite our education and accomplishments, we are expected to keep our mouths shut and accept our infertility treatments as consolation prize. Our jobs are supposed to be our highest priority. We are expected to overlook the connection between our disappointment, the impossible ideology of equality, and the contraception that makes that ideology appear to be possible."

Jim Elliot - "He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose."

Jim Rohn - "Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become."

Joe Clark - “Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.”

Joe Wright - a prayer before the Kansas state legislature in 1996 - "Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask Your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, "Woe to those who call evil good," but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and inverted our values. We confess that we have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word in the name of pluralism. We have worshiped other gods and called it "multiculturalism". We have endorsed perversion and called it an "alternative lifestyle". We have exploited the poor and called it "a lottery". We have neglected the needy and called it "self-preservation." We have rewarded laziness and called it "welfare" in the name of "choice" we have killed the unborn. In the name of "right to life", we have killed abortionists....Search us, O God, and know our hearts today. Try us, and show us any wicked way in us. Cleanse us from every sin and set us free..."

Johannes Kepler - "I was merely thinking God's thoughts after him. Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it benefits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God."

Johannes Kepler - "O, Almighty God, I am thinking Thy thoughts after Thee! Nothing holds me! I will indulge in my sacred fury, I will triumph over mankind by the proud confession that I have stolen the golden vases to build up a tabernacle for my God, far away from the confines of Egypt. If you forgive me, I rejoice; if you be angry, I can bear it. The die is cast; the book is written, to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which. It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer."

Johann Sebastian Bach - "The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. If heed is not paid to this, it is not true music but a diabolical bawling and twanging."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - "Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in ever greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires; beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the gospels, it will not go."

Lord John Acton - "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Lord John Acton - "That great political idea, sanctifying freedom and consecrating it to God, teaching men to treasure the liberties of others as their own and to defend them for the love of justice and charity more than as a claim of right, has been the soul of what is great and good in the progress of the last two hundred years."

John Adams - "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."

John Adams - “Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation thoroughly corrupted that was afterwards restored to virtue?... And without virtue, there can be no political liberty... will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effiminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?” John Adams - "Statesmen, my dear sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People in a greater Measure, than they have it now, they may change their Rulers and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting liberty."

John Adams - "Statesmen, my dear sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People in a greater Measure, than they have it now, they may change their Rulers and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting liberty."

John Adams - "The Bible contains the most profound philosophy, the most perfect morality, and the most refined policy, that ever was conceived upon earth. It is the most republican book in the world."

John Adams - "The general principles, upon which the Fathers achieved independence, were the only Principles in which that beautiful Assembly of young Gentlemen could Unite... and what were these general Principles? I answer, the general Principles of Christianity, in which all these Sects were United: And the general Principles of English and American Liberty, in which all those young Men United, and which had United all Parties in America, in Majorities sufficient to assert and maintain her Independence. Now I will avow,k that I then believe, and now believe, that those general Principles of Christianity, are as eternal and immutable, as the Existence and Attributes of God; and that those Principles of Liberty, are as unalterable as human Nature and our terrestrial, mundane System."

John Adams - "... we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

John Adams - "We see every day that our imaginations are so strong and our reason so weak, the charms of wealth and power are so enchanting, and the belief of future punishments so faint that men find ways to persuade themselves to believe any absurdity, to submit to any prostitution, rather than forgo their wishes and desires. Their reason becomes at last an eloquent advocate on the side of their passions, and bring themselves to believe that black is white, that vice is virtue, that folly is wisdom and eternity a moment..."

John Adams - "Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell."

John Adams - "Without virtue, people may change governments, but in so doing they only trade one tyranny for another."

John Calvin - "But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God."

John Calvin - "Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him."

John Calvin - "Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people."

John Calvin - "Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself."

John Calvin - "The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into life. THus men practice mutual deception on each other and fall asleep in wicked indifference."

John Calvin - "We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments."

John Climacus - "I would not consider my spirituality worthwhile that wants to walk in sweetness and ease and run from the imitation of Christ."

John Coleman - "Our crops and our forests are thriving because of increased carbon dioxide. But when the fossil fuels burn to power cars or plants, they emit carbon dioxide, and that's supposedly a very bad thing according to the global-warming crowd."

John Eldridge - "If a man has lost this desire, says he doesn't want it, that's only because he doesn't know he has what it takes, believes he will fail the test. And so he decides it's better not to try. For reasons I hope to make clear later, most men hate the unknown, and, like Cain, want to settle down and build their own city, get on top of their life. But you can't escape it - there is something wild in the heart of every man."

John Flavel - "As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean, which is the meeting-place of all the waters in the world, so Christ is that ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet."

John Flavel - "Christ comes with kingly power, to rescue sinners, as a prey from the mouth of the terrible one."

John Flavel -"Creatures, like pictures, are fairest at a certain distance, but it is not so with Christ; the nearer the soul approaches Him, and the longer it lives in the enjoyhment of Him, still the sweeter and more desirable He becomes."

John Flavel - "He feels all our sorrows, needs, and burdens as his own. That is why it is said that the sufferings of believers are called the sufferings of Christ."

John Flavel - "He is bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, a garment to the naked, healing to the wounded; and whatever a soul can desire is found in Him."

John Flavel - "My soul is of more value than ten thousand worlds."

John Flavel - "The soul of man, like the bird in the shell, is still growing or ripening in sin or grace, till at last the shell breaks by death, and the soul flies away to the piece it is prepared for, and where it must abide forever."

John Flavel - "The soul of the poorest child is of equal dignity with the soul of Adam."

John Flavel - "We are not distinguished from brutes by our senses, but by our understanding."

John Gresham Machen - "According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal church, in practice if not in theory, God exists for the sake of man."

John Gresham Machen - "And God grant that His fire be not quenched! God save us from any smoothing over of these questions in the interests of a hollow pleasantness; God grant that great questions of principle may never rest until they are stettled right! It is out of such times of questioning that great revivals come. God grant that it may be so today! Controversy of the right sort is good; for out of such controversy, as Church history and Scripture alike teach, there comes the salvation of souls."

John Gresham Machen - "If all creeds are equally true, then since they are contradictory to one another, they are all equally false, or at least equally uncertain."

John Gresham Machen - "Indifferentism about doctrine makes no heroes of the faith."

John Gresham Machen - "Let us not fear the opposition of men; every great movement in the Church from Paul down to modern times has been criticized on the ground that it promoted scensoriousness and intolerance and disputing. Of course the gospel of Christ, in a world of sin and doubt will cause disputing; and if does not cause disputing and arrouse bitter opposition, that is a fairly sure sign that it is not being faithfully proclaimed."

John Gresham Machen - "Light may seem at times to be an impertinent intruder, but it is always beneficial in the end."

John Gresham Machen - "The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from "controversial" matters, will never stand amid the shocks of life."

John Hancock - "I have the most animating confidence that the present noble struggle for liberty will terminate gloriously for America. And let us play the man for our God, and for the cities of our God; whilst we are using the means in our power, let us humbly commit our righteousness and hateth iniquity. And having secured the approbation of our hearts by a faithful and unwearied discharge of our duty to our country, let us joyfully leave our concern in the hands of Him who raiseth up and pulleth down the empires and kingdoms of the world as He pleases; and with cheerful submission to His Sovereign will, devoutly say, 'Although the fig tree shall not blossom neither shall fruit be in the vines, the labor of the olive shall fail and the field shall yield not mean, the flocks shall be cut off from the fold and there shall be no herd in the stalls, yet we will rejoice in the Lord, we will joy in the God of our salvation.'"

John Locke - "Our Saviour's resurrection... is truly of great importance in Christianity; so great that His being or not being the Messiah stands or falls with it: so that these two important articles are inseparable and in effect make one. For since that time, believe one and you believe both; deny one of them, and you can believe neither."

John MacArthur - "Truth without love has no decency; it's just brutality. On the other hand, love without truth has no character; it's just hypocrisy...Know the the truth and uphold it in love."

John Milton Hay - Sinai and Calvary  "But Calvary stands to ransom/ The earth from utter loss;/ In shade than light more glorious/ The shadow of the Cross/ To heal a sick world's trouble,/ To soothe its woe and pain,/ On Calvary's sacred summit/ The Pascal Lamb was slain./ Almighty God! direct us/ To keep Thy perfect Law!/ O blessed Saviour, help us/ Nearer to Thee to draw!/ Let Sinai's thunder aid us/ To guard our feet from sin,/ And Calvary's light inspire us/ The love of God to win."

John Montgomery - "...the New Testament documents can be relied upon to give an accurate portrait of Him [Jesus]. And he [the historian] knows that this portrait cannot be rationalized away by wishful thinking, philosophical presuppositionalism, or literary maneuvering."
John Piper - "Apathy is passionless living. It is sitting in front of the television night after night and living your life from one moment of entertainment to the next. It is the inability to be shocked into action by the steady-state lostness and suffering of the world. It is the emptiness that comes from thinking of godliness as the avoidance of doing ."

John Ortberg - "Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive."

John Ortberg - "At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love."

John Ortberg - "Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions."

John Ortberg - "Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him."

John Ortberg - "There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they're useful to you and being someone's friend."

John Piper - "A real Christian is a  walking miracle. Supernatural power has entered his life. His arrogance has been shattered. His paralyzing or swagger-producing fear of failure has been replaced with the promises of God. He is forgiven, accepted, loved by God Almighty. He is secure enough in who he is not to be destroyed when, for Christ's sake, he is shamed. 'They left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name (Acts 5:41). If he is knocked down in the quest for justice, he will get up - not with a swagger but with humble Christ-exalting courage to bear all things for the sake of Jesus' name."

John Piper - "Behold the image of God in man, and bridle your tongue by the mercy of God. Make the mule of your tongue serve the mercy of your heart."

John Piper - "God  says not a critical word against Moses for marrying a black Cushite woman. But when Miriam criticizes God's chosen leader for this marriage, God strikes her skin with white leperosy. If you ever thought black was a biblical symbol for uncleanness, be careful how you use such an idea; a white uncleanness could come upon you."

John Piper - "If you wait till you are beyond criticism to pursue your dream, you will never do it... Few things paralyze good people more than their own imperfections."

John Piper - "James gets in the face of left-leaning Democrats, and James gets in the face of right-leaning Republicans. To the one, he says: "Care about private morality - chastity, honesty, fidelity, modesty, purity." To the other, he says: "care about social justice and works of compassion.""

John Piper - "To be a Christian is to move toward need, not comfort."

John Piper - "The gospel is not a heavenly demand of what we must do to be saved; it is a heavenly declaration of what God has done to save us."

John Piper - "This is how Paul responds to the question: Shall we sin that grace may abound? The self that loves sin has died. The new self is not yet perfect. It sins. But it does not make peace with sin. It hates sin. It confesses sin and makes war on sin."

John Piper - "Will it be harder... Maybe. Maybe not. But since when is that the way a Christian thinks? Life is hard. And the more you love, the more painful it gets. It's hard to take a child to the mission field. The risks are huge. It's hard to take a child and move into a mixed neighborhood where he may be teased or ridiculed. It's hard to help a child be a Christian in a secular world where his beliefs are mocked. It's hard to bring children up with standards: "You will not dress like that, and you will not be out that late." It's hard to raise children when Dad or Mom dies or divorces . And that's a real risk in any marriage. Whoever said that marrying and having children was supposed to be trouble-free? It's one of the hardest things in the world. It just happens to be right and rewarding. Christians are people who move toward need and truth and justice, not toward comfort and security. Life is hard. But God is good. And Christ is strong to help."

John Stott - "A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle."

John Stott - "Do not be content with a static Christian life. Determine rather to grow in faith and love, in knowledge and holiness."

John Stott - "Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity. Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself."

John Stott - "When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations."

John Wesley - Rule  "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."

John White - "You can't follow Christ if you stand still."

John Quincy Adams - "Duty is ours; results are God's"

John Wingate Thorton - "The highest glory of the American Revolution, said John Quincy Adams, was this: it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."

Jonathan Edwards - "A cup of cold water given to a disciple in sincere love, is worth more in God's sight, than all one's goods given to feed the poor, yea, than the wealth of a kingdom given away, or a body offered up in flames without love."

Jonathan Edwards - "As gold that is tried  in the fire, is purged from its alloy, and all remainders of dross, and comes forth more solid and beautiful; so true faith being tried as gold is tried in the fire, becomes more precious and thus also is 'found unto praise, and honor, and glory'."

Jonathan Edwards - "Eternity depends upon the proper use of time."

Jonathan Edwards - "Everything in the gospel is ordered by God to extend the maximum grace and mercy to His people."
 
Jonathan Edwards - "Sin is the ruin and misery of the soul. It is destructive in its nature, and if God should leave it without restraint, nothing else would be needed to make the soul miserable."

Jonathan Edwards - "The heartfelt praises of one true believer are more precious to God than all 220,000 oxen and the 120,000 sheep that Solomon offered to God at the dedication of the temple."

Jonathan Edwards - "What an indecent self-exaltation and arrogance it is, in poor, fallible, dark mortals, to pretend that they can determine and know, who are realy sincere and upright before God, and who are not!"

Jonathan Mayhew - "People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed to bear them."

J. R. Miller - The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. What a man is survives him. It can never be buried."

Joseph Epstein - "Disagree with someone on the right and he is likely to think you obtuse, wrong, foolish, a dope. Disagree with someone on the left, and he is more likely to think you selfish, a sell-out, insensitive, possibly evil."

Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story - " The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less to advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects and to prevent any national ecclesiastical patronage of the national government."

Joseph Story - "There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation."

Joseph Story - "We are not to attribute this prohibition of a national religious establishment to an indifference to religion in general, and especially to Christianity (which none could hold in more reverence than the framers of the Constitution)... probably, at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, and of the Amendment to it now under consideration, the general, if not the universal sentiment in America was, that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the State so far as was not incompatible with the private rights of conscience and the freedom of religious worship. Any attempt to level all religions, and to make it a matter of state policy to hold all in utter indifference, would have created universal disapprobation, if not universal indignation.

Joseph Stowell - "A true Christian experiencehas its source in and is motivated by a personal relationship that saves me, but a relationship that determines my behavior, responses, thoughts, and actions in ways that would be particularly pleasing to Him."

Joseph Stowell - "Authentic Christianity is not just about keeping and protecting the faith and keeping the rules. It is even more than living to deepen your relationship with Jesus. Authentic Christianity, the real deal, is about embracing all of these important elements."

Joseph Stowell - "If Christianity is dull and boring, if it is a burden and not a blessing, then most likely we are involved in a project, not a Person - a system not a Savior, rules rather than a relationship."

Joseph Stowell - "Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient."

Josh McDowell - "Christ can be trusted to keep His Word that He will exchange our drab existence for joyous living, abundant life! And while true love, total acceptance, and complete security are rare in our frantic world, the biblical evidence that our desires in these areas will be fulfilled in Christ is abundant."

Josh McDowell - "Christ did not come to earth to teach Christianity - Christ is Christianity."

Josh McDowell - "My heart and mind were created to work in harmony together. Never has an individual been called upon to commit intellectual suicide in trusting Christ as Savior and Lord."

Josh McDowell - "The Christian faith is faith in Christ. Its value or worth is not in the one believing but in the One believed - not in the one trusting, but in the One trusted."

Josh McDowell - "This is an important distinction, because most of the modern philosophies that deny that we can know reality, and ultimately truth, make the mistake of constructing epistemological systems to explain how we know reality without first acknowledging the fact that we do know reality. After they begin within the mind and find they can't construct a bridge to reality, they then declare that we can't know reality. It is like drawing a faulty road map before looking at the roads, then declaring that we can't know how to get from Chicago to New York!"

Josh McDowell - "Truth is objective because God exists outside ourselves; it is universal because God is above all; it is constant because God is eternal. Absolute truth is absolute because it originates from the original."

Josh McDowell - "You can laugh at Christianity; you can mock and ridicule it. But it works. It changes lives. If you trust Christ, start watching your attitudes and actions, because Jesus Christ is in the business of changing lives."

Joshua Harris - "Marriage is not to be, in the words of an old wedding sermon, 'enterprised lightly or wantonly to satisfied man's carnal lusts and appetites, but reverently, discretely, advisedly, soberly and in the fear of God, duly considering the causes for which matrimony was ordained.'"

Joshua Lederberg - “What is incontrovertible is that a religious impulse guides our motives in sustaining scientific inquiry.” 

Joyce Kilmer - "I think that I shall never see/ A poem lovely as a tree.../ Poems are made by fools like me,/ But only God can make a tree."

J. T. Fisher - "If you were to take the sum total of all authoritative articles ever written by the most qualified of psychologists and psychiatrists on the subject of mental hygiene - if you were to combine them and refine them and cleave out the excess verbiage - if you were to take the whole of the meat and none of the parsley, and if you were to have these unadulterated bits of pure scientific knowledge concisely expressed by the most capable of living poets, you would have an awkward and incomplete summation of the Sermon on the Mount. And it would suffer immeasurably through comparison. For nearly two thousand years the Christian world has been holding in its hands the complete answer to its restless and fruitless yearnings. Here...rests the blueprints for successful human life with optimism, mental health, and contentment."

Jurgen Habermas - “Christianity and nothing else is the ultimate foundation of liberty, conscience, human rights and democracy, the benchmarks of Western civilization. We continue to nourish ourselves from this source.” 

Karl Marx - History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Karl Marx - The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."

Khalil Gibran - "Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."

Khalil Gibran - Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

Khalil Gibran - "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest of souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

Kahlil Gibran - "The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind."

Khalil Gibran - Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself."

Khalil Gibran - "Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."

Kay Arthur - "The problem is that so often we forget that we are in warfare and that Satan's target is our mind."


Kay Arthur - "Ultimately, the goal of personal Bible study is a transformed life and a deep and abiding relationship with Jesus Christ."

Kay Arthur - "When you know what God says, what He means, and how to put His truths into practice, you will be equipped for every circumstance of life."

Kay Arthur - "You have been created by God and for God, and someday you will stand amazed at the simple yet profound ways He has used you even when you weren't aware of it."

Kirk Cameron - If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things."

Kirk Cameron -  Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; he went for the conscience. He spoke to that part of the person that knows the difference between right and wrong instinctively. "

Brother Lawrence - "All things are possible to those who believe, less difficult to those who hope, more easy to those who love, and still easier to those who persevere in the practice of these three virtues."

Brother Lawrence - "Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear."

Brother Lawrence - "Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion; but act with a general confidence in God, with love and humility."

Brother Lawrence - "Have courage then: make a virtue of necessity: ask of God, not deliverance from your pains, but strength to bear resolutely, for the love of Him, all that He should please, and as long as He shall please."

Brother Lawrence - "If we knew how much He loves us, we should be always ready to receive equally and with indifference from His hand the sweet and the bitter; all would please that came from Him."

Brother Lawrence - "It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God's will - that is my whole business."

Brother Lawrence - "Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence."

Brother Lawrence - "Let us thus think often that our only business in this life is to please God, that perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity."

Brother Lawrence - "Love sweetens pain; and when one loves God, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage."

Brother Lawrence - "There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God."

Brother Lawrence - "We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed."

Lewis Carroll - "'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'"

Leo Tolstoy - "A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction"

Leo Tolstoy - "There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget - the God whom we all have to serve - exists, and is the prime cause of our existence and of all that we perceive."

Leonard Ravenhill – “A man escaped from his cell is not free who still drags his chains.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “At the moment a rushing mighty wind of false religion and lukewarm Christianity is lashing the world. Warned of false fire by fireless men, we too often settle for no fire at all.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “A vision of holiness. Oh, Beloved! How this generation of believers needs the vision of God in all His holiness! A vision of hellishness – ‘I am undone… unclean!’ and a vision of hopelessness – implied by the words ‘Who will go for us?’ In this hour – when the average church knows more about promotion than prayer, has forgotten consecration by fostering competition, and has substituted propaganda for propagation – this threefold vision is imperative. ‘Where there is no vision the people perish.’ Where there is no passion the church perishes, even though it be full to the doors.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “Better to die bound in body and free in spirit than free in body and bound in soul!”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “Bible schools don’t teach ‘tears’. They really cannot, of course. This is Spirit-taught; and a preacher, however weighed down with degrees and doctorates has not gotten far unless he knows soul-bitterness over the sin of this day.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “Brethren, is this our choice? What irks us more than to be classified with unlearned and ignorant men? – though an unlearned and ignorant man wrote ‘the Revelations’ which still baffles the learned. We are suffering today from a plague of ministers who are more concerned that their heads should be filled than that their hearts be fired.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “Brethren, we are beaten by the time element. The preacher and church, too busy to pray, are busier than the Lord would have them be. If we will give God time, He will give us timeless souls.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “But what we know is one thing; whom we know is quite another.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “But where it all begins is in an Exchanged Life whereby we no longer live – but Christ lives in us. Paul lived gloriously and died triumphantly because in sacrifice and suffering he identified himself with Christ. So can we live and die, if we but will.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patient die? Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand? Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you DAMNED?”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “Compared to a heart that has known the fire of the Lord and allowed that fire to go out, the ice-clad peaks of the Alps are warm. Metal is molten only while the fire burns; remove the fire and the metal is solid. Even so, a human heart without the heat of heaven is an iceberg.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “Does God ever need more patience with His people than when they are ‘praying’? We tell Him what to do and how to do it. We pass judgments and make appreciations in our prayers. In short, we do everything except pray. No Bible School can teach us this art. What Bible School has ‘Prayer’ on its curriculum? The most important thing a man can study is the prayer part of the Book.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “God ‘sought for a man,’ not to preach, but ‘to stand in the gap.’”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “He who fears God fears no man. He who kneels before God will stand in any situation.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “Holiness-teaching contradicted by unholy living is the bane of this hour!”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “I do not marvel so much at the patience of the Lord with the stonyhearted sinners of the day. After all, would we not be patient with a man both blind and deaf? And such are the sinners. But I do marvel at the Lord’s patience with the sleepy, sluggish, selfish Church! A prodigal Church in a prodigal world is God’s real problem.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “In ‘that great day,’ the fire of judgment is going to test the sort, not the size of the work we have done. That which is born in prayer will survive the test. Prayer does business with God. Prayer creates hunger for souls; hunger for souls creates prayer. The understanding soul prays; the praying soul gets understanding. To the soul who prays in self-owned weakness, the Lord gives His strength.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “It has been well said that there are only three classes of people in the world today; those who are afraid, those who do not know enough to be afraid, and those who know their Bibles.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “It is passing strange that we are so ‘simple’ as to believe that the Church is presenting to men the New Testament standard of Jesus by such a substandard of Christian living.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “It will not do to call sin by some other name, saying, ‘The other fellow has a devilish temper; mine is just righteous indignation! She is touchy; my irritability is just a ‘case of the nerves’. He is covetous; I am expanding my business. He is stubborn; I have convictions. She is proud; I have superior tastes.’ There is a cover-up for anything if you want it that way.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “John the Baptist did well to evade prison for six months. He and Elijah would not last six weeks in the streets of a modern city. They would be cast into a prison or mental home for judging sin and not muting their message.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “Men are ever saying that in these trying days people need comfort. Agreed – many do need comfort. The sick, the sad and the suffering are in this bracket. However, let none fail to realize that to keep silent while a house is burning is criminal. He is no comforter who lets his neighbor sleep as he watches a criminal move the door with a gun.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “Men build our churches but do not enter them, print our Bibles but do not read them, talk about God but do not believe Him, speak of Christ but do not trust Him for salvation, sing our hymns and then forget them.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shop window to display one’s talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “Our goal must be God alone. It is His honor that is sullied. His blessed Son who is ignored, His laws broken, His name profaned, His Book forgotten, His house made a circus of social efforts.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “ ‘O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.’ Madness? Yes, insanity – of virgin purity! He said to the bones, ‘Hear!’ though they had no ears! Ezekiel did as he was told. To save faces, we of course modify God’s commands, and so lose our faces. But Ezekiel obeyed; and God, as always, operated: ‘there was a great noise.’”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “Poverty-stricken as the Church is today in many things, she is most stricken here, in the place of prayer. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “Preachers who should be fishing for men are now too often fishing for compliments from men. Preachers used to sow seed; now they string intellectual pearls. Away with this palsied, powerless preaching which is unmoving because it was born in a tomb instead of a womb, and nourished in a fireless, prayerless soul. We may preach and perish, but we cannot pray and perish. If God called us to the ministry, then, dear brethren, I contend that we should get unctionized. With all they getting – get unction, lest barren altars be the badge of our unctionless intellectualism.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “Prayer is profoundly simple and simply profound.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “Prayer is to the believer what capital is to the business man.
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “Someone now warns us lest we become so heavenly minded that we are of no earthly use. Brother, this generation of believers is not, by and large, suffering from such a complex! The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded that we are of no heavenly use.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “Sound doctrine has put most believers sound asleep, for the letter is not enough. It must be kindled! It is the letter plus the Spirit which ‘giveth life.’”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “The aspirant for spiritual wealth and for the ear of God will know much loneliness and will eat much of ‘the bread of affliction.’ He may not know too much about family or social opposition; on the other hand, he may. But this is sure, he will know much of soul conflict, and of silences (which may create misunderstandings), and of withdrawal from even the best of company. For lovers love to be alone, and the high peaks of the soul are reached in solitude.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “The Church has advisers by the carload. But where are her agonizers? Churches, boasting an all-time high in attendance might have to admit an all-time low in spiritual births. We can increase our churches without increasing the kingdom. The enemy of multiplication is stagnation.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill - “The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is not dripping with the pearls of intellectualism, nor glamorous with the silks of philosophy; neither is she enchanting with the tiara of psychology. She wears the homespuns of sincerity and humility and so is not afraid to kneel.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “The Lord said to Elijah, ‘Hide thyself,’ and again, ‘Show thyself.’ It would be wrong to hide when we should be rebuking kings for His sake; it would be wrong to preach if the Spirit is calling us to wait upon the Lord. We must learn with David, ‘My soul, wait thou only upon God.’”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “The ministry of preaching is open to few; the ministry of prayer – the highest ministry of all human offices – is open to all.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “There are two indispensable factors to successful Christian living. They are vision and passion. Men battle mountainous seas of human, carnal criticism and storm the flinty heights of devilish opposition to plant the cross of Christ amidst the habitations of cruelty. Why? Because they have caught a vision and contracted a passion.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “The schoolmen of the Church have classified ‘seven deadly sins.’ We know, of course, that they are wrong, for all sin is deadly.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning. We are beggared and bankrupt, but not broken, nor even bent.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “Victory is not won in the pulpit by firing intellectual bullets or wisecracks, but in the prayer closet; it is won or lost before the preacher’s foot enters the pulpit.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “‘We apostles,’ Paul says, ‘are the filth of this world.’ Then he adds insult to injury, heightens the infamy, and deepens the humiliation by adding ‘the offscouring of all things.’(1 Corinthians 4:13) Any man who assessed himself ‘filth of the world’ has no ambitions – and so has nothing to be jealous about. He has no reputation – and so has nothing to fight about. He has no possessions – and therefore nothing to worry about. He has no ‘rights’ – so therefore he cannot suffer any wrongs. Blessed state! He is already dead – so no one can kill him. In such a state of mind and spirit, can we wonder that the apostles ‘turned the world upside down’?”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “We appease sin – but do not oppose it. To such a cold, carnal, critical, care-cowed Church, this lax, loose, lustful, licentious age will never capitulate.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “We do not conquer Satan by prayer; Christ conquered him two thousand years ago. Satan fools and feints, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget ‘the exceeding greatness of God’s power to usward.’”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “What should be a stepping stone can become a stumbling block. What should be a gateway can become a goal. What could be a thoroughfare can become a terminal. ‘Blind unbelief is sure to err and scan God’s works in vain.’ Have we come out of poverty of the world, but not yet entered into the Canaan of His riches?”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “When God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil will open the door of hell to blast us. God’s smile means the devil’s frown! Mere preachers may help anybody and hurt nobody; but prophets will stir everybody and madden somebody. The preacher may go with the crowd; the prophet goes against it. A man freed, fired, and filled with God will be branded unpatriotic because he speaks against his nation’s sins; unkind because his tongue is a two-edged sword; unbalanced because the weight of preaching opinion is against him. The preacher will be heralded; the prophet hounded.”
 
Leonard Ravenhill – “Yet that which tries the modern church the most troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our accent is on paying, theirs was on praying. When we have paid, the place is taken; when they had prayed, the place was shaken!”

Louis Bounoure - "Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. This theory has helped nothing in the progress of science. It is useless."

Louis Pasteur - "Science brings man nearer to God."

Lyndon B. Johnson - “The separation of Church and State is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.”

Margaret Mead - "A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

Margaret Sangster - "It isn't the thing you do, dear,
It's the thing you leave undone
That gives you a bit of a heartache
At setting of the sun.
The tender word forgotten, 
The letter you did not write,
The flowers you did not send, dear,
Are your haunting ghosts at night.

The stone you might have lifted
Out of a brother's way;
The bit of heartsome counsel
You were hurried too much to say;
The loving touch of the hand, dear,
The gentle, winning tone
Which you had no time nor thought for
With troubles enough of your own.

Those little acts of kindness
So easily out of mind,
Those chances to be angels
Which we poor mortals find - 
They come in night and silence,
Each sad, reproachful wraith,
When hope is faint and flagging,
And a chill has fallen on faith.

For life is all too short, dear.
And sorrow is all too great,
To suffer our slow compassion
That tarries until too late;
And it isn't the thing you do, dear,
It's the thing you leave undone
Which gives you a bit of a heartache
At the setting of the sun."

Margaret Thatcher - "Socialism works until you run out of other people's money."

Marianne Williamson - "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Mark O' Hatfield - "For the Christian man to reason that God does not want him involved in politics because there are too many evil men in government is as insensitive as for a Christian doctor to turn his back on an epidemic because there are too many germs there."

Mark Noll - "To explain the simultaneous manifestation of superlative good and pervasive malevolence in the history of race and religion, neither simple trust in human nature nor simple cynicism about American hypocrisy is adequate... That commingling has included domination with liberation, false consciousness with genuine idealism, altruism with greed, self-seeking with self-sacrifice, economic independence with economic exploitation, tribalism with universalism, hatred with love. And final explanation for the conundrums of American history must be able to account for a mind-stretching conjunction of opposites. It must evoke both the goodness of the human creation and the persistence of evil in all branches of humanity... It must show how the best human creatures are sabotaged by their own hubris and the worst human depredations are enlightened by unexpected shafts of light... It must be able to hold these contradictions, antinomies, and paradoxes in one cohesive vision.... From the much used and much abused Scriptures, a long line of Christian readers have affirmed in varying accents and diverse emphases a transcendent account of profound complexity to take the measure of human nature and human achievement... God made humans, and the creation was good - yet at the same time, human kind is fallen and will never escape the effects of sin. Further, God offers in the work of his Son, Jesus Christ, and in the power of the Holy Spirit, the transforming prospect of redemption - yet redemption never equals perfection; the redeemed must always recognize their own shortcomings and be filled with gratitude for all the gifts of creation, including all other human creatures. Ultimately, because the manifestation of God in Jesus Christ is, at the same time, so thoroughly human and so thoroughly divine, so completely infinite and so completely finite, the heart of the Christian faith offers the hint of an explanation for how the commingling of contradictions, antinomies,  and paradoxes can occur in other spheres of life."

Mark Steyn - "When the family dies, the nation follows..."

Mark Twain - "Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."

Martin Luther - "For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more."

Martin Luther - "God delights in our temptations, and yet hates them; He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; He hates them when they drive us to despair."

Martin Luther - "God scorns and mocks the devil, in setting under his very nose a poor, weak, human creature, mere dust and ashes, yet endowed with the firstfruits of the Spirit, against whom the devil can do nothing."

Martin Luther - "Heaven and earth, all the emperors, kings, and princes of the world, could not raise a fit dwelling-place for God; yet, in a weak human soul, that keeps His Word, He willingly resides."

Martin Luther - "He that believes God's Word overcomes all, and remains secure everlastingly, against all misfortunes; for this shield fears nothing, neither hell nor the devil."

Martin Luther - "If a man serves not God only, then surely he serves the devil."

Martin Luther - "If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved and to be steady on all the battlefield besides is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that one point."

Martin Luther - "I hate myself, that I cannot believe it so constantly and surely as I should; but no human creature can rightly know how mercifully God is inclined toward those that steadfastly believe in Christ."

Martin Luther - "I have before me God's Word which cannot fail, nor can the gates of hell prevail against it; thereby will I remain, though the whole world be against me."

Martin Luther - "I have lived to see the greatest plague on earth - the condemning of God's Word, a fearful thing, surpassing all other plagues in the word."

Martin Luther - "Infinite potentates have raged against this book, and sought to destroy and uproot it - king Alexander the Great, the princes of Egypt and of Babylon, the monarchs of Persia, of Greece, and of Rome, the emperors Julius and Augustus - but they nothing prevailed; they are all gone and vanished, while the book remains."

Martin Luther - "Let us not flutter too high, but remain by the manger and the swaddling-clothes of Christ."

Martin Luther - "Let whatsoever will or can befall me, I will surely cleave by my sweet Savior Christ Jesus, for in Him am I baptized; I can neither do nor know anything but only what He has taught me."

Martin Luther - "Once sure that the doctrine we teach is God's Word, once certain of this, we may build thereupon, and know that this cause shall and must remain; the devil shall not be able to overthrow it, much less the world be able to uproot it, how fiercely soever it rage."

Martin Luther - "Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging."

Martin Luther - "The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted."

Martin Luther - "The devil assaults the Christian world with te highest power and subtlety, vexing tru Christians through tyrants, heretics, and false brethren, and instigating the whole world against them."

Martin Luther - "The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc.; but how few acknowledge these as God's special gifts, much less give God thanks for them."

Martin Luther - "The Holy Spirit is no sceptic, and the things He has written in our hearts are not doubts or opinions, but assertions - surer and more certain than sense or life itself."

Martin Luther - There is no greater anger than when God is silent, and talks not with us, but suffers us to go on in our sinful works, and to do all things according to our own passions and pleasure."

Martin Luther - "This much can surely be done: Outward wicked deeds can be prevented, and carnal, shameful words and works can be avoided, although it is attained with difficulty. But in this world it will never come to pass that you are free from lust and evil inclinations... In short, if you desire to attain the true righteousness that avails before God, you must despair altogether of yourself and trust in God alone. You must surrender yourself entirely to Christ and accept Him, so that all He has is yours, and all that is yours becomes His. In this way, you begin to burn with divine love and become quite another person, completely born anew, and all that is in you is converted. Then you will have as much delight in chastity as you had pleasure before in fornication, and so forth with all lusts and inclinations."

Martin Luther - "To comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it, calling us rebels, dissturbers of the peace."

Martin Luther - "Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason - I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other - my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. God help me. Amen."

Martin Luther - "We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden."

Martin Luther - "We ought not to criticize, explain, or judge the scriptures by our mere reason, but diligently, with prayer, meditate thereon, and seek their meaning."

Martin Luther - "We should consider the histories of Christ three manner of ways; first, as a history of acts or legends; second, as a gift or a present; thirdly, as an example, which we should believe and follow."

Martin Luther - "Your God is altogether too human."

Martin Luther King Jr. - "Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."

Martin Luther King Jr. - "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who perpetrates it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."

Martin Luther King Jr. - "I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed my to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land..."

Martin Luther King Jr. - "If it falls your lot to be a street weeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music... sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say; here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well."

Martin Luther King Jr. - "If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, 'There lived a great people - a black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization."

Martin Luther King Jr. - "The measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience; but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

Martin Luther King Jr. - "There was a time when the church was very powerful - in the time when the early Christians rejoiced at being deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.... If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the 20th century."

Martin Luther King Jr. - "Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you,  and pray for those who despitefully use you, and persecute you"? Was not Amos an extremist for justice: "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream"? Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus"? Was not Martin Luther an extremist: "Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise, so help me God"? And John Bunyan: "I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience." And Abraham Lincoln: "Thus this nation cannot survive half slave and half free." And Thomas Jefferson: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..." So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremist we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love?"

Martin Luther King Jr. - "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

Martin Niemoeller - "First they came for the Jews, I was silent. I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communist. I was silent. I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists. I was silent. I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for me. There was no one left to speak for me."

Maryland Supreme Court, 1799 (Runkel vs. Winemiller) - "Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people. By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty."

Mary Todd Lincoln - "He (Abraham Lincoln) said he wanted to visit the Holy Land and see those places hallowed by the footprints of the Saviour. He was saying there was no city he so much desired to see as Jerusalem. And with the words half spoken on his tongue, the bullet of the assassin entered the brain, and the soul of the great and good President was carried by the angels to the New Jerusalem above."

Matthew Fontaine Maury - "I have always found in my scientific studies, that, when I could get the Bible to say anything on the subject it afforded me a firm platform to stand upon, and a round in the ladder by which I could safely ascend. As our knowledge of nature and her laws has increased, so has our knowledge of many passages of the Bible improved. The Bible called the earth 'the round world,' yet for ages it was the most damnable heresy for Christian men to say that the world is round; and, finally, sailors circumnavigated the globe, and proved the Bible to be right, and saved Christian men of science from the stake. And as for the general system of circulation which I have been so long endeavoring to describe, the Bible tells it all in a single sentence: 'The wind goeth toward the South and returneth again to his circuits."

Matthew Henry - "A state of apostasy is worse than a state of ignorance."

Matthew Henry - "Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world."

Matthew Henry - "Earth is embittered to us, that heaven may be endeared."

Matthew Henry - "Let us watch against unbelief, pride, and self-confidence. If we go forth in our own strength, we shall faint, and utterly fall; but having our hearts and our hopes in heaven, we shall be carried above all difficulties, and be enabled to lay hold of the prize of our high calling in Christ Jesus."

Matthew Henry - "Our duty as Christians is always to keep heaven in our eye and the earth under our feet."

Matthew Henry - "None are ruined by the justice of God but those that hate to be reformed by the grace of God."

Matthew Henry - "Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost."

Matthew Henry - "We best oppose error by promoting a solid knowledge of the word of truth, and the greatest kindness we can do to children, is to make them early to know the Bible."

Matthew Henry - "We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture."

Matthew Henry - "We should take heed of pride; it is a sin that turned angels into devils."

Matthew Henry - "Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people."

Matthew Henry - "When we are calling to God to turn the eye of His favor towards us He is calling to us to turn the eye of our obedience towards Him."

Matthew Henry - "Whichever way soever a man's genius lies, he should endeavor to honor God and edify the church with it."

Max Lucado - "Choose satisfaction over salary. Better to be happy with little than miserable with much."

Max Lucado - "Bread of Life? Jesus lived up to the title. But an unopened loaf does a person no good. Have you received the bread? Have you received God's forgiveness?"

Max Lucado - "Do you understand what God has done? He has deposited a Christ seed in you. As it grows you will change. It's not that sin has no more presence in your life, but rather that sin has no more power over your life."

Max Lucado - "God's blessings are dispersed according to the riches of his grace, not according to the depth of our faith."

Max Lucado - "God will use your mess for good. We see a perfect mess; God sees a perfect chance to train, test , and teach."

Max Lucado - "How grimy did God get when He reached down to clean you up? How grimy are you willing to get in order to be an 'imitator of God'?"

Max Lucado - "Seek first the kingdom of wealth and you'll worry over every dollar. Seek first the kingdom of health and you'll sweat every blemish and bump. Seek first the kingdom of popularity, and you'll relive every conflict. Seek first the kingdom of safety, and you'll jump at every crack of the twig. But seek first His kingdom and you will find it. On that, we can depend and never worry."

Max Lucado - "The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness. Sin celebrates its middle letter - sIn."

Max Lucado - "There is something about keeping Him divine that keeps Him distant, packaged, predictable. But don't do it. For heaven's sake, don't. Let Him be as human as He intended to be. Let Him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let Him in can He pull us out."

Max Lucado - "The soldiers gasped. Saul sighed. Goliath jeered. David swung. And God made His point. 'Anyone who underestimates what God can do with the ordinary has rocks in his head."

Max Lucado - "We exist to exhibit God, to display His glory. We serve as canvases for His brush stroke, papers for His pen, soil for His seeds, glimpses of His image."

Max Lucado - "When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold."

Max Lucado - "When you recognize God as Creator, you will admire Him. When you recognize His wisdom, you will learn from Him. When you discover His strength, you will rely on Him. But only when He saves you will you worship Him."

Max Lucado - "When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel."

Max Lucado - "Where we might think of sin as slip-ups or missteps, God views sin as a godless attitude that leads to godless action."

Max Lucado - "You present a challenge to Satan's plan. You carry something of God within you, something noble and holy, something the world needs - wisdom, kindness, mercy, skill. If Satan can neutralize you, he can mute your influence."

Max Lucado - "You see, it's one thing to accept Him as Lord, another to recognize Him as Savior - but it's another matter entirely to accept Him as Father."

Max Planck - "As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter. "

Max Planck - "Both religion and natural science require a belief in God for their activities, to the former He is the starting point, and to the latter the goal of every thought process. To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view."

Max Planck - "It was not by any accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls."

Max Planck - "There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other."

Michael Bauman - "God whispers in pleasure, speaks in between, and shouts in pain."

Michael Denton - "The tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than x10^-12 gms, each in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitively designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand thousand million atoms, far more complex than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the non-living world."

Michael Green - "Christianity does not hold the resurrection to be one among many tenets of belief. Without faith in the resurrection there would be no Christianity at all. The Christian church would never have begun; the Jesus-movement would have fizzled out like a damp squib with His execution. Christianity stands or falls with the truth of the resurrection. Once disprove it, and you have disposed of Christianity."

Michael Novak - “using reason is a little like using the naked eye, whereas ‘putting on faith’ is like putting on perfectly calibrated glasses… to capture otherwise invisible dimensions of reality.” 

Michel Foucault - "One cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person."

Napoleon Bonaparte - "I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between Him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genus? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him."

Napoleon Hill - "Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."

Nathaniel Hawthorne - "No man for any considerable period of time, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the truth."

Noah Webster - "The brief exposition of the constitution of the United States, will unfold to young persons the principles of republican government; and it is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the Bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion."

Noah Webster - "The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all of our civil constitutions and laws... All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible."

Noah Webster - "There are two powers only, sufficient to control men and secure the rights of individuals and a peaceable administration; these are the combined force of religion and law, and the force or fear of the bayonet."

Noah Webster - "The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His apostles, which enjoins humility, piety, and benevolence; which acknowledges in every person a brother, or a sister, and a citizen with equal rights. This is genuine Christianity, and to this we owe our free Constitutions of Government."

Norm Geisler - "Most relativists believe that relativism is absolutely true and that everyone should be a relativist. Therin lies the self-destructive nature of relativism. The relativist stands on the pinnacle of an absolute truth and wants to relativize everything else."

Norm Geisler - "Satre found atheism 'cruel', Camus 'dreadful', and Nietzsche 'maddening'. Atheists who consistently try to live without God tend to commit suicide or go insane. Those who are inconsistent live on the ethical or aesthetic shadow of Christian truth while they deny the reality that made the shadow."

Norm Geisler - "Truth is not determined by majority vote."

old adage - "An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."

old adage - "If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging."

old adage - "It is much easier to tone down a fanatic than to resurrect a corpse."

old adage - "Falsehood can make a trip around the world before truth can even get its boots on."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. - "The great act of faith is when man decides that he is not God."

Omar Bradley - "We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount... The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants."

Oswald Chambers - "God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh."

Oswald Chambers - "Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says - I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken 'toys', but as our father."

Oswald Chambers - "The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold."

Otto  Edward Leopold Von Bismarck - "Would to God that, apart from what is known in the world, I had no other sin upon my soul, for which I only hope to be forgiven by trusting in the blood of Christ. I know not whence I should derive my sense of duty if not from God. Orders and titles have no charm for me; I firmly believe in a life after death... To my steadfast faith alone do I owe the power of resisting all manner of absurdities which I have seen displayed throughout the past ten years. Deprive me of my faith, and you rob me of my Fatherland. Were I not a staunch Christian, did I not stand upon the miraculous basis of religion, you would never have possessed a Federal Chancellor in my person."

Patrick Henry - "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."

Patrick Henry - "Whether this will prove a blessing or a curse, will depend upon the use our people will make of the blessings which a gracious God hath bestowed on us. If they are wise, they will be great and happy. If they are of a contrary character, they will be miserable. Righteousness alone can exalt them as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this: and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself, an encourage it in others."

Paul Blanshard - "In religious matters it is now fashionable to define tolerance as the absence of criticism of any standard religion. All too often, this absence of criticism degenerates into a conspicuous absence of thought."

Paul Copan - "The scriptures are basically a narrative of God's interaction with human kind. If we lose this notion of God's desire for relationship with human beings, we're in danger of losing the heart of the Christian faith. Doctrines, of course, will flow from that, but when the scriptures call us to Believe, we're being called to put our trust in Someone, not just agree with a bunch of doctrine. Demons could do that. We are to commit ourselves to Christ."

Paul Lemoine - "The theory of evolution is impossible. At base, in spirit of appearances, no one any longer believes in it... Evolution is a kind of dogma which the priests no longer believe, but which they maintain for their people."

Paul Miller - "Anxiety wants to be God but lacks God's wisdom, power, or knowledge."

Paul Miller - "As my friend Cathie reflected on why this is true in her own life, she observed, 'I make the jump from optimism to darkness so quickly because I am not grounded in a deep, abiding faith that God is in the matter, no matter what the matter is. I am looking for pleasant results, not deeper realities."

Paul Miller - "Don't be embarrassed by how needy your heart is and how much it needs to cry out for grace. Just start praying."

Paul Miller - "If God is sovereign, then he is in control of all the details of my life. If he is loving, then he is going to be shaping the details of my life for my good. If he is all-wise, then he's not going to do everything I want because I don't know what I need. If he is patient, then he is going to take the time to do all this."

Paul Miller - "Jesus never used his power to show off. He used his power for love. So he wasn't immediately noticeable. Humility makes you disappear, which is why we avoid it."

Paul Miller - "Majesty and humility are such an odd fit. This is one reason we struggle with prayer. We just don't think God could be concerned with the puny details of our lives. We either believe he's too big or that we're not that important. No wonder Jesus told us to be like little children! Little children are not daunted by the size of their parents. They come, regardless."

Paul Miller - "There is far too much depth in people to be able to capture love easily. Likewise, there is far too much depth in God to capture prayer easily."

Paul Miller - "We can't do battle with evil without letting God destroy the evil in us as well. The world is far too intertwined."

Paul Miller - "You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever; you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it... If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see."

Paul Miller - "You don't experience God; you get to know him. You submit to him. You enjoy him. He is, after all, a person."

Peter Kreeft - "Subtract miracles from Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, or Toaism, and you have essentially the same religion left. Subtract miracles from Christianity, and you have nothing but the cliches and platitudes most American Christians get weekly (and weakly) from their pulpits."

Peter Kreeft (and Ronald K. Tacelli) - "A man walking through a wall is a miracle. A man both walking and not walking through a wall at the same time and in the same respect is a contradiction. God can perform miracles but not contradictions - not because his power is limited, but because contradictions are meaningless."

Peter Kreeft (and Ronald K. Tacelli)- "The resurrection is of crucial practical importance because it completes our salvation. Jesus came to save us from sin and its consequence, death. The resurrection also sharply distinguishes Jesus from all other religious founders. The bones of Abraham and Muhammad and Buddha and Confucius and Lao-Tzu and Zoroaster are still here on earth. Jesus' tomb is empty. The existential consequences of the resurrection are incomparable. It is the concrete factual, empirical proof that: life has hope and meaning; "love is stronger than death"; goodness and power are ultimately allies, not enemies; life wins in the end; God has touched us right here where we are and has defeated our last enemy; we are not cosmic orphans, as our modern secular worldview would make us. And these existential consequences of the resurrection can be seen by comparing the disciples before and after. Before, they ran away, denied their Master and huddled behind locked doors in fear and confusion. After, they were transformed from scared rabbits into confident saints, world-changing missionaries, courageous martyrs and joy-filled touring ambassadors for Christ."

Peter Stoner - "We find that the chance that any man might have lived down to the present time and fulfilled all eight prophecies is 1 in 10 to the 17th power. That would be 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000. In order to help us comprehend this, we take 10 to the 17th power silver dollars and lay them on the face of Texas. They will cover all of the state two feet deep. Now mark one of these silver dollars and stir the whole mass thoroughly, all over the state. Blindfold a man and tell him that he can travel as far as he wishes, but he must pick up one silver dollar and say that this is the right one. What chance would he have of getting the right one? Just the same chance that the prophets would have had of writing these eight prophecies and having them all come true in any one man, from their day to the present time, providing they wrote them according to their own wisdom. Now these prophecies were either given by inspiration of God or the prophets just wrote them as they thought they should be. In such a case the prophets had just one chance in 10 to the 17th power. of having them come true in any man, but they all came true in Christ. This means that the fulfillment of these eight prophecies alone proves that God inspired the writings of those prophecies to a definiteness which lacks only one chance in 10 to the 17th power of being absolute."

Peter Stoner - "We find that the chances that any one man fulfilled all 48 prophecies to be 1 in 10 to the 157th power. This is really a large number and it represents an extremely small chance. Let us try to visualize it. The silver dollar, which we have been using, is entirely too large. We must select a smaller object. The electron is about as small an object as we know of. It is so small that it will take 2.5 times 10 to the 15th power of them laid side by side to make a line, single file, one inch long. If we were going to count the electrons in this line one inch long, and counted 250 each minute, and if we counted day and night, it would take us 19,000,000 years to count just the one-inch line of electrons. If we had a cubic inch of these electrons and we tried to count them it would take us, counting steadily 250 each minute, 19,000,000 times 19,000,000 times 19,000,000 years or 6.9 times 10 to the 21st power years. With this introduction, let us go back to our chance of 1 in 10 to the 157th power. Let us suppose that we are taking this number of electrons, marking one, and thoroughly stirring it into the whole mass, then blindfolding a man and letting him try to find the right one. What chance has he of finding the right one? What kind of a pile will this number of electrons make? They make an inconceivably large volume."

Peter Van Inwagen - "Each of our beliefs and assertions represent the World as being a certain way, and the belief or assertion is true if the World is that way, and false if the World is not that way. It is, as one might put it, up to our beliefs and assertions to get the World right; if they don't, they're not doing their job, and that's their fault and no fault of the World's. Our beliefs and assertions are thus related to the World as a map is related to the territory: it is up to the map to get the territory right, and if the map doesn't get the territory right, that's the fault of the map and no fault of the territory."

Philip Brooks - "Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be a miracle."

Philip Exner - "Don't think about what other people think about you, because most people don't."

Philip Shaff - "His [Jesus'] zeal never degenerated into passion, nor His constancy into obstinacy, nor his benevolence into weakness, nor His tenderness into sentimentality. HIs unworldliness was free from indifference and unsociability, His dignity from pride and presumption, His affectibility from undue familiarity, His self-denial from moroseness, His temperance from austerity. He combined child-like innocency with manly strength, absorbing devotion to God with untiring interest in the welfare of man, tender love to the sinner with uncompromising severity against sin, commanding dignity with winning humility, fearless courage with wise caution, unyielding firmness with sweet gentleness."

Philip Schaff - "The resurrection of Christ is therefore emphatically a test question upon which depends the truth or falsehood of the Christian religion. It is either the greatest miracle or the greatest delusion which history records."

Philip Schaff - "This Jesus of Nazareth, without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander, Caesar, Mohammed, and Napoleon; without science and learning, He shed more light on things human and divine than all the philosophers and scholars combined; without the eloquence of schools, He spoke such words of life as were never spoken before or since and produced effects which lie beyond the reach of orator or poet; without writing a single line, He set more pens in motion, and furnished themes for more sermons, orations, discussions, learned volumes, works of art, and songs of praise, that the  whole army of great men of ancient and modern times."

Philip Yancey - "A person who lives in faith must proceed on incomplete evidence, trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse."

Philip Yancey - "How would telling people to be nice to one another get a man crucified? What government would execute Mister Rogers or Captain Kangaroo?"

P. J. O'Rourke - "I'm a member of the 1960's generation. We didn't have any wisdom. We were the moron generation. We were the generation that believed we could stop the Vietnam War by growing our hair long and dressing like circus clowns. We believed drugs would change everything - which they did, for John Belushi. We believed in free love. Yes, the love was free, but we paid a high price for the sex. My generation spoiled everything for you. It has always been the special prerogative of young people to look and act weird and shock grown-ups. But my generation exhausted the Earth's resources of the weird. Weird clothes - we wore them. Weird beards - we grew them. Weird words and phrases - we said them. So, when it came your turn to be original and look and act weird, all you had left was to tattoo your faces and pierce your tongues. Ouch. That must have hurt. I apologize."

Publius Cornelius Tacitus - "To plunder, butcher, steal, these things they misname empire: they make a desolation and call it peace."

Randy Alcorn - “God is grooming us for leadership. He’s watching to see how we demonstrate our faithfulness. He does that through his apprenticeship program, one that prepares us for Heaven. Christ is not simply preparing a place for us; he is preparing us for that place.”

Randy Alcorn - "The cost of redemption cannot be overstated. The wonders of grace cannot be overemphasized. Christ took the hell He didn't deserve so we could have the heaven we don't deserve."

Randy Alcorn - "Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin does not."

Ravi Zacharias - "As questioners, we think we understand evil and its nature. We only do to a limited extent - and it is like seeing a candle when God sees the devastating power of evil as a lightning bolt to the soul. We only grasp in small measure how heinous evil is. We look at the symptoms; God looks at the disease. We look at the rape as a violation of one person; God looks at the violation of the one as the violation of the very image of God. We look at moral issues that hurt society; God looks at the profane heart that desecrates everything in the process. We look at laws that will make life mutually livable; God looks at the regenerate heart that will make life in itself pleasurable."

Ravi Zacharias  - "Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave."

Ravi Zacharias - "I have little doubt that the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out."

Ravi Zacharias - "Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality. a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us."

Ravi Zacharias - "To allow God to be God we must follow Him for who He is and what He intends, and not for what we want and what we prefer."

Ravi Zacharias - "The denial of an objective moral law, based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God, results ultimately in the denial of evil iteself."

Ray Stedman - “Admire them. There’s nothing wrong with admiring others. Study their method; learn from their mistakes; take note of what made them who they are. You can even emulate a few of their qualities. But never attempt to be them.”

Reinhold Niebuhr - "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference..."

Richard Baxter - "Fe men are apt to believe that which they would not have to be true, and fewer would have that to be true, which they apprehend to be against them."

Richard Baxter - "It is true, that men may have Christ whenever they are willing to comply with His terms. But if you are not willing now, how can you think you shall be willing hereafter?"

Richard Baxter - "Till men are deeply humbled, they can part with Christ and Salvation for a lust, for a little wordly gain, for that which is less than nothing. But when God hath enlightened their consciences, and broken their hearts, then they would give a world for Christ."

Richard Baxter - "'Tis hard preaching a stone into tears, or making a rock to tremble."

Richard Baxter - "The devils never had a Savior offered to them, but you have; and do you yet make light of Him?"

Richard Baxter - "The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means of grace, and resisteing the spirit of grace."

Richard Baxter - "What we most value, we shall think no pains too great to gain."

Richard Chenevix Trench - “[We must not] conceive of prayer as though it were an overcoming of God’s reluctance, when it is, in fact, a laying hold of his highest willingness.”

Richard Foster - "And so I urge you to still every motion that is not rooted in the Kingdom."

Richard Foster - "Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things."

Richard Foster - "He is inviting you - and me - to come home, to come home to where we belong, to come home to that for which we were created. His arms are stretched out wide to receive us. His heart is enlarged to take us in."

Richard Foster - "In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research."

Richard Foster - "Jesus Christ and all the writers of the New Testament call us to break free of mammon lust and live in joyous trust... They point us toward a way of living in which everything we have we recieve as a gift, and everything we have is cared for by God, and everything we have is available to others when it is right and good. This reality frames the heart of Christian simplicity. It is the means of liberation and power to do what is right and to overcome the forces of fear and avarice."

Richard Foster - "Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we do not draw near to Him. He grieves that we have forgotten Him. He weeps over our obsession with muchness and manyness. He longs for our presence."

Richard Lewontin - "We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so-stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, the materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door."

Rick Husband - "Don't die before your dead! Don't let anything stand in your way of God's appointed purpose for your life."

Rick Husband - "I try to be the best husband and father I possibly can. And it doesn't mean I get to spend as much time with my family as I'd like, but I do the best I can. Even if you do get to be an astronaut and get to go and do a lot of interesting things, at some point that will come to an end. If in the process you short change your family or compromise your values along the way, when you get through on the other side, it won't really be worth it. At least not to me."

Robert Boyle - "Our Saviour would love at no less rate than death; and from the supereminent height of glory, stooped and debased Himself to the sufferance of the extremest of indignities, and sunk himself to the bottom of abjectness, to exalt our condition to the contrary extreme."

R. C. Sproul - "I don't always feel His presence. But God's promises do not depend upon my feelings; they rest upon His integrity."

R. C. Sproul - "It's dangerous to assume that because a man is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. I am sure that the reason that I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy."

R. C. Sproul - "No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian has a theology. The issue, then, is not, dowe want to have a theology? That's a given. The real issue is, do we have a sound theology.? Do we embrace true or false doctrine?"

R. C. Sproul - "Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself."

Robert Jastrow - “For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance, he is about to conquer the highest peak. As he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.” 

Rodney 'Gypsy' Smith - "There are five Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and the Christian, and some people will never read the first four."

Ronald Reagan - "America was founded by people who believed that God was their rock of safety. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on our side, but I think it's all right to keep asking if we're on His side."

Ronald Reagan - "Government must not supersede the will of the people or the responsibilities of the people. The function of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."

Ronald Reagan - "I know that it is often difficult to stand up for one's beliefs when they are being harshly challenged. But as one who has seen many challenges over a long lifetime, I can assure you that personal faith and conviction are strengthened, not weakened, in adversity."

Ronald Reagan - "In 1962, the Supreme Court in the New York prayer case banned the... saying of prayers. In 1963, the Court banned the reading of the Bible in our public schools. From that point on, the courts pushed the meaning of the ruling ever outward, so that now our children are not allowed voluntary prayer. We even had to pass a law - pass a special law in the Congress just a few weeks ago - to allow student prayer groups the same access to school rooms after classes that a Young Marxist Society, for example, would already enjoy with no opposition... The 1962 decision opened the way to a flood of similar suits. Once religion had been made vulnerable, a series of assaults were made in one court after another, on one issue after another. Cases were started to argue against tax-exempt status for churches. Suits were brought to abolish the words 'Under God' from the Pledge of Allegiance, and to remove 'In God We Trust' from public documents and from our currency. Without God there is no virtue because  there is no prompting of the conscience... without God there is a coarsening of the society; without God democracy will not and cannot long endure... If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under."

Ronald Reagan - "The family has always been the cornerstone of American society. Our families nurture, preserve, and pass on to each succeeding generation the values we share and cherish, values that are the foundation for our freedoms. In the family we learn our first lessons of God and man, love and discipline, rights and responsibilities, human dignity and human frailty. Our families give us daily examples of these lessons being put into practice. In raising and instructing our children, in providing personal and compassionate care for the elderly, in maintaining the spiritual strength of religious commitment among our people - in these and other ways, America's families make immeasurable contributions to America's well-being. Today more than ever, it is essential that these contributions not be taken for granted and that each of us remember that the strength of our families is vital to the strength of our nation."

Ronald Reagan - "I know that it is often difficult to stand up for one's beliefs when they are being harshly challenged. But as one who has seen many challenges over a long lifetime, I can assure you that personal faith and conviction are strengthened, not weakened, in adversity."

Ronald Reagan - “Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook.”

Roger Williams - "Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world."

Roger Williams - "When they have opened a gap in the hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world, God hath ever broke down the wall itself, removed the candlestick, and made his garden a wilderness, as at this day. And that therefore if He will e'er please to restore His garden and paradise again, it must be of necessity be walled in peculiarly unto Himself from the world...and that be saved out of the world are to be transplanted out of the wilderness of the World."

Roy Lessin - "Just think, you're not here by chance, but by God's choosing. His hand formed you and made you the person you are. He compares you to no one else - you are one of a kind. You lack nothing that His grace can't give you. He has allowed you to be here at this time in history to fulfill His special purpose for this generation."

Ralph Waldo Emerson - "God offers every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take what you please - you can never have both."

Samuel Adams - "A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when they lose their virtue they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader... If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security."

Samuel Adams - "How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!"

Samuel Adams - "Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age, by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, of inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity and universal philanthropy, and, in subordination to these great principles, the love of their country; of instructing them in the art of self-government without which they never can act a wise part in the government of societies, great or small; in short, of leading them in the study  and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system."

Samuel Adams - "The right to freedom being the gift of the Almighty... The rights of the colonists as Christians... may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institution of The Great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament."

Samuel Chase - "Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people. By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christianity are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty."

Samuel Gordon - "Philosophically there must be a hell.  That is the name for the place where God is not; for the place where they will gather together who insist on leaving God out. God out! There can be no worse hell than that! God away! Man held back by no restraints!"

Samuel Gordon - "The heart of God hungers to redeem the world."

Samuel Gordon - "We cannot know a man's mental processes. THis is surely true, that if in the very last half-twinkling of an eye a man look up towards God longingly, that look is the turning of the will to God. And that is quite enough."

Samuel Gordon - "With due reverence, but very plainly, let it be said that God can do nothing for the man with shut hand and shut life. There must be an open hand and heart and life through which God can give what He longs to."

Sara Williams - "The song goes, 'I say tomato, you say tomatoe, why can't we just get along?' but I say tomato, you say potato, one of us is wrong."

Sara Williams - "You know that saying, 'not talking about ... would be like ignoring the elephant in the room'? Well, not talking about God is like shutting your eyes and ignoring the dark."

Saul Bellow - "Everyone needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door."

Senate Judiciary Committee report by Mr. Badger in 1853 - "The clause speaks of 'an establishment of religion'. What is meant by that expression? It referred, without doubt, to that establishment which existed in the mother-country... endowment at the public expense, peculiar privileges to its members, or disadvantages or penalties upon those who should reject its doctrines or belong to other communities - such law would be a 'law respecting an establishment of religion...' They intended, by this amendment, to prohibit 'an establishment of religion' such as the English Church presented, or any thing like it. But they had no fear or jealousy of religion itself, nor did they wish to see us an irreligious people... They did not intend to spread over all the public authorities and the whole public action of the nation the dead and revolting spectacle of atheistic apathy. Not so had the battles of the Revolution been fought and the deliberations of the Revolutionary Congress been conducted... We are a Christian people... not because the law demands it, not to gain exclusive benefits or to avoid legal disabilities, but from choice and education; and in a land thus universally Christian, what is to be expected, what desired, but that we shall pay due regard to Christianity."

Simon Greenleaf - "All that Christianity asks of men...is that they would be consistent with themselves; that they would treat its evidence as they treat the evidence of other things; and that they would try and judge its actors and witnesses, as they would deal with their fellow men, when testifying to human affairs and actions, in human tribunals. Let the witnesses be compared with themselves, with each other, and with surrounding facts and circumstances; and let their testimony be sifted, as if it were given in a court of justice, on the side of the adverse party, the witness being subjected to rigorous cross-examination. The result, it is confidently believed, will be an undoubting conviction of their integrity, ability, and truth."

Simon Greenleaf - "If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would seem incumbent upon lawyers who make the law of evidence one of our peculiar studies. Our profession leads us to explore the mazes of falsehood, to detect its artifices, to pierce its thickest veils, to follow and expose its sophistries, to compare the statements of different witnesses with severity, to discover truth and separate it from error."

Simon Greenleaf - "On the Divine character of the Bible, I think no man who deals honestly with his own mind and heart can entertain a reasonable doubt. For myself, I must say, that having for many years made the evidences of Christianity the subject of close study, the result has been a firm and increasing conviction of the authenticity and plenary inspiration of the Bible. It is indeed the Word of God."

Simon Greenleaf - "The religion of Jesus Christ... not only solicits the grave attention of all, to whom its doctrines are presented, but it demands their cordial belief as a matter of vital concernment. These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest; much less to treat them with mere indifference and contempt."

Smith Wigglesworth - "Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials."

Soren Kirkegaard - God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful; he makes saints out of sinners.

Soren Kirkegaard - Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kirkegaard - Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.  

Soren Kirkegaard - "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." 

Soren Kirkegaard - Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. 

Soren Kirkegaard - Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Stephen Jay Gould - "The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology."

Steven Ambrose - "It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not."

Steven Ambrose - "The measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience; but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

Steven Levine - "If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"

Mother Teresa of Calcutta - "God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be faithful."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta - "How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even His life to love us. So the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love ,that is, to give until it hurts her plans or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts. By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And, by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility for the child he has brought into the world. The father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use violence to get what they want. That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion... Please don't kill the child. I want the child. please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child and be loved by the child.... If we remember that God loves us, and that we can love others as He loves us, then America can become a sign of peace for the world. From here, a sign of care for the weakest of the weak - the unborn child - must go out to the world. If you become a burning light of justice and peace in the world, then really you will be true to what the founders of this country stood for."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta - "It is impossible to love God without loving our neighbor."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta - "I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta - "Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta - "The greatest disease in the West today is not tuberculosis or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different king of poverty - it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta - "We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts. Christ presents Himself to us under every disguise: the dying, the paralytic, the leper, the invalid, the orphan."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta - "We can do no great things, only small things with great love."

Teresa of Avila - "Lord, how you afflict your lovers! But everything is small in comparison to what you give them afterwards."

Terry Williams - "When I find that it is not clear to me what God's will is for me, like where He wants you to go, I find that you should go out and find as many keys to as many doors as you can, so when the door does come, you will be ready for it."

Theodore Roosevelt - "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."

Theodore Roosevelt - "It is not the critic who counts... the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short against and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause."

Theodore Roosevelt - "The great historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level."

Theodore Roosevelt - "The true Christian is the true citizen, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on his task because it is cast in the day of small things; scornful of baseness, awake to his own duties as well as to his rights, following the higher law with reverence, and in this world doing all that in his power lies, so that when death comes he may feel that mankind is in some degree better because he lived."

‎Thomas Edison - "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." 

Thomas a Kempis - "Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."

Thomas a Kempis - "By two wings is man lifted above earthly things, even by simplicity and purity. Simplicity ought to be in the intention, purity in the affection."

Thomas a Kempis - "Fight like a man. Habit is overcome by habit."

Thomas a Kempis - "Hence we must support one another, console one another, mutually help, counsel, and advise, for the measure of every man's virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is."

Thomas a Kempis - "If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance."

Thomas a Kempis - "If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons. To take no account of oneself but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection."

Thomas a Kempis - "I have often heard, that it is safer to hear and to take counsel, than to give it."

Thomas a Kempis - "In the Cross is salvation; in the Cross is life; in the Cross is protection against our enemies; in the Cross is infusion of heavenly sweetness; in the Cross is strength of mind; in the Cross is joy of spirit; in the Cross is excellence of virtue; in the Cross is perfection of holiness. There is no salvation of soul, nor hope of eternal life, save in the Cross."

Thomas a Kempis - "Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God."

Thomas a Kempis - "Love flies, runs, leaps for joy; it is free and unrestrained. Love gives all for all, resting in One who is highest above all things, from whom every good flows and proceeds. Love does not regard the gifts, but turns to the Giver of all good gifts. Love knows no limits, but ardently transcends all bounds. Love feels no burden, takes no account of toil, attempts things beyond its strength; love sees nothing as impossible, for it feels able to achieve all things. Love therefore does great things; it is strange and effective; while he who lacks love faints and fails."

Thomas a Kempis - "Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, longsuffering, manly and never seeking her own; for wheresoever a man seeketh his own, there he falleth from love."

Thomas a Kempis - "No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey."

Thomas a Kempis - "Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger or higher or wider, nothing is more pleasant, nothing fuller, and nothing better in heaven or on earth, for love is born of God and cannot rest except in God."

Thomas a Kempis - "Remain tranquil and prepare to bear still greater trials. All is not lost even though you be troubled oftener or tempted more grievously. You are a man, not God. You are flesh, not an angel. How can you possibly expect to remain always in the same state of virtue when the angels in heaven and the first man in paradise failed to do so? I am He who rescues the afflicted and brings to My divinity those who know their own weakness."

Thomas a Kempis - "The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does."

Thomas a Kempis - "The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace."

Thomas Aquinas - “We shall first try to manifest the truth that faith professes and reason investigates, setting forth demonstrative and probable arguments, so that the truth may be confirmed and the adversary convinced.”

Thomas Heyward Jr. - "Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing."

Thomas Heyward Jr. - "Love...asks that you disavow your attempt to enlarge your own identity by diminishing that of others. It asks that you cease your effort to safeguard your own claims as well-being by assuming the inferiority of others' claims. It asks, actually, that you die." 

Thomas Jefferson - "An eloquent preacher of your religious society, Richard Mote, in a discourse of much emotion and pathos, is said to have exclaimed aloud to his congregation that he did not believe there was a Quaker, Presbyterian, Methodist, or Baptist in heaven, having paused to give his hearers time to stare and wonder. He added, that in heaven, God knew no distinctions..."

Thomas Jefferson - "Be it enacted, that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or beliefs....all people shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion"

Thomas Jefferson - "God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?"

Thomas Jefferson - "He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions."

Thomas Jefferson - "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."

Thomas Jefferson - "My views... are the result of a life of inquiry and reflection, and very different from the anti-christian system imputed to me by those who know nothing of my opinions. To the corruptions of Christianity, I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrine in preference to all others..."

Thomas Jefferson - "No power over the freedom of religion...[is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution."

Thomas Jefferson - "Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures of this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I steadfastly believe. The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes, should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives. The only method of doing this is to assume a perfect resignation to the Divine will, to consider that whatever does happen, must happen; and that, by our uneasiness, we cannot prevent the blow before it does fall, but we may add to its force after it has fallen."

Thomas Jefferson - "The Christian Religion, when divested of the rags in which they have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of its benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind."

Thomas Jefferson - "The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion."

Thomas Jefferson - "The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue."

Thomas Jefferson - "The precepts of philosophy and of the Hebrew code, laid hold of actions only. (Jesus) pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man, erected his tribunal in the regions of his thoughts, and purified the waters at the fountain head."

Thomas Merton - "Why do we have to spend our lives striving to be something that we would never want to be, if we only knew what we wanted? Why do we waste our time doing things which... are just the opposite of what we were made for?"

Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson - "Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave."

Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson - "Oh God, let this terrible war quickly come to an end that we may all return home and engage in the only work that is worthwhile - and that is the salvation of men."

Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson - "When we take our meals, there is the grace. When I take a draught of water, I always pause... to lift up my heart to God in thanks and prayer for the water of life. Whenever I a letter... I send a petition along with it, for God's blessing upon its mission and upon the person to whom it is sent. When I (open) a letter... I stop to pray to God that He may prepare me for its contents... When I go to my class-room and await the arrangement of the cadets in their places, that is my time to intercede with God for them."

Thorton Wilder - "The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve."

Tim Lahaye - "If chance be the Father of all flesh, disaster is his rainbow in the sky, and when you hear, State of emergency! Sniper kills Ten! Troops on Rampage! Whites go Looting! Bomb Blasts School! It is but the sound of man worshipping his maker."

Timothy Keller - "An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a false god. This occurs when people rely on the rightness of their doctrine for their standing with God rather than on God himself and his grace. It is a subtly but deadly mistake. The sign that you have slipped into this form of self-justification is that you become what the book of Proverbs calls a 'scoffer'."

Timothy Keller - "It came to him like a thunderbolt that God's grace was as much theirs as it was his. Why? Because grace is grace. If it is truly grace, then no one was worthy of it at all, and that made all equal."

Timothy Keller - "When love of one's people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods."

T. K. Whipple "Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream."

Tom Campbell Clark - "The Founding Fathers believed devoutly that there was a God and that the unalienable rights of man were rooted - not in the state, nor the legislature, nor in any other human power - but in God alone."

Tom Hopkins - "The number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying."

T.S. Eliot - We shall not cease from exploration/And the end of all our exploring/Will be to arrive where we started/And know the place for the first time.

Tupac Shakur - "Why am I fighting to live, if I'm just living to fight? Why am I trying to see, when there ain't nothing in sight? Why am I dying to live, if I'm just living to die?

Ulysses S Grant - "My advice to Sunday schools, no matter what their denomination, is: Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives. to the influence of this Book are we indebted for all the progress made in true civilization, and to this must we look as our guide in the future. 'Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people'"

Unknown - "A conservative is just a liberal whose been mugged by reality."

Unknown - "Emotions are great servants, but terrible masters."

Unknown (perhaps the last words of an African martyr) - "I am part of the Fellowship of the Unashamed. The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. I won't look back, let up, slow down, back away, or be still. My past is redeemed, my present makes sense, and my future is secure. I'm finished and done with low living, sight-walking, small planning, smooth knees, colorless dreams, tame visions, mundane talking, cheap giving, and dwarfed goals. My pace is set, my gait is fast, my goal is Heaven, my road is narrow, my way is rough, my companions few, my Guide reliable, my mission clear. I won't give up, back up, let up, or shut up until I've preached up, prayed up, paid up, stored up, and stayed up for the cause of Christ. I must go until He returns, give until I drop, preach until all know, and work until He comes. And when He comes to get His own, He will have no problem recognizing me. My colors will be clear. 'For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.'"

Unknown - "Methods are many, principles are few. Methods always change, principles never do."

Unknown - "My heart was dark with sin
Until the Savior came in;
His precious blood I know,
Has washed me white as snow.

And in God's word I'm told
I'll walk the streets of gold; 
To grow in Christ every day
I read my Bible and pray."

Unknown - "One day Labauch asked God why humans had to do most of the talking in their relationship with God - especially since he was wiser. God answered:When you are teaching the Moros to read, your art is to say as little as you can and leave them to say as much as they will. That is why I leave you to do and say as much as you can, while I say little. You learn by doing, even when you make mistakes and correct them. You are to be sons and daughters of God, and now you are taking the first feeble steps of infants. Every step you take along is infinitely more important than you now imagine, because the thing I am preparing you for exceeds all your imagination. So the talking you do to me is essential. The talking others do to you, when they are trying to talk up to your expectations is more important than the talks you give to them. This is the best way to act: Talk a great deal to Me. Let others talk a great deal to you, appreciate everything fine they say and neglecting their mistakes."

Unknown - "One night in late October 
When I was far from sober
Returning with my pad with manly pride
Me feet began to stutter
So I lay down in the gutter
And a pig came near and lay down by my side
A lady passing by was heard to say
'You can tell a man who boozes 
By the company he chooses'
And the pig got up and slowly walked away."

Unknown - "Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: Knowing when to come in out of the rain; why the early bird gets the worm; life isn't always fair; and maybe it was my fault. Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).
His Health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student only worsened his condition. Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an Aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion. Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses, and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap and was promptly awarded a huge settlement. Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust; his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason. He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers; I Know My Rights, I Want It Now, Someone Else Is To Blame, and I'm A Victim.
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing."

Unknown - “A vision without a task is a dream. A task without vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.”

Unknown - “Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. What your character, it becomes your destiny.”

Unknown Coptic Orphan - "I'll die... but I'll die upon my faith. My life has lost it's meaning, my pen aches with the injustices. My country refuses to hear me. Every feast brings me to tears. I'll die... but I'll die upon my faith. I'll die in the Churches of the Saints. Blown up, or sliced in half. Not one, but 30 die. Where are the security forces who protect me? I'll die... but I'll die upon my faith. I'll die on the train in Samalot. Are we afraid of death? Death will send us to heaven and I will see the Lord who saved me. I'll die... but I'll die upon my faith. I'll die in the North, or in the South. On a normal day or a feast day. Whether they call me murdered or martyred. Whichever way, what's important is to die upon my faith. Whole or in pieces, in the street or in the church. I have lived my whole life as prey, and only the Lord helps me. I'll die... but I'll die upon my faith. Why do you want to force us out? And chase us from our country? This is my country, and my father's country, and we are not leaving. I'll die... but I'll die upon my faith. If they harrass you at work or make your life difficult, never forsake your father's faith. Before he died, he commanded me, I'll die... but I'll die upon my faith."

Victor Marie Hugo - "Courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones, and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."

Victor Marie Hugo - "England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England."

Virginia Bill of Rights, 1776 - "That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other."

Walter Wilson - "'My Lord,' he said brokenly, 'I have mistreated You all my life. I have treated You like a servant. When I wanted You, I called for you; when I was about to engage in something important I beckoned You to come and help me perform my task. I have sought to use You only as a servant to help me in my self-appointed work. I will do so no more.' Lord, I give you this body of mine; from my head to my feet, I give it to You. My hands, my limbs, my eyes, my brains; all that I am inside and out, I hand over to you. Live in and through me whatever life You please. You may send this body to Africa, or lay it on a bed with cancer. you may blind my eyes, or send me with Your message to Tibet. You may take this body to the Eskimos, or send it to a hospital with pneumonia. This body of mine is Yours alone from this moment on."

Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger - "There is an unbroken history of official acknowledgement by all three branches of government of the role of religion in American life... The Constitution does not require a complete separation of church and state. It affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions and forbids hostility towards any."

Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger - "The men who wrote the First Amendment religion clause did not view paid legislative chaplains and opening prayers as a violation of that amendment... the practice of  opening sessions with prayer has continued without interruption ever since that early session of Congress. It can hardly be thought that in the same week the members of the first Congress voted to appoint and pay a chaplain for each House and also voted to approve the draft of the First Amendment... (that) they intended to forbid what they had just declared acceptable." 

Wernher Von Braun - "I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advance of science."

Wernher Von Braun - "In this age of space flight, when we use the modern tools of science to advance into new regions of human activity, the Bible - this grandiose, stirring history of the gradual revelation and unfolding of the moral law - remains in every way an up-to-date book. Our knowledge and use of the laws of nature that enable us to fly to the moon also enable us to destroy our home planet with the atom bomb. Science itself does not address the question whether we should use the power at our disposal for good or evil. The guidelines of what we ought to do are furnished in the moral law of God. It is no longer enough that we pray that God may be with us on our side. We must learn to pray that we may be on God's side."

Wernher Von Braun - "One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all... The better we understand the intricacies of the universe and all it harbors, the more reason we have found to marvel at the inherent design upon which it is based... To be forced to believe only one conclusion - that everything in the universe happened by chance - would violate the very objectivity of science itself... What random process could produce the brains of a man or the system of the human eye? They (evolutionists) challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?... They say they cannot visualize a Designer. Well, can a physicist visualize an electron?... What strange rationale makes some physicists accept the inconceivable electron as real while refusing to accept the reality of a Designer on the ground that they cannot conceive Him?... It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science classroom. It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than happening by chance."

Whittaker Chambers - "External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible. Religion and freedom are indivisible. Without freedom the soul dies. Without the soul there is no justification for freedom."

Wilbur Smith - "Let it simply be said that we know more about the details of the hours immediately before and the actual death of Jesus, in and near Jerusalem, than we know about the death of any other one man in all the ancient world."

Wilbur Smith - "That Jesus said He was going up to Jerusalem to die is not so remarkable, though all the details He gave about that death, weeks and months before He died, are together a prophetic phenomenon. But when He said that He himself would rise again from the dead, the third day after He was crucified, He said something that only a fool would dare say, if he expected longer the devotion of any disciples - unless He was sure He was going to rise. No founder of any world religion known to men ever dared say a thing like that!"

William "Billy" Sunday - "Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile."

William W. Bennett (recounted from an anonymous soldier) - "I saw something today which affected me more than anything I ever saw or read on religion. While the battle was raging and the bullets were flying, Jackson rode by, calm as if he were at home, but his head was raised toward heaven, and his lips were moving evidently in prayer."

William Blackstone - "Man, considered as a creature, must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being... And, consequently, as man depends absolutely upon his Maker for everything, it is necessary that he should in all points conform to his Maker's will... this will of his Maker is called the law of nature."

William Blackstone - "The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the holy scriptures.. are found upon comparison to be really part of the original law of nature. Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to contradict these."

William Blackstone - "These laws laid down by God are the eternal immutable laws of good and evil.. This law of nature dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this..." 

William Kirk Kilpatrick - "The real test of a theory or way of life, however, is not whether it can relieve pain, but what it says about the pain it can't relieve. And this is where, I believe, psychology lets us down and Christianity supports us, for in psychology suffering has no meaning, while in Christianity it has great meaning."

William Bradford - "Being thus constrained to leave their native soil and country, their lands and livings, and all their friends and familiar acquaintances... to go into a country they knew not (but by hearsay) where they must learn a new language, and get their livings they knew not how, it being a dear place, and subject to the miseries of war, it was by many though an adventure almost desperate, a case intolerable, and a misery worse than death... But these things did not dismay them (though they did sometimes trouble them) for their desires were set on the ways of God and to enjoy His ordinances; but they rested in His providence, and knew whom they had believed..."

William H. Rehnquist - "It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted with Jefferson's misleading metaphor for nearly forty years... There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the framers intended to build a wall of separation... The recent court decisions are in no way based on either the language or intent of the framers."

William J. Federer - "The mark stood for the phrase Christ-Cross me speed ("May Christ's Cross give me success"), an invocation said before reciting the alphabet. The Criss-Cross or Christ's-Cross (X) was also a form of written oath to God used before signing one's name on a document; and in the event a person could not write, it was used in place of his or her signature."

William James - "There is nothing so absurd but if you repeat it often enough people will believe it."

William Law - "For who does not know, that it is better to be pure and holy than to talk about purity and holiness?"

William Law - It is the same impossibility for a thing to be created out of nothing, as to be created by nothing."

William Law - "Pride, self-exaltation, hatred, and persecution, under a cloak of religious zeal, will sanctify actions which nature, left to itself, would be ashamed to own."

William Law - "Will you let the fear of a false world, that has no love for you, keep you from the fear of that God, who has only created you, that he may love and bless you to all eternity?"

William McKinley - "Our faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers... who will not forsake us so long as we obey His commandments and walk humbly in His footsteps."

William McKinley - "The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation."

William Orville Douglas - "The first amendment, however, does not say that in every respect there shall be a separation of Church and State. Rather, 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 alien to each other - hostile, suspicious, and even unfriendly... Municipalities would not be permitted to render police or fire protection to religious groups. Policemen who helped parishioners into their places of worship would violate the Constitution. Prayers in our legislative halls; the appeals to the Almighty in the messages of the Chief Executive; the proclamation making Thanksgiving Day a holiday; 'so help me God' in our courtroom oaths - these and all other references to the Almighty that run through our laws, our public rituals, our ceremonies, would be flouting the First Amendment. We are a religious people and our institutions presuppose a Supreme Being... No constitutional requirement makes it necessary for government to be hostile to religion and to throw its weight against the efforts to widen the scope of religious influence. The government must remain neutral when it comes to competition between sects... A fastidious atheist or agnostic could even object to the supplication with which the Court opens each session: "God save the United States and this Honorable Court."

William Wilburforce - "Bountiful as is the hand of Providence, its gifts are not so bestowed as to seduce us into indolence, but to rouse us to exertion."

William Wilburforce - "He was born in a Christian country, of course he is a Christian; his father was the member of the Church of England, so is he. When such is the hereditary religion handed down from generation to generation, it cannot surprise us to observe young men of sense and spirit beginning to doubt altogether of the truth of the system in which they have been brought up, and ready to abandon a station which they are unable to defend."

William Wilburforce - "In short, Christians in general are everywhere denominated the servants and the children of God, and are required to serve him with that submissive obedience, and that affectionate promptitude of duty, which belong to those endearing relations."

William Wilburforce - "Its guilt therefore in these cases, is not to be measure by its effects on the happiness of mankind; nor is it to be denominated true or false glory, accordingly as the ends to which it is directed are beneficial or mischievous, just or unjust objects of pursuit; but it is false, because it exalts that which ought to be abased, and criminal, because it encroaches on the prerogative of God."

William Wilburforce - "Some bolder spirits, indeed, might be expected to despise the cautious moderation of these timid reasoners, and to pronounce decisively, that the Bible was a forgery, while the generality, professing to believe it genuine, should, less consistently, be satisfied with remaining ignorant of its contents, and when pressed, should discover themselves by no means to believe many of the most important particulars contained in it."

William Wilburforce - "That the sacred name of Religion has been too often prostituted to the most detestable purposes; that furious bigots and bloody persecutors, and self-interested hypocrites of all qualities and dimensions, from the rapacious leader of an army, to the canting oracle of a congregation, have falsely called themselves Christians, are melancholy and humiliationg truths, which none will more readily admit, than they who best understand the nature, and are most concerned for the honor of Christiantiy... All this, however, is only as it happens in other instances, wherein the depravity of man perverts the bounty of God. Why is it here only to be made an argument, that there is danger of abuse?"

William Wilburforce - "The observance of one commandment, however clearly and forcibly enjoined, cannot make up for the neglect of another which is enjoined with equal clearness and equal force."

William Wilburforce - "The time of reckoning will at length arrive. And when finallly summoned to the bar of God, to give an account of our stewardship, what plea can we have to urge in our defense, if we remain willingly, and obstinately ignorant of the way which leads to life, with such transcendent means of knowing it, and such urgent motives to its pursuit?"

William Wilburforce - "The title of Christian is a reproach to us, if we estrange ourselves from Him after whom we are denominated. The name of Jesus is not to be to us like the Allah of the Mahometans, a talisman or an amulet to be worn on the arm, as an external badge merely and symbol of our profession, and to preserve us from evil by some mysterious and unintelligible potency; but is to be engraved deeply on the heart, there written by the finger of God himself in everlasting characters."

William Wilburforce - "This circumstance is, that here, no less than in other particulars, the Christian's hope is founded, not on the speculations or the strength of man, but on the declaration of Him who cannot lie, on the power of Omnipotence."

William Wilburforce - "To the one, a little natural moderation and quietness of temper may be sufficient to conduct us: but to the other, we can only attain by much discipline and slow advances; and when we think we have made great way, we shall often find reason to confess in the hour of trial, that we had greatly, far too greatly, over-rated our progress."

William Wilburforce - "True practical Christianity (never let it be forgotten) consists in devoting the heart and life to God; in being supremely and habitually governed by a desire to know, and a disposition to fulfill his will, and in endeavoring under the influence of these motives to 'live to his glory.' Where these essential requisites are wanting, however amiable the character may be, however creditable and respectable among men, yet, as it possesses not the grand distinguishing essence, it must not be complimented with the name of Christianity."

William Wilburforce - "Watering places - the sports of the field - cards! never-failing cards! - the assembly - the theater - all contribute their aid - amusements are multiplied, and combined, and varied, 'to fill up the void of a listless and languid life;' and by the judicious use of these different resources, there is often a kind of sober settled plan of domestic dissipation, in which with all imaginable decency year after year wears away in unprofitable vacancy."

William Gladstone - "Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds, and I probably know little of these years through which I busily work and live, beyond this, how sin and frailty deface them, and how mercy crowns them."

William Penn - "Where thou art obliged to speak, be sure to speak the Truth: for Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell."

Archbishop of Cantebury William Temple - "When I pray, coincidences happen. When I stop praying, coincidences stop."

Will Rogers - "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

Winston Churchill - "Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."

Winston Churchill - "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - - in nothing great or small, large or petty - - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."

Winston Churchill - "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

Winston Churchill - "Things do not get better by being left alone. Unless they are adjusted, they explode with a shattering detonation."

Winston Churchill - "We make a living be what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion."

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." 

Woodrow Wilson - "A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about... The Bible... is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and needs of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation. America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scripture."