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."
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."
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."
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 - "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 - "If you never get criticized, chances are you aren't getting anything done."
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 - "...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 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."
Charlton Heston - I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an idealist and a romantic.
Charlton Heston - Let me make a short, opening, blanket comment. There are no "good guns". There are no "bad guns". Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.
Charlton Heston - Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind. Before you claim to be a champion of free thought, tell me: Why did political correctness originate on America's campuses? And why do you continue to tolerate it? Why do you, who're supposed to debate ideas, surrender to their suppression? Let's be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death and should scare you too, that the superstition of political correctness rules the halls of reason. You are the best and the brightest. You, here in the fertile cradle of American academia, here in the castle of learning on the Charles River, you are the cream. But I submit that you, and your counterparts across the land, are the most socially conformed and politically silenced generation since Concord Bridge. And as long as you validate that ... and abide it ... you are — by your grandfathers' standards — cowards.
Charlton Heston - "Political correctness is tyranny with manners."
Chuck Colson - "Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems."
Chuck Colson - "Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin."
Chuck Colson - "People who cannot restrain their own basic instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue a society can be ruled only by fear, a truth that tyrants understand all too well."
Chuck Colson - "People who rejecttranscendent authority can no longer persuade one another through rational arguments; everything is reduced to personal opinion. Debates about ideas thus degenerate into power struggles; we're left with no moral standard by which to measure the common good. For that matter, how can there be a 'common good' without an objective standard of truth?"
Chuck Colson - "The evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ is more powerful than anything else we believe. By His resurrection Jesus proved He is who He says He is. Be confident in this truth. Stand on the Holy Word of God. Don't sell the world a false bill of goods. Preach the word. Defend the faith. Live the faith."
Chuck Colson - "To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living."
Chuck Colson - "We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization."
Chuck Colson - "You are called not to be successful or to meet any of the other counterfeit standards of this world, but to be faithful and to be expended in the cause of serving the risen and returning Christ."
Cicero -Not to know what happened before one was born is always to remain a child."
Clarence E. Manion - "Look closely at these self-evident truths, these imperishable articles of American Faith upon which all our government is firmly based. First and foremost is the existence of God. Next comes the truth that all men are equal in the sight of God. Third is the fact of God's great gift of unalienable rights to every person on earth. Then follows the true and single purpose of all American Government, namely, to preserve and protect these God-made rights of God-made man."
Confucius - "If the people are governed by laws and punishment is used to maintain order, they will try to avoid the punishment but have no sense of shame. If they are governed by virtue and rules of propriety are used to maintain order, they will have a sense of shame and will become good as well."
Confucius - "In carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your obvious desire be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass; the grass is bound to bend when the wind blows across it."
Corrie Ten Boom - "Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance."
Corrie Ten Boom - "Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see."
Corrie Ten Boom - "Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness."
Corrie Ten Boom - "He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely."
Corrie Ten Boom - "I have experienced His presence in the deepest hell that man can create. I have really tested the promises of the Bible, and believe me, you can count on them."
Corrie Ten Boom - "Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people."
Corrie Ten Boom - "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."
Corrie Ten Boom - "No pit is so deep that the Lord is not deeper still."
Corrie Ten Boom - "The Lord never makes a mistake. One day, when we are in heaven, I'm sure we shall see the answers to the whys."
Cotton Mather - "Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy."
Craig Miner - "Teachers and students of history, Bridenbaugh wrote, had lost 'the priceless asset of shared culture.' Without the connection to the past there could be no confident movement into the future, the 'cult of the contemporary' notwithstanding. 'Mankind,' Bridenbaugh concluded, 'is faced with nothing short of the loss of its memory.'"
Christ Baker - "For philosophical orators, truly free, frank speech is a task, not a gift or birthright that we all have simply as Americans."
Chris Baker - "Still, for speech to do the work it should, it is not enough to have the character of a protester, but for the protesters to have character."
C. S. Lewis - "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."
C. S. Lewis - "A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."
C. S. Lewis - "A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee."
C. S. Lewis - "As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you."
C. S. Lewis - "But if we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain. Theology says to you in effect, 'Admit God and with Him the risk of a few miracles, and I in return will ratify your faith in uniformity as regards the overwhelming majority of events."
C. S. Lewis - "Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride - pride at his own humility - will appear."
C. S. Lewis - "Consequently, Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be a word without meaning."
C. S. Lewis - "Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment."
C. S. Lewis - "God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."
C. S. Lewis - "God whispers to us in our pleasure, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains."
C. S. Lewis - "Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered."
C. S. Lewis - "Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less."
C. S. Lewis - "I am trying to prevent anyone from saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: "I am ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claims to be God." That is one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things that Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse."
C. S. Lewis - "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but by it I see everything else."
C. S. Lewis -"In God's dimension, so to speak, you find a being who is three Persons while remaining one Being, just as a cube is six squares while remaining one cube."
C. S. Lewis - "It would be impossible to accept naturalism itself if we really and consistently believed naturalism. For naturalism is a system of thought. But for naturalism all thoughts are mere events with irrational causes. It is, to me at any rate, impossible to regard the thoughts which make up naturalism in that way and, at the same time, regard them as a real insight into external reality...If it is true, then we can know no truths. It cuts its own throat."
C. S. Lewis - “My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such violent reaction against it? .... Of course I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if I did that, then my argument against God collapsed too--for the argument depended on saying that the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my fancies. Thus in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist--in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless -I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality--namely my idea of justice--was full of sense.”
C.S. Lewis - That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is out chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it.
C. S. Lewis - "The Christian way is different; harder and easier. Christ says, 'Give me All. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work; I want you. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half-measures are any good... Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked - the whole outfit. I give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you myself; my own shall become yours."
C. S. Lewis - "The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."
C. S. Lewis - "The most dangerous ideas are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed."
C. S. Lewis - "The naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment one attends to this it is obvious that one's own thinking cannot be merely a natural event, and that therefore something other than nature exists. The Supernatural is not remote or abstruse; it is a matter of daily and hourly experience, as intimate as breathing."
C. S. Lewis - "There are no Ordinary people, you have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors."
C. S. Lewis - "There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."
C. S. Lewis - "To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbles and little luxuries; avaid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will cahnge. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
C.S. Lewis - "To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees."
C. S. Lewis - "The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."
C.S. Lewis - "To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees."
C. S. Lewis - "We have not, in fact, proved that science excludes miracles: we have only proved that the question of miracles, like innumerable other questions, excludes laboratory treatment."
C. S. Lewis - "We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful."
C. S. Lewis - "You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."
Carl Becker - "Without this historical knowledge, this memory of things said and done, his today will be aimless and his tomorrow without significance."
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."
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."
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 - "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 - "If you never get criticized, chances are you aren't getting anything done."
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 - "...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 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."
Charlton Heston - I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an idealist and a romantic.
Charlton Heston - Let me make a short, opening, blanket comment. There are no "good guns". There are no "bad guns". Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.
Charlton Heston - Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind. Before you claim to be a champion of free thought, tell me: Why did political correctness originate on America's campuses? And why do you continue to tolerate it? Why do you, who're supposed to debate ideas, surrender to their suppression? Let's be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death and should scare you too, that the superstition of political correctness rules the halls of reason. You are the best and the brightest. You, here in the fertile cradle of American academia, here in the castle of learning on the Charles River, you are the cream. But I submit that you, and your counterparts across the land, are the most socially conformed and politically silenced generation since Concord Bridge. And as long as you validate that ... and abide it ... you are — by your grandfathers' standards — cowards.
Charlton Heston - "Political correctness is tyranny with manners."
Chuck Colson - "Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems."
Chuck Colson - "Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin."
Chuck Colson - "People who cannot restrain their own basic instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue a society can be ruled only by fear, a truth that tyrants understand all too well."
Chuck Colson - "People who rejecttranscendent authority can no longer persuade one another through rational arguments; everything is reduced to personal opinion. Debates about ideas thus degenerate into power struggles; we're left with no moral standard by which to measure the common good. For that matter, how can there be a 'common good' without an objective standard of truth?"
Chuck Colson - "The evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ is more powerful than anything else we believe. By His resurrection Jesus proved He is who He says He is. Be confident in this truth. Stand on the Holy Word of God. Don't sell the world a false bill of goods. Preach the word. Defend the faith. Live the faith."
Chuck Colson - "To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living."
Chuck Colson - "We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization."
Chuck Colson - "You are called not to be successful or to meet any of the other counterfeit standards of this world, but to be faithful and to be expended in the cause of serving the risen and returning Christ."
Cicero -Not to know what happened before one was born is always to remain a child."
Clarence E. Manion - "Look closely at these self-evident truths, these imperishable articles of American Faith upon which all our government is firmly based. First and foremost is the existence of God. Next comes the truth that all men are equal in the sight of God. Third is the fact of God's great gift of unalienable rights to every person on earth. Then follows the true and single purpose of all American Government, namely, to preserve and protect these God-made rights of God-made man."
Confucius - "If the people are governed by laws and punishment is used to maintain order, they will try to avoid the punishment but have no sense of shame. If they are governed by virtue and rules of propriety are used to maintain order, they will have a sense of shame and will become good as well."
Confucius - "In carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your obvious desire be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass; the grass is bound to bend when the wind blows across it."
Corrie Ten Boom - "Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance."
Corrie Ten Boom - "Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see."
Corrie Ten Boom - "Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness."
Corrie Ten Boom - "He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely."
Corrie Ten Boom - "I have experienced His presence in the deepest hell that man can create. I have really tested the promises of the Bible, and believe me, you can count on them."
Corrie Ten Boom - "Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people."
Corrie Ten Boom - "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."
Corrie Ten Boom - "No pit is so deep that the Lord is not deeper still."
Corrie Ten Boom - "The Lord never makes a mistake. One day, when we are in heaven, I'm sure we shall see the answers to the whys."
Cotton Mather - "Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy."
Craig Miner - "Teachers and students of history, Bridenbaugh wrote, had lost 'the priceless asset of shared culture.' Without the connection to the past there could be no confident movement into the future, the 'cult of the contemporary' notwithstanding. 'Mankind,' Bridenbaugh concluded, 'is faced with nothing short of the loss of its memory.'"
Christ Baker - "For philosophical orators, truly free, frank speech is a task, not a gift or birthright that we all have simply as Americans."
Chris Baker - "Still, for speech to do the work it should, it is not enough to have the character of a protester, but for the protesters to have character."
C. S. Lewis - "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."
C. S. Lewis - "A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."
C. S. Lewis - "A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee."
C. S. Lewis - "As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you."
C. S. Lewis - "But if we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain. Theology says to you in effect, 'Admit God and with Him the risk of a few miracles, and I in return will ratify your faith in uniformity as regards the overwhelming majority of events."
C. S. Lewis - "Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride - pride at his own humility - will appear."
C. S. Lewis - "Consequently, Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be a word without meaning."
C. S. Lewis - "Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment."
C. S. Lewis - "God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."
C. S. Lewis - "God whispers to us in our pleasure, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains."
C. S. Lewis - "Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered."
C. S. Lewis - "Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less."
C. S. Lewis - "I am trying to prevent anyone from saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: "I am ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claims to be God." That is one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things that Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse."
C. S. Lewis - "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but by it I see everything else."
C. S. Lewis -"In God's dimension, so to speak, you find a being who is three Persons while remaining one Being, just as a cube is six squares while remaining one cube."
C. S. Lewis - "It would be impossible to accept naturalism itself if we really and consistently believed naturalism. For naturalism is a system of thought. But for naturalism all thoughts are mere events with irrational causes. It is, to me at any rate, impossible to regard the thoughts which make up naturalism in that way and, at the same time, regard them as a real insight into external reality...If it is true, then we can know no truths. It cuts its own throat."
C. S. Lewis - “My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such violent reaction against it? .... Of course I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if I did that, then my argument against God collapsed too--for the argument depended on saying that the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my fancies. Thus in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist--in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless -I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality--namely my idea of justice--was full of sense.”
C.S. Lewis - That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is out chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it.
C. S. Lewis - "The Christian way is different; harder and easier. Christ says, 'Give me All. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work; I want you. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half-measures are any good... Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked - the whole outfit. I give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you myself; my own shall become yours."
C. S. Lewis - "The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."
C. S. Lewis - "The most dangerous ideas are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed."
C. S. Lewis - "The naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment one attends to this it is obvious that one's own thinking cannot be merely a natural event, and that therefore something other than nature exists. The Supernatural is not remote or abstruse; it is a matter of daily and hourly experience, as intimate as breathing."
C. S. Lewis - "There are no Ordinary people, you have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors."
C. S. Lewis - "There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."
C. S. Lewis - "To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbles and little luxuries; avaid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will cahnge. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
C.S. Lewis - "To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees."
C. S. Lewis - "The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."
C.S. Lewis - "To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees."
C. S. Lewis - "We have not, in fact, proved that science excludes miracles: we have only proved that the question of miracles, like innumerable other questions, excludes laboratory treatment."
C. S. Lewis - "We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful."
C. S. Lewis - "You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."