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."
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."
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 humans 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."
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."
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 humans 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."
