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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions. -G.K. Chesterton (1906) "The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it." -A.W. Tozer "Someone asked, 'Will the heathen who have never heard the gospel be saved?' It is more a question with me whether we-- who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not-- can be saved." -Charles Spurgeon “It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should.” -A.W. Tozer “God Himself taught us to meet one another as God has met us in Christ.”- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "How is it that the world couldn't get on with the holiest Man that ever lived and can get on with you and me? Are we compromised? Have we no righeousness that reflects on their corruption?" -Leonard Ravenhill "If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God. -Blaise Pascal "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." G.K. Chesterton “ God is not looking for brilliant men, is not depending upon eloquent men, is not shut up to the use of talented men in sending His Gospel out in the world. God is looking for broken men, for men who have judged themselves in the light of the Cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to an end of themselves, and whose trust and confidence is not in themselves but in God.” -H.A. Ironside "Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable." -G.K. Chesterton "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 "If once one has recognized the truth and seen it, you know that it is the truth and that there is no other and there cannot be." -Fyodor Dostoevsky "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." -Winston Churchill "Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves." -Blaise Pascal "These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own." -G.K. Chesterton (1926) "The atheist can't find God for the same reason that a thief can't find a policeman." Anonymous "Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with God." -Leonard Ravenhill "There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions." -G.K. Chesterton "Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out all of Hamlet by chance. But when we find the text of Hamlet, we don't wonder whether it came from chance and monkeys. Why then does the atheist use that incredibly improbable explanation for the universe? Clearly, because it is his only chance of remaining an atheist. At this point we need a psychological explanation of the atheist rather than a logical explanation of the universe." -Peter Kreeft "The one thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history." -Leonard Ravenhill Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness. -Blaise Pascal "God's Word is the only guide man needs to interpret his past and solve contemporary problems." -Francis Schaeffer "I may no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather respond to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not."- Jim Elliot "Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering.... The love of God did not protect His own Son.... He will not necessarily protect us - not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process."- Elisabeth Elliot "Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision."-G.K. Chesterton "The figure of the Crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard." -Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Philosophers , they astonish ordinary men- Christians, they astonish philosophers." -Blaise Pascal “I grieve that my love is no stronger, and that I am no more like Him. I wonder at His glory, and sink before Him with shame. How is it that the soul being of such value, and God so great, eternity so near and yet we are so little moved?” -William Bramwell "God doesn't answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer!" -Leonard Ravenhill "To other men, the proof of our conversion is not what you feel, but what you do." -Charles Spurgeon "Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man." -Oswald Chambers "The life of man is a continual death, unless it be that Christ lives in him."—Ignatius "To be prepared to die is to be prepared to live. To be ready for eternity is in the best sense to be ready for time. Who is so fit to live on earth as the man who is fit to live in heaven?"-Charles Spurgeon "The most spiritual teaching fully and constantly presents Christ as able to save to the uttermost. In such teaching there is small room for human theories and reasonings."-Seth Rees "Today's church wants to be raptured from responsibility."-Leonard Ravenhill "I had rather be the echo of truth, than the voice of falsehood."-Charles Spurgeon "Salvation is not a cafeteria where you take what you want and leave the rest. You cannot take Christ as Savior and refuse Him as Lord and be saved."-Vance Havner "It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth. The biblical perspective is that the cross is a witness to the infinite worth of God's glory and a witness to the immensity of the sin of my pride."- John Piper "A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in." -C. S. Lewis "On the shallow ground of men's logic, large numbers have been led to assume they have a right to everlasting life and have been given an assurance which does not belong to them." -Walter Chantry "But," says one, "I see no reason why I should be born again." Ah, poor creature, it is because thou hast never seen thyself. -Charles Spurgeon "A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience."-Leonard Ravenhill"Spiritual surgery is more painful than physical surgery. God doesn't use an anesthetic; He doesn't do His work while we are asleep. God can take any brokenhearted believer and make him or her a radiant, loving person. But when He performs such "heart operations," His children are wide awake." -Erwin Lutzer "Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God." -Samuel Chadwick "One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn "If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience. If things are dark to us spiritually, it is because there is something we will not do. Intellectual darkness comes because of ignorance; spiritual darkness comes because of something I do not intend to obey." -Oswald Chambers "The great care of the life is to put the relationship to God first and everything else second." -Oswald Chamber "Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever." -Dwight L. Moody "Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, 'Leonard, you took Me too seriously'?"-Leonard Ravenhill "And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation." -The Bible "God calls us to be holy. He expects us to grow in unlikeness to this world, and in likeness to that world that is to come." - Horatius Bonar Too many of us want to make a peace treaty with Christ, but will not make a total surrender to Christ. - Leonard Ravenhill "A limited readiness is no readiness at all in our dealings with Jesus." -Karl Barth Worrying shows that one has little faith in what God can do. There is a difference between worring and genuine concern. Worry immobilizes, but concern moves you to action. -Oswald Chambers May God teach us to know what it means that Christ is our Melchizedek, a priest forever. The spiritual apprehension of this everlasting priesthood-as communicating even here and maintaining an everlasting, unchanging life in us-lifts our inner experience out of the region of effort, change, failure, and into the rest of God so that the immutability of His council is the measure of that of our faith and hope. -Andrew Murray "For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything." -G. K. Chesterton "The Holy Spirit only leads when He is known as the Indwelling One; is waited on in deep humility; and is yielded to in meek resignation." -Andrew Murray "...what joy I had in finding that I had finished with the limited resources of man and begun on the unlimited resources of God!" -Rees Howell "I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of people would die for Him."-Napoleon Bonaparte "What we mean by salvation is this: deliverance from the love of sin, rescue from the habit of sin, setting free from the desire to sin."-Charles Spurgeon "Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?" -the tombstone of Leonard Ravenhill "God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him." -Andrew Murray. "A wife who is 85% faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ." -Vance Havner "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." -C.S. Lewis "The sins of disciples of Christ are a thousand times worse than the sins of unbelievers, because they sin against a gospel of love, a covenant of mercy, against a sweet experience and against precious promises." -Charles Spurgeon "A poor wretch dies of starvation, and men cry out because bread was not given him; but when souls sink into damnation for lack of knowledge, they who withhold the bread of heaven will not allow their consciences to trouble them."-Charles Spurgeon "Jesus Christ is not valued at all until He is valued above all." -Augustine "Sirs, as far as you can, you do kill God, for you put him out of your thoughts, you make nothing of him, and what is that but the crucifixion of God? You despise him so much that his presence has no effect upon you."-Charles Spurgeon "At the day of judgement we shall all meet again." -George Whitefield "The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him."-Charles Spurgeon "How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven." -George Macdonald "If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world. But if He gave me His wisdom too, I would leave things as they are." -J.M.L. Monsabre "If you will here stop and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but because you never thoroughly intended it." -William Law "He didn't came to make bad men good, He came to make dead men live" -Leonard Ravenhill "Our hearts are a factory of idols." -John Calvin "In the Scriptures I find no shred of encouragement for the proud."-A.W. Tozer "Entertainment is the Devils' substitute for Joy!" -Leonard Ravenhill "50. Resolved, I will act so as I think I shall judge would have been best, and most prudent, when I come into the future world." -Jonathan Edwards "I find it most intriguing to contemplate the fact that while men are considering what place to give Jesus Christ in history, He has already decided what place to give them in eternity." -Leonard Ravenhill "I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to him." -Charles H. Spurgeon "We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross." -Vance Havner "It is the will of God that saves. It is the will of man that damns."-Charles Spurgeon "The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men."-E.M. Bounds "The preacher who neglects to pray much must be very careless about his ministry. He cannot have comprehended his calling. He cannot have computed the value of a soul, or estimated the meaning of eternity." -Charles Spurgeon "All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell is terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning." -Oswald Chambers "If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach." -William Barclay "Without God, there is no virtue, because there's no prompting of the conscience. Without God, we're mired in the material, that flat world that tells us only what the senses perceive. Without God, there is a coarsening of the society. And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." -Ronald Reagan "Man see's our deeds; God see's our reasons." Thomas A. Kempis "He who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God reflects on God." -Soren Kierkegaard "God has many followers, but few servants." Thomas A. Kempis "Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way." -Karl Barth "It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the harlot, but to fly from all appearance of evil (Prov. 5:8, I Thess. 5:22). The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance; he that will be so bold as to attempt to dance upon the brink of the pit, may find by woeful experience that it is a righteous thing with God that he should fall into the pit." -Thomas Brooks "The cross: God's way of uniting suffering with love." -Georgia Harkness "To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ." -Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Jesus was crucified, not in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves." -George F. MacLeod "We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties." -Oswald Chambers "There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below." -Charles Spurgeon "Christ's cross is such a burden as sails are to a ship or wings to a bird." -Samuel Rutherford There is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan. -C.S. Lewis "He came to pay a debt He didn't owe because we owed a debt we couldn't pay." -Anonymous "If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't."-Vance Havner "There are two different kinds of revelation, natural revelation, which we find in the world, and special revelation, which we find in the word of God. A basic rule of Biblical interpretation is that we should always interpret natural revelation through the grid of special revelation, that is the word of God. We don't look at the world and then say this is truth, therefore we must conform the Scriptures to what we see. This view is a deadly mistake and would lead to atheism. I interpret science through the lens of the word of God, which presupposes the truth of Genesis 1-3. There is no evidence of higher value or authority than the word of God." -Gene Cook "Nothing worse can happen to a church than to be conformed to this world." -Charles Spurgeon "For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him." -William Barclay "When the book of God's purposes shall be all unfolded in actual history there will be found no blots, mistakes and blunders there. He knows the end from the beginning and his purposes shall be fulfilled in every jot and tittle, and in nothing shall the glory of God be marred. Though Satan may be laughing now, and every now and then the men of the world may boast against the people of God, it shall not be so in the close of the affair." - Charles Spurgeon "A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process." C.S. Lewis "I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. -David Livingstone "No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth."-Charles Spurgeon "Without Christ, not one step; with Him, anywhere! -David Livingstone "Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian." -D.L. Moody "By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men."-G.K. Chesterton "Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it's the only thing -Albert Schweitzer "Nothing puts life into men like a dying Savior."-Charles Spurgeon "The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children." -Dietrich Bonhoeffer "To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." - St. Thomas Aquinas "If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts - i.e., Materialism and Astronomy - are mere accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It's like expecting the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset." -C.S. Lewis "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. -The Bible