- God never made a promise that was too good to be true. — Dwight L. Moody
- A guilty conscience is a great blessing, but only if it drives us to come home to God, from whom we can receive the forgiveness of our sins. — John Stott
- If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him; for you are worse than he thinks you to be. —Charles Spurgeon
- I have given God countless reasons not to love me. None of them has been strong enough to change Him. — Paul Washer
- Justice Antonin Scalia, to a reporter who seemed incredulous that Scalia would believe in the Devil: “My God! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the Devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the Devil! It’s in the Gospels! You travel in circles that are so, so removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the Devil! Most of mankind has believed in the Devil, for all of history. Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the Devil.”
- Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. — Thomas à Kempis
- It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. — Timothy Keller
- When it comes to temptation and avoiding sin, you can’t keep a bird from flying over your head, but you can keep it from building a nest in your hair. — Martin Luther
- It is clear you don’t like my way of doing evangelism. You raise some good points. Frankly, I sometimes do not like my way of doing evangelism. But I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it. —Dwight L. Moody
- The judgmental heart owns a hundred microscopes and no mirrors. — Gunner Gunderson
- You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say. —Martin Luther
- At times, I’m afraid to ask God for humility. I don’t know how He’ll answer. If it will come by pain, public humiliation, or by some easier unforeseen path. Either way, however it comes, whether in difficulty or ease, it’ll always be better for me than what pride would do to me. — Jackie Hill Perry
- The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us. — C. S. Lewis
- Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading. —Oswald Chambers
- If God were small enough to be understood He would not be big enough to be worshiped. — Evelyn Underhill
- To love someone means to see him as God intended him. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Religion: “I messed up. Dad’s gonna kill me.” Gospel: “I messed up. I need to call Dad.” — Jeremy Rose
- Satan always hates Christian fellowship; it is his policy to keep Christians apart. Anything which can divide Christians from one another he delights in. Since union is strength, he does his best to promote separation. — Charles Spurgeon
- God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them. — John Piper
- Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. —Oswald Chambers
- Heaven is the place where we’ll be fully at home—where everything is as it ought to be and where we find, undiminished, that mysterious something we never fully found in this life. —Randy Alcorn
- Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all. — Dwight L. Moody
- An idol is anything more important to you than God. Anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God. … Anything that is so central and essential to your life, that should lose it, your life would feel hardly worth living. — Timothy Keller
- English reformer John Bradford to young John Leaf as they were being burned at the stake in 1555: “Be of good comfort, brother, for we shall have a merry lunch with the Lord this high noon.”
- “A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality. – K. Chesterton
- Most people today are not very interested in wisdom. They are interested in making money and in having a good time. Some are interested in knowing something, in getting an education. Almost everyone wants to be well liked. But wisdom? The pursuit of wisdom is not a popular ideal. –James Boice
- It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.—Thomas Sowell
- In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn. –G. K. Chesterton
- We love things most when we have nearly lost them. –G. K. Chesterton
- Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times. –An Old Proverb
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