"It is the fire of suffering that brings forth the gold of godliness."    - Jeanne Guyon

 

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, and reason, and intellect, has intended us to forgo it's use."   - Galileo

 

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.  That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."  - Martin Luther King

 

"The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing.  Alas, it is much worse.  He ends up believing anything." - G. K. Chesterton

 

"The older we become, the more difficult it is to fill our hearts with wonder.  Only God is big enough to keep filling us with wonder."   - Ravi Zecharias

 

"With God life is an endless hope.  Without God, life is a hopeless end."  - Bill Bright

 

"He who is blessed in the earth shall be blessed by the God of Truth."  - Is. 65:16

 

"Through my pain, I have learned that if you follow your tears, you will find your heart."  - Ken Gire

 

"The only thing worse than intelligence on ice is ignorance on fire."  - Horace Hilton

 

"It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons."  - William Gurnall

 

"Remember, merciful Jesus, that I am the cause of your journey."   - from Mozart's Requiem

 

"Of one hundred men, one will read the Bible and ninety nine will read the Christian."  - D.L. Moody

 

"What we love, we shall grow to resemble."  - Bernard of Clairveaux

 

"I never gave them hell.  I just told them the truth, and they thought it was hell."  - Theodore Roosevelt

 

"At the evening of our day, we shall be judged by our loving."  - Frederick Buechner

 

"All of our miseries prove our greatness.  They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch."  -Blaise Pascal

 

"Love opens the eyes of our understanding and enables us to see more of the truth than can those who are blinded by self-love.  Those who love most, see most.  - Hannah Hurnard

 

"We're not merely imperfect people who need to grow - we are rebels who need to lay down our arms."  - C. S. Lewis

 

"The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?"  - Abraham Heschel

 

"Our actions in this life echo throughout eternity."  - Maximus (The Gladiator)

 

"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell."   - Simone Weil

 

"Wins and losses don't matter.  All that matters is following the quest."  - Don Quixote

 

"Get into the habit of saying, "Speak, Lord," and life will become a romance." - Oswald Chambers

 

"The will of God is exactly what we would do if we knew all the facts."  - Bill Gothard

 

"All the books on theology in all the dusty archives of all the seminaries of the world pale to insignificance when compared with the influence of one man with a 'hallelujah' in his soul."  

 

"Satan fears and trembles before humble souls."  Padre Pio

 

"A christian, above all people, should live artistically, aesthetically, and creatively.  If we have been made in the image of an Artist, then we should look for expressions of artistry, and be sensitive to beauty, responsive to what has been created for our appreciation."  - Edith Schaeffer

 

"A man who has lost his sense of wonder is a man dead."  - "William of St Thierry

 

"Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst."  - Frederick Buechner

 

"If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless."  - St. Augustine

 

"If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate those things inside yourself, not in another."  - Ghandi

 

"Those who love most see most." - Hannah Hurnard

"People need loving the most when they deserve it the least." - Mary Webster

"Humility is the place of entire dependence upon God: perfect quietness of heart. It is never sore nor irritated nor dissappointed. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to be at rest when nobody praises me or when I am blamed falsely." - Andrew Murray

"True greatness is devoting all my energy to becoming a servant and not getting upset when I am treated like one." - Bill Gothard

"Little things are indeed little. But faithfulness in little things is a great thing." - St Augustine

"Fire doesn't fall on empty alters. There has to be a sacrifice on the alter for the fire to fall. If you want the fire of God, you must become the fuel of God." - Tommy Tenney

"When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught to fly." - Barbara Winters

"If loving God with all our heart and soul and might is the greatest commandment, then it follows that not loving Him that way is the greatest sin." - R.A. Torrey

"At the end of our day we shall be judged by our loving." - St. John of the Cross

"The Spirit's fullness is not the reward of our faithfulness, but God's gift for our defeat. He was not given to the disciples in Acts 28 as the culmination and reward of their wonderful service, but in Acts 2 when they had proved themselves cowards, meeting behind closed doors." - Roy Hession

"It is by the Lord's stripes that we are healed, and it is through our own stripes that we, too, are given the authority for healing. In the place where the enemy wounds us, once we are healed, we are given the power to heal others." - Rick Joyner

"That the world is a playground instead of a battleground has been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians. They are facing both ways, enjoying Christ and the world too." - A.W. Tozer

"When your desperation factor exceeds your embarassment factor, then you are a candidate for the grace of God." - Peter Lord

"Joy is the serious business of Heaven." - C.S. Lewis

"Holiness is the behavior of royalty." - Mario Murillo

"Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement." - Peter Kreeft

"A Christian ought to be an alleluia from head to foot." - St. Augustine

"God is most glorified in man when man is most satisfied in God." - John Piper

"The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things." - Thomas Aquinas

"It is better to go stumbling, and weeping, and crawling like a worm along the way of love, than to give up and choose some other way." - Hannah Hurnard

"All that is not given is lost." - Dominique LaPierre

"True holiness consists in doing the will of God with a smile." - Mother Teresa

"No amount of activity in the King's service will ever make up for the neglect of the King Himself." - Robert Murray M'Cheyne

"The world of the generous gets larger and larger; the world of the stingy gets smaller and smaller." - -Prov. 11:24 "The Message"

"I can take credit for only two things: pride and sin." - Thomas A Kempis

"Sin is mutiny towards God, and either sin or God must die in my life. If sin rules in me, then God's life in me will be killed; If God rules in me, then sin in me will be killed." - Oswald Chambers

"The greatest honor you can give to Almighty God is to live gladly and joyfully because of the knowledge of His love." - Julian of Norwich

"Wherever you are, be all there.  Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God." - Jim Elliot

"The only ones among you who will be truly happy arre those who have sought and found how to serve." - Albert Sweitzer

"You haven't done the will of God when you have done it miserably."- Mother Teresa

"If you would do the best with your life, find out what God is doing in your generation and throw yourself wholly into it."  - Arthur Wallis

"One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"Most men die at 27. We bury them at 72." - Mark Twain

"Everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy

"When Jesus calls a man. he bids him come and die." - Dietrich Bonheoffer

"It may be possible for each to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbor. The...weight...of my neighbor's glory should be laid daily on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken. It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree or another, helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light these overwhelming possibilities .... that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal." - C.S. Lewis