(put together by Youlika K. Masry, the hundredth rescued lamb…)
“Our rewards in heaven are a result of God’s crowning His own gifts.”
(St. Augustine)
“God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.”
(Jonathan Edwards)
“What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
(Hans Urs von Balthasar)
“Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.”
(John Wesley)
“We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.”
(Max Lucado)
“We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.”
(A.W.Tozer)
(Charles Stanley)
“True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellence of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials; then it is that true faith appears much more precious than gold, and upon this account is found to praise and honor and glory.”
(Jonathan Edwards)
“Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.”
(R.C.Sproul)
“When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft, and true witnesses without being manipulative.”
(Henri J.M. Nouwen)
“Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.”
(Jonathan Edwards)
“As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.”
(R.C.Sproul)
“If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.”
(Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
“Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus’ touch. We experience his care.”
(Max Lucado)
“Satan is so much more in earnest than we are—he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost.”
(Amy Carmichael)
“A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their hope is a humble hope; and their joy, even when it is unspeakable and full of glory, is a humble broken-hearted joy, and leaves the Christian more poor in spirit, and more like a little child, and more disposed to a universal lowliness of behavior.”
(Jonathan Edwards)
“He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.”
(St. Augustine)
“I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.”
(Oswald Chambers)
“If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider ‘not spiritual work’ I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is the interesting and exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”
(Amy Carmichael)
“God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do.”
(A.W.Tozer)
(Paul Tournier)
“Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.”
(Jonathan Edwards)
“The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.”
(C.S.Lewis)
“Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.”
(Amy Carmichael)
“A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God’s power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God’s wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him.”
(Jonathan Edwards)
“When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.”
(Martyn Lloyd-Jones)
“No one sets out to become an apostate—it’s never the result of one abrupt, drastic turn away from the Lord. Instead, apostasy is most often the product of a pattern of sinful compromises that harden and gradually steer a professing believer away from the truth.”
(John MacArthur)
“True weanedness from the world does not consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.”
(Jonathan Edwards)
“Discipline is not inconsistent with love. It is lack of discipline, in fact, that is inconsistent with love. The Lord disciplines His children because He loves them, and we will discipline our brothers and sisters in the Lord if we truly love Him and truly love them.”
(John MacArthur)
“The Christian is not superficial in any sense, but is fundamentally serious and fundamentally happy. You see, the joy of the Christian is a holy joy; the happiness of the Christian is a serious happiness. … it is a solemn joy, it is a holy joy, it is a serious happiness; so that, though he is grave and sober-minded and serious, he is never cold and prohibitive.”
(Martyn Lloyd-Jones)
“Every temptation, directly or indirectly, is the temptation to doubt and distrust God.”
(John MacArthur)
“If God is the Creator of the entire universe, then it must follow that He is the Lord of the whole universe. No part of the world is outside of His lordship. That means that no part of my life must be outside of His lordship.”
(R.C.Sproul)
“The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in.”
(R.C.Sproul)
“To see lonely, selfish, empty individuals transformed slowly but surely into warm, loving, wholesome, and happy people is to become aware of why Paul describes Christ as ‘unsearchable riches’.”
(Ray Stedman)
“Seek to have your life in God, not in things, not in people, not in places, not in circumstances, not in arguments, not in human intelligence, but in God.”
(T. Austin-Sparks)
“The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.”
(C.S.Lewis)
“Today Jesus Christ is being dispatched as the Figurehead of a Religion, a mere example. He is that, but he is infinitely more; He is salvation itself, He is the Gospel of God.”
(Oswald Chambers)
“I will not glory, even in my orthodoxy, for even that can be a snare if I make a god of it… Let us rejoice in Him in all His fullness and in Him alone.”
(Martyn Lloyd-Jones)
“It is not thy hold on Christ that saves thee; it is Christ. It is not thy joy in Christ that saves thee; it is Christ. It is not even thy faith in Christ, though that be the instrument; it is Christ’s blood and merit.”
(Charles Haddon Spurgeon)
“Here lies the tremendous mystery: that God should be all-powerful, yet refuse to coerce. He summons us to cooperation. We are honored in being given the opportunity to participate in his good deeds. Remember how He asked for help in performing his miracles: Fill the water pots, stretch out your hand, distribute the loaves.”
(Elisabeth Elliot)
“The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man’s troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell.”
(Martyn Lloyd-Jones)
“For God to reveal His Son in us is not the result of research or searching; it is entirely a matter of mercy and revelation. It is an inward seeing, an inner knowing.”
(Watchman Nee)
“You cannot go outside of A and Z in the realm of literature; likewise Christ Jesus is First and Last of God’s new creation, and all that is in between; you cannot get outside of that.” (T. Austin-Sparks)
“Be still, and know that I am God. We must not interpret that ‘Be still’ in a sentimental manner. Some regard it as a kind of exhortation to us to be silent; but it is nothing of the sort. It means, ‘Give up (or ‘Give in’ and admit I am God’. God is addressing people who are opposed to Him.”
(Martyn Lloyd-Jones)
“We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.”
(Oswald Chambers)
“I have heard of some good old woman in a cottage, who had nothing but a piece of
bread and a little water, and lifting up her hands, she said, as a blessing, “What! all
this, and Christ too?”
(Charles Haddon Spurgeon)
“To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.”
(Timothy Keller)
“Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.”
(Billy Graham)
“Only one life, ‘Twill soon be past.
Only what’s done for Christ will last.”
(C.T. Studd)
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength.”
(Corrie Ten Boom)
“We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.”
(Ravi Zacharias)
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”
(Robert H. Schuller)
“Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.”
(St. Augustine)
“Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.”
(Billy Graham)
“The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.”
(Andrew Murray)
“Love accepts the trying things of life without asking for explanations. It trusts and is at rest.”
(Amy Carmichael)
“I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.”
(Max Lucado)
“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.”
(John Piper)
“Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.”
(Elisabeth Elliot)
“He said ‘Love…as I have loved you.’ We cannot love too much.”
(Amy Carmichael)
“Leave the Irreparable Past in the Lord’s hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.”
(Oswald Chambers)
“…God’s grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver…. From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who is seriously wronged can ‘just forgive’ the perpetrator…. But when you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.”
(Timothy Keller)
“You might as well try to hear without ears or breathe without lungs, as to try to live a Christian life without the spirit of God in your heart.”
(Dwight L.Moody)
“Christ is a substitute for everything, but nothing is a substitute for Christ.”
(H.A.Ironside)
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.”
(C.S.Lewis)
“Consecrate, then concentrate…”
(Dwight L.Moody)
“The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.”
(Timothy Keller)
“No one really comes to salvation who hasn’t become ashamed of himself. That’s what true repentance is all about.”
(John MacArthur)
“Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.”
(Ravi Zacharias)
“When a man comes under the blood of Christ, his whole capacity as a man is refashioned. His soul is saved, yes, but so are his mind and his body. True spirituality means the lordship of Christ over the total man.”
(Francis A. Schaeffer)
“It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.”
(Timothy Keller)
“Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.”
(Martin Luther)
“A Man with God is always in the majority.”
(John Knox)
“Therefore, faithful Christian, seek the truth, listen to the truth, learn the truth, love the truth, tell the truth, learn the truth, defend the truth even to death.”
(John Hus)
“All Christian life is to be measured by Scripture; by every word thereof.”
(John Wycliffe)
“As Christians, we must see that just because an artist—even a great artist—portrays a worldview in writing or on canvas, it does not mean that we should automatically accept that worldview. Good art heightens the impact of that worldview, but it does not make it true.”
(Francis A. Schaeffer)
“The secret of the Christian’s passion is simple: Everything we do in life we do it as to the Lord and not to men.”
(David Jeremiah)
“What must I do to be saved? It is impossible to ask a weightier question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more frequency, with no more agony.”
(Cotton Mather)
“Never lose heart in the power of the gospel. Do not believe that there exists any man, much less any race of men, for whom the gospel is not fitted.”
(Charles Haddon Spurgeon)
“The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor the threat of communism, nor even the threat of rationalism and the monolithic consensus which surrounds us. All these are dangerous but not the primary threat. The real problem is this: the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, individually corporately, tending to do the Lord’s work in the power of the flesh rather than of the Spirit. The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.”
(Francis A.Schaeffer)
“The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan’s original temptation, ‘You shall be as gods’.”
(R.C.Sproul)
(John MacArthur)
“Integrity is keeping a commitment even after circumstances have changed.”
(David Jeremiah)
“You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.”
(Rick Warren)
“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.”
(Mother Teresa)
“Afflictions are but the shadows of God’s wings.”
(George MacDonald)
“Preach the gospel at all times and when necessary, use words.”
(St. Francis of Assisi)
“The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.”
(Charles Haddon Spurgeon)
“King David, after all the things he done wrong, is still mentioned in Acts 13:22 as a man after God’s own heart. That stands, it wasn’t left out in the New Testament because David had failed to live up to God’s standards; God saw the man who, in spite of all his weakness, That stands, it wasn’t left out in the New Testament because David had failed to live up to God’s standards; God saw the man who, in spite of all his weakness, , kept seeking him and longed to become what God already saw in him: a man of God!”
(Eleonore van Haaften)
“No matter how just your words may be you ruin everything when you speak with anger.”
(John Chrysostom)
“Correct him, but not as a foe, nor as an adversary exacting a penalty, but as a physician providing medicines.”
(Martin Luther King)
“The Bible—banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit it; dictators of every age have outlawed it and executed those who read it. Yet soldiers carry it into battle believing it is more powerful than their weapons. Fragments of it smuggled into solitary prison cells have transformed ruthless killers into gentle saints. Pieced together scraps of Scripture have converted whole villages of pagan Indians.”
(Charles Colson)
“Faith makes all things possible…love makes all things easy.”
(Dwight L. Moody)
“How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.”
(George MacDonald)
“When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.”
(Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
(Charles Stanley)
“If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. He’s terrified of being alone more than anything else. So, God has not left us alone.”
(Lee Strobel)
“There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.”
(Brother Laurence)
“A little lifting up of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, an interior act of adoration, even though made on the march and with sword in hand, are prayers which, short though they may be, are nevertheless very pleasing to God, and far from making a soldier lose his courage on the most dangerous occasions, bolster it. Let him then think of God as much as possible so that he will gradually become accustomed to this little but holy exercise; no one will notice it and nothing is easier than to repeat often during the day these little acts of interior adoration.”
(Brother Lawrence)