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 ðŸ“š "To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same to be right in doing it." [G.K. Chesterton]
 ðŸ“š "All through history God has shown and used nobodies, because of their unusual dependence on Him made possible the unique display of His power and grace..." [Oswald Chambers]
  📚 "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last." [Winston Churchill]
 ðŸ“š "We must keep in mind that more can happen in a minute if God is in it than we could achieve in a lifetime a part from Him." [Unknown Source]
 ðŸ“š "You can not change character or behavior and leave beliefs intact." [Dallas Willard]
📚 "Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." [Thomas A. Edison] 
  📚 "Hard work spotlights the character of people; some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all." [Sam Ewing]
 ðŸ“š "A well-known description of football states, 'it's twenty-two men who desperately need rest being watched by millions of people who desperately need exercise'. Church life can often function the same way." [Unknown Source]
 ðŸ“š "Work as if it all depends on you; pray as if it all depends on God. In every situation, begin on your knees before God." [Martin Luther]
 ðŸ“š "Sometimes I wonder who is going to win the battle first, the barbarians beating at our gates from without, or the termites of immorality from within." [Billy Graham]
 ðŸ“š "Pride and anger wholly go together." [Unknown Source]
 ðŸ“š "Keep one thing forever in view-the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God." [Horace Mann]
📚 "Character is much easier kept than recovered." [Thomas Paine]
 ðŸ“š "Men misplace their discontent. They are very well satisfied with what they are; they are dissatisfied with what they have: whereas the very reverse should take place." [Rev. J. Willcock (circa 1850s)]
 ðŸ“š "Anxiety is impotent. It only works on our minds. Faith in God as our Father should dispel anxious care. Anxious care is a denial of His love, knowledge, and power." [Rev. J. Willcock (circa 1850s)]
  📚 "Today is the Tomorrow that you worried about Yesterday." [Unknown Source]
 ðŸ“š "It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong." [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]
📚 "A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats." [C.H. Spurgeon]
📚 "God's power is like Himself: infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; it can neither be checked, restrained, nor frustrated by the creature." [Stephen Charnock]
 ðŸ“š "If God is your co-pilot- swap seats." [Unknown Source]
 ðŸ“š "As the proverb of the ancients says, 'out of the wicked comes forth wickedness'." [1 Samuel 24:13]
  📚 "Those who love Your law [Word] have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble." [Psalm 119:165]
 ðŸ“š  "Those who know God's Sovereignty and their own limitations, live in prayer and peace." [Bruce Waltke]
📚"Many people want to serve God, but only as advisors." [Unknown Source]
 ðŸ“š "God effects good, He permits evil. He is the author of one, but not the other." [Hodge- Systematic Theology]
 ðŸ“š "In the Old Testament, the New Testament lies hid. In the New Testament the Old Testament lies open." [Arthur Pink]
  📚 "If I should say, 'my foot has slipped'. Your loving kindness, O Lord, would hold me up. When my anxious thoughts multiply within me, your consolations delight my soul." [Psalm 94:18-19]
 ðŸ“š "The sluggards' unreliable and procrastinating nature makes him a constant source of irritation to all those who need to do business with him and is a shame to his parents." [Bruce Waltke]
 ðŸ“š "The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God." [A.W. Tozer]
 ðŸ“š "This is the prime way of honoring God. We do not so glorify God by elevated admirations or eloquent expressions or pompous service of Him, as when we aspire to a conversing with Him with unstained spirits and live to Him in living like Him." [Steven Charnock]
📚 "The 'god' which the vast majority of professing Christian's "love" is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man...who winks at the indiscretion of his people." [Arthur Pink]
 ðŸ“š "The wicked strut about on every side. When vileness is exalted among the sons of men." [Psalm 12:8]
 ðŸ“š "Goodness does not make grateful." [Unknown Source]
 ðŸ“š "I hear the accuser roar off ills that I have done. I know them all and thousands more. But my god findeth none.' [Unknown Source]
 ðŸ“š "Christ is the central point of history. Our calendar reflects this in recording either B. C. or A. D. [Unknown Source]
  📚 "The fear of the Lord is that affectionate reverence, by which the child of God bends himself humbly and carefully to His Father's will." [Unknown Source]
 ðŸ“š "One should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them." [Unknown Source]
  📚 "If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under."[President Ronald Reagan]
 ðŸ“š "He who counts the stars and calls them by their names, is in no danger of forgetting His own children." [Charles Spurgeon]
 ðŸ“š "Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trail of extraordinary graces. Sanctified afflictions are often spiritual promotions." [Matthew Henry]
 ðŸ“š "The greatest of all faults is to imagine you have none." [Unknown Source]
 ðŸ“š "... Money's value is limited. It can build a house, but not a home; It can put food on the table, but not fellowship around it." [Bruce Waltke]
 ðŸ“š "Whom have I in heaven but Thee? And besides Thee, I desire nothing on earth." [Asaph, Psalm 73:25]
 ðŸ“š "When you come to the place that He's all you have, you'll find that He's all you need." [Song: Lean On Me by Gary Mathena]
 ðŸ“š "He who seeks a friend without a fault remains without one." [Unknown Source]
  📚 "The faith which you have, have as your own conviction before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves." [Apostle Paul Romans 14:22]
 ðŸ“š "Not so in haste, my heart; Have faith in God and wait; Although He linger long, He never comes too late." [Unknown Source]
 ðŸ“š "He who counts the stars and calls them by their name, is in no danger of forgetting His own children." [Charles Spurgeon]
📚 "An average view of the Christian life is that it means deliverance from trouble; it is deliverance in trouble, which is a very different thing." [Oswald Chambers]
📚 "Good when He gives, supremely good, nor less when He denies. Even crosses from His sovereign hand are blessings in disguise." [Unknown Source]
 ðŸ“š"There is as much difference between genuine patience and sullen endurance, as between the smile of love, and the malicious gnashing of teeth." [William Swan Plumer]
📚 "A friend hears the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you've forgotten it." [Unknown Source]
📚 "One step forward in obedience is worth years of study about it." [Oswald Chambers]
  📚 "So I go on, not knowing, I would not, if I might- I would rather walk in the dark with God than go alone in the light, I would rather walk with him by faith than walk alone by sight." [Mary Brainard]
📚 "It is not love and it is not friendship if we fail to declare the whole counsel of God. It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie." [Adrian Rogers]
📚 "If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." [Unknown Source]
 ðŸ“š "I know, said Spurgeon, that God chose me before I was born; for He never would have chosen me afterwards."
 ðŸ“š "If you want to be miserable, look within; If you want to be distracted, look around; If you want to be peaceful and happy, look up- look off unto Jesus." [Unknown Source]
 ðŸ“š "There is no pillow so soft as a clean conscience." [Unknown Source]
 ðŸ“š "It is easy to praise the Lord when things ago right; but it is more precious to praise when things go wrong." [Unknown Source]
📚 "God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on Him." (2 Cor 12:9) [Hudson Taylor]
 ðŸ“š "The three Hebrew men facing the blazing furnace were quite prepared to reach glory by a fiery pathway. God can take His servants to heaven by a chariot of fire, or by a furnace of fire, as seems good to Him. Whatever the mode of going, it is well to get there!" [C.H. Mackintosh]
📚 "It is a much easier thing to ask in a general way for the forgiveness of our sins, than to confess those sins. Confession involves self-judgment. [Unknown Source]
 ðŸ“š *Personal Discipleship In An Evil Day: "Never go before your faith, nor lag behind your conscience." [Unknown Source]
📚 "Sincerity makes the very least person to be more valuable than the most talented hypocrite." [Spurgeon]
 ðŸ“š "Two of the most persistent problems we face as believers are: (1) Discerning  God's will and (2) Regulating our priorities." [Elwood McQuaid]
📚 "If all our problems were hung on a line, you would take yours and I would take mine." [Unknown Source]
 ðŸ“š "Panic, the syndrome that now fills whole shelves of large bookstores, involves a subordination of logical thinking to highly vacillating emotions." [Spiros Zodhiates]
 ðŸ“š"I have a future all sublime, beyond the realms of space and time, where my Redeemer I shall see, and sorrow never more shall be." [Nils Frykman]
📚 "Your date book and check book are your creeds; what you believe in, you have time and money for." [Unknown Source]
 ðŸ“š "Don't be sad about the things you want and don't get. Think how many things you don't want that you don't get!" [Unknown Source]
 ðŸ“š "The Lord will either calm your storm or allow it to rage while He calms you." [Unknown Source]
 ðŸ“š "It is not how troubled the sea is that determines the course of your life; it is Who the Pilot is." [Unknown Source]
 ðŸ“š "You cannot glorify God better than by a calm and joyous life." [Spurgeon]
 ðŸ“š "If you are wrong about Jesus, it doesn't matter what you're right about." [Adrian Rogers]
 ðŸ“š "The faith that fizzles before the finish, had a flaw from the first" [Adrian Rogers]
📚 "The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to tear down. [George Whitefield 1735]
📚 "My greatest regret is that I never found time to read my Bible and now it is too late." [Patrick Henry- His quote at the end of his life.]
📚 "I never saw a useful Christian who was not a student of the Bible." [D.L. Moody]
📚 "Fear arises when we imagine everything depends on us." [Elisabeth Elliot]
📚 "Who knows what God will do with us? It may be that we will use a gift we didn't know we had. We will never discover it as long as we are concentrating on the only thing we think we are good at." [C.H. Spurgeon]
 ðŸ“š "A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues." [Cicero]
 ðŸ“š "You may trust the Lord too little, but you can never trust Him too much." [Unknown Source]
 ðŸ“š "Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday." [Unkown Source]
  📚 "The biblical teaching on creation explains the noble side of man. Man is not part of the cosmic machine, because he is a special creation of God. Thus he is not a dog or a god, but man was made in 'the image of God.'" [Robert Morey]
 ðŸ“š "Remember, faith can swim when reason can no longer touch bottom." [Robert Morey]
📚 "No Christian nation can be considered great which ignores the sacred Book." [Fanny Crosby]
📚 "Sin will keep you from this Book. This Book will keep you from sin." [Dwight Moody]
📚 "Nobody ever out grows the Scriptures; the Bible widens and deepens with our years." [Charles Spurgeon]
📚 "Other books were given for our information; the Bible was given for our transformation." [The Defender]
 ðŸ“š "Give us [spiritual] sight that we may know where to stand and what to stand for, because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything." [Peter Marshall]
📚 "Paul and James would say, "No matter the cost, you teach doctrinal truth." James and John would say, "We are at war with the culture. We can never compromise and assimilate biblical truth with the philosophies of the world!" [Dr. Mal Couch]
 ðŸ“š "Genuine love is not blind to the truth; it neither over criticizes nor over praises. Needless to say, love does not flatter - which is essentially lying for the same selfish reason." [Spiros Zodhiates]
 ðŸ“š "What we put first in our lives soon masters us." [Spiros Zodhiates]
 ðŸ“š "False religion is utterly abhorrent to God and worthy of severe condemnation." [John Walvoord]
 ðŸ“š "Paul's hardships made him better, not bitter. They always do one or the other to a child of God" [Robert Lightner]
📚 "In the full armor of God (Eph 6:13-18) you will find no protection for the back." [Unknown]
📚 "I find doing the will of God leaves me no time disputing about His plans." [MacDonald]
📚 "Those whose lives are being changed by God often find themselves the objects of criticism and attack by people in whom there is no divine life." [Thomas L. Constable]
📚 "With stewards of the truth of God, faithfulness is the primary requisite of service, not apparent accomplishment." [Charles Feinberg] 
📚 "The man who says that other folks are unfriendly is often merely gazing at his own reflection in a mirror." [Spiros Zodhiates]
 ðŸ“š "Too wise to err, To good to be unkind- Are all the movements of the Eternal mind." [John East - Songs Of My Pilgrimage]
📚 "Good, when He gives, supremely good, Nor less when He denies, Even crosses from His sovereign hand Are blessings in disguise." [Unknown Source] 
  📚 "A believers stability for this life as well as his confidence for eternity rests solely on the written promises of God's Word." [Kelso Carter]
 ðŸ“š "The hope of heaven under troubles is like the wind and sails to the soul." [Samuel Rutherford]
 ðŸ“š "The difference between opinions and convictions is you hold your opinions but your convictions hold you." [Unknown Source] 
📚  “Oh, the pure delight of a single hour   That before the throne I spend,   When I kneel in prayer, and with Thee, My God,  I commune as friend with friend.”   [Fanny J. Crosby]
 ðŸ“š   “Once it was the blessing; Now it is the Lord, Once it was the feeling, Now it is the Word; Once His gifts I wanted; Now the Giver own; Once I sought for healing; Now Himself alone.” [ A. B. Simpson]  
 ðŸ“š  “The Bible is not such a book a man would write if he could or could write if he would.” [Lewis S. Chafer}
📚 “Out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires have come the deepest things that I know about God.” [Elisabeth Elliot]
📚  “Deny that God is governing matter, deny that He is ‘upholding all things by the word of His power’ and all sense of security is gone.” [A.W Pink]  
 ðŸ“š "Pride always speaks in first person pronouns." [Unknown Source]
 ðŸ“š "Marriage is like flies on a windowsill; some want in and some want out!"  [Unknown Source]
 ðŸ“š "While not knowing the very mind of God, the devil knows the Bible... Satan's days are numbered." [Dr. Mal Couch on Rev 12:12]
 ðŸ“š "We have the capacity to make a decision but we have a complete lack of its outcome. We may suffer for doing right." [Unknown Source]
 ðŸ“š "The object of knowledge is all-important. If it is not acquired in God, then it is not in truth." [Dr. Harold Stigers (on Gen 3:4)]
  📚 "We judge ourselves by our intentions; others judge us by our actions." [Unknown Source]
📚 "Where the word of God is neglected, there can be no fruit." [Dr. Pentecost]
 ðŸ“š "The human problem is that we will not accept God's gifts within the limits imposed by Him. We wish to be God, dispensing the gifts. [Dr. Oswalt]
📚 "Pain is often an instrument of God's mercy." [Dr. Hartly]
 ðŸ“š "God has the interest of His people in view;  ...He will make all things, whether prosperous or adverse, to co-operate in promoting their good." (Rom 8:28) [Dr. Sinclair Ferguson] 
  📚 "But God does permit circumstances into each life which draws out the governing principle of that life." [Dr. Charles Feinberg]
  ðŸ“š "Yesterday is history: tomorrow is a mystery. Today is the present, it is a gift from God." [Unknown Source]
  📚 "Men are frequently like tea- the real strength and goodness is drawn out of them after being, for a short time, in hot water. [Haines & Yaggy 1876]
 ðŸ“š "Before you marry, keep your eyes wide open.  After you marry, keep your eyes half-shut." [Unknown Source]
 ðŸ“š "The grave buries the dead dust, but the character walks the world..." [Haines & Yaggy1876]
 ðŸ“š "What you believe to be true in this life will follow you into the next life." [Unknown Source]
📚 "We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity." [H.C. Ryle]
 ðŸ“š "Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world: one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content." [H.C. Ryle]