📚  She will bear a son, and  you shall call his name Jesus,  for he will save his people from their sins.” [Matthew 1:21]

  📚 ".. I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all people. For today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord." [Luke 1:10-11]

 📚 "For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us;..." [Isaiah 9:6]

  📚 "Oh the joy of trusting Jesus, trusting where we cannot trace; leaning hard upon his promise, proving His sufficient grace." [Katie V. Hall]

 📚 "...complete maturity will not be achieved until we see the Lord 'face to face'. At that time, we will not only achieve complete maturity but perfect knowledge." [Dr. Dan Mitchell]

  📚"This flesh of mine is ready to betray me into the hands of the world, and of the devil. Therefore, there must be a marvelous strong guard. I must not suffer my affections to rove." [Puritan, Richard Sibbes]

 📚"God does not impel or entice to evil. He ceases to restrain. He says to the sinner, 'let him alone'." [Rom 1:21-28 Charles Hodge]

  📚"Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical." [John Bunyan]

  📚"The past will not change and there is no future in the past. Give all of it to the Lord. Only in Christ is there hope for the future." [Unknown Source]

  📚 "Yesterday is like a cancelled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note, Today is like ready cash. Use it wisely, for today is the most precious possession you can have." [Unknown Source]

  📚 "A mature Christian believer is one whose character has begun to conform to the image that God intends it to have-the very character of Christ." [Unknown Source]

  📚 "God's essence consist in mercy, and also that He is the Father and source of mercies. Since the Lord Jesus is very God, grace and peace originates from Him also." [Stanley]

  📚 "Redeemed human beings are not meant to be earthbound, but are instead bound for heaven." [Dr. Mal Couch]

  📚 "False doctrine never aids true moral conduct, but works to corrupt that conduct." [Lenski]

 📚 "Christian liberty should not lead to self-indulgence and spiritual compromise." [Dr. Mal Couch]

 📚 "Judge not by the largeness of numbers unless you prefer chaff to wheat." [Calvin]

 📚 "If a care is too small to be turned into a prayer, it is too small to be made into a burden." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him." [Unknown Source]

📚 "Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "We endure, like Moses, when we set our minds on things above, seeing the invisible sovereign hand of God before, in, and preceding all our circumstances. Heb 11:27 [Spiros Zodhiates]

  📚 " In everything give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." [1 Thess 5:18]

  📚 "Oh, give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good, For His lovingkindness is everlasting. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so..." [Psalm 107:1-2a]

  📚 "God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage." [Unknown Source]

  📚 "Thankfulness is the soil in which joy grows." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "He has the film of my whole life in view, and not just the snapshot of my present situation." [W. Trobisch]

 📚 "He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day." [Bunyan]

 📚 "God has a natural law in force to the effect that we are conformed to that upon which we center our interest and love." [Miles Stafford]

 📚 "Kings who build palaces should not forget their tombs, for in a very short time all their greatness will be contained in a very small space." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "It is far easier not to get into a bad habit in the first place than to overcome one." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "O Lord God, grant us always, whatever the world may say, to content ourselves with what you say, and to care only for Thine approval, which outweighs all words." [General Gordon 1830-1885]

  📚 "...Nothing ever just happens to the saint. Things either come directly from God or they reach us from some other source by His permissive will." [Kenneth S. Wuest]

 📚 "Anything that leaves you at the center is off-center. It feeds the disease of self-centeredness." [E. Stanley Jones]

 📚 "God is never before His time but He is never behind. The clock of Divine Providence keeps strict time, and has never been known to vary either in one direction or the other." [Griffith Thomas]

📚 "...The true Christian heart will always love to trace the hand of God in the ordinary everyday experiences of life. For, after all, 'ordinary' means 'ordered'..."[Griffith Thomas]

 📚 "Through prayer and self-examination seek God's purpose in any suffering you experience." [Unknown Source]

  📚 "God uses at least five ways to get our attention; His word, His Spirit, time, people and circumstances." [Dr. Mal Couch]

📚 "...A devout person will rightfully conclude that back of all secondary causes, which may be divinely arranged, to cooperate in the realization of the purpose of God..." [Lewis Sperry Chafer]

 📚 "God does not impel or entice to evil. He ceases to restrain. He says to the sinner, 'Let him be alone'." [Charles Hodge]

 📚 "Christian liberty should not lead to self-indulgence and spiritual compromise. Christians must subject their freedoms to the word of God." [Dr. Mal Couch]

📚 "In taking revenge, a man is equal to his enemy; in passing over it, he is superior. [Unknown Source]

 📚 "For when there is a question as to whether a man is good, one does not ask what he believes, or what he hopes, but what he loves..." [Augustine]

📚 "Only in the light of the Word of God can truth be differentiated from error, fact recognized from fancy, and reality perceived as actuality." [Merrill Unger]

 📚 "This flesh of mine is ready to betray me into the hands of the world and of the devil, therefore there must be a marvelous strong guard. I must not suffer my affections to rove. [Puritan Richard Sibbes]

 📚 "Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals." [1 Cor 15:33]

  📚 "All of nature illustrates the providential control of God.  The precise nature of the body of every living thing is determined by the good pleasure of God." [Dan Mitchell]

  📚 "What kind of church would this church be, if everyone in the church was just like me?" [Unknown Source]

 📚 "The satanic world system is not only wholly evil, but as a world order is limited and temporary." [Merrill Unger]

 📚 "Divine Sovereignty does not permit God to do what divine character will not allow. We trust the character of God, we trust the wisdom of His sovereignty, even when we do not always understand." [Woodrow Kroll]

 📚 "The creatures God created are not competent to sit in judgment on their creator." [Woodrow Kroll]

 📚 "Yea, once Immanuel's orphaned cry, his universe hath shaken. It went up single, echoless, 'my God I am forsaken!' It went up from the Holy's lips amid his lost creation. That, of the lost, no son should use those words of desolation!" [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]

📚 "Words are the clothes our thoughts wear." [Unknown source]

 📚 "Turkey gobblers would strut less if they could see their future." [Unknown Source]

📚 "If you feel 'dog tired' at night, maybe it's because you growled all day!" [Unknown Source]

📚 "It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent." [Jeremy Taylor]

 📚 Acts 7:59 Calvin stated: "This verse clearly teaches that the soul of man is not a vanishing breath, according to the ravings of some madman, but is an essential spirit, and survives death." [John Calvin]

 📚 "Steven did not look down at death to an unconscious existence in the grave, but he looked up into heaven itself and asks Christ to take his spirit into heaven at that very moment." [Robert Morey]

📚 "In the remarkable account of Steven's martyrdom, Steven did not ask the grave to receive him, but Christ, whom He saw in heaven..." [Robert Morey]

 📚 "God, being who He is, cannot cease to be what He is, and being what He is, He cannot act out of character with Himself. He is at once faithful and immutable, so all His works and acts must be and remain faithful." [A.W Tozer]

📚 "Divine Sovereignty does not permit God to do what divine character will not allow. If we can trust the character of God, we can trust the wisdom of His Sovereignty as well, even if we do not always understand." [Woodrow Kroll]

 📚 "Christianity can never be only an experience of the secret place; it must be a life in the market place." [William Barclay]

📚 "The child of God is a creature of eternal destiny. For him no day is without consequence, and no fleeing moment can be called 'incidental' or unimportant. The hours he spends and the decisions he makes have implications that carry into eternity.  What he does today will matter a thousand years from now." [Dave Breese]

📚 "Life is more than naming animals [a job] or walking in the garden [recreation], it is a seriously spiritual reality." [Unknown Source]

📚 "An evil inclination, like a spider's web, if yielded to and persisted in, ends up being a stout rope." [Merrill Unger]

  📚 "Buy what you need and want what you have." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "Our duty, privilege, and security are in believing, not in knowing; in trusting God, and not our own understanding. They are to be pitied who have no more trustworthy teacher than themselves." [Charles Hodge] 

 📚 "The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction." [Charles Spurgeon]

 📚 "Extraordinary afflictions are not always punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. Sanctified afflictions are often spiritual promotions." [Matthew Henry]

 📚 "Orthodoxy can be learned from others; living faith must be a matter of personal experience." [J.W. Buchsel]

📚 "The hope of heaven under troubles is like the wind and sails to the soul." [Samuel Rutherford]

 📚"Other books were given for our information; the Bible was given for our transformation." [The Defender]

  📚"He that has Christ for his God and King, let him be assured that he has the devil for his enemy." [Martin Luther]

 📚"It is easier to preach ten sermons than it is to live one." [Unknown Source]

 📚"Truth and morality are inseparable. The ungodly exchange the truth of God for 'the lie'". [Spiros Zodhiates]

📚 "What makes the Dead Sea dead? Because it is all the time receiving, but never giving out anything. Why is it that  many Christians are cold? Because they are all the time receiving, never giving out." [Dwight L. Moody]

  📚 "Not so in haste, my heart; have faith in God and wait. Although He lingers long, He never comes too late." [Unknown Source]

  📚 "When confronted with a Goliath-sized problem, which way do you respond: "He's to big to hit" or like David, "He's to big to miss." [Unknown Source]

  📚 "We are going home to many who cannot read. So Lord, make us to be Bibles so that those who cannot read The Book can read it in us." [A Chinese missionary's prayer]

  📚 "From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, delivers us. " [Unknown Source]

 📚 "A marriage maybe made in heaven, but the maintenance must be done on earth." [Unknown Source]

📚 "The opposite of ignorance in the spiritual realm is not knowledge, it is obedience. I constantly attempt to impress Him with how much I know. He constantly seeks to impress me with how little I have obeyed." [Howard Hendricks] 

 📚 "The souls of men are eternal; for though they had a beginning, they will have no end." [Robert Shaw]

 📚 "The same sun that melts butter hardens clay." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "It is never to be forgotten that contact with sin, even apart from the contamination of it, involves a measure of suffering." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "The emotions and affections do not obey a determination of the will. A change of purpose is not a change of heart." [Charles Hodge]

  📚 "God grades on the cross, not the curve." [Unknown Source]

📚 "We may not be responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we behave when they do happen." [Ralph W. Emerson]

 📚 "Better to know one truth well and accurately, than to know a hundred imperfectly." [Unknown Source]

  📚 "Whenever complacency and discontent enter the soul - it begins to decline." [Unknown Source]

📚 "You only feel the pressure when you care what other people think." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "There is an invisible, spiritual battle being waged this very moment for the attention of your heart." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "Deeds of merit as we thought them, He will tell us were but sin: Little acts we had forgotten, He will own were done for Him." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "When anger spreads through thy breast, guard thy tongue from barking idly." [Unknown Source]

📚 "Time = 24 hours or 1,440 minutes or 86,400 seconds. Use it wisely for it will soon disappear never to return." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous." [Unknown Source]

📚 "God does not violate in providence what He established in creation." [William Shedd]

📚 "You already have eternal existence, but you need eternal life." [Adrian Rogers]

📚 "It is better to wear out than to rust out." [Richard Cumberland]

📚 "None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them." [Charles Colton]

 📚 "Self-pity is best taught by fellowship in woe." [Samuel Coleridge]

📚 "Don't put a question mark where God put a period." [Unknown Source]

📚  "There is nothing on earth that shows the wretchedness of man like the weakness of man without God." [Blaise Pascal]

 📚  "All too often integrity is compromised for the sake of temporary gain- a sense of security or a few moments of pleasure." [Cyril Barber]

📚  Someone once said, "Each human being is really three people: who he thinks he is, who other people think he is, and who he really is...the one God knows". [Unknown Source]

📚  "A heart of gratitude needs cultivating. It has been observed that 'a thankless person seldom does a thankful deed'," [Cyril Barber]

📚  "Be ye fishers of men. You catch them- He'll clean them." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "The gem cannot be polished without friction nor the child of God without adversity." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "Envy often masquerades as the champion of the rights of the community, when it only wants to grasp power for themselves." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "Don't expect to be honored in a world where your Master was crucified." [Spurgeon]

📚 "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt. [Abraham Lincoln]

 📚 "Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If left unchecked by Truth it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "It is one of our highest privileges to discern something eternal behind the transitory objects of the present world and to be able to cling closely to this Eternal reality." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "Some minds are like concrete- thoroughly mixed up and permanently set." [Unknown Source]

📚 "For feelings come and feelings go, and feelings are deceiving; My warrant is the Word of God, naught else is worth believing." [Martin Luther]

 📚 "The hammers of infidels have been pecking away at the Bible for ages, but the hammers are worn out, and the anvil of the Word still endures." [H.L. Hastings]

📚 "C onsistent l ack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part." [Unknown Source]  

  📚 "A flashlight gives light in spite of the fact that it cannot reach to the far corners of the galaxy. We don't have to know everything but we can know what the Omniscient God has revealed." [Spires Zodhiates]

  📚 "A Christian who never asks his heavenly Father for forgiveness for his sins can hardly have much sensitivity to the ways in which he grieves his Father." [Dr. Zane Hodges]

  📚 "Prayer: Don't give God instructions-just report for duty." [Unknown Source]

  📚 "He that lives by faith shall never die by fear. The more you trust God, the less you will torment yourselves." [Flavel 1627-1691]

  📚 "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, they cannot alter that state of facts and evidence." [John Adams 1770]

  📚 "The best mathematical equation I have ever seen: 1 cross+ 3 nails = 4 given." [Unknown Source]

📚 "The word "psalms" denotes songs born out of experiences and may link up with the idea of affliction. 'If David's heart had never be wrung, David's psalms would have never been sung.'" [Unknown Source]

📚 "Gentleness is strength under control." [Unknown Source]

📚 "The word of God never requires to be updated or sub-edited, for it meets the need of the present hour." [Unknown Source]

    📚"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they lit." [H.G. Wells] 

  📚 "What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is that they don't want to discourage it entirely." [Franklin Jones]

  📚 "What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us..." [A.W. Tozer]

  📚 "Sooner or later everybody sits down to a banquet of consequences." [Robert Lewis Stevenson]

 📚 "To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same to be right in doing it." [G.K. Chesterton]

 📚 "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]

 📚 "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]

 📚 "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]