📚 "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 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]
📚 "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]
📚 "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]
📚 "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]
📚 "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]
📚 "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)]
📚 "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)]
📚 "God's power is like Himself: infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; it can neither be checked, restrained, nor frustrated by the creature." [Stephen Charnock]
📚 "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]
📚 "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]
📚 "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]
📚 "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]
📚 "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]
📚 "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]
📚 "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]
📚"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]
📚 "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 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]
📚 "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]
📚 "Panic, the syndrome that now fills whole shelves of large bookstores, involves a subordination of logical thinking to highly vacillating emotions." [Spiros Zodhiates]
📚 "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]
📚 "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]
📚 "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]
📚 "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]
📚 "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]
📚 "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]
📚 “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]
📚 “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]
📚 “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]
📚 "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]
📚 "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]
📚 "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]
