📚 "...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] 

  📚 "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]

 📚 "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]

 📚 "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]

 📚 "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]

 📚 "Pride and anger wholly go together." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "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]

 📚 "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)]

  📚 "Today is the Tomorrow that you worried about Yesterday." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "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]

 📚 "If God is your co-pilot- swap seats." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "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]

 📚  "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]

 📚 "God effects good, He permits evil. He is the author of one, but not the other." [Hodge- Systematic Theology]

 📚 "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]

 📚 "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]

 📚 "The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God." [A.W. Tozer]

 📚 "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 wicked strut about on every side. When vileness is exalted among the sons of men." [Psalm 12:8]

 📚 "Goodness does not make grateful." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "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]

 📚 "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]

 📚 "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]

 📚 "He who counts the stars and calls them by their names, is in no danger of forgetting His own children." [Charles Spurgeon]

 📚 "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 greatest of all faults is to imagine you have none." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "... 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]