📚 "Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction." [President Ronald Reagan]

 📚 "We would be more grateful if we knew how much of what we take for granted is planned by God." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "How inconsistent! To acknowledge that I am blind, to entreat Him to lead me, and yet to want to choose my own way in the same breath!" [John Newton]

📚 "Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them." [Ps 139:16]

 📚 "If you understand that God is using the difficulties you face to mature you, you will be at peace." [John McArthur]

 📚 "The Lord is aware of the temptations His children face. He is not detached from the events that come upon His own. Through His Holy Spirit, believers can overcome whatever comes against them." [Dr. Mal Couch on 1 Cor 10:13]

 📚 "Christian liberty should not lead to self-indulgence and spiritual compromise." [Dr. Mal Couch on 1 Cor 10:6]

 📚 "Religious profession, social prestige, and human mortality can be no substitute for spiritual regeneration." [Merrill Unger on  John 3]

 📚 "Feeding the spiritual man is not something you decide - it is something you do ." [David Jeremiah]

 📚 "Love, is both a noun and a verb, yet 'Truth' is never a verb." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "We walk by faith not by sight. We believe, but do not see things which governs our lives." [Charles Hodge on 2 Cor 5:7]

 📚 "Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out, patience is genius." [Comte de Buffon]

  📚 "Dear Lord, may those who love us, love us, and those who don't, may you turn their hearts, and if you don't turn their hearts, may you turn their ankles so we will know them by their limping." [Unknown Source]

 📚 “Better is a dish of vegetables where love is than a fattened ox served with hatred.” [Prov 15:17]

 📚 “The work of our hands through grace, becomes the work of His hands, which He is bound to accomplish, so that eternity, not time, becomes the real gauge of our life’s work.” [Merrill Unger on Ps 90:17]

 📚 “The hammers of infidels have been pecking away at the Bible for ages, and the anvil of the Word still endures.” [H.L. Hastings]

 📚 “Lord, I have thanked you a million times for my roses, but never once have I thanked you for my thorn.” [Unknown Source]

 📚 “Everyone thinks forgiveness is a good idea until they have someone to forgive.” [C.S. Lewis]

 📚 " Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace, comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word. [2 Thess 2:16-17]

 📚 “Pain is often an instrument of God’s mercy.” [Unknown Source]

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

 📚 “Truth is a hard master and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.” [Unknown Source]

📚 “If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” [Unknown Source]

 📚 "Stop regarding man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils; For why should He be esteemed?" [Isaiah 2:22]

 📚 "Ill that He blesses is our good, And unblest good is ill; And all is right that seems must be wrong, If it be His sweet will." [W.F. Faber]

 📚 "This is my Father's world, O let me ne'er forget, That though the wrong oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet." [ M.O. Babcock]

 📚 "I would rather our children be ditch-diggers and go to heaven than some famous academic or rich person and go to hell." [Ken Ham]

  📚 "People often turn to God in a crisis, see Him move in response to their faith, and then forget Him when their situation improves." [Ed Hindson]

  📚 "...To those who are the called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:..." [Jude 1:1]

 📚 "Someone has said that Christians, the same as everyone else, should look both ways before crossing the street. Not to do so is a presumptuous test of the Sovereignty of God. [Unknown Source]

 📚 "If the great trials of our spiritual life are the means of bringing us nearer to the heart of God, they will turn out to be our greatest blessing." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "If you are wrong about Jesus it doesn't matter what you're right about." [Adrian Rogers]

 📚 "Worldliness consists in these three things: Attachment to the Outward; Attachment to the Transitory; Attachment to the Unreal." [Roberton circa, 1800's]

 📚 "For this reason I say to you, her sins, which are many, have been forgiven, for she loved much; but he who is forgiven little, loves little." [Luke 7:47]

 📚 "Old Testament prophets delivered a message from God. In the New Testament, Christ IS the message." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "God buries His workman and continues His work." [W.H. Griffith]

 📚 "Truth is not always identical to appearance." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these- It might have been." [John Greenleaf Whittier]

 📚 "The eternal God is a dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms;" [Deut 33:27a]

📚 "When obstacles and trials seem like prison walls to be, I do the little I can do, and leave the rest to Thee." [F.W. Faber]

📚 "It is not just what you know, but how you live because of what you know" [Dr. Mal Couch]

 📚 "Put your mind in gear before putting your mouth in motion." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "If there was a point where God stopped, then God wouldn't be perfect. God is eternal, no beginning, no end." [A.W. Tozer]

 📚 "For it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to do for His good pleasure." [Phil 2:13]

 📚 "If you are serious about changing your life, you will find a way. And if not you will find an excuse." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "Children are the living message we send to a time we will not see." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and His justice cannot sleep forever." [Thomas Jefferson]

 📚 "Sometimes your prayer won't fix the problem; Sometimes it fixes you, so you can handle the problem." [Unknown Source] 

 📚 "See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us that we would be called born ones of God; and we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him." [1 John 3:1]

 📚 "Humanism is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of creation under the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil: 'you will be like God.'" [Whittaker Chambers]

📚 "Before speaking ask yourself three questions. Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? [Unknown Source]

  📚 "The best way to be successful is to follow the advice you give others." [Unknown Source]

📚 "Future events should not carry us so powerfully away to the world-to-come that we ignore the needs of the present." [Spiros Zodhiates]

 📚 "There is no wisdom and no understanding and no counsel against the Lord." [Prov 21:30]

 📚 "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost." [Billy Graham]

 📚 "Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe." [Mark Twain]

📚 "Whatever troubles come on you, of mind, body, or estate, from within or from without, from friend or foe- whatever your trouble be, O children of the heavenly Father, be not afraid." [J.H. Newman 1884]  

📚 "Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter." [Paxton Hood 1921]

 📚 "You have taken account of my wanderings; Put my tears in Your bottle.  Are they not in Your book?" [Psalm 56:8]

 📚 "The hope of a hypocrite is like a spider's web; the hope of the believer is an anchor to his soul, sure and steadfast." [Rom 5:5 Charles Hodge] 

 📚 "We must look up to God through and beyond circumstances. Circumstances are only things that 'stand round' us, and they never do more than this...if only our gaze is ever fixed on God..." [W.H. Griffith]

📚 "Living God's way maybe harder for  you, but it will be easier on you." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "Satan enters into rulers, governors and kings and uses them to oppose the people of God and the Word of God." [A.D Muse]

 📚 "For to the snow He says, 'fall to the earth'. And the downpour and the rain, 'be strong'. He seals the hand of every man that all men may know His work." [Job 37:6-7]

 📚 "Nowhere in God's Book are we commanded to be successful, but we are commanded to be faithful. Man's way of working has never been God's way." [Virginia Ely]

 📚 "Neither our obligations nor our trials will go beyond our capacities. As a Just Sovereign, He proportions duty to power and as a merciful Redeemer, trials to strength." [David Thomas]

 📚 "He who seeks a friend without a fault, remains without one." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "Reflect upon 3 things and you will not come within the power of sin; (1) Know from where you come (2) Know to where you are going and (3) Before whom you will, in the future, have to give an account." [Soncino Commentary]

  📚 "As a ring of gold in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion." [Prov 11:22]

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

 📚 "It is no paradox that he who would advance can never cling too close to the past, nor plan too much in the future. You may spare yourself some unhappiness if you slip the book of Ecclesiastes beneath your arm." [Soncino Commentary]

 📚 "The church that can't worship must be entertained. And men who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment."  [A.W. Tozer]

 📚 "To be almost saved is to be totally lost." [Adrian Rogers]

  📚 "...and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood." [Rev 1:5]

  📚 "Old tendencies need to be corrected, old weaknesses made strong, old faults removed; And if only we yield ourselves into the hands of the great Potter He will fashion the clay, in spite of all our natural disadvantages, into vessels unto honor." [W.H. Griffith]

 📚 "Divine disposition of events or the calling of specific persons, by no means rules out human action. Election is not inconsistent with exertion." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "Over attachment to possessions never promise proper soil for the growth of the Word of God. What we put first in our lives soon masters us." [Spiros Zodhiates]

 📚 "In this TikTok age in which we live, the prophetic clock of God's Word is being muted. Many believers cannot hear it ticking toward the midnight hour because their leaders have put it in storage." [Dr. Paul Wilkinson]

 📚 "Now to Him  who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, [Jude 24]

 📚 "I'll trust in God's unchanging Word till soul and body sever: For though all things shall pass away, His word shall stand forever." [Martin Luther]

 📚 "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. [W.H. Griffith]

 📚 "It is a merciful Providence which hides the future from our view, and calls upon us to take one step at a time, and learn the spiritual meaning and significance of each event in the retrospect of experience." [W.H. Griffith] 

 📚 “The discipline of delay is hard to bear. But the delay is not due to the fact that God grudges to bless; it is because He has other blessings in store for us than those for which we ask.” [J.D. Jones]

  📚    For who regards you as superior?  What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? [1 Cor 4:7]

 📚 "No Christian nation can be considered great which ignores the sacred book." [Fanny Crosby]

📚 "Be like a watch! Have an open face, busy hands, full of good works, pure gold and well regulated." [Unknown Source] 

 📚 "Mankind in their hostility to God, are ungodly people who have no home but earth and want no home but earth." [Lenski]

📚 "Faith sets no limits on God's power and submits itself to His will." [John D. Grassmick]

 📚 "Behold, as for the proud one, his soul is not right within him; But the righteous will live by his faith." [Habakkuk 2:4] 

 📚 "The Gospels are... portraits or paintings to present various poses of 'Jesus Christ, the Son of God' ... whether King (Matthew), Servant (Mark), Man (Luke), or God (John)". 

 📚 "The 'buts' of the Bible are often beautiful bridges used to cross from the depth of despair to the mountains of hope." [Unknown Source]

  📚 "Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have met with I will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in blessed bonds of grace." [Charles Spurgeon]

 📚 "The world trembles. Alliances shift, rockets fly. Nations posture. But heaven is not shaken." [David Bowen]

  📚 " Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy,  to the only  God  our Savior , through  Jesus  Christ  our Lord ,  be  glory , majesty , dominion , and authority  before  all  time  and now  and  forever . Amen .  [Jude 24-25]

  📚 "A marked feature of the true saint is his sense of weakness, he is a complete contrast to the haughty independent and presumptuous imposter. His strength is in God, who can so preserve him that he will not even stumble." [A. McShane]

 📚 "Providence is not a Christian symbol for coincidence." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go." [Abraham Lincoln]

  📚 "The average animal, in a lifetime, has less than a billion heartbeats. The average human has 3 billion heartbeats." [Dan Mitchell]

📚 "... shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips." [Job 2:10]  

📚 "One cannot presume to be saved because of another's righteousness. Righteousness is non-transferable and non-cumulative." [Merrill Unger] 

📚 "We reap what we sow, more than we sow, and later than we sow." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "Knowledge is the apprehension of truth; wisdom is its application to life. Knowledge is prudent judgment and wisdom is prudent action. Both are found in Christ." [Col 2:2-3 Walvoord and Zuck]

 📚 "Reading is hearing with the mind." [A.W. Tozer]

 📚 "The generous man will be prosperous, and he who waters will himself be watered." [Prov. 11:25]

   📚 "Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to heaven." [Samuel Rutherford]

  📚 "Our voluntary thoughts not only reveal what we are, they predict what we will become." [A.W Tozer]

 📚 "It is not how troubled the sea is that determines the course of your life; it is who the Pilot is." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "Find your joy in something finished, And not a thousand things begun." [Douglas Mallock]

   📚 "In the day of prosperity be happy, But in the day of adversity consider -God has made the one as well as the other so that man may not discover anything that will be after him." [Ecc 7:14]

 📚 "Nobody ever outgrows the scriptures; the Book widens and deepens with our years." [Charles Haddon Spurgeon]

  📚 "Sin will keep you from this Book. This Book will keep you from sin." [Dwight L. Moody]

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

 📚 "It requires no faith to look back and say, 'It was the Lord!' But to see the dim-shadowed figure on today's stormy sea and say, 'It is the Lord' requires faith and courage." [L.P. Lehman]

 📚 "...why do you seek the Living One among the dead? He is not here, but He is risen..." [Luke 24:5-6]

 📚 "America is great because America is good; and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." [Alex DeTocqueville]

 📚 "Posterity- you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." [John Quincy Adams] 

  📚 "According to the general Law of habit: moral principles and spiritual truth become stronger by exercise and weaker by lack of it." [Merrill Unger]

 📚 "Justification by faith is necessary in the court of heaven. Justification by works is the only thing people can observe in the court on earth." [(James 2:24) Arnold Fruchtenbaum]

  📚 "There is no wisdom and no understanding and no counsel against the Lord." [Prov 21:30]

 📚 "God controls all events in the universe, but does so nearly always through providence, so that His rule is hidden." [Lawrence O. Richards]

  📚 "Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself." [Augustine]

 📚 "He who angers you, controls you." [Unknown Source]

 📚 "God, the architect of the ages, has seen fit to take us into His confidence concerning His plan for the future and has revealed His purposes and program in detail in the Word." [J. Dewight Pentecost]

 📚 "The God who made the galaxies knows the fears of your heart, the events of your life, and the details of your future." [John Tweeddale]

 📚 "Even if I know that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree!" [Martin Luther]

 📚 "Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things." [Ecc 11:5]

 📚 "A divine overruling controls the fate of the world's political powers, so that at times Satan is an instrument in serving a providential purpose." [Moffatt on Rev 17:17] 

 📚 "People are funny; they want the front of the bus, the middle of the road, and the back of the church." [Church Bulletin 1956]

  📚 "Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand all things." [Prov 28:5]

📚 "Faithfulness is that in God which guarantees that He will never be or act inconsistent with Himself. You can  put that down as an axiom. It is good for you now and good for you when you're dying. God will never cease to be what He is and who He is." [A.W. Tozer]

 📚 "Don't cry over spilt milk." "Don't cross a bridge before you come to it." [John Howell 1659] [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1851]

  📚 "Self-sufficiency is incompatible with the work of God in any age. Faith alone overcomes the world!" [Allen P. Ross]

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

  📚 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways; declares the Lord." [Is 55:8]

  📚 "Pride, the syndrome that now fills whole shelves of large bookstores, involves a subordination of logical thinking to highly vacillating emotions." [Spiros Zodhiates]