This world is God's workshop for making men in. -- Henry Ward Beecher

The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God. -- Dean William Ralph Inge

Walk boldly and wisely....There is a hand above that will help you on. -- Philip James Bailey

One plus God is a majority. 

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. - Thomas Merton

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers. - Hans Christian Andersen

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths. -- Proverbs 3:5-6

There is no emptiness of soul ever for those whose life is devoted to God. -- William Lawson

A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness. -- Jonathan Edwards

Never think that God's delays are God's denials.
Hold on! hold fast! hold out! Patience is genius. -- Georges L.L. de Buffon

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired. -- Martin Luther

God's greatness flow around our incompleteness;
Round our restlessness, his rest.-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

God is a good worker but loves to be helped. -- Basque Proverb

God enters by a private door into every individual. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's only forgetting yourself that you draw near to God. -- Henry David Thoreau

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. -- John 4:12

I had rather be in hell with Christ, than be in heaven without Him – Martin Luther 

It is not enough to be good if you have the ability to be better – Alberta Lee Cox

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born. – Ronald Reagan

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. – Elizabeth Bibesco

Lord grant that the FIRE of my heart may melt the lead of my feet.

If there is no wind row – Latin proverb

I have so much to do that I am going to bed – Savoyard proverb

Do not follow where the path may lead.  Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue – Francis Bacon

Adversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes its jewels with. – Robert Leighton 

They gave our Master a crown of thorns – Why do we hope for a crown of roses? – Martin Luther. 

 The man who does not learn to wait upon the Lord and have his thoughts molded by Him will never possess that steady purpose and calm trust, which is essential to the exercise of wise influence upon others, in times of crisis and difficulty. – D. E. Hoste

 If you ask enough people, you can usually find someone who will advise you to do what you were going to do anyway. – Weston Smith 

Do not open your heart to every man, but discuss your affairs with one who is wise and who fears God – Thomas à Kempis 

God’s wounds cure, sin’s kisses kill – William Gurnall 

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. – Elbert Hubbard 

Only those who attempt the absurd achieve the impossible. 

Failure to plan is knowingly planning to fail. 

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going. 

Attempt great things for God, expect great things from God. – William Carey 

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

If you think you’re too small to have an impact try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. – Anita Roddick 

Never give advice…  A wise man won’t need it...    A fool won’t heed it.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. – Joshua Reynolds

Anger is one letter short of danger

The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me. – John Donne

Anybody can become angry – that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. – C. H. Spurgeon

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. – Edmund Burke

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. – Martin Luther King Jr.

A stiff apology is a second insult. – G. K. Chesterton

Discussion is an exchange of intelligence; argument is an exchange of ignorance.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget – Benjamin Disraeli

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. – William G McAdoo

 I tried atheism for a while but my faith just wasn’t strong enough.

 Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?

 If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. – Dale Carnegie

 There are two kinds of men who never amount to very much.  Those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else. – Cyrus H. K. Curtis

 Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. – Zig Ziglar

 If you would abolish avarice, you must abolish its mother, luxury.

 Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear; but around in awareness. – James Thurban

 Beauty is a flower, fame a breath. -  Latin proverb

 Anyone can carry his burden for one day.  Anyone can be pleasant, courteous, and friendly for one day.  And that continued is all there is to life.

 A Christ-centered life is like a good watch: open face, busy hands, pure gold, and full of good works.

 He that knows nothing will believe anything. – Thomas Fuller

Make sure the thing you’re living for is worth dying for. – Charles Mayes

If God created us in His image we have certainly returned to compliment. – François de Voltaire

 Give me a candle and a Bible, and shut me up in a dark dungeon, and I will tell you what the whole world is doing.

 “Bible” It should fill the memory, rule the heart and guide the feet.

   The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.  No book in the world equals the Bible for that. – James McCosh

 Back to the Bible, or back to the jungle. – Luis Palau

 Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. – Mark Twain

 The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has stood so much bad preaching. – A. T. Robertson

 In 1728 potatoes were outlawed in Scotland because they were not mentioned in the Bible.

 In the Old Testament we have Jesus predicted.  In the Gospels we have Jesus revealed.  In Acts we have Jesus preached.  In the Epistles we have Jesus explained.  In the Revelation we have Jesus expected.

Defend the Bible?  I would as soon defend a lion!  Unchain it and it will defend itself. – C. H. Spurgeon

 The Bible does not have to be rewritten but reread.

 Avoid truth decay – read your Bible.

 Many read the Bible the way a mouse tries to remove the cheese from a trap without getting caught. – Kierkegaard

 Until we love the Lord as to do what He tells us, we have no right to an opinion about what one of those men meant; for all they wrote is about things beyond us. – George Macdonald

 Do not have your concert first and tune your instruments afterwards.  Begin the day with God. – James Hudson Taylor

 What a world this would be if we could forget our troubles as easily as we forget our blessings.

 God can do wonders with a broken heart; if we give Him all the pieces.

 How else but through a broken heart may the Lord Christ enter in. – Oscar Wilde

  It’s not the load that breaks you down; it’s the way you carry it.

 Never mistake motion for action. – Ernest Hemmingway

 Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong. – Holly Near

 The world doesn’t care what you know until they know that you care. – David Havard

I have nothing to give but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. – Winston Churchill

 The only thing constant is change.

 Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change. – Confucius

 The boys and girls who are going to make great men and women, or are going to count in any way after life, must make up their minds not merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. – Theodore Roosevelt

  [Charismatic] The fanaticism which discards the Scripture under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity.  For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods. – John Calvin

 Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naïve. – Ogden Nash

 I have a great need for Christ; I have a great Christ for my need. – Spurgeon

 I am not what I ought to be.  I am not what I wish to be.  I am not even what I hope to be.  But by the cross of Christ, I am not what I was. – John Newton

 Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it has a God who knew His way out of the grave. – G. K. Chesterton

 The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small does of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing. – Leslie Dixon Weatherhead

 There are four kinds of church members: the tired, tireless, tiresome and retired.

 The difference between involvement and commitment is like and eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was involved – the pig was committed.

 The best exercise for strengthening the heart is reaching down and lifting people up. – Ernest Blevings

 Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. – George Herbert

 Never wrestle with a pig.  You both get all dirty and the pig likes it.

  A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. – Doug Larson

 The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home here on earth. – Malcom Muggeridge

  [Conversion]  You can’t tell the exact moment when night becomes day, but you know when it is daytime.

 When he landed in 1848 there were no Christians.  When he left in 1872 there were no heathen. – Memorial to John Geddie in Aneityum

 Christ had no interest in gathering vast crowds of professed adherents who would melt away as soon as they found out what following Him actually demanded of them.  In our own presentation of Christ’s gospel, therefore, we need to lay a similar stress on the cost of following Christ and make sinners face it soberly before we urge them to respond to the message of free forgiveness.  In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything. – J. I. Packer

 If it’s painful for you to criticize your friends, you’re safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue. – Alice Duer Miller

  If one man calls you a horse, ignore him;

            If two men call you a horse, consider it;

            If three men call you a horse, buy a saddle. – Persian proverb

 No statue has ever been erected to a critic. – Jean Sibelius

 The cross is “I” crossed out.

 Necessity is the mother of invention.

 The cross symbolizes a cosmic, as well as historic truth: Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one. – Reinhold Niebukr

   Many who plan to seek God at the eleventh hour die at 10:30.

   God is peopling eternity, and I must not restrict him to old men and women. – Jim Elliot

     Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. – Mark Twain

      Anything that dims my vision for Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps me in my prayer life, or makes Christian work difficult, is wrong for me; and I must, as a Christian turn away from it. – J. Wilbur Chapman

     I am resolved never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. – Jonathan Edwards

     We are consecrated and dedicated to God; therefore, we may not hereafter think, speak, meditate, or do anything but with a view to His glory.  We are God’s; to Him therefore, let us live and die. – John Calvin

     Many are willing that Christ should be something, but few will consent that Christ should be everything. – Alexander Moody Stuart

    Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual. – C. H. Spurgeon

   Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. – Dale Carnegie

      It is still one of the tragedies of human history that the “children of darkness” are frequently more determined and zealous than the “children of light” – Martin Luther King

    A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age. – Robert Frost

     It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand! – Corrie Ten Boom

    Doubt sees the obstacles                   Faith sees the way;

            Doubt sees the blackest night        Faith sees the day;

            Doubts dreads to take a step                  Faith soars on high;

            Doubt questions, “Who believes?”            Faith answers, “I”

      Without dreams you may continue to exist, but you have ceased to live – Mark Twain

     Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

     Do the duty which lies nearest thee, which thou knowest to be a duty.  The second duty will already have become clearer. – T. Carlyle

     All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. – Chinese proverb

  The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. – Mark Twain

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. – Abigail Van Buren

       A really intelligent man feels what other men only know. – Charles Montesquieu

      The really great man is the man who makes every man feel great. – G. K. Chesterton

       Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove. – Billy Sunday

    Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn. – John Wesley

   Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry?       Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die?        Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn, and give no hand?         Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you damned?       - Leonard Ravenhill

   Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, summing up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, side stepping responsibility and pushing their luck.

 Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. – Charles F. Banning