"quotes"

Quotes from various sources with Christian theme, and a few others besides.

[garymillar]

God's grace changed Chuck Smith ... and it changed his church. People were excited enough about the gospel to actually invite their friends to come to church to hear it.

Greg Laurie/Ellen Vaughn

Jesus Revolution

[garymillar]

Truth is, sometimes I don't want a slow-paced, intentional life. I have systematically engineered a life of chaos. The consequences at least appear better than facing the reality of my own life. And so each generation is more disconnected than the last. When I look around at the world, I see a bunch of people desperate to know they are loved living in the shadows of a community too busy to pay attention to anyone but themselves.

Nathan Foster

Wisdom Chaser

[garymillar]

The old saying that time heals all wounds just wasn't true. Rather, time makes wounds more tolerable. It eases the spring. We can't go back and relive our lives; we can't change the past. We do, however, have some say in the future.

Nathan Foster

Wisdom chaser

[garymillar]

The book of Ezekiel begins by describing the holiness of God that Israel had violated and ignored. As a result, God's presence had departed from the Temple, the city and the people. The book ends with a detailed vision of the new Temple, the new city and the new people - all demonstrating God's holiness. The pressures of everyday life may cause us to focus on our problems and thus lead us to forget God. That is why worship is so important: It takes our eyes off our current worries, gives us a glimpse of God's holiness, and allows us to look toward his future Kingdom. God's presence makes everything glorious, and worship brings us into his presence.

NLT Chronological Study Bible [1148] on Ezekiel 48:35.

[garymillar]

Your self-worth is not a function of the opinions of others.

Ken Blanchard

The Mulligan

[garymillar]

We are physically alive when our souls are in unison with our bodies, and we are spiritually alive when our souls are in unison with God.

Neil T Anderson

The Power of Presence

[garymillar]

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

[garymillar]

I realize now that everyone has a message. Every person in every hood around the world has some kind of belief they're communicating.

Preston Perry

How to tell the truth

[garymillar]

There is never a wrong time to pray. Was God faithful? Praise Him through prayer. Realized you've blown it? Pray your heartfelt confession to Him, assured of His forgiveness. Claiming one of His promises? Pray a reminder to Him of His words. You don't do this because you're worried He has forgotten His commitment. Instead, when you pray His words to Him, you are stating your faith in His faithfulness. These prayers can take place anytime and anywhere, by yourself or with anyone joining in.

Amir Tsarfati with Rick Yohn

Discovering Daniel

[garymillar]

Thomson [Rev. Sinclair Thomson] spoke of how humbling it was, when conversing with those applying for church membership, to find how few, comparatively, had been brought under spiritual conviction by preaching. Some were struck by hearing some of those recently converted engaging in prayer in a common prayer meeting. Some by pithy remarks made by someone during a prayer meeting. Some, again, by the ardent exhortation of a young convert while travelling on the road together; and some by reading the Scriptures, when the threatening of God in his book went to their hearts like daggers.

Shetland, 1859

from Scotland Ablaze by Tom Lennie

[garymillar]

Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you. In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me but I was not with you.

St Augustine

Confessions, Book 7

[garymillar]

We are tormented by the insufficiency of everything attainable when our lives are too small for us and we live them in such a way that we are always waiting, waiting for something or somebody to come along and change things so that our real lives, as we imagine them, might begin.

Ronald Rolheiser

Against an infinite horizon

[garymillar]

Daniel and his friends couldn't accomplish their mission lounging in the comfort of the Jerusalem palace. In the same way, there are times when God needs to move us around or shake us up a bit to ensure we are perfectly staged to accomplish His will. Often, we don't understand what God is doing or why. Usually it is only when we look back, in hindsight, that we can make sense of the difficult times.

Amir Tsarfati

Discovering Daniel

[garymillar]

... if your fear of people discourages you from being faithful to the text and to God, then somewhere in there you don't believe God is with you.

Jackie Hill Perry

[garymillar]

When we pray, God hears. When the Lord makes a promise, we can hold Him to it. When we pray a reminder to Him, as Daniel did, it is not because we think He may have forgotten. ... When we remind God's of His promises, it is a statement of faith on our part. We are affirming that He is a God who always follows through with His commitments. He will fulfill His promises in His time and in His way, 100 percent of the time.

Amir Tsarfati, The Day Approaching

[garymillar]

Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we can't exaggerate?

Francis Chan

[garymillar]

How is it possible for Satan to delay his final judgment? ... Just prior to the Second Coming of Christ (the catalyst that will usher in the final period of the devil's freedom), Romans 11 promises us that all Israel will be saved. But what if there is no Israel to be saved? If the nation is eradicated, the prophecy cannot be fulfilled, and Christ cannot return to take His rightful throne on the earth. This is another reason why the enemy has been so determined to destroy God's chosen people.

Amir Tsarfati

The Last Hour