Quotes To Help Us, Keep the Faith and Finish Well

• Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before, we will never live it again; it is the only day we have. ― William Arthur Ward
• “We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.” ― William Arthur Ward
• Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength – Charles Spurgeon
• There may be some sins of which a man cannot speak, but there is no sin which the blood of Christ cannot wash away – Charles Spurgeon
• There are some preachers who cannot or do not preach about the blood of Jesus Christ, and I have one thing to say to you concerning them: Never go to hear them! Never listen to them – Charles Spurgeon
• Nothing puts life into men like a dying Saviour – Charles Spurgeon
• The words of the scripture thrill my soul as nothing else ever can. They bear me aloft or dash me down. They tear me in pieces or build me up. The words of God have more power over me than ever David’s fingers had over his harp strings. Is it not so with you? Charles Spurgeon 
• “The desires of the flesh leads to sin.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
•  “To have sinned and wake up the next day is truly a miracle, repent.” ― Okisha Jackson
•  “God gave you a gift of 86 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you ” ― William Arthur Ward
• “So much can change from one day to the next, but the one thing that always remains the same is God. Stay focused on Him. ― Germany Kent
• “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” ― William Arthur Ward
• “When you pray for others you’re praying for yourself.” ― Okisha Jackson
• “A must read book; the Holy Bible.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
• Obedience requires knowing God’s word, His expectations and then actually living them out.” ― Sara Dormon,
• “A curator treasures aged bibles, but the wise treasure the wisdom within.” ― Christian Hunt
• “If You’re a Christian and Everyone Likes You… Something’s Wrong” Sara Dormon,
• “With much prayer comes great grace from God.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita,
•  “A good Christian, never take advantage of other people” ― Beta Metani’ Marashi
• “Those who leave everything in God’s hands will eventually see God’s hand in everything.”
• Christianity is not a do-it-yourself thing.” ― Jerry Bridges, The Pursuit of Holiness
• “Relying on God has to start all over everyday, as if nothing has yet been done.” –C. S. Lewis
• “What you feed will lead your life.” ― Dr. Jayce O’Neal
• “When life gets too hard to stand kneel” – P. Graham Dunn
• God won’t love us because we are good, but God will make us good because He loves us – C.S. Lewis
• True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less – C.S. Lewis
•  I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else – C.S. Lewis

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• Religion today is not transforming the people – it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society – it is descending to society’s own level and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smiling accepting its surrender.
• Don’t come down here to cry about it, go home and live it
• Only a disciple can make a disciple.
• We’re here to be worshippers first and workers only second. We take a convert and immediately make a worker out of him. God never meant it to be so. God meant that a convert should learn to be a worshiper, and after that he can learn to be a worker…The work done by a worshiper will have eternity in it.
• The man with a cross no longer controls his destiny; he lost control when he picked up his cross. That cross immediately became to him an all-absorbing interest, an overwhelming interference. No matter what he may desire to do, there is but one thing he can do; that is, move on toward the place of crucifixion.
• Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late – and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work.
• It is either all of Christ or none of Christ! I believe we need to preach again a whole Christ to the world – a Christ who does not need our apologies, a Christ who will not be divided, a Christ who will either be Lord of all or will not be Lord at all!
• A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of the external situation.
• Wise leaders should have known that the human heart cannot exist in a vacuum. If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they will turn to the wine of the flesh….Christ died for our hearts and the Holy Spirit wants to come and satisfy them
• I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.
• It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should.
• Christians don’t tell lies they just go to church and sing them.
• A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.What then are we to do about our problems? We must learn to live with them until such time as God delivers us from them. We must pray for grace to endure them without murmuring. Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting. They harm us only when we resist them or endure them unwillingly.
• What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
• To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.
• What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.
• God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.
• It is altogether doubtful whether any man can be saved who comes to Christ for His help with no intention to obey Him.
• It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.
• We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.
• An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.
• The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
• An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly
• In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we’re pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker’s praise without anxiety.
• Salvation apart from obedience is unknown in the sacred Scriptures… Apart from obedience there can be no salvation, for salvation without obedience is a self-contradictory impossibility.
• The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can’t make a wrong choice – any choice will be the right one.
• You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.
• An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others
• We must never rest until everything inside us worships God.
• Those who seek the deeper Christian life and those who want the riches that are in Christ Jesus the Lord seek no place, no wealth, no things, only Christ.” – The Crucified Life
• God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible– what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.
• We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.
• He remembers our frame and knows that we are dust. He may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender smile of a Father who is bursting with pleasure over an imperfect but promising son who is coming every day to look more and more like the One whose child he is.
• The Spirit-filled life is not a special, deluxe edition of Christianity. It is part and parcel of the total plan of God for His people.
• We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum
• Without doubt the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God
• The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.
• If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. If the Holy Spirit had been withdrawn from the New Testament church, 95 percent of what they did would stop, and everybody would know the difference.
• The true Church has never sounded out public expectations before launching her mission. Her leaders heard from God, they knew their Lord’s will and did it. Their people followed them – sometimes to triumph, oftener to insults and public persecution – and their sufficient reward was the satisfaction of being right in a wrong world.
• We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty, we have money, we live in comparative luxury. As a result, discipline practically has disappeared. What would a violin solo sound like if the strings on the musician’s instrument were all hanging loose, not stretched tight, not “disciplined.”
• Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it.
• The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.The Bible recognizes no faith that does not lead to obedience, nor does it recognize any obedience that does not spring from faith. The two are at opposite sides of the same coin.
• No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.
• The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find (God’s) inward peace.
• True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie. It is enough that God has said it

Aiden Wilson Tozer was a minister for 44 years. He was a writer and editor of the official Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) magazine, now called Alliance Life. He was also a very successful author of over 40 Christian books, of which he wrote mostly about the need of a deeper relationship with God. Most of the money he made from writing these books was given away to those with a greater need.

40 Powerful Quotes by Billy Graham: 

• “The will of God will not takes us where the grace of God cannon sustain us.”
• “God never takes away something from your life without replacing it with something better.”
• “I’ve read the last page of the Bible, it’s all going to turn out all right.”
•  “It is the Holy Spirit’s job to convict, God’s job to judge and my job to love.”
•  “My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.”
•  “God proved his love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‘I love you.’”
•  “Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?”
•  “There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.”
•  “If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.”
•   “The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.”
•  “We are the Bibles the world is reading; we are the creeds the world is needing; we are the sermons the world is heeding.”
•  “A real Christian is the one who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.”
•  “I have never known anyone to accept Christ’s redemption and later regret it.”
•  “When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.”
•  “Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.”
•  “Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.”
•  “Christ not only died for all: he died for each.” 
•  “Heaven is full of answers for which nobody ever bothered to ask.” 
• “Take one day at a time. Today, after all, is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” 
• “We say to our children, ‘Act like grown-ups,’ but Jesus said to the grown-ups, ‘Be like children.’ 
• “Sin is the second most powerful force in the universe, for it sent Jesus to the cross. Only one force is greater—the love of God.” 
• “Knowing we will be with Christ forever far outweighs our burdens today! Keep your eyes on eternity!”
• “World events are moving very rapidly now. I pick up the Bible in one hand, and I pick up the newspaper in the other. And I read almost the same words in the newspaper as I read in the Bible. It’s being fulfilled every day round about us.” 
• “God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.”
• Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.”
• “Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.”
• “The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.”
• “They asked her (Ruth Graham) did she ever think about divorce and she said, ‘No, I’ve never thought of divorce in all these 35 years of marriage, but,’ she said, ‘I did think of murder a few times.’”
• “Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.”
• “When we come to the end of ourselves, we come to the beginning of God.”
• “The message I preach hasn’t changed. Circumstances have changed. Problems have changed, but deep inside man has not changed, and the gospel hasn’t changed.”
• “The only hope for enduring peace is Jesus Christ.”
• “God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.”
• “The moment we take our last breath on earth, we take our first in heaven.”
• “Someone asked me recently if I didn’t think God was unfair, allowing me to have Parkinson’s and other medical problems when I have tried to serve him faithfully. I replied that I did not see it that way at all. Suffering is part of the human condition, and it comes to us all. The key is how we react to it, either turning away from God in anger and bitterness or growing closer to him in trust and confidence.”
• “Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.”
• “Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.”
• “The cross shows us the seriousness of our sin—but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.”
• “Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.”
• “Quit beating yourself up. We all live under grace and do the best we can.”