Back to Home Page...Quotations That Should Give You Some Food For
Thought...
"What has been is what will be, and what has been
done is what will be done;
and there is nothing new under the
sun."
Ecclesiastes 1:9
Quotation:
"Power tends
to corrupt and absolute power corrupts
absolutely."
Lord Acton (1834 -
1902)
Quotations from Ronald Reagan:
"Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it
and
hell where they already have it." -Ronald
Reagan
"Here's my strategy on the Cold
War: We win, they lose." - Ronald Reagan
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from
the
government and I'm here to help."-Ronald
Reagan
"The trouble with our liberal
friends is not that they're ignorant; it's
just that they know so much that isn't so." -Ronald
Reagan
"Of the four wars in my lifetime,
none came about because the U.S.
was too
strong."- Ronald Reagan
"I have wondered
at times about what the Ten Commandments would
have
looked like if Moses had run them through
the U.S. Congress." -Ronald Reagan
"The
taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government
but
doesn't have to take the civil service
examination."- Ronald Reagan
"Government is like
a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at
one
end and no sense of responsibility at the
other."- Ronald Reagan
"The nearest thing to
eternal life we will ever see on this earth is
a
government program." - Ronald
Reagan
"It has been said that politics is the
second oldest profession. I have
learned that
it bears a striking resemblance to the first."- Ronald
Reagan
"Government's view of the economy could
be summed up in a few short phrases:
If it
moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops
moving,
subsidize it" - Ronald
Reagan
"Politics is not a bad profession. If you
succeed, there are many rewards;
if you
disgrace yourself, you can always write a book."- Ronald
Reagan
"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals
of the world, is as formidable as
the will and
moral courage of free men and women."- Ronald
Reagan
"If we ever forget that we're one nation
under GOD, then we will be a nation
gone
under."-Ronald Reagan
Quotations:
Margaret Thatcher: "The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or later you
run
out of other people's
money."
"When you subsidize poverty and
failure, you get more of
both."
...James Dale Davidson,
National Taxpayers Union
"The more corrupt
the state, the more it
legislates."
-
Tacitus
"A Liberal is a person who will
give away everything he doesn't
own."
- Unknown
Quotations
by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen:
Men are
driven by the love of pleasure and women are driven by the
pleasure
of
love.
The world is rapidly
being divided into two camps, the comradeship
of
anti-Christ and the brotherhood of
Christ. The lines between these two
are
being drawn. How long the battle will be we know not; whether
swords
will have to be unsheathed we
know not; whether blood will have to be
shed we know not; whether it will be an armed conflict we know not.
But
in a conflict between truth and
darkness, truth cannot lose.
Sex
divorced from love, instead of raising man by taking him away from
himself,
drags him down to the hall of
mirrors where he is always confronted with
self.
Sex does not care about the
person, but about the act. The fig leaf which once
was
put over the secret parts of man and
woman in sculpture is now put over the face.
The person does not matter. ~ Archbishop Fulton John Sheen, Those Mysterious
Priests,
1974
To a great extent the level of any civilization is the level of
its
womanhood. When a man loves a woman, he
has to become worthy of her.
The higher her
virtue, the more her character, the more devoted she
is
to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man
has to aspire to be worthy
of her. The history
of civilization could actually be written in
terms
of the level of its women. ~Archbishop
Fulton J. Sheen
Who is going to save our
Church? Not our Bishops, not our priests
and
religious. It is up to the people. You have the minds, the
eyes,
the ears to save the Church. Your
mission is to see that your
priests act like
priests, your bishops like bishops and your
religious act like religious. ~Archbishop Fulton J.
Sheen
Pride is an admission of weakness;
it secretly fears all
competition and dreads
all rivals.... Fulton John Sheen
Let me
tell you this, being a Catholic will never prevent you from sinning,
but I can tell you one thing, it will take
all the fun out of it.
And the reason it will
take all the fun out of it, is because once you have loved
you know what love is, like no one else. ~
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Life is like a
cash register, in that every account, every
thought,
every deed, like every sale, is
registered and recorded.
Fulton John
Sheen
The big print giveth, and the fine
print taketh away.
Fulton J.
Sheen
Two glasses that are empty cannot fill each other up. There must be a
fountain
of water outside the glasses in
order that they may have communion with
each
other. It takes three to make love.
~ Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Quotations by
G.K.Chesterton:
Several times in history the
Church seemed to be done and destroyed. But
it
is still here. It has survived its own
death, because
it had a God who knew his
way out of the grave.
The reformer is
always right about what is wrong.
He
is generally wrong about what is
right.
The next great heresy is going to
be simply an attack on morality, and
especially on sexual morality. And the madness of tomorrow will
come
not from Moscow but from Manhattan...G.K.
Chesterton
A dead thing can go with the
stream, but only a living thing can go
against it.
Wit is a sword; it is
meant to make people feel the point as well as see
it.
Those who call these cults
"religions," and "compare" them with the
certitude
and challenge of the Church
have much less appreciation than we have of
what
made heathenism human, or of why
classic literature is still something
that
hangs in the air like a song. It is
no very human tenderness for the hungry
to prove that hunger is the same as food. It is no very genial
understanding
of youth to argue that
hope destroys the need for happiness. And it is
utterly
unreal to argue that these
images in the mind, admired entirely in
the
abstract, were even in the same
world with a living man and a living
polity
that were worshipped because they
were concrete... They are only different
because one is real and the other is not. I do not mean merely that I
myself
believe that one is true and the
other is not. I mean that one was never
meant
to be true in the same sense as
the other...Gilbert K Chesterton
(1874-1936),
The Everlasting
Man.
If there were no GOD,
there would be no atheists.
G.K
Chesterton
Quotation:
Live in the
world as if only God and your soul were in
it;
then your heart will never be made
captive by any earthly thing.
... St.
John of the Cross (1542-1591), from "Spiritual
Maxims".
Quotation:
Faith is to
the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith
what
breath is to the body. How a person
can live and not breathe is past my
comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past
my
comprehension too... J. C. Ryle
(1816-1900)
Quotation:
The life of the
early Church lay in constant intercommunication between
all
its parts; its health and growth were
dependent on the free circulation of
the
life-blood of common thought and feeling. Hence it was first
firmly
seated on the great lines of
communication across the empire, leading
from
its origin in Jerusalem to its imperial center in Rome. It had
already
struck root in Rome within little more
than twenty years after the
Crucifixion, and
it had become really strong in the great city about
thirty
years after the Apostles began to look
round and out from Jerusalem. This
marvelous
development was possible only because the seed of the new
thought
floated free on the main currents of
communication, which were ever
sweeping back
and forward between the heart of the empire and its
outlying
members. Paul, who mainly directed
the great movement, threw himself boldly
and
confidently into the life of the time; he took the empire as it
was,
accepted its political conformation and
arrangement, and sought only to
touch the
spiritual and moral life of the people.
...Sir
William M. Ramsay
(1851-1939)
Quotation:
If your every
human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by
one,
human props have been knocked out, and
doors have shut in your face, take
heart. God
is trying to get a message through to you, and the message
is:
"Stop depending on inadequate human
resources. Let me handle the matter."
...
Catherine Marshall
(1914-1983)
Quotation:
Lazarus is
permitted to see what he believed, but the rich man
is
compelled to see what he did not believe.
Helmut Thielecke 1908-1986
Quotation:
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to
know
God, for, beholding His greatness, we
realize our own littleness;
His purity shows
us our foulness; and by meditating upon His
humility
we find how very far we are from
being humble.
...Teresa of Avila (1515-1582),
The Interior Castle [1577]
Quotation:
The
believer in God has to account for the existence of unjust
suffering;
the atheist has to account for the
existence of everything else.
...Rabbi Milton
Steinberg
Quotation:
Subject: Evolution vs
Creation...
Recently my son and I were talking
about the origins of humankind. He
said that
he was offended by the belief that man had descended from
the
ape family, and was adamant that we all
came from Adam and Eve. I on the
other hand
believe Darwin's theory to be a more reasonable
explanation
of our evolution, and think it is
ridiculous to continue teaching
children the
creation myth. As this discussion can go round in
circles
are you able to shed some light on
this age old topic?
Answer:
An elderly rabbi was once on an
airplane to Israel sitting next to a
self-professed atheist. They were amicably chatting the whole
trip.
Every now and then, the rabbi's
grandchild, sitting in another row,
would come
over to him, bringing him a drink, or asking if he could
get
anything to make him more comfortable.
After this happened several times,
the atheist
sighed, "I wish my grandchildren would treat me with
such
respect. They hardly even say hello to
me. What's your secret?"
The rabbi replied,
"Think about it. To my grandchildren, I am two
generations closer to Adam and Eve, the people made by the hand of
G-d.
So they look up to me. But according to
the philosophy which you teach
your
grandchildren, you are two generations closer to being an ape.
So
why should they look up to
you?"
Beliefs have consequences. Why do you
think children today lack respect
and are
unable to honour their elders? Why is tradition looked down
upon,
and the values of the past all but
forgotten? Is it not a natural
consequence of
modern education? If we teach our children that they
are
merely advanced animals, then they will
act that way. And they will treat
their
parents and teachers like the obsolete versions of humanity
that
they are. We have to be aware of the
affects of our beliefs. If we believe
that
humans came about by accident, then life has no meaning. There can
be
no meaning to something that happens by
chance. A random explosion or
mutation cannot
give us purpose. My life, your life and all human
history
has no real significance whatsoever.
Whether I live a good life or one
full of evil
makes no difference. It is all a big accident
anyway.
We only have purpose if we were
created on purpose. Our lives only have
meaning if we were created by a meaningful being. If we teach our
children
that they were created on purpose
with a purpose, then they will know that
more
is expected from them than from an animal. The Adam and Eve
story
needs to be taught, not just because it
is true, but because it is the
basis of
morality. Both creationism and Darwinism require faith. To
accept
that G-d created man and woman requires
faith. To accept that a
single-celled organism
spontaneously mutated billions of times to form
the
human being also requires faith. But only
one of these beliefs demands that
we live a
moral life. That's the one I want my kids to know
about.
Good Shabbos, Rabbi
Moss
Quotation:
"Man will occasionally
stumble over the truth, but most of the time
he
will pick himself up and hurry off as
if nothing had happened."
...Sir Winston
Churchill
Quotation:
"At the
resurrection the substance of our bodies,
however
disintegrated, will be united.
We must not fear that the
omnipotence of
God cannot recall all the particles that
have
been consumed by fire or by beast,
or dissolved into dust and
ashes, or
decomposed into water, or evaporated into
air.
...St. Augustine of Hippo
(354-430), The City of God.
Quotation:
"Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears
all
competition and dreads all rivals." Fulton
John Sheen
"Life is like a cash register, in
that every account, every thought,
every deed,
like every sale, is registered and recorded."
Fulton John Sheen
"The big print giveth, and
the fine print taketh away."
Fulton J.
Sheen
Quotation:
It is not possible
ever to exhaust the mind of the Scriptures.
It
is a well that has no bottom.... St. John Chrysostom
(345?-407)
Quotation:
This seems a
cheerful world, Donatus, when I view it from this
fair
garden, under the shadow of these vines.
But if I climbed some great
mountain and
looked out over the wide lands, you know very well
what
I would see--brigands on the high roads,
pirates on the seas; in the
amphitheaters men
murdered to please applauding crowds; under
all
roofs misery and selfishness. It is really
a bad world, Donatus, an
incredibly bad world.
Yet in the midst of it I have found a quiet
and
holy people. They have discovered a joy
which is a thousand times
better than any
pleasures of this sinful life. They are despised
and
persecuted, but they care not. They have
overcome the world. These
people, Donatus, are
the Christians--and I am one of them.
...St.
Cyprian (?-258)
Quotation:
The modern
translator must be a close student, not only of Greek,
but of the art of English translation... In every sentence he
must recognize
a new problem, for it must be
rendered not only for itself but in such a way
that
its relation to the context is maintained. The best translation is one
that
makes the reader forget that it is a
translation at all.
... Edgar J.
Goodspeed (1871-1962)
Quotations from Thomas
Jefferson:
When we get piled upon one another
in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become
as corrupt as Europe.
The democracy
will cease to exist when you take away from those who are
willing
to work and give to those who would
not.
It is incumbent on every
generation to pay its own debts as it
goes.
A principle which if acted on
would save one-half the wars of the world.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the
government from wasting
the labors of the
people under the pretense of taking care of
them.
My reading of history convinces me
that most bad government results from too
much
government.
No free man shall ever be
debarred the use of arms.
The
strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as
a last resort,
to protect
themselves against tyranny in government.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of
patriots and tyrants.
To compel a man to
subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and
abhors
is sinful and
tyrannical.
Quotation:
Salt, when
dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not
cease
to exist. We can be sure of its presence
by tasting the water.
Likewise, the indwelling
Christ, though unseen, will be made evident
to
others from the love which he imparts to us.
... Sadhu Sundar Singh
(1889-1929)
Quotation:
Prayer enlarges
the heart until it is capable of containing
God's gift of himself.... Mother Teresa
(1910-1997)
Quotation:
The seven works
of bodily mercy be these: feed the hungry,
give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked and the
needy,
harbor the houseless, comfort the sick,
visit prisoners, bury
the dead. The seven
works of spiritual mercy be these: teach
men
the truth, counsel men to hold with Christ's law,
chastise
sinners by moderate reproving in
charity, comfort sorrowful
men by Christ's
passion, forgive wrongs, suffer meekly
reproofs for the right of God's law, pray heartily for
friend
and for foe. ... Middle English Sermons
[1940]
Quotation:
No one is safe by his
own strength, but he is safe by the
grace and
mercy of God.... St. Cyprian
(?-258)
Quotation:
If Jesus Christ be
God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be
too great for me to make for Him.... C. T. Studd
(1860-1931)
Quotation:
Where there is
fear of God to keep the house, the enemy
can
find no way to enter... St. Francis of Assisi
(1182-1226)
Quotation:
Resolved, never
to do anything which I should be afraid to do
if
it were the last hour of my
life....Jonathan Edwards
(1703-1758)
Quotation:
The trouble with
nearly everybody who prays is that he says
"Amen" and runs away before God has a chance to
reply.
Listening to God is far more important
than giving Him your
ideas... Frank Laubach
(1884-1970)
Quotation:
Our body has
this defect that, the more it is provided
care
and comforts, the more needs and desires it
finds.
... Saint Teresa of Avila
(1515-1582)
Quotation:
Worry looks
around, Sorry looks back, Faith looks up.
...Unknown
This nation is getting what it
asks for, and much more than it imagines.
...Unknown
Quotation:
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, although not in
the hour or in the
measure, or the very thing
which they ask; yet they will
obtain something
greater and more glorious than they had dared
to ask... Martin Luther
(1483-1546)
Quotation:
And the truth is
passed on by the small fervent band of the
few.
Not by the many but by dauntless,
resolute, dedicated few.
...John Henry
Cardinal Newman
Quotation:
If we
see a speck in a brother's eye, we must first see if there is a
log
in our own eye; perhaps that speck
in our brother's eye is only a
reflection of the beam in our own.... David
Watson
Quotation:
If you're not a
thorn in somebody's side, you aren't
doing
Christianity right...Mother
Angelica
Quotation:
Let any man
turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise
himself
unto godliness, let him seek to
develop his powers of spiritual
receptivity by trust and obedience and humility, and the results
will
exceed anything he may have hoped
in his leaner and weaker days.
A. W.
Tozer (1897-1963), The Pursuit of God
[1948]
Quotation:
The Will of God will
never take you where the Grace of God will not
protect you....Unknown
Quotation:
It seems St. Peter, guardian of the heavenly gates, had a
complaint
for God: "Somebody's been letting
people in through the back door."
"Well, stop
it," God says.
"Can't," says St. Peter. "It's
your mother doing it."
...Unknown
Quotation:
Invisible in His
own nature [God] became visible in ours.
Beyond our grasp, He chose to come within our
grasp.
... Leo the Great
(390?-46
Quotation:
Aspire to inspire
before you expire....Unknown
Quotation:
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take
without
forgetting....Unknown
Quotation:
The end of all my labors has come. All that I have
written
appears to me as much straw
after the things that have been
revealed
to me... Thomas Aquinas
(1225?-1274)
Quotation:
The love
I bear Christ is but a faint and feeble
spark,
but it is an emanation from
himself: He kindled it and he
keeps it
alive; and because it is his work, I trust
many
waters shall not quench
it.
... John Newton (1725-1807),
in a letter [1776]
Quotation:
The
Bible contains:
The mind of God, the
state of man, the way of salvation, the doom
of
sinners, and the happiness of
believers. Its doctrines are holy, its
precepts are binding, its histories are true, and its decisions
are
immutable. Read it to be wise,
believe it to be safe, and practice
it
to be holy. It contains light to direct you, food to support
you,
and comfort to cheer you. It is the
traveler's map, the pilgrim's
staff, the
pilot's compass, the soldier's sword, and the
Christian's
charter. It's where paradise
is restored, Heaven opened, and the
gates of hell disclosed. Christ is its grand subject, our good
its
design, and the glory of God its
end. It should fill the memory,
rule the
heart, and guide the feet. Read it slowly, frequently,
and
prayerfully. It is a mine of wealth,
a paradise of glory, and a river
of
pleasure. It is given to you in life, will be open at
judgment,
and be remembered forever. It
involves the highest responsibility,
rewards the greatest labor, and condemns all who trifle with its
holy
contents.... Author
Unknown
Quotation:
Flight 1549
crashed into the Hudson River during the 3 o'clock
hour
(at about 3:30 pm), which Christ
told St. Faustina is "the hour of
great
mercy." It was during this hour that His heart was pierced by
a
lance, and blood and water gushed
forth as a fountain of mercy for
the
world. "In this hour," He told her, "I will refuse nothing to
the
soul that makes a request of Me in
virtue of My Passion."
Diary of Saint
Faustina, #1182, 1320.
Quotation:
God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son is
the
theme of Holy Scripture; and God the
Spirit is the author,
authenticator, and
interpreter of Holy Scripture... J.I. Packer
b.1926
Quotation:
A man who is
well-grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is
the
bulwark of the Church... St. Jerome
(340?-420)
Quotation:
There is no
situation so chaotic that God cannot from that
situation
create something that is
surpassingly good. He did it at the
creation.
He did it at the cross. He is
doing it today.
Bishop Handley Moule
(1841-1920)
Quotation:
There are
only two kinds of men: the righteous, who believe
themselves
sinners; the rest, sinners
who believe themselves righteous.
Blaise
Pascal (1623-1662), Pensees
[1660]
Quotation:
You Can't repeat
something that never
ends.....Unknown
Quotation:
The Kingdom
of Heaven is on earth because the Church is in
Heaven.
....Unknown
Quotation:
Jesus hath
many lovers of His heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of
His
Cross. He hath many desirous of
consolation, but few of tribulation.
Many love Jesus so long as no adversities befall
them.
Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471), The
Imitation of Christ, II.xi.
[1418]
Quotation:
Liberalism: A
mental disorder wherein the illogical becomes
completely
logical, with no lasting
effect on the
conscience....Unknown
Quotation:
It is not that we keep His commandments first, and that then
He
loves; but that He loves us, and then
we keep His commandments.
This is that
grace, which is revealed to the humble, but hidden
from
the proud.... St. Augustine
(354-430), Lectures or Tractates on the
Gospel according to St. John,
lxxxii.3
Quotation:
Make sure
that you let God's grace work in your souls by
accepting
whatever He gives you, and
giving Him whatever He takes from you.
True holiness consists in doing God's work with a
smile.
...Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(1910-1997)
Quotation:
One way to
recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer,
and
preserve it more in tranquility, is
not to let it wander too far
at other
times. You should keep it strictly in the Presence
of
God; and, being accustomed to think
of Him often, you will find
it easy to
keep your mind calm in the time of prayer, or at
least
to recall it from its
wanderings...Brother Lawrence
(c.1605-1691),
Practice of the Presence
of God, New York, Revell, 1900, p
35-36
Quotation:
Wherever we turn
in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is
the
beginning, middle, and end of
everything to us. There is nothing
good,
nothing holy, nothing beautiful, nothing joyous, which
He
is not to His servants. No one need
be poor, because, if he
chooses, he can
have Jesus for his own property and
possession.
No one need be downcast, for
Jesus is the joy of heaven, and it is
His joy to enter into sorrowful hearts. We can exaggerate
about
many things; but we can never
exaggerate our obligation to Jesus,
or
the compassionate abundance of the love of Jesus to us. All
our
lives long we might talk of Jesus,
and yet we should never come to
an end
of the sweet things that night be said of Him.
Eternity
will not be long enough to
learn all He is, or to praise Him for
all He has done--but then, that matters not; for we shall
be
always with Him, and we desire
nothing more.
Frederick W. Faber
(1814-1863), All for Jesus,
London:
Quotation:
We all want
progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress
means
doing an about-turn and walking back to
the right road; in that case,
the man who
turns back soonest is the most progressive...C.S.
Lewis
Quotation:
Feelings are a
response to reality—not reality itself. ~ Fr. Vincent Serpa
Quotations
from Pope John Paul II:
In God's eternal
plan, woman is the one in whom the order of love
in
the created world of persons takes first
root. ~Pope John Paul II
Only the chaste
man and the chaste woman are capable of true
love.
....Pope John Paul II
Quotations
from Pope Benedict XVI:
Who today can
fail to recognize the need to make more room for
the
"reasons of the heart"? In a world like
ours, dominated by technology,
we feel the
need for this feminine complementarity, so that the
human
race can live in the world without
completely losing its humanity...
It is almost
always women who manage to preserve human dignity,
to
defend the family and to protect cultural
and religious values.
....Pope Benedict
XVI
Quotation:
From my ten years'
experience I can unhesitatingly say that the
Cross
bears those who bear the Cross... Sadhu
Sundar Singh (1889-1929)
Quotation:
Many people seek a sympathetic ear and do not find it among
Christians,
because these Christians are
talking where they should be listening.
But he
who can no longer listen to one another will soon no longer
be
listening to God either; they will always
be talking even in the
presence of God. This
is the beginning of the death of the spiritual
life, and in the end there will be nothing left but spiritual
chatter
and clerical condescension arrayed in
pious words, never really
speaking to
others... Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(1906-1945).
Quotation:
One might think
that with the Bible as the center of Christianity,
the
unity of Christians could be easily
realized. Unfortunately this has
not proved
true, though we can consider it fortunate that, as
this
inability to unify proves, the letter of
the Bible cannot really
replace the living
Christ as the center of our faith. The Bible is
the
expression of the life and work of God,
and since "life" is greater
than its
manifestation, it cannot be expressed completely in
any
logical or theological form. Therefore,
the Bible itself cannot escape
being
understood in many different ways. Thus we see how in the
wisdom
of God it is impossible in practice to
make the Scriptures the end or
final authority
in themselves, for they only express God's
authority
to those who live in fellowship with
the Spirit.
Kokichi Kurosaki (1886-1970), One
Body in Christ, Kobe,
Japan: Eternal Life
Press, 1954, ch. 3
Quotation:
In vain
does any man pretend that he will be a martyr for his
religion,
when he will not rule an appetite,
nor restrain a lust, nor subdue a
passion, nor
cross his covetousness and ambition, for the sake of
it,
and in hope of that eternal life which God
that cannot lie hath
promised. He that
refuseth to do the less is not like to do the
greater. It is very improbable that a man will die for his
religion,
when he cannot be persuaded to live
according to it. He that cannot
take up a
resolution to live a saint, hath a demonstration
within
himself, that he is never like to die a
martyr.
John Tillotson
(1630-1694)
Quotation:
If I should
meet you, and you forget me, you have lost nothing,
but
if you meet Jesus and forget Him, you have
LOST EVERYTHING.
....Unknown
Quotation:
Every action of
our lives touches on some chord that will
vibrate in eternity.... Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(1814-1880)
Quotation:
When we are
troubled with temptation and evil thoughts, then we
see
clearly the great need we have of God,
since without him we can do
nothing good... No
one is so good that he is immune to
temptation;
we will never [in this life] be
entirely free of it.
....Thomas a Kempis
(1380-1471), Of the Imitation of
Christ.
Quotation:
Bibles read without
prayer; sermons heard without prayer;
marriages contracted without prayer; journeys
undertaken
without prayer; residences chosen
without prayer; friendships
formed without
prayer; the daily act of prayer itself hurried
over, or gone through without heart: these are the kind
of
downward steps by which many a Christian
descends to a
condition of spiritual palsy, or
reaches the point where God
allows them to
have a tremendous fall.
....J. C. Ryle
(1816-1900), A Call to
Prayer
Quotation:
When Christ reveals
Himself there is satisfaction in the
slenderest portion, and without Christ there is emptiness
in
the greatest
fulness.
....Alexander Grosse
(1595/6-1654)
Quotation:
God wants us
to know that when we have Him we have
everything.
....A. W. Tozer
(1897-1963)
Quotation:
"It
is better that scandals arise than the truth be
suppressed."
– Pope St. Gregory the
Great
Note! If anyone can supply the names of the unknown
authors that I have referenced in this page,
I will be happy to add the
names to their quotes. Please show the origin of the quote.
©
Compiled by Bob Stanley, March 23,
2010
"Have I then become your
enemy, because I told you the truth?"
Galatians 4:16