Great Quotes 2

God is not looking for brilliant men, is not depending upon eloquent men, is not shut up to the use of talented men in sending His gospel out in the world. God is looking for broken men who have judged themselves in the light of the cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to the end of themselves, whose confidence is not in themselves, but in God.H.A. Ironside

There's such a wealth of quotes in this site, I'm so glad I found it:http://watchword.org/fire_from_the_altar_of_prayer.htm Be bountifully blessed!

"When Christ as a symbolic moment was establishing His great society, He chose for its corner-stone neither the brilliant Paul nor the mystic John, but a shuffler, a snob, a coward--in a word, a man. And upon this rock He has built His Church, and the gates of Hell have not prevailed against it. All the empires and the kingdoms have failed, because of this inherent and continual weakness, that they were founded by strong men and upon strong men. But this one thing, the historic Christian Church, was founded on a weak man, and for that reason it is indestructible."~G.K. Chesterton~

Love that Chesterton quote!"Being broken is both God's work and ours. He brings His pressure to bear, but we have to make the choice...All day long the choice will be before us in a thousand ways." -Roy Hession

When Christ as a symbolic moment was establishing His great society, He chose for its corner-stone neither the brilliant Paul nor the mystic John, but a shuffler, a snob, a coward--in a word, a man.Beware brethren. Chesterton was a catholic and held the heresy that Peter was the church's foundation. He has NOT built His church upon 'a man' of any kind.

Beware brethren. Chesterton was a catholic and held the heresy that Peter was the church's foundation. He has NOT built His church upon 'a man' of any kind.True, but I liked the ambiguousness of the quote, that it is built using weak men.

True, but I liked the ambiguousness of the quote, that it is built using weak men.I have no problems with 'built with', my issue is with 'built on'.

Lord, High and Holy, meek and lowly,Thou hast brought me to the valley of vision, where I live in the depths but see thee in the heights;hemmed in by mountains of sin I behold thy glory.Let me learn by paradox that the way down is the way up, that to be low is to be high, that the broken heart is the healed heart, that the contrite spirit is the rejoicing spirit, that the repenting soul is the victorious soul, that to have nothing is to possess all, that to bear the cross is to wear the crown, that to give is to receive, that the valley is the place of vision.Lord, in the daytime stars can be seen from deepest wells, and the deeper the wells the brighter thy stars shine;Let me find thy light in my darkness, thy life in my death, they joy in my sorrow, thy grace in my sin, thy riches in my poverty, thy glory in my valley.-The Valley of Vision (a collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions)Greg, you said LONG or short. :)

I have no problems with 'built with', my issue is with 'built on'.Yeah, I should have put a disclaimer with it. I didn't want to misquote him, and although he was talking about the man, Peter, from my Protestant frame of mind I didn't immediately interpret it that way.The quote was taken from his book, Heretics, from the chapter devoted to George Bernard Shaw.

When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.~A. W. Tozer~

"We must frankly face the fact that there is in this teaching a revolutionary element which could be dangerously subversive of our existing ways of thought. Let us admit that it is part of the fallen human nature of ecclesiastics, no less than of others in responsible positions, to desire always criteria of judgement which can be used without making too heavy demands upon the delicate faculty of spiritual discernment, clear-cut rules by which we may hope to be saved from making mistakes -- or rather, from being obviously and personally responsible for the mistakes. We are uncomfortable without definite principles by which we may guide our steps. We fear uncharted country, and the fanatics of all kinds who, upon the alleged authority of the Holy Spirit, summon us with strident cries in all directions simultaneously. Only those who have never borne the heavy burden of pastoral responsibility will mock at the cautious spirit of the ecclesiastic." ... Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998), The Household of God [1953] http://www.cqod.com/

I am convinced that many evangelicals are not truly and soundly converted. Among the evangelicals it is entirely possible to come into membership, to ooze in by osmosis, to leak through the cells of the church and never know what it means to be born of the Spirit and washed in the blood. A great deal that passes for the deeper life is nothing more or less than basic Christianity. There is nothing deeper about it, and it is where we should have been from the start. We should have been happy, joyous, victorious Christians walking in the Holy Spirit and not fulfilling the lusts of the flesh. Instead we have been chasing each other around the perpetual mountain.What we need is what the old Methodists called a sound conversion. There is a difference between conversion and a sound conversion. People who have never been soundly converted do not have the Spirit to enlighten them. When they read the Sermon on the Mount or the teaching passages of the epistles that tell them how to live or the doctrinal passages that tell how they can live, they are unaffected. The Spirit who wrote them is not witnessing in their hearts because they have not been born of the Spirit. That often happens.A W Tozer

Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.~~Elizabeth Elliot

"When the Lord reveals His will to us and we obey, our mission will be a success regardless of the results."~~Chinese house church leaders, Back to Jerusalem movement

Those who are God’s true witnesses are firmly anchored in Him, in love or in suffering, no matter what God may give or take away. They do not set much store by their own methods; if they prove helpful to their spiritual life, well and good. But God, in his loving foresight, often shatters their foundations and thus they frequently find themselves thwarted.If they want to keep vigil, they are obliged to sleep; if they like to fast, they are made to eat; if they would like to keep silence and be at rest, they have to do otherwise. In this way, everything they cleave to crumbles, and they are brought face-to-face with their bare nothingness.Thus they are shown how total is their dependence on God, and they learn to confess Him with a pure and simple faith, with no other support to sustain them. Just as worldly and frivolous people are seduced by the pleasures of their possessions, so religious people take pleasure in their complacency, both in their actions and in their emotions.And thus they are prevented from an absolute surrender to God and from a true poverty of spirit according to Gods will.Johannes Tauler

"Instead of so knowing Christ that they have Him in them saving them, they lie wasting themselves in soul-sickening self-examination as to whether they are believers, whether they are really trusting in the Atonement, whether they are truly sorry for their sins -- the way to madness of the brain and despair of the heart... Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have, this day, done one thing because He said, Do it! or once abstained because He said, Do not do it! It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you."... George Macdonald (1824-1905), "The Truth of Jesus", Unspoken Sermons, Second Series [1885]http://www.cqod.com/

Hello to you all!The last couple of months I have been saving some quotes to my computer and they have encouraged me in my walk with Jesus. I hope they will too be an encouragement to you. Although quotes can be an enormous blessing and encouragement, I pray that we primarily may learn from Gods own Word, the Bible. It is sooo awesome to remember His word when you are in a specific situation. It is just so cool to be able to hold on to a word of God!! 'Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly...' (Col 3:16). If we want to know Christ and experience Him as a reality, "the way to do it" is: reading His word. Because about Jesus is written: 'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God!' (John 1:1). We live in a time in which people eagerly replace the Bible with examples and other stuff. But we need to get back to the Bible if we want 'our preaching' (better said: Holy Ghost Preaching :-D)to be powerful. Gods word is powerful (Heb 4:12). In Jeremiah it says: 'Since they have rejected the word of the Lord, what kind of wisdom do they have?' (Jer 8:9). May our hearts be filled with His word and the Holy Spirit!But ok...now it's time for the quotes :-P"You have nothing to be proud of. If you are ever used at all, bear in mind that it is God speaking in you, and not you yourself" (Dwight L. Moody)"When God gave Christ to this world, He gave the best He had, and He wants us to do the same" (Dwight L. Moody)"God sends no one away empty, except those who are full of themselves" (Dwight L. Moody)"And Satan trembles when he sees,The weakest saint upon his knees"(William Cowper) "There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below" (Don't know from who this one is)"The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction" (Don't know either)"Some want to live within the soundOf Church or Chapel bell;I want to run a rescue shopWithin a yard of hell"(C.T. Studd)"God is your only audience" (Pastor Mike Sexton)God bless,Paul

"If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me" - Robert Murray M'Cheyne -This quote shows us how concerned Jesus is with our lives. In Hebrews God says: "He always lives to intercede for them" (Hebrews 7:25). Christ applied to another 'job' from God when His job on earth had been accomplished. He's now interceding for us and He prays prayers for us like the one stated in Luke 22:31: "Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not".What an awesome thought it is that Jesus, who resurrected from the death and has all power in Heaven and earth, prays for me. Distance makes no difference...the fact that JESUS is praying for me does it all!! In our struggles with sin, in our battles against depression, in our times of sorrow, we may know that at that very moment Jesus Christ Himself is praying for us...the Man of Prayer!! And John 11:42 tells us that God always answers His prayer..."Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast heard Me. And I knew that Thou hearest Me always.."Let us therefore, dear friends, take heart! It is not a great preacher praying for us, nor is it our mum or dad. It is not our neighbour praying nor our church...it is not just a man, it is the Son of Man. JESUS Himself intercedes for us!

We are so ministerial-minded, and we want so to come into our ministries, and a lot of souls are made shipwreck by a premature coming into ministry when there had been no attention to the foundation of relationship with God and men.-Art Katz from Apostolic Foundations

Prayer is preoccupation with our needs.Praise is preoccupation with God's blessings.Worship is preoccupation with God.-Leonard Ravenhill

I would talk about myself but I'm dead/God killed me, and give me His Son's life instead/- Shai Linne(Rock Soul)

...In regards to the miracle of a man be raised from the dead after touching Elisha's bones..."Elisha had more of the Holy Spirit, dead, then most Christians have of Him, alive."-Steve Wilburn...ouch

In the past the church use to cry "Sola Scriptura," nowadays all we cry is "SolaCultura." ('Culture only', for those who ignant of Latin).-Os Guiness

When we study the Word of God we soon realize the Word of God is studying us.

If you got an idol outside of El Shaddi/You shall die!/-ADF(Andre Jalel)

I'll kick in your door/Wave out Psalm 44/Got you on the floor/screaming "Jesus is Lord!"/-Corey Red(Mark of the East comp-'It's my turn')

"God doesn't answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer!"-Leonard Ravenhill

"I don't want to preach GOOD, I want to preach GOD!"- G.A. Jarquin

"When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart"-John Bunyan-We don't need to be the best prayers in public or private. God doesn't answer to the cry of many words but to the cry of hearts!Is it well with your heart? Too often we lift up words to the Lord...and what a waste of time it is to seek the best and most difficult words just to make God answer our prayer. God looks straight to our heart...He merely listens to our words! "Man look at the outward appereance, but the Lord looks at the heart" (1 Sam 16:7) How awesome! God looks at the heart...if we pray honestly, we may even pray our words upside-down (if possible:-P) but still God will approve our prayers and He will be pleased by them. What a wonderful promise this is, but also...what a clear warning not to waste words to "holy" prayers if our hearts are not clean. At those times, we need not pray "holy" prayers but "repented" prayers and you've got 100% guarantee that God answers those prayers!! (1 John 1:9)In Christ,Paul

We sometimes talk about the price of revival, and we need to be very careful as to what we mean when we speak like this. We may place that price so high that we put revival right beyond the reach of the ordinary run of mortals. Maybe that is our way of attempting to justify God, that He has not yet, apparently, given the revival His people need.But that is a wrong done to God and a cruelty done to his church. There is without doubt a price to be paid for revival, but it is not of necessity the long nights of prayer or excrutiating sacrifices, but of simply humbling pride to repent of sin.Roy Hession

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A revival is no more a miracle than a crop of wheat. In any community revival can be secured from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die- or if need be to win and die!- The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. -Charles G. Finney

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. A. J. Gordon

When the church and the world can jog comfortably along together, you can be sure something is wrong. The world has not compromised- its spirit is exactly the same as it ever was. If Christians were equally as faithful to the Lord, seperated from the world, and living so that their lives were a reproof to all ungodliness, the world would hate them as much as it ever did. It is the church that has compromised, not the world. -Catherine Booth

I'm not an erudite man but I only have one message. Repent. That's it. Now I can sit down. Pastor Ray Greenley

faith in Jesus Christ the only way you will meet your maker/ on good terms/ death is what we should earn/ for since that you could burn/ or live, if you would turn, to Him/ cuz it makes sense/ that since Adam sinned, sentenced his innocence/ the expense of repentance/ would be the sentence of Innocence/ to pay for the sins of men/ So God sent 'ends' in a sense/ cuz admitted the mention of sin/ tenses your inner sense/ -Stephen tha Levite (Redeemed Thought-Truth, Beauty, Goodness:'Soap Box')

We, excercise our liberties without license/ recognizing what Christ did, paying sin's prices/ the price list was high but His life was priceless/ The Most High, crucified, freeing me from crises/ -Redeemed Thought (Body of Christ EP:'Freedom')

...in regards to people using Romans 8:1 out of context.." I bet you there will be people in hell saying, 'I thought there was no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus.'-G.A. Jarquin

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.~A.W. Tozer

When Jesus said the Kingdom of God is within you he meant that kingdom that governs and controls the heart and mind and outlook.Martin Lloyd Jines

Contrary to popular wisdom, the proper first response to a changing word is not to ask, "How should we change?" but rather to ask, "what do we stand for and why do we exist?"Collins Porra

"Where there have been mighty deeds, there need be no multitude of words to tell of them. Many words are required only where the deeds have been too feeble to speak for themselves."- A.W. Tozer Today I need to speak a few words at a wedding. I prepared it and now I pray that God will open my mouth to speak the right words. Thanks to Him I read this devotional of Tozer in which he stated the above.The power of our preaching doesn't depend on the words that we use, but the God that we serve! Paul (what a great name :-P ) says in 1 Corinthians 2:4-5: "My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonsration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power."Let our lives be a demonstration of the Spirit's power because we live a life of surrender to Christ.

They will pay 15$ for a christian concert to hear a christian singer and for free they won’t come into the presence of God and call upon the name of the Lord-Jim Cymbala from "The Anointing of God"(video)

"The Lord came not to destroy, but to save. Everything is save which we commit to Him and nothing is really save which is not so committed." - A.W. Tozer

"Know praying...Know holiness"~MB

"Don’t speak too much when you counsel sir. Get to the point and pray. Let God do it!"- Keith Daniel

I worshipped everything that bore the name of Methodist. To me there was one God, and John Wesley was his prophet. I had devoured the story of his life. No human compositions seemed to me to be comparable to his writings, as to the hymns of his brother Charles, and all that was wanted, in my estimation, for the salvation of the world was the faithful carrying into practice of the letter and the spirit of his instructions.William Booth; Salvation Army

"The preacher who neglects to preach to himself has forgotten a very important part of his audience. We must first address our own soul. If we can move that by the words we may utter, we may hope to have some power with the souls of others."- C.H. Spurgeon

"If you ask me if I believe in the eternal security of the believer I would say I most certainly do. And I also believe in the insecurity of the make-believer"J. Vernon McGee

"Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell." - William Booth

Pastor John Robinson bade farewell to the Pilgrims on their historic departure from Holland to the New World with the following words:Brethren, we are now erelong to part asunder, and the Lord knoweth whether I shall live ever to see your faces more; but whether the Lord hath appointed that or not, I charge you before God and His blessed angels to follow me no farther than I have followed Christ. If God should reveal anything to you by any other instrument of His, be as ready to receive it as you ever were to receive any truth by my ministry; for I am very confident that the Lord hath more truth and light yet to break forth out of His Holy Word. For my part, I cannot sufficiently bewail the condition of the Reformed churches, who are come to a period in religion, and will go no farther than the instruments of their reformation. The Lutherans cannot be drawn to go any farther than what Luther saw, and the Calvinists, you see, stick fast where they were left by that great man of God, who yet saw not all things. This is a misery much to be lamented; for though they were burning and shining lights in their time, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God, but were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light as that which they first received.Remember your church covenant, in which you have agreed to walk in all the ways of the Lord, made or to be made known unto you. Remember your promise and covenant with God and with one another, to receive whatever light and truth shall be made known to you from His written word; but withal, take heed, I beseech you, what you receive for truth, and compare it and weigh it with other scriptures of truth before you accept it; for it is not possible the Christian world should come so lately out of such thick antichristian darkness, and that full perfection of knowledge should break forth at once.

Beware of a dividing spirit; shun whatever has the least aspect that way. Therefore say not "I am of Paul, or of Apollos:" the very thing which occasioned the schism at Corinth. Say not "This is my preacher, the best preacher in the land; give me him and take all the rest..." Do not run down any preacher. Do not exalt any one above the rest, lest you hurt both him and the cause of God. On the other hand, do not bear hard upon any by reason of some incoherence, or inaccuracy of expression; no nor for some mistakes, were there really such...We are to bear with those we cannot amend, and to be content with offering them to God. This is true resignation. And since he has borne our infirmities we may well bear those of each other for his sake. John Wesley: A Plain Account of Christian Perfection.

"There is nothing wrong with the command of God to 'stone the false prophet!' The problem is that the church has discerned wrongly and stoned the true prophet! That is why there are no more true prophets in our days, because as soon as they begin their ministry, we rub them out. This is the reason that so many false prophets are running around, not just because it's the end of the age but because we have disobeyed God, His command, and killed off His prophets! We are like Herod, who in the midst of John the Baptist's ministry, chose a wrong time to listen to his conscience instead of the Holy Spirit!"G.A. Jarquin

"EXPECT great things from God, ATTEMPT great things for God."-anonymousThis is not anonymous but is the phrase that birthed the modern missionary movement. It is William Carey. You are to be commended :-P for getting it the right way round. Most people start with 'attempt'. If folk have not read the original biography by S.Pearce Carey you have a breathtaking feast in store. ..of whom the world was not worthy...

A quick search...http://www.graceandtruthbooks.com/listdetails.asp?ID=162&RP=/missions/

"Nobodies perfect. This is the hypocrites couch. This is the believer's bed of thorns."-Al Martin from the sermon "Warning to the Professing Christians"

"You're an atheist? Can you prove it?"-Jesse Morrell

"I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done." - James Hudson Taylor

Self-condemnation is Satan's lie to prevent sinners from repenting. Pastor Jan Greenley (paraphrased sorry Pastor Jan)

"Surrender fully! Love wholly!"Bravo, Yolanda! Like that one!!!Surrendered to Him-in His perfect love :-) , Chanin

Okay buddy! No more putting my instant message conversations on here. I'm going to have to start like copy righting stuff or something.Okay, these quotes, in context... the first one you posted GREG, was an encouragement to seek God's will over our own personal feelings. The second quote was in the context of me saying how young Christian men today... are lacking in true godliness and purity. So, that quote was a shout out to my fellow brothers to be good to your sisters. Not to take and manipulate, but serve the Lord blamelessly.

God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us. We know well enough how to keep outward silence, and to hush our spoken words, but we know little of interior silence. It consists in hushing our idle, restless, wandering imagination, in quieting the promptings of our worldly minds, and in suppressing the crowd of unprofitable thoughts which excite and disturb the soul. ... François Fénelon (1651-1715)http://www.cqod.com/

"It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces." –Samuel ChadwickThere's no life or victory outside the Person of Jesus Christ. Before God is able to fill us with His Spirit, we must be emptied of "self". I think we must come to the point where we can only "boast" in our weakness, impossibilities and shortcomings..."The greatest ability is dependability"- Bob Jones sr.

"Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength-- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of it's sorrow, it empties today of it's strength."-Corrie Ten Boom

"To be effective the preacher’s message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God’ s present voice to a particular people"- A.W. Tozer

"Whatever He says to you, do it." ~Mary

"Whatever He says to you, do it." - MaryExcellent, Mike. We could close this thread down with that one..."I told God something the other day that I'd like to pass on to you."I said, "God I know where I belong. I know I belong in hell. I know, I know I belong in hell...but God, I want to tell you something...""If I go to hell, You'll have one lamb in hell. If I go to hell, You'll have one man there singing Your praises. If I go to hell, You'll have one man that won't keep his mouth shut. Gonna run all around that dark place tellin' how good God is and how wonderful is the blood of the Lamb."A.W. Tozer

I really like the featured quote on the site and in this week's newsletter:"Revival cannot be organized, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again." - G. Campbell MorganI like this quote due to the emphasis on God's will. Something that I think is REALLY key in the Christian walk is getting God's will done, not ours. "The human heart is most deceitful and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? But I know! I the LORD, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve." - Jeremiah 17:9-10And as it was written by Oswald Chambers in today's "My Utmost for His Highest" devotional entry concerning "The Key to Missionary Devotion" - "Our Lord has told us how love to Him is to manifest itself. 'Lovest thou Me?' 'Feed My sheep' - identify yourself with My interests in other people, not, identify Me with your interersts in other people."

"Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt of every situation you believe to be the will of God...Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living."- Jim Elliot

Even while I haven't heard a single sermon from Vance Havner yet, I'm already gripped by some statements he made which I've found on the internet...Here they are..."If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home" "When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, "Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus." I said, "That's where I got my information about hell."

Are we not told to seek first the Kingdom of God--- not the means to advance it ---and that “all these things” shall be added to us?Such promises are surely sufficient.\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHudson Taylor

"But from where shall I fetch my arguments? With what shall win them? O that I coul tell! I would write to them in tears, I would weep out every argument, i would empty my veins for ink, I would petition them on my knees. O thankful should I be if they would be prevailed with to repent and turn." -Joseph Alleine

WAIT (July 7, 1892)Cease from disquietude,Fret not, this is unto thee a preparation time;Thou must be made in likeness unto Him thou wouldest serve.Wait, the diamond must be cut ere from its tiny facetsFlash the glory of the sun’s pure ray.Rain must descend,Else from yon dull grey bulb springeth no sweet perfumed flower.Be silent upon God, thy time for service has not come;Patience, this waiting trial is by Him who loves thee sent;Be still—He knoweth all, thou knowest that His will is best.Chambers, Oswald, The Poems of Oswald Chambers, (United Kingdom: Marshall Morgan & Scott) c2000.

"Now if the church ever recovers the power to break up demonism in the community it will bring down the wrath of evil and the church may land in jail but she'll learn how to sing in prison, pray down an earth quake. Folks are asking "will the church go underground?" Well she may develop more power underground then she's got above ground these days. We're not going to pray down earth quakes in committee meetings, sipping coffee and reading the minutes of the last meeting." - Vance HavnerEdit: with thanks to bro Greg for the comment :-P

"My Lord was pleased to die for my sins; why should I not be glad to give up my poor life out of love for Him." -Girolamo Savanarola

"But is not the ground naturally bad in every heart? Undoubtedly. And can any but God make it good? None. But it is your business, when you hear of the justice and mercy of God, to implore him to work in you that which is pleasing in his sight. No man shall be condemned because he did not change his own heart, but because he did not cry to God to change it, who gave him his Holy Spirit for this very purpose, and which he, by his worldly-mindedness and impiety, quenched. Whoso hath ears to hear let him hear: and may the Lord save the reader from an impenitent and unfruitful heart!"Adam Clarke on Matt 13:23

"And satan trembles when he seesThe weakest saint upon his knees"- William Cowper

"Keep looking up...with your face down"- _Disciple_

Christian Quotation of the DayNovember 28, 2004There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more profound than any that underlies our somewhat enfeebled ideas of universal benevolence and the determined progress of the race. There is something more true in his denunciation of idolatry as sin than in our denial that it is possible for a man to worship an idol, or in our suggestion that all idolatry is only a road to spiritual worship of the one true God... One day, I think, we shall return to these stern doctrines, realizing in them a truth more profound than we now know, and then we shall preach them with conviction, and, being convinced ourselves, we shall convince others. ... Roland Allen (1869-1947), Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or ours? [1927]________________________________Meditation: What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? -- 1 Corinthians 10:19-22 (KJV)http://www.cqod.com/

"If you don't desire to meet the Devil during the day, meet Jesus before dawn"C.T. Studd

Not sure who siad it firts I got it from a Pastor who mentored me in my teens" Man is not what he thinks he is, BUT what he thinks he is!"Takes a while but let it sink in.Paul