Christian Quotation Of The Day

[Theresasjourney]

July 26, 2006

The more you praise God, the more you become God-conscious and absorbed in His greatness, wisdom, faithfulness, and love. Praise reminds you of all that God is able to do and of great things He has already done. Faith comes through God's Word and through praise. Faith grows as you praise the Lord.

Wesley L. Duewel

 

[barb754]

The glory of God is a living man; and the life of man consists
in beholding God.

 

[abcOfChristianity]

I love and accept me...because God loves me and accepts me

 

[Theresasjourney]

August 9, 2006

The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

 

[FineLinen]

-Philip Schaff-

Jesus of Nazareth, without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander, Caesar, Mahomet, and Napoleon; without science and learning, He shed more light on things human and divine than all philosophers and schools combined; without the eloquence of schools, He spoke words of life such as never were spoken before or since, and produced effects which lie beyond the reach of any orator or poet; without writing a single line, He has set more pens in motion, and furnished themes for more sermons, orations, discussions, learned volumes, works of art and sweet songs of praise, than the whole army of great men of ancient and modern times. Born in a manger, and crucified as a malefactor, He now controls the destinies of the civilized world, and rules a spiritual empire which embraces one-third of the inhabitants of the globe. There never was in this world a life so unpretending, modest, and lowly in its outward form and condition, and yet producing such extraordinary effects upon all ages, nations, and classes of men. The annals of history produce no other example of such complete and astonishing success in spite of the absence of those material, social, literary, and artistic powers and influences which are indispensable to success for a mere man.

 

[Theresasjourney]

August 17, 2006

There are three possible kinds of God: the god of one's own ego, in which the atheist believes, and which is also the god of modern confusionism; the god of nature, of stone and gold and silver, which belonged to the old religions of idolatry; and the Supreme God, who made both man and nature, and redeemed them both upon the cross. Those who tell us that they deny the existence of God are merely substituting one god for another.

Fulton John Sheen

 

[Theresasjourney]

August 19, 2006

If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural.

Andrew Murray

 

[barb754]

Grace binds you with far stronger cords than the cords of duty
or obligation can bind you. Grace is free, but when once you
take it you are bound forever to the Giver, and bound to catch
the spirit of the Giver. Like produces like, Grace makes you
gracious, the Giver makes you give.

-- E. Stanley Jones

 

[Theresasjourney]

August 22, 2006

The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and unhurried communion with God at His central throne of control in order to discover a sense of God's need in order to call on God's help to meet that need.

Edward McKendree (E. M.) Bounds

 

[ForHisGlory]

This is my favorite:

"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go"

Abraham Lincoln

 

[FineLinen]

Hudson Taylor (Founder: China Inland Mission)

Jesus Christ is Lord of all or He is not Lord at all.

[move]"Oh, the madness of these babblers, for if God is unmerciful to His foes, He will not be truly kind even to you His friend."[/move]

St. Gregory Of Nyssa

 

[FineLinen]

Oswald Chambers

Why could not our Lord have kept Peter at the bottom of the water as well as on the top of it? Only the recognition of Jesus Christ as Lord could have made either possible. If I recognize Jesus as my Lord, I have no business with where He engineers my circumstances. If He gives me the pictorial thrill of enabling me to do something ostensibly wonderful, and then suddenly alters my circumstances and puts me, so to speak, at the bottom of the ocean, what right have I to be afraid? If Jesus Christ can keep me walking on the top of the waves, He can keep me underneath them.

 

[Theresasjourney]

August 27, 2006

No one enjoys feeling weak, whether it is emotionally, spiritually or physically. There is something within the human spirit that wants to resist the thought of weakness. Many times this is nothing more than our human pride at work. Just as weakness carries a great potential for strength, pride carries an equally great potential for defeat.

Charles Stanley

 

[FineLinen]

A.W. Tozer

Christianity today is man-centered, not God-centered. God is made to wait patiently, even respectfully, on the whims of men. The image of God currently popular is that of a distracted Father, struggling in heartbroken desperation to get people to accept a Saviour of whom they feel no need and in whom they have very little interest. To persuade these self-sufficent souls to respond to His generous offers God will do almost anything, even using salesmanship methods and talking down to them in the chummiest way imaginable. This view of things is, of course, a kind of religious romanticism which, while it often uses flattering and sometimes embarrasing terms in praise of God, manages nevertheless to make man the star of the show.

 

[FineLinen]

P.T. Barnum

Infinite Wisdom knows the end from the beginning, and will not in the beginning create what will defeat the end. Infinite Power is able to control all things toward a desired end. Infinite Love, as expressed in the words " Our Father," will do the best for its children.

 

[FineLinen]

-David E. L. Johnson-

Let's speak of 'limited atonement' for a moment. Do you know how many times the word "limited" is mentioned in Scripture? One time. 'You have limited the Holy One of Israel' Yes, you have limited the Holy One of Israel. And 'impossible'? Jesus Christ says, 'With God nothng shall be impossible.' It appears that impossible and limited are limited to limited members of the grass family.

 

[FineLinen]

-Finis Dake "Notes on Genesis" in Dake's Bible

In each dispensation, God has a definite and different immediate purpose, all working toward the ultimate purpose of ridding the universe of all rebellion, so that all free moral agents will be willingly and eternlly subject to God, Christ, and the Holy Ghost, as originally planned, with God all in all forever.

Hannah Hurnard

How could the Bible possibly speak of the perfect victory of God our Creator who loves righteousness and cannot bear evil, if that victory really means that He cannot bring His own creatures at last to hate evil as He hates it, but must confirm multitudes, indeed the majority of them, in their choice of evil for ever and ever?... What sort of victory is it to be able only to subdue evil and prevent it harming any but those who choose it, and to be unable to bring human souls to abominate it and desire to forsake it, so that the evil itself ceases to exist?...

 

[FineLinen]

A. W. Tozer

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man’s spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God. Worship is pure or base as the worshiper entertains high or low thoughts of God. For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he in his deep heart conceives God to be like.

 

[FineLinen]

A.W. Tozer

God’s sovereignty is the attribute by which He rules His entire creation, and to be sovereign God must be all-knowing, all-powerful, and absolutely free. The reasons are these:

Were there even one datum of knowledge, however small, un-known to God, His rule would break down at that point. To be Lord over all the creation, He must possess all knowledge. And were God lacking one infinitesimal modicum of power, that lack would end His reign and undo His kingdom; that one stray atom of power would belong to someone else and God would be a limited ruler and hence not sovereign.

Furthermore, His sovereignty requires that He be absolutely free, which means simply that He must be free to do whatever He wills to do anywhere at any time to carry out His eternal purpose in every single detail without interference. Were He less than free He must be less than sovereign. -A.W. Tozer-

 

[FineLinen]

"Lord, Thou knowest better than I know myself that I am growing older and will some day be old.....Keep me from the fatal habit of thinking I must say something on every subject and on every occasion....Release me from the craving to try to straighten out everybody's affairs.....Make me thoughtful but not moody; helpful but not bossy....With my vast store of wisdom, it seems a pity not to use it at all----but Thou knowest, Lord, that I want a few friends at the end. Keep my mind free from the recital of endless details----give me wings to get to the point.....Seal my lips on my aches and pains. They are increasing and love of rehearing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by....I dare not ask for grace enough to enjoy the tales of others but help me to endure them with patience....I dare not ask for improved memory but a growing humility and a lessening cocksureness when my memory seems to clash with the memories of others.....Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally I may be mistaken....Keep me reasonably sweet. I do not want to be a saint----some of them are so hard to live with----but a sour old person is one of the crowning works of the devil....Give me the ability to see good things in unexpected places and talents in unexpected people. Give me the grace to tell them so......Amen."