Christian Quotation Of The Day

[FineLinen]

“You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.” - N.T. Wright-

“[Arguments about God are] like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.” - N.T. Wright-

 

[FineLinen]

“It is refreshing, and salutary, to study the poise and quietness of Christ. His task and responsibility might well have driven a man out of his mind. But He was never in a hurry, never impressed by numbers, never a slave of the clock.” - J. B. Phillips-

“If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.” - J.B. Phillips-

 

[FineLinen]

A man’s real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.” -George MacDonald-

“It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet. It is when tomorrow’s burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.” -George MacDonald-

 

[JackRT]

Our real prayers are not what we say while on our knees --- the facile words whispered during a prayer. They are the aspirations, attitudes, and desires that motivate our daily lives. It is easy to prime the pump and have the words gush forth in a torrent of pious phrases but the proof of what we really want, regardless of what we say we want, is evident in the way we live.
~~~ Charles Templeton

 

[FineLinen]

“You can throw the whole weight of your anxieties upon him, for you are his personal concern.” - J.B. Phillips-

 

[FineLinen]

“Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that still stands when all else has fallen.” -J.B. Phillips-

 

[FineLinen]

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." -Charles Schulz-

 

[FineLinen]

"When Jesus entered Jerusalem the people spread their clothes in the way and strewed branches before Him in order to do Him honour. Jesus rode upon an ass, according to the word of the prophet. His feet did not touch the road which was decorated in His honour. It was the ass which trod upon the garments and the branches. But the ass would have been very foolish to have been uplifted on that account; for the road really was not decked in its honour! It would be just as foolish if those who bear Christ to men were to think anything of themselves because of what men do to them for the sake of Jesus." -Sundar Singh-

 

[FineLinen]

“The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.”

“God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do."

~A.W.Tozer

 

[FineLinen]

“It is a matter of glimpsing that in God's new creation, of which Jesus's resurrection is the start, all that was good in the original creation is reaffirmed. All that has corrupted and defaced it--including many things which are woven so tightly in to the fabric of the world as we know it that we can't imagine being without them--will be done away. Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and with a world which is still longing and groaning for that final redemption.” - N.T. Wright-

 

[JackRT]

Over the centuries, countless theologians and preachers have exhaustively discussed the things that Jesus said and did. Less attention has been paid to what he didn't say and do. His encounters with men and women in the Gospels are striking for the absence of any spelling out of theological specifics or any overt attempt at conversion. Except in John's Gospel, there is no mention of Jesus baptizing anybody; and John's implication that Jesus did baptize is unaccompanied by any suggestion that baptism was viewed by him or anyone as distinguishing insider from outsider. He presents the good Samaritan as a model, even though the Samaritan, at the end of the story, remains a Samaritan. The story of the good Samaritan, like other Gospel passages that cut to the heart of the Gospel message, makes it clear that for Jesus, evangelism was plainly not about bringing people into doctrinal conformity with himself or anyone else; it was about making people feel close to God and loved by God. It was about bringing people to a vertical experience --- not about pressuring them with threats of punishment or promises of reward, into accepting this or that horizontal dogma.
~~~ by Bruce Bawer in "Stealing Jesus"

 

[FineLinen]

"It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit; easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God." -Frederic Farrar-

"If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself." -Frederic Farrar-

 

[FineLinen]

"When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer." - Dr. William Barclay-

 

[FineLinen]

"All the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe - people and things, animals and atoms - get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the Cross. "

-The Message-

 

[FineLinen]

"Christianity is not a doctrine, not truth as truth, but the knowledge of a Person; it is knowing the Lord Jesus. You cannot be educated into being a Christian." -T.A. Sparks-

 

[FineLinen]

"Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will." - A. W. Tozer-

 

[FineLinen]

"In order to keep a true perspective of one’s importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.” - Derek Bruce-

 

[JackRT]

"In order to keep a true perspective of one’s importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.” - Derek Bruce-

"Dogs look up to you. Cats look down on you. Pigs treat you as equals. I like pigs. " --- Winston Churchill

 

[Tomm]

"United we stand, divided we fall"
-Aesop

 

[FineLinen]

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” - Rumi-

“You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.” - C. JoyBell C.