"Wise" Sayings (fellowship thread)

[Diane_Windsor]

"Those who do not know the past are condemned to repeat it."--I believe George Santayana said this (or something similar).

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest until the good is better and the better is best."

No Jesus, No Peace
Know Jesus, Know Peace (Bumper sticker)

Diane

 

[SumTinWong]

If drinking and driving is illegal, why do bars have parking lots?

 

[Sword-In-Hand]

The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, as as much in God's care, as the next hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither we can do anything, in both God is doing everything--C.S. Lewis

 

[Sword-In-Hand]

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have--D.L. Moody

 

[Sword-In-Hand]

If life is easy and you're not getting attacked by the adversary, then you're doing something wrong and the devil already has you where he wants you.

 

[SumTinWong]

"Important as it is that we recognize God working in us, I would yet warn against an over preoccupation with the thought. It is a sure road to sterile passivity. God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, ‘Oh Lord Thou knowest.’ Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints."
AW Tozer

 

[SumTinWong]

"Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshippers meeting together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become ‘unity’ conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship. Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified. The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life."
AW Tozer

 

[SumTinWong]

"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."

"The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian."

AW Tozer

 

[SumTinWong]

"Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn."

Charles Wesley

 

[SumTinWong]

"The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe."
"There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself."
"Work as if everything depended on you and pray as if everything depended on God."
"This book (the Bible) will keep you from sin or sin will keep you from this book."

DL Moody

 

[ZiSunka]

When Christ calls a man (or woman) He calls him to come and die. D. Bonhoeffer.
Purity of the heart is to be single-minded. S. Kierkegaard

 

[SumTinWong]

"The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it."
William Tyndale

"Our prayers lay the track down which God’s power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails."
Watchman Nee

"God does not have to come and tell me what I must do for Him, He brings me into a relationship with Himself where I hear His call and understand what He wants me to do, and I do it out of sheer love to Him... When people say they have had a call to foreign service, or to any particular sphere of work, they mean that their relationship to God has enabled them to realize what they can do for God."
Oswald Chambers

 

[SteveR2021]

Hello everyone. I'm new to this website...just thought I'd share a couple quotes that have meant a great deal to me:

"If Jesus Chrsit be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him." - CT Studd

"In our private communions with God, time is essential to the value of the prayer. Much time spent with God is the secret of all successful praying." - EM Bounds

"Spirituality that saves men from hell and keeps men from vulgar sins is wonderful, but, i believe elementary. When Paul went to the Cross, the miracle of conversion and regeneration took place; but later when he got on the Cross, the greater miracle of identification took place." - Leonard Ravenhill

Well those are some quotes that have meant a great deal to me. I look forward to getting to know you all.

Your brother in Christ,

Stephen

 

[SumTinWong]

EM Bounds rocks on the subject of prayer, thanks for that !!!

Welcome to the forum !!!!

 

[ZiSunka]

An ability and an opportunity to do a good work should be considered a call to do it. DL Moody

 

[SumTinWong]

Confession without repentance is just bragging. - Rev. Eugene Bolton

In the beginning, God created the Baptists. And the Baptists looked at themselves and said: We good. And God saw it was too late.

 

[unimportantbuthisnameis]

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein

 

[unimportantbuthisnameis]

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Emily Dickinson

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

H. L. Mencken

 

[2Timothy2]

Don't be so open minded that your brains fall out.

 

[rural_preacher]

Hello everyone. I'm new to this website...

Welcome to the Forum!




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