C.
S.
Lewis:
"If
I find
in
myself a
desire
which no
experience
in this
world
can
satisfy,
the most
probable
explanation
is that
I was
made for
another
world."
"A
man who
was
merely a
man and
said the
sort of
things
Jesus
said
would
not be a
great
moral
teacher.
He would
either
be a
lunatic-on
a level
with the
man who
says he
is a
poached
egg-or
else he
would be
the
Devil of
Hell."
"Love
is the
great
conqueror
of
lust."
"This
year, or
this
month,
or, more
likely,
this
very
day, we
have
failed
to
practise
ourselves
the kind
of
behaviour
we
expect
from
other
people."
"You
will
find
this
again
and
again
about
anything
that is
really
Christian:
everyone
is
attracted
by bits
of it
and
wants to
pick out
those
bits and
leave
the
rest.
That is
why we
do not
get much
further:
and that
is why
people
who are
fighting
for
quite
opposite
things
can both
say they
are
fighting
for
Christianity."
"Relying
on God
has to
begin
all over
again
every
day as
if
nothing
had yet
been
done."
There
are only
two
kinds of
people
in the
end:
those
who say
to God,
"Thy
will be
done,"
and
those to
whom God
says, in
the end,
"Thy
will be
done."
"We
are
half-hearted
creatures,
fooling
about
with
drink
and sex
and
ambition
when
infinite
joy is
offered
us, like
an
ignorant
child
who
wants to
go on
making
mud pies
in a
slum
because
he
cannot
imagine
what is
meant by
the
offer of
a
holiday
at the
sea. We
are far
too
easily
pleased."
"The
safest
road
to
Hell
is the
gradual
one --
the
gentle
slope,
soft
underfoot,
without
sudden
turnings,
without
milestones,
without
signposts."
"The
Son of
God
became
man to
enable
men to
become
the sons
of
God."
"If
you
examined
a
hundred
people
who had
lost
their
faith in
Christianity,
I wonder
how many
of them
would
turn out
to have
been
reasoned
out of
it by
honest
argument?
Do not
most
people
simply
drift
away?"
"Fallen
man is
not
simply
an
imperfect
creature
who
needs
improvement:
he is a
rebel
who must
lay down
his
arms."
"Meanwhile,
little
people
like you
and me,
if our
prayers
are
sometimes
granted,
beyond
all hope
and
probability,
had
better
not draw
hasty
conclusions
to our
own
advantage.
If we
were
stronger,
we might
be less
tenderly
treated.
If we
were
braver,
we might
be sent,
with far
less
help, to
defend
far more
desperate
posts in
the
great
battle."
"There
are no
ordinary
people.
You have
never
met a
mere
mortal,
Nations,
cultures,
arts,
civilizations,
these
are
mortal,
and
their
life is
to ours
as the
life of
a gnat.
But it
is
immortals
whom we
joke
with,
work
with,
marry,
snub,
and
exploit
--
immortal
horrors
or ever
lasting
splendours."
Charles
Dickens:
"Reflect
upon
your
present
blessings,
of which
every
man has
many;
not on
your
past
misfortunes,
of which
all men
have
some."
Chilo:
"Be
more
prompt
to go to
a friend
in
adversity
than in
prosperity."
Colin
Powell:
"Success
is the
result
of
perfection,
hard
work,
learning
from
failure,
loyalty,
and
persistence."
Confucius:
"The
way of a
superior
man is
three-fold:
Virtuous,
he is
free
from
anxieties;
wise, he
is free
from
perplexities;
bold, he
is free
from
fear."
Dallas
Willard:
"Nondiscipleship
costs
abiding
peace, a
life
penetrated
throughout
by love,
faith
that
sees
everything
in the
light of
God's
overriding
governance
for
good,
hopefulness
that
stands
firm in
the most
discouraging
of
circumstances,
power to
do what
is right
and
withstand
the
forces
of
evil."
David
Starr
Johnson:
"There
is no
real
excellence
in all
this
world
which
can be
seperated
from
right
living."
Douglas
Mallock:
"Find
your joy
in
something
finished,
and not
a
thousand
things
begun."
Elbert
Hubbard:
"A
failure
is a man
who has
blundered
but is
not able
to cash
in on
the
experience."
Elizabeth
Kubler
Ross:
"People
are like
stained
glass
windows.
They
sparkle
and
shine
when the
sun is
out, but
when the
darkness
sets in,
their
true
beauty
is
revealed
only if
there is
a light
from
within."
Francis
de
Sales:
"Since
little
faults
committed
in the
beginning
of a
project
grow
infinitely
greater
in its
course
and
finally
are
almost
irreparable,
above
all else
you must
know
what the
virtue
of
devotion
is."
Frederick
Spanheim:
"They
are the
true
disciples
of
Christ,
not who
know
most,
but who
love
most."
G.
A.
Studdert
Kennedy:
"Variety
may be
the
spice of
life,
but it
is not
life
itself.
It is
that
bread of
life,
that
peace of
God
which is
the very
staff of
life
itself,
for
which
men's
souls
are
starving
in these
days."
G.
K.
Chesterton:
"The
Christian
ideal
has not
been
tried
and
found
wanting.
It has
been
found
difficult
and
untried."
Gary
Thomas:
"Any
situation
that
calls me
to
confront
my
selfishness
has
enormous
spiritual
value."
George
Horace
Lorimer:
"It's
good to
have
money
and the
things
that
money
can buy,
but it's
good,
too, to
check up
once in
a while
and make
sure you
haven't
lost the
things
that
money
can't
buy."
George
Whitefield:
"The
renewal
of our
natures
is a
work of
great
importance.
It is
not to
be done
in a
day. We
have not
only a
new
house to
build
up, but
an old
one to
pull
down."
Harry
Emerson
Fosdick:
"A
person
completely
wrapped
up in
himself
makes a
small
package."
Henry
Clay:
"Of
all the
properties
which
belong
to
honorable
men, not
one is
so
highly
prized
as that
of
character."
Henry
Fielding:
"Adversity
is the
trial of
principle.
Without
it, a
man
hardly
knows
whether
he is an
honest
man."
Henry
Wadsworth
Longfellow:
"It
takes
less
time to
do a
thing
right
than it
does to
explain
why you
did it
wrong."
Henry
Ward
Beecher:
"The
first
hour of
waking
is the
rudder
that
guides
the
whole
day."
"The
church
is not
a
gallery
for
the
exhibition
of
eminent
Christians,
but a
school
for
the
education
of
imperfect
ones,
a
nursery
for
the
care
of
weak
ones,
a
hospital
for
the
healing
of
those
who
need
special
care."
Igor
Stravinsky:
"Just
as an
appetite
comes by
eating,
so work
brings
inspiration."
James
R. Cook:
"I
had
ambition
not only
to go
farther
than any
man had
ever
been
before,
but as
far as
it was
possible
for a
man to
go."
J.
G.
Holland:
"A
man may
carry
the
whole
scheme
of
Christian
truth in
his mind
from
boyhood
to old
age
without
the
slightest
effect
upon his
character
and
aims. It
has had
less
influence
than the
multiplication
table."
Jack
Kinder:
"High
achievement
always
takes
place in
the
framework
of high
expectation."
Joel
A.
Barker:
"Those
who say
it can't
be done
are
usually
interrupted
by
others
doing
it."
John
Holt:
"The
true
test of
character
is not
how much
we know
how to
do, but
how we
behave
when we
don't
know
what to
do."
John
Owen:
"Temptations
and
occasions
put
nothing
into a
man, but
only
draw out
what was
in him
before."
John
Piper:
"God
is not
looking
for
people
to work
for him,
so much
as he is
looking
for
people
who will
let him
work for
them.
The
gospel
is not a
Help
Wanted
ad.
Neither
is the
call to
Christian
service.
On the
contrary,
the
gospel
commands
us to
give up
and hang
out a
Help
Wanted
sign
(this is
the
basic
meaning
of
prayer).
Then the
gospel
promises
that God
will
work for
us if we
do. He
will not
surrender
the
glory of
being
the
Giver."
"If
you come
to God
dutifully
offering
him the
reward
of your
fellowship
instead
of
thirsting
after
the
reward
of his
fellowship,
then you
exalt
yourself
above
God as
his
benefactor
and
belittle
him as a
needy
beneficiary-and
that is
evil."
"The
chief
end of
man is
to
glorify
God by
enjoying
him
forever."
John
Wycliffe:
"I
believe
that in
the end
the
truth
will
conquer."
L.
P.
Jacks:
"The
pessimist
sees the
difficulty
in every
opportunity;
the
optimist,
the
opportunity
in every
difficulty."
Luis
Palau:
"It's
bad when
you fail
morally.
It's
worse
when you
don't
repent."
Madame
Chiang
Kai-Shek:
"I
used to
pray
that God
would do
this or
that;
now I
pray
that God
will
make His
will
known to
me."
Margaret
Thatcher:
"Standing
in the
middle
of the
road is
very
dangerous;
you get
knocked
down by
the
traffic
from
both
sides."
Mark
Twain:
"Heaven
is based
on
grace,
not
merit.
That is
why you
can go
in, but
your dog
must
remain
outside.
Were it
the
other
way
round,
the dog
would go
in and
you
would
stay
outside."
Martin
Luther
King
Jr.:
"The
ultimate
measure
of a man
is not
where he
stands
in
moments
of
comfort
and
convenience,
but
where he
stands
at times
of
challenge
and
controversy."
"The
time is
always
right to
do what
is
right."
Mother
Teresa:
"Be
kind to
each
other;
it is
better
to
commit
faults
with
gentleness
than to
work
miracles
with
unkindness."
Ralph
Waldo
Emerson:
"The
greatest
homage
we can
pay to
truth is
to use
it."
"What
lies
behind
us and
what
lies
before
us are
tiny
matters
compared
to what
lies
within
us."
Robert
Louis
Stevenson:
"The
best
things
are
nearest:
breath
in your
nostrils,
light in
your
eyes,
flowers
at your
feet,
duties
at your
hand,
the path
of God
just
before
you."
Roger
Babson:
"Property
may be
destroyed
and
money
may lose
its
purchasing
power;
but
character,
health,
knowledge
and good
judgement
will
always
be in
demand
under
all
conditions."
Samuel
Butler:
"There's
many a
good
tune
played
on an
old
fiddle."
Socrates:
"May
the
outward
and
inward
man be
at
one."
St.
Jerome:
"If
an
offense
comes
out of
the
truth,
it is
better
that the
offense
come
than
that the
truth be
concealed."
Thomas
a Kempis:
"Carefully
avoid in
yourself
those
things
which
disturb
you in
others."
"The
loftier
the
building
the
deeper
must the
foundation
be
laid."
Thomas
Merton:
"A
man who
has been
killed
by one
enemy is
just as
dead as
one who
has been
killed
by a
whole
army. If
you are
friends
with one
habit of
mortal
sin you
live in
death,
even
though
you may
seem to
have all
the
other
virtues."
Vincent
Van Gogh:
"Great
things
are not
done by
impulse,
but by a
series
of small
things
brought
together."
William
Barclay:
"If
a man
fights
his way
through
his
doubts
to the
conviction
that
Jesus
Christ
is Lord,
he has
attained
to a
certainty
that the
man who
unthinkingly
accepts
things
can
never
reach."
"It
is not
so very
difficult
to think
of a God
who will
forgive
the
sinner
who
comes
humbly
and
penitently
back to
him on
his
hands
and
knees;
but no
man
outside
Christianity
had ever
thought
of a God
who
would
deliberately
go out
and seek
for the
sinner
until he
found
him and
brought
him
home."
W.
L.
Hudson:
"The
love
of
wealth
makes
bitter
men;
the
love
of
God,
better
men."
***
"We
shall
never
know
what
dangers,
seen
and
unseen,
we
have
been
delivered
from
through
the
interposition
of
the
angels
until
we
shall
see
in
the
light
of
eternity
the
providences
of
God.
Then
we
shall
better
understand
what
God
has
done
for
us
all
the
days
of
our
life.
We
shall
know
then
that
the
whole
heavenly
family
watched
to
see
our
course
of
action
from
day
to
day
. .
. The
Lord
Jesus
is
among
men.
His
angels
walk
among
us
unrecognized
and
unacknowledged.
We
are
saved
from
many
snares
and
unseen
dangers
that
through
the
machinations
and
hostility
of
our
foe
are
placed
in
our
path
to
destroy
us.
O
that
our
eyes
might
be
open
to
discern
the
watchful
solicitude
and
tender
care
of
the
messengers
of
light!
. .
.
The
ministry
of
these
angels
is
especially
essential
now,
for
Satan
is
making
his
last
desperate
effort
to
secure
the
world."
In
Heavenly
Places,
p.
101
"Weather
forecasting
and
politics
are
the
only
fields
in
which
a
person
can
be
often
wrong
and
still
keep
his
job!"
~Rick
Rasberry
"I
believe
that
banking
institutions
are
more
dangerous
to
our
liberties
than
standing
armies.
If
the
American
people
ever
allow
private
banks
to
control
the
issue
of
their
currency,
first
by
inflation,
then
by
deflation,
the
banks
and
corporations
that
will
grow
up
around
the
banks
will
deprive
the
people
of
all
property
until
their
children
wake-up
homeless
on
the
continent
their
fathers
conquered."
~
Thomas
Jefferson,
1802
"The
intuitive
mind
is a
sacred
gift
and
the
rational
mind
is a
faithful
servant.
We
have
created
a
society
that
honors
the
servant
and
has
forgotten
the
gift."
~
A.
Einstein
If
we
commit
the
keeping
of
our
souls
to
God
in
the
exercise
of
living
faith,
His
promises
will
not
fail
us;
for
they
have
no
limit
but
our
faith.
~ E.
G.
White
***
These
two
quotes
came
together
in
an
email,
with
the
thought
below:
Impossible
is
just
a
big
word
thrown
around
by
small
men
who
find
it
easier
to
live
in
the
world
they've
been
given
than
to
explore
the
power
they
have
to
change
it.
Impossible
is
not
a
fact.
It's
an
opinion.
Impossible
is
not
a
declaration.
It's
a
dare.
Impossible
is
potential.
Impossible
is
temporary.
Impossible
is
nothing.
-
Laila
Ali
What
is
impossible
with
men
is
possible
with
God.
-
Jesus
(Luke
18:27)
Makes
one
think,
in
a
fresh
way,
about
the
ancient
reality
of
the
Luke
scripture!
Are
there
any
"impossibles"
in
your
life
---
in
mine
---
that
need
to
be
disarmed?
***
"The
spiritual
virtue
of
a
sacrament
is
like
light
--
although
it
passes
among
the
impure,
it
is
not
polluted."
~
Saint
Augustine