Unlike the more
lengthy
"thoughts" of the last two weeks, I chose to offer you a few
smaller thoughts that I came across while reading a book entitled, "101 Quotable Christians,"
published by Barbour Publishing and listing no author. I
trust you might find some of them to be insightful and encouraging as I myself
did when I first read them. They cover a variety of topics, and come to you
from ten of the 101 different authors. Enjoy!"The goodness of God breaking forth into a desire to communicate good, was the cause and beginning of the creation." William Law (1686 - 1761)
"Catch a man at the moment when he is really poor in spirit, and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By love! I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride -- pride at his own humility -- will appear." C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him." C. S. Lewis
"If
our lives are easy, and if all we ever attempt for God is what we know we can
handle, how will we ever experience His omnipotence in our lives?" Anne Graham Lotz (1948 - )
"Satan
cannot create anything new, cannot create anything at all. He must steal what
God has created. Thus he twists love and God's wonderful gift of sex into lust
and sadism and myriad perversions. He disfigures the heart's deep desire
to worship God and persuades us to bow before lesser gods of lust, power or
money." Catherine Marshall (1914 - 1983)
"Truth
is objective because God exists outside ourselves; it is universal because God
is above all; it is constant because God is eternal. Absolute truth is
absolute because it originates from the Original." Josh McDowell (1939 -
)
"Because
God is holy, He cannot look on sin with indifference." Josh McDowell
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D. L. Moody (1837 -
1899)
"The
moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him... It is a
favorite thing with infidels to set their own (moral) standard and to measure
themselves by other people. But that will not do in the Day of Judgment. That
aside, now let us use God's law as a balance weight..."
"Satan
is willing to have us worship anything, however sacred -- the Bible, a
crucifix, the church -- if only we do not worship God Himself."
"I
believe the memory is "the worm that never dies"... the memory is never
cleansed (entirely) of obscene stories and unclean acts. Even if a man
repents and reforms, he often has to fight the past."
"Just
like the moon's light, our light is borrowed light."
"The
world can get on very well without you and me, but the world cannot get on
without Christ, and therefore we must testify of Him... It seems to me that if
we get one look at Christ in His love and beauty, then the world and its
pleasures will look very small to us."
"Some
people tell us that it does not make any difference what a man believes if he
is only sincere. One church is just as good as another if you are only
sincere. I do not believe that any greater delusion ever came out of the
pit of hell than that."
"Pentecost
isn't over yet."
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"Christ
counted it no humiliation to be able to do nothing of Himself, but to be always
and absolutely dependent on the Father." Andrew Murray (1828 - 1917)
"You
are in danger of substituting prayer and Bible study for living fellowship with
God, the living interchange of giving Him your love, your heart, your life, and
receiving from Him His love, His life, His Spirit. Your needs and their
expression, your desire to pray humbly and earnestly and believingly may so
occupy you, that the light of His countenance and the joy of His love cannot
enter you." Andrew Murray
"If
our hearts are full of our own wretched, "I am________...," we will
have no ears to hear His glorious, soul-satisfying, "I AM." Hannah Whitall Smith (1832 -1911)
"Put
together all the tenderest love you know of, multiply it by infinity, and you
will begin to see glimpses of the love and grace of God." Hannah Whitall Smith
"The
only thing of my very own that I contribute to my redemption, is the sin from
which I need to be redeemed." William Temple (1881 - 1944)
"Before
the first star was kindled, before the first living creature began to sing the
praise of its Creator, he loved His Church with an everlasting love." Charles Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)
I trust that that a few were helpful or encouraging!
In His Service, Pastor Jeff
