Favorite Quotations

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"If you want power in prayer you must have purity in life."

Charles Spurgeon

Hurry is the death of prayer.

~ Samuel Chadwick

“If a sudden jar can cause me to speak an impatient, unloving word, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, however suddenly jolted.”
~ Amy Carmichael

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

-C.S. Lewis

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.
-Eugene O'Neil


Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
George Washington Carver

And, Sir, when we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles of justice, the law of religion and of God?

William Wilberforce

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
George MacDonald 

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

Saint Augustine

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop 

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

Saint Augustine

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. 
C. S. Lewis

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C. S. Lewis 

Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.   

John 14:1-3 

We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.   

C. S. Lewis 

Faithfulness in little things fits one for heroism when the great trials come. One's conscience can hardly be too tender when honor and honesty are concerned.  
L. M. Alcott 

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.  

Anonymous 

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

Saint Augustine 

The perfection of means and the confusion of goals seems to be the challenge of our time.   

Albert Einstein 

Hasn't modern society mastered the art of getting through life with greater speed and convenience while failing to understand basic requirements of a good life? 

Jeff Woodburn  

The difference between the saints of old and ourselves is not one of inherent nature: it is simply that they took time to ponder God, to gaze upon Him in an act of supreme attention in which intelligent will and desire concurred in perfect harmony, while we are too greatly overrun with small activities and occupations to find leisure for such pondering. 

B. Herman  

Our only refuge, our only resource, our only strength, our only comfort, our only authority, is the precious Word of God. Take away that, and we have absolutely nothing; give us that, and we want no more ...    

Charles H. Mackintosh  

Because we love something else more than this world we love even this world better than those who know no other.   

C. S. Lewis  

In life's darkest hours there are usually no human beings with adequate answers. Counselors may analyze; associates may sympathize; experienced friends may empathize. But finite minds and feeble flesh can never satisfy us with the Presence we seek, for we truly cry for God Himself, not answers. Cry out to God. He's never far away ...     

Jack Hayford, How To Live Through A Bad Day 

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Saint Augustine

A classic is a book that has never finished what it has to say. 
Italo Calvino  

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you will get neither.

C. S. Lewis

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.   

Maimonides 

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems to make man a more clever devil.   

C. S. Lewis 

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.    

Helen Keller  

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt.  He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.  Albert Einstein 

Madness is to hold an erroneous perception and argue perfectly from it.  

Voltaire  

I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun is risen not only because I see it but because by it I see everything else.    
C. S. Lewis  

Earth is crammed with heaven and every common bush afire with God.  

Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.  

Victor Hugo  

The best thing a man can do for his children is love their mother.  

John Wooden

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.

C. S. Lewis 

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