Everyone may be entitled to his own opinion but everyone is notentitled to his own truth. Truth is but one. -- Doug Groothius

A sacred regard to the authority of God ought to lead us toreject an error, however old, sanctioned by whatever authority,or however generally practiced. -- Charles H. Spurgeon

Open wide the windows of our spirits and fill us full of light;open wide the door of our hearts, that we may receive andentertain Thee with all our powers of adoration. -- Christina Rossetti

Great hopes make great men. -- Thomas Fuller

Do not look to your hope, but to Christ, the source of yourhope. -- Charles H. Spurgeon

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never loseinfinite hope. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself. -- Hans Kung

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by theheart. -- Blaise Pascal

He who gives you the day will also give you the things necessaryfor the day. -- Gregory of Nyssa

No pleasure is comparable to standing on the vantage-ground oftruth. -- Francis Bacon

We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done for us inthe past and all that he is doing now leads us to that one end. -- A. W. Tozer

How much have cost us the evils that never happened! -- Thomas Jefferson

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came. -- James Russell Lowell

An undivided heart, which worships God alone and trusts him asit should, is raised above all anxiety for earthly wants. -- J. C. Geikie

If Christ does not reign over the mundane events in our lives,He does not reign at all. -- Dr. Paul Tripp

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only emptiestoday of its strength. -- Charles H. Spurgeon

Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security,with preparations for living, so that we really never live atall. -- Leo Tolstoy

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition ofthis is the beginning of wisdom. -- Theodore Isaac Rubin

Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for hisfellow Christian is done by Christ working within him. -- Julian of Norwich

We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another veryoften. -- Winston Churchill

He who plants kindness gathers love. -- St. Basil

Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with. -- Thomas Fuller

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. -- Blaise Pascal

Conquer evil men by your gentle kindness. -- Isaac from Syria

May the grace of Christ our Saviour,And the Father's boundlesslove,With the Holy Spirit's favour,Rest upon us from above. -- John Newton

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you areold sit under the shade of it. -- Charles Dickens

There is only one way to bring up a child in the way he shouldgo and that is to travel that way yourself. -- Abraham Lincoln

Some people work to give their kids a car so they can get away.I'd rather work to give my kids a home that they'd like to stickaround so their friends have a place to hang out with their newcars. -- Rich Melheim

The everlasting Father bless us with his blessing everlasting. -- The Primer, 1559

We take care of our possessions for our children. But of thechildren themselves we take no care at all. What an absurdity isthis! Form the soul of thy son aright, and the rest will beadded hereafter. -- John Chrysostom

Train your child in the way in which you know you should havegone yourself. -- Charles H. Spurgeon

The tasks connected with the home are the fundamental tasks ofhumanity. -- Theodore Roosevelt

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is agoodly Christian weapon. -- Martin Luther

Christ was in agony in prayer, Luke 22:44. Many when they prayare rather in lethargy, than in an agony. When they are aboutthe world they are all fire; when they are at prayer, they areall ice. -- Thomas Watson

Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayeris a greater work for God. -- Thomas Chalmers

Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in hislove and grace he himself gives us our prayers. -- Julian of Norwich

He prayed for his enemies, and you do not even pray for yourfriends. -- Johann Arndt

I have no doubt that the world stands because of the prayers ofChristians. -- Aristides of Athens

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections mustfirst be overcome. -- Samuel Johnson

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing. -- William Shakespeare

Commitment without reflection is fanaticism in action, thoughreflection without commitment is the paralysis of all action. -- John Mackay

Speech any man may attain to, but "act" is difficult. -- Charles H. Spurgeon

We evalutate others with a godlike justice, but we want them toevaluate us with a godlike compassion. -- Sydney J. Harris

The door of God is humility. Our fathers, through the manyinsults which they suffered, entered the city of God. -- John the Short

I wept at the beauty of your hymns and canticles, and waspowerfully moved at the sweet sound of your Church singing.These sounds flowed into my ears, and the truth streamed into myheart. -- St. Augustine of Hippo

If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and thirdpart of being a Christian, I must answer "Action!" -- Thomas Brooks

He does much who loves much. -- Thomas à Kempis

Unless we do his teachings, we do not demonstrate faith in him. -- Ezra Taft Benson

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. -- George Eliot

Everybody wants justice - for someone else. -- Bruce Cockburn

Do not be angry that you cannot make others as you would wishthem to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. -- Thomas à Kempis

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. -- Mother Teresa

If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if aswan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role isto praise God. -- Epictetus

If you have been tempted into evil, fly from it. It is notfalling into the water, but lying in it, that drowns. -- Author Unknown

He said not: "Thou shalt not be tempted: Thou shalt not betravailed:Thou shalt not be afflicted."But he said:"Thoushalt not be overcome." -- Julian of Norwich

Jesus the very thought of TheeWith sweetness fills mybreast;But sweeter far Thy face to seeAnd in Thy presencerest. -- Bernard of Clairvaux

God's retirement plan is out of this world. -- Anonymous

The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, thesalvation of human souls, is the real business of life. -- C. S. Lewis

Let us learn more about the power of temptation in order toavoid it. -- John Owen

I know well that when Christ is nearest, Satan is also busiest. -- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Unwillingness to accept God's "way of escape" from temptationfrightens me - what a rebel yet resides within. -- Jim Elliot

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. -- Lane Olinghouse

We shall rest and we shall see, we shall see and we shall love,we shall love and we shall pray, in the end which is no end. -- St. Augustine of Hippo

Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delightof the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled withthat hath the possession of Him to all eternity! -- John Bunyan

A continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a formof escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things aChristian is meant to do. -- C. S. Lewis

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, butto get heaven into him. -- Thomas Hardy

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unawareof; our attention would have been on God. -- C. S. Lewis

Worship is transcendent wonder. -- Thomas Carlyle

We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection;but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity. -- Stephen Charnock

We should dedicate ourselves to becoming in this life the mostperfect worshippers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to bethrough all eternity. -- Brother Lawrence

The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise God. -- Thomas Merton

Worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by thegrace of God, is capable. -- John Stott

Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God as misers do ingold, and kings in scepters, you can never enjoy the world. -- Thomas Traherne

To believe God is to worship God. -- Martin Luther

There can be no doubt that possessive clinging to things is oneof the most harmful habits in the Christian life. Because it isso natural, it is rarely recognized for the evil that it is. Butits outworkings are tragic. -- A. W. Tozer

We have very little, so we have nothing to be preoccupied with.The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have, the more free you are. -- Mother Teresa

It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is torenounce the love of them. -- Walter Hilton

Nobody can fight properly and boldly for the faith if he clingsto a fear of being stripped of earthly possessions. -- Peter Damian

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess, exceptin relation to the kingdom of Christ. -- David Livingstone

It is our nature's law that makes a man set higher value on thethings he has not got than upon those he has, so that he loatheshis actual possessions in longing for the things that are nothis. -- Bernard of Clairvaux

Every sermon should be an agony of the soul, a passion to begetChrist in the souls of men. -- John Chrysostom

Let us therefore become imitators of His endurance; and if weshould suffer for His name's sake, let us glorify Him. For Hegave this example to us in His own person, and we believed this. -- Polycarp

The church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood,not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. -- Jerome

If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence andlet the gospel be preached, he would suffer less harm. For whenthere is no battle for the gospel it rusts and it finds no causeand no occasion to show its vigor and power. Therefore, nothingbetter can befall the gospel than that the world should fight itwith force and cunning. -- Martin Luther

The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts itsfragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm inreturn. -- Sundar Singh

You can kill us, but you can't hurt us. -- Justin Martyr

Persecution for righteousness' sake is what every child of Godmust expect. -- Charles Simeon

We find freedom when we find God; we lose it when we lose Him. -- Paul E. Scherer

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of lawunder God is acknowledged. -- Ronald Reagan

When we let freedom ring ... when we let it ring from everyvillage and every hamlet, from every state and every city, wewill be able to speed up that day when all of God's children:black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants andCatholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words ofthe old Negro spiritual, Free at last, free at last. Thank Godalmighty, we are free at last. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The greatest glory of a free born people is to transmit thatfreedom to their children. -- William Havard

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough tostare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. -- Vance Havner

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. -- William James

The Church is the only society on earth that exists for thebenefits of non-members. -- William Temple

A life making mistakes is not only more honorable but moreuseful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Bernard Shaw

Do not be discouraged at your faults; bear with yourself incorrecting them, as you would with your neighbor. Lay aside thisardor of mind, which exhausts your body, and leads you to commiterrors. Accustom yourself gradually to carry prayer into allyour daily occupations. Speak, move, work, in peace, as if youwere in prayer, as indeed you ought to be. -- François Fénelon

A fault, once denied, is twice committed. -- Thomas Fuller

When looking at faults, use a mirror, not a telescope. -- Yazid Ibrahim

Never let mistakes or wrong directions, of which every man fallsinto many, discourage you. There is precious instruction to begot by finding where we were wrong. -- Thomas Carlyle

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. -- Edward John Phelps

The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society. -- C. Stacey Woods

The Bible as a whole speaks more of God's holiness than of Hislove. -- Walter Chantry

In the final analysis our great problem with holiness is notthat our concepts of holiness are feeble, but that our heartsare rebellious. We are selfish, that's our problem. And thefact that we often won't admit our selfishness shows how deepthe pride goes. -- Floyd McClung

The serene beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influencein the world next to the power of God. -- Blaise Pascal

The more man becomes irradiated with the divinity of Christ, themore, not the less, truly he is man. -- Phillips Brooks

A true love of God must being with a delight in his holiness,and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no otherattribute is truly lovely without this. -- Jonathan Edwards

A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthousesblow no horns; they only shine. -- Dwight L. Moody

Before Christ comes it is useless to expect to see the perfectchurch. -- J. C. Ryle

Before Christ comes it is useless to expect to see the perfectchurch. -- J. C. Ryle

Feel for others - in your pocket. -- Charles H. Spurgeon

Find out how much God has given you and take from it what youneed; the remainder is needed by others. -- St. Augustine of Hippo

If our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc., isup to the standard common among those with the same income asour own, we are probably giving away too little. If ourcharities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say theyare too small. There ought to be things we should like to doand cannot because our charitable expenditure excludes them. -- C. S. Lewis

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. -- Erich Fromm

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves notothers, lives unblest. -- Henry Home

God never intended His Church to be a refrigerator in which topreserve perishable piety. He intended it to be an incubator inwhich to hatch our converts. -- F. Lincicome

Hence we must support one another, console one another, mutuallyhelp, counsel, and advise. -- Thomas à Kempis

Charity is, indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and whenit is rightly ordered likens us unto God himself, as far as thatis possible; for it is charity which makes the man. -- John Chrysostom

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid eachother. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore thatneed aid have a right to ask it of their fellow-men; and no onewho has the power of granting it can refuse it without guilt. -- Walter Scott

People who won't help others in trouble "because they got intotrouble through their own fault" would probably not throw alifeline to a drowning man until they learned whether he fell inthrough his own fault or not. -- Sydney J. Harris

If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there isanything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- Edgar Watson Howe

The kingdom of Heaven is within you... Seek ye first the kingdom of Heaven and all things will be added unto you.--JUSUS

Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who haveneed of help, something for which you get no pay but theprivilege of doing it. -- Albert Schweitzer

Every one that hangs about the court does not speak to the king. -- Thomas Watson

Some people read their Bible in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like toread mine in the Holy Ghost. -- Smith Wigglesworth

If God is a reality, and the soul is a reality, and you are animmortal being, what are you doing with your Bible shut? -- Herrik Johnson

Some read the Bible to learn and some read the Bible to hearfrom heaven. -- Andrew Murray

Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts. -- François Fénelon

A knowledge of the Bible is essential to a rich and meaningfullife. -- Billy Graham

The tearful praying Christian, whose distress prevent his words,will be clearly understood by the Most High. -- Charles H. Spurgeon

As gold is purified in the furnace, so the faithful heart ispurified by sorrow. -- Guarini

Faith lives in a broken heart. "He cried out with tears, Lord,I believe." True faith is always in a heart bruised for sin.Saving faith always grows in a heart humbled for sin, in aweeping eye and a tearful conscience. -- Thomas Watson

The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were,joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us examplenot only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer.How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God! -- Matthew Henry

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless we preach as wewalk. -- Francis of Assisi

Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthlyheart. -- William Gurnall

Hold everything earthly with a loose hand. -- Charles H. Spurgeon

You can in no manner be satisfied with temporal goods, for youwere not created to find your rest in them. -- Thomas à Kempis

Our work here is brief but its reward is eternal. Do not bedisturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes away like ashadow. -- Clare of Assisi

We can love the world, or love God. If we love the world, therewill be no room in our heart for the love of God. We cannot loveboth God, who is eternal, and the world, which is transitory. -- St. Augustine of Hippo

To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of everypreacher and of each believer. -- Thomas Aquinas

We are the sermons the world is heeding. -- Billy Graham

Christ sent me to preach the gospel and he will look after theresults. -- Mary Slessor

If we spread the gospel, Jesus will spread the salvation. -- Juha Räihä

Ultimately, evangelism is not a technique. It is the Lord of theChurch who reserves to Himself His sovereign right to add to HisChurch. -- John Stott

It is better to be faithful than famous. -- Theodore Roosevelt

The command to evangelize is a part of God's law. It belongs toGod's revealed will for His people. It could not, then, inprinciple be affected in the slightest degree by anything thatwe might believe about God's sovereignty in election andcalling. -- J. I. Packer

Help us to help each other, Lord,Each other's cross tobear,Let each his friendly aid afford,And feel his brother'scare. -- Charles Wesley

The church is an organism, not an organization; a movement, nota monument. -- Chuck Colson

There is no way of belonging to Jesus Christ except by belonginggladly and irrevocably to the glorious ragbag of saints andfat-heads who make up the One, Holy and Universal Church! -- Bishop Geoffrey Paul

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good. -- John Milton

The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.-- John Wesley

The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like alone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter. -- John of the Cross

Behind every saint stands another saint. -- Friedrich von Hügel

They that know God will be humble; they that know themselvescannot be proud. -- John Flavel

Help us to help each other, Lord, Each other's cross tobear, Let each his friendly aid afford, And feel his brother'scare.-- Charles Wesley

We have been friends together

We have been friends togetherIn sunshine and in shade.~Caroline Sheridan Norton

Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check her diary when we arrange to meet. ~Jeanette Winterson,

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~Virginia Woolf

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. ~Dave Tyson Gentry

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. ~Henri Nouwen

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. ~Lois Wyse

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ~Oprah Winfrey

Some people come into our lives and quickly go

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. ~Flavia Weedn,

The best kind of friend

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.

are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. ~

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit

If you're alone, I'll be your shadow.

If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me

Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.

Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ~Donna Roberts

Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends.

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. ~Arnold H. Glasgow

A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange.

I expect to pass through life but once.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. ~William Penn

In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. ~Karl Reiland

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson

The first and highest law must be the love of man to man

The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world's History. ~Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity

Kindness is the greatest wisdom.

Too often we underestimate

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ~Leo Buscaglia

The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ~William Wordsworth

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. ~John Wooden

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. ~Oscar Wilde

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~Herm Albright, quoted in Reader's Digest