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