1. "The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it
rests in union and communion with the vine; and at the right time, and in the right way, is the right fruit found on it. Let
us so abide in the Lord Jesus."
Author: Hudson Taylor
2. "We need a baptism of clear seeing. We desperately need seers who can see through the mist--Christian leaders with prophetic
vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few
of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy."
Author: A.W. Tozer
3. "Oh, this is a reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. And we should not be satisfied till we
are brought to this."
Author: George Muller
4. "We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God."
Author: Oswald Chambers
5. "Keep us little and unknown, prized and loved by God alone."
Author: Charles Wesley
6. "Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not
to come at all."
Author: D.L. Moody
7. "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him."
Author: John Piper
8. "The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves
us; just as the roof of a sunhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the son shines
on it."
Author: C.S. Lewis
9. "When you are arguing against Him, you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all."
Author: C.S. Lewis
10. "If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him."
Author: C.T. Studd
11. "All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient."
Author: William Carey
12. "When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die."
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
13. "Truly, at the day of judgment we shall not be examined by what we have read, but what we have done; not how well we
have spoken, but how religiously we have lived."
Author: Thomas A`, Kempis
14. "I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ."
Author: David Livingstone
15. "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse
a deaf world".
Author: Lewis, C.S.
16. "What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves
to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account
of the word and faith from which the obedience and the work flow."
Author: Martin Luther
17. "There is no work better than to please God; to pour water, to wash dishes, to be a cobbler,, or an apostle, all are
one; to wash dishes and to preach are all one, as touching the deed, to please God."
Author: William Tyndale
18. "The idea that the service to God should have only to do with a church altar, singing, reading, sacrifice, and the
like is without doubt but the worst trick of the devil. How could the devil have led us more effectively astray than by the
narrow conception that service to God takes place only in a church and by the works done therein...The whole world could abound
with the services to the Lord, Gottesdienste - not only in churches but also in the home, kitchen, workshop, field."
Author: Martin Luther
19. "I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it."
Author: Thomas Aquinas
20. "Therefore the Christian heart, since it has been thoroughly persuaded that all things happen by God's plan, and that
nothing takes place by chance, will ever look to him as the principal causes of things, yet will give attention to the secondary
causes in their proper place."
Author: John Calvin
21. "God cannot be comprehended by us, except as far as he accommodates himself to our standard."
Author: John Calvin
22. Was it not great blindness that God Almighty, who created us, has so often made known to us that he is our Father,
and finally even gave his Son for us; and he himself stands there and calls us poor sinners, saying "Come to me, all who are
weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest." And we went and turned to the creature, and thought God to be so rough and
cruel that we dare not come to him."
Author: Huldryrch Zwingli
23. "The spontaneous jollity of the carefree extrovert comes to be equated with healthy Christian living, and jolly extroverts
in our churches are encouraged to become complacent in carnality"
Author: J.I. Packer
24. "The best of it is, God is with us."
Author: John Wesley
25. "In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
Author: John Bunyan,
26. "The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but
Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone...How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots
that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?"
Author: Martin Luther
27. "This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it."
Author: Richard Baxter
28. "We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in his word, he intended to be conspicuous in our lives."
Author: Charles Spurgeon
29. "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."
Author: Ten, Boom, Corrie
30. "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength."
Author: Ten, Boom, Corrie
31. "Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
Author: Pascal
32. "Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable."
Author: Matthew Henry
33. "Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse
us from the other."
Author: Matthew Henry
34. "OUR wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge
of God and of ourselves."
Author: John Calvin
35. "None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full."
Author: Thomas Watson
36. "Of all tear, they are best that are made by the blood of Christ, and of all joy, that is the sweetest that is mixed
with mourning over Christ. Oh! it is a godly thing to be on our knees with Christ in our arms before God. I hope to know something
of these things."
Author: John Bunyan
37. "The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own eyes."
Author: Thomas Watson
38. "We cannot but admit that not even the least thing takes place unless it is ordered by God. For who have ever been
so concerned and curious as to find out how much hair he has on his head? There is no one. God, however, knows the number.
Indeed, nothing is too small in us or in any other creature, not to be ordered by the all-knowing and all-powerful providence
of God."
Author: Huldryrch Zwingli
39. "Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question
with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved."
Author: Charles Spurgeon
40. "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried."
Author: G.K. Chesterton
41. "'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear
him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and
listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's
house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose
mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march
to publish his mercy to the world."
Author: William Booth
42. "If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king."
Author: Charles Spurgeon
43. "God does not have to come and tell me what I must do for Him, He brings me into a relationship with Himself where
I hear His call and understand what He wants me to do, and I do it out of sheer love to Him... When people say they have had
a call to foreign service, or to any particular sphere of work, they mean that their relationship to God has enabled them
to realize what they can do for God."
Author: Oswald Chambers
44. "Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works."
Author: Martin Luther
45. "We may note in passing that He was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect on any of
the people who actually met Him. He produced mainly three results---Hatred---Terror---Adoration. There was no trace of people
expressing mild admiration."
Author: C.S. Lewis
46. "This Man (Jesus) suddenly remarks one day, 'No one need fast while I am here.' Who is this Man who remarks that His
mere presence suspends all normal rules?"
Author: C.S. Lewis
47. "The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ."
Author: D.L. Moody
48. Calamity clarifies and comfort confuses,Persecution purifies and prosperity pollutes!
Author: Kevin Turner
49. "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
Author: Jim Elliot
50. "I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still
possess."
Author: Martin Luther
51. "Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ."
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
52. "If you read history you will find out that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those
who thought most of the next."
Author: C.S. lewis
53. "The only thing Christianity can not be...is moderately important."
Author: C.S. Lewis