“Courage is fear that has said its prayers”
Below are the most recent "Quotes of the Week". If you have a favorite quote that you would like to share, please email me.
- May 18—“Every thing that is done in the world is done by hope.”—Martin Luther
- May 21—“The glory of the gospel is its freedom.”—A. W. Tozer
- May 14—“No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you—life.”
- May 07—“The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.”—Herbert Agar
- April 30—“Worship helps people see God in the midst of their troubled lives.”—Paul Anderson
- April 23—“If we haven't learned to be worshipers, it doesn't really matter how well we do anything else.”—William Barclay
- April 16—“We understand and acknowledge that the Resurrection has placed a glorious crown upon all of Christ's sufferings!”—Erwin Lutzer
- April 9—“The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never to forget the presence of Christ.”—William Barclay
- April 2—“The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.”—Fiorello La Guardia
- March 26—“I have learned that God's silence to my questions is not a door slammed in my face. I may not have answers. But I do have him”—Dave Dravecky
- March 19—“We must face today as children of tomorrow. We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come.”—A. W.Tozer
- March 12—“If the mountain wasn't rough, it would be aweful hard to climb.”
- March 5—“A cold church, like cold butter never spreads very well.”
- Feb 26—“Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.”—Eugene H. Peterson
- Feb 19—“The early church fasted and prayed, today's church prays fast.”—Joe Lewis
- Feb 5—“It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our last day.”—Matthew Henry
- Jan 29—“I don't like money, actually. It just quiets my nerves!”—Joe Lewis
- Jan 22—“We make a living by what we get out of life, but we make a life by what we give.”
- Jan 15—“I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like, but I do know what the heart of a good man is like, and it is terrible.”—Ivan Turgenev
- Jan 8—“I've developed a new philosophy—I only dread one day at a time.”—Charles M. Schulz
- Dec 18—“The incarnation shows man the greatness of his misery by the greatness of the remedy which he required.”—Pascal
- Dec 4—“The measure of our love is the measure of our sacrifice.”—unknown
- Nov 27—“Opposition is a fact: the Christian who is not conscious of being opposed had better watch himself for he is in danger.”—J. I. Packer
- Nov 20—“The church speaks the language of the End, so that we will know just how high the stakes are in the present.”—Robert Macfarlane
- Nov 13—“We can be so caught up in the theology of the coming of Christ that we forget the fact of his coming.”—Unknown
- Nov 6—“We are never more like God than when we give.”—Charles R. Swindoll
- Oct 30—“A man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.”— C.S. Lewis
- Oct 23—“The most permanent thing in the world is a temporary tax.”—unknown
- Oct 16—“Very few people are fast enough to keep up with all their good intentions.”—Unknown
- Oct 9—“When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”—G. K. Chesterton
- Sept 19—“A belief is something you hold; a conviction is something that holds you.”—Jerry Bridges
- Sept 11—“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.”—G. K. Chesterton
- Sept 4—“Let him make our lives narrow; let him make them intense; let him make them absolutely his!”—Oswald Chambers
- Aug 28—“The greatest of all disorders is to think we are whole and need no help.”—Thomas Wilson
- July 24—“A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.”—Maurois Andr
- July 17—“No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.”—Theodore Roosevelt
- July 3—“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.”—James Freeman Clarke
- June 26—“Faith does nothing alone-nothing of itself, but everything under God, by God, through God.”
- June 19—“Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.”—Elie Wiesel
- June 5—“The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, and he that has no cross deserves no crown.” —Francis Quarles
- May 29—“Never try to explain God until you have obeyed Him. The only bit of God we understand is the bit we have obeyed.”
- May 22—“Why not get out on a limb for Jesus? That's where all the fruit is!” — unknown
- May 8—“Mother's Day is when everybody waits on mother and she pretends she doesn't mind the extra work.”
- May 1—“Look, it all consists in the cross, and it all lies in dying; and there is no other way to life and true peace within.” — Thomas a Kempis
- April 24—“Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of others.” — Orson Welles
- April 17—“Our sense of sin will always be in proportion to our nearness to God.”
- April 10—“A fault confessed is a new virtue added to a man.” — James S. Knowles
- April 3—“The soul is the place where man's supreme and final battles are fought.” — Abraham Neuman
- March 16—“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking.” — Henry Louis Mencken
- Nov 21—"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."
- Nov 7—"JESUS died on the cross-that's history. Jesus died for me-that's salvation."
- Feb 22—"Snowflakes are frail, but if enough of them get together, they can stop traffic."—Vance Havner
- Feb 1—"The real measure of our wealth is how much we’d be worth if we lost all our money."—J.H. Jowett
- Jan 25—"Every heart without Christ is a mission field—every heart with Christ is a missionary."
- Jan 18, 2004—"Idolatry is worshiping anything that ought to be used,or using anything that is meant to be worshiped."—Augustine
- Sept 21—"Those who cook up stories usually find themselves in hot water."
- Sept 7—"A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains."—Dutch proverb
- May 25—"It doesn’t take much to say ‘I quit.’ It takes a lot more to say ‘I’ll try.’"—Thelma Wright
- May 18—"God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him."—Martin Luther
- April 20—"Easter is the New Year’s day of the soul."—A. B. Simpson
- April 6—"If you think little things don’t matter, let a little bee crawl in bed with you."
- March 30—"I will stick to Christ as a burr to a topcoat!"—Last words of Katherine Von Bora, wife of Martin Luther
- March 2—"Sin has many tools, but a lie is a handle which fits them all."—Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Feb 2, 2003—"You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."—Anne Lamott
- Dec 29—"When you are feeling dirty, the bible will make you feel clean. But when you are feeling clean, the bible will show you how dirty you really are."
- Oct 6—"Faith is not merely you holding on to God; it is God holding on to you."—E. Stanley Jones.
- Sept 15—"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that perseverance means a strong will and obstinacy means a strong won´t."—Lord Dundee
- Sept 8—The world says, "Show me and I¹ll believe." Christ says, "Believe me and I¹ll show you."
- July 28—"People cannot change truth, but truth can change people."
- July 14—When we come to the end of life, the question will be, "How much have you given?" not "How much have you gotten?"—George Sweeting
- June 30—"It is easier for me to have faith in the Bible than to have faith in D.L. Moody, for Moody has fooled me lots of times."—D.L. Moody
- May 5—"People need a relationship with the living Christ before they can minister. But that's about the only qualification."—Bruce Larson
- Jan 27—" A pat on the back develops character—if administered early enough, often enough, and low enough."
- Jan 13, 2002—"Knowing God makes us humble; knowing ourselves keeps us humble."
- Dec 8—"If Christ is an example, nobody needs him; but if he’s a sacrifice, everyone does."—Fred Smith
- Nov 18—"Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short God and His will for us."—Billy Graham
- Nov 25—"Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises."—A. W. Tozer
- Nov 18—"Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short God and His will for us."—Billy Graham
- Nov 11—"You’re not ready to live until you are ready to die"—Chuck Swindoll
- Nov 4—"Success is moving from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."—Winston Churchill
- Oct 28—"In working out our callings, we are to perform for one audience, the audience of One."—Os Guinness
- Oct 21—"The closer we walk to the Shepherd, the farther we are from the wolf."
- Sept 30—"A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing."—Martin Luther
- Sept 23—"A good way to have the last word isto apologize."—Barbara Johnson
- Sept 16—"To influence others for God, intercede with God for others."
- Aug 26—"My worth to God in public is what I am in private."—Oswald Chambers
- Aug 19—"A great deal of good can be done in the world if one is not too careful who gets the credit."
- Aug 12—"The only ability you need to serve God is availablity"—Grant MacDonald
- Aug 5—"When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you’re the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying."
- July 1—"Sometimes God doesn’t tell us His plan because we wouldn’t believe it anyway."—Carlton Pearson
- June 24—"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."—Emerson
- May 20—"Don´t trade what you want most for what you want now."
- May 13—"Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."—Mother Teresa
- May 6—"Love is not a matter of counting the years, it´s making the years count."—William Smith
- April 29—"Flee temptation and don´t leave a forwarding address."
- April 22—"Our choices are shaped by what we believe is, real and true, right and wrong, good and beautiful."—Chuck Colson
- April 15—"Men try to fix problems with duct tape. God did it with nails."
- April 8—"To put the matter at its simplest, Jesus Christ came to make bad men good."—James Denney
- April 1—"The key to happiness isn´t in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less."Dan Millman
- March 25—"If Darwin´s theory of Evolution was correct, cats would be able to operate a can-opener by now."—C.S. Lewis
