"Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving."

-- Albert Einstein

"I believe that the dance is founded on sexual preferences and I believe that passion makes the dance popular. You say that you don't believe it! You make men dance by themselves, and it will kill the dance in two weeks. You know that you don't care for the dance; it is the hug and the opposite sex...People say to me: 'Well, didn't they dance in the Bible?' Yes, they danced in the Bible, and they committed adultery, too; and they got punished. The dances of which their religion approved were never danced by both sexes. Men danced with men and women with women. I tell you, the dance nowadays is induced by the passions and seeds of passions. That is its only appeal."

-- Billy Sunday

"The book of Judges tells us of 'another generation' which 'grew up, who knew neither the Lord nor what He had done' (Judges 2:10). We now have a secular society which has rejected the pleasure of worship and replaced it with the worship of pleasure."

-- Dr. Peter Hammond, Director of Frontline Fellowship, Cape Town, South Africa

http://www.frontline.org.za

"The exegetical process takes place in the workshop, the warehouse. It is a process in private, a perspiring task in which the Bible student examines the backgrounds, meanings, and forms of words; studies the structure and parts of sentences; seeks to ascertain the original textual reading (textual criticism) etc. ... In the privacy of his study, the exegete seeks to comprehend the exact meaning of the Bible passing being studied."

-- Roy B. Zuck

"The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity. If we want to see Divine power wrought in the place of weakness, failure, and disappointment, let us answer God's standing challenge, 'Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things of which thou knowest not of.'"

-- Hudson Taylor

"It seems to me after I am dead and gone, I would rather have a man come to my grave and drop a tear, and say, "Here lies the man who converted me; who brought me to the cross of Christ;" it seems to me I would rather have this than a column of pure gold reaching to the skies, built in my honor. If a man wants to be useful, follow Christ."

-- D.L. Moody

"Filling up our time with and for God is the way to rise up and lie down in peace."

-- David Brainerd

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

-- Martin Luther King Jr.

"'…Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel…' (Mark 16:15) is the message for our age. This is the time for sowing the Word of God. My business and your business is just sowing the seed. It is the Lord's business to do the converting. We believe that the Spirit of God will take the Word of God and make a son of God. We are just seed-sowers."

-- J. Vernon McGee

"If any occupation or association is found to hinder our communion with God or our enjoyment of spiritual things, then it must be abandoned."

-- A.W. Pink

"Prayer does not change what God has ordained. Prayer never changes anything. Prayer only accomplishes what God has ordained. On the contrary, the lack of prayer and the absence of prayer changes things. When God's people do not work together with God, He will allow many of the things ordained by Him to be delayed and not be fulfilled."

-- Watchman Nee

"A false conversion makes a man in his own eyes self-sufficient. He saith he is rich, and increased with goods, and hath need of nothing; and knoweth not that he is wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. But after a true conversion, the soul remains sensible of its own impotence and emptiness, as it is in itself, and its sense of it is rather increased than diminished. It is still sensible of its universal dependence on God for every thing. A true convert is sensible that his grace is very imperfect; and he is very far from having all that he desires. Instead of that, by conversion are begotten in him new desires which he never had before. He now finds in him holy appetites, an hungering and thirsting after righteousness, a longing after more acquaintance and communion with God. So that he hath business enough still at the throne of grace; yea, his business there, instead of being diminished, is, since his conversion, rather increased."

-- Jonathan Edwards

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/edwards/sermons/files/hypocrites.html

"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a fool. You can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."

-- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"I don't care a rap what you think about it before I begin or after I am through. I have a message that burns its way into your soul and into my heart. My words may be strong, and if they are you must remember they are blood-red with conviction. With the cry of lost souls ringing in my ears, I cannot remain still. I must cry out."

-- Billy Sunday

"Grace means nothing to a person who does not know he is sinful and that such sinfulness means he is separated from God and damned. It is therefore pointless to preach grace until the impossible demands of the Law and the reality of guilt before God are preached."

-- John MacArthur

Grace to You

"Muslims are the largest group of un-reached people in the world. To point out that there is no atonement, no forgiveness of sins in Islam, that they need to turn in repentance and place their faith in Jesus Christ alone for salvation, may be offensive to Muslims, but it is the truth. It is also the reason why we have missions."

-- Dr. Peter Hammond, Director of Frontline Fellowship, Cape Town, South Africa

http://www.frontline.org.za

"Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility."

-- Charles G. Finney

"We are immortal until our work on earth is done."

-- George Whitefield

"Humility is the place where all Christian service begins."

-- K.P. Yohannan

Gospel for Asia

What if the armies of the Lord
Picked up and dusted off their swords
Vowed to set the captives free
And not let satan have one more

What if the church, for heaven's sake
Finally stepped up to the plate
Took a stand upon God's promise
And stormed hell's rusty gates

What if His people prayed
And all who bare His name
Would humbly seek His face
And Turn from their own way

And what would happen if we prayed
For those raised up to lead the way
Then maybe kids in school could pray
And unborn children see light of day

What if the life that we pursue
Came from a hunger for the truth
What if the family turned to Jesus
Stopped asking Oprah what to do

He said that they would hear
His promise has been made
He'll answer loud and clear
If only we would pray

If My people called by My name
If they'll humble themselves and pray
If My people called by My name
If they'll humble themselves and pray

-- Mark Hall, What If His People Prayed

http://www.castingcrowns.com

"The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure."

-- John C. Maxwell, Failing Forward

Maximum Impact

"For many, the local church has become an alternative to the country club. Membership is easily gained through baptism and tithing. Few ever stop to ponder the reason for the Church's existence. Content to attend a bare minimum of meetings, these believers settle into apathy and boredom, indifferent to their true purpose and calling."

-- David Ravenhill, For God's Sake Grow Up! A Call to Spiritual Maturity

"Jesus summons men to follow him not as a teacher or a pattern of the good life, but as the Christ, the Son of God."

-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

"Obstacles are the things we see when we take our eyes off our goals."

--Zig Ziglar

http://www.ziglar.com

"It shall greatly help thee to understand scripture if thou mark not only what is spoken or written, but of whom, and to whom, and with what words, at what time, where, to what intent, and with what circumstances, considering what goeth before and what followeth."

-- John Wycliffe, Oxford Professor

"How can we settle into complacency while multitudes upon multitudes are in the balance of eternity? How can we be so hard of heart as to sit back on the beach of comfort and apathy while so many are still shipwrecked in the sea of death?"

-- J. Doug Stringer, founder of Turning Point Ministries International & Somebody Cares America

http://www.tpmi.org
http://www.somebodycares.org

"Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer."

-- John Bunyan

"Assume a virtue, if you have it not."

-- William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

"We must continually remind ourselves of the purpose of life. We are not destined to happiness, nor to health, but to holiness. Today we have far too many desires and interests, and our lives are being consumed and wasted by them. Many of them may be right, noble, and good, and may later be fulfilled, but in the meantime God must cause their importance to us to decrease. The only thing that truly matters is whether a person will accept the God who will make him holy. At all costs, a person must have the right relationship with God."

-- Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

http://www.rbc.org/utmost/index.php?month=09&day=01&year=06