All
quotes are the brain-child of
G. Albert Darst
unless otherwise attributed
Abortion
(return to top)
"Celebrate Abortion: A Woman's Choice--A Child's Death"
"Let scientists find a ‘fetus’ on Mars, and see if that baby isn’t a
'life-form'!"
"A baby is God’s approval on continuing the human race." (unknown)
"How can you tell a test tube baby? Their eyes have a glassy look!"
"Abortion destroys mankind's future. Sodomy (homosexuality) destroys
mankind's foundation."
Baptism (return
to top)
"Water baptism was ordained by the Father, practiced by the Son, and
authenticated by the Holy Spirit."
"Under the blood before under the water."
Bible
(return
to top)
"The book you are willing to put under your head for a dying-pillow is the best
volume to study while living." (Joseph Cook, 1880)
"To read your Bible is to know the mind of Christ upon any
subject of which it speaks. To study the Bible is to gain the mind of
Christ!"
"Read it to: 1) be convicted, 2) be challenged, 3) be changed, 4) to be
conformed to
Christ."
"So much Bible to know, so little time to know it."
"The Bible writers wrote in Greek, but thought in Hebrew." (Doug Bookman)
"Scripture does not require interpretation--Scripture needs reading."
(Jerald Manley)
"The Word of God never leaves men where it finds them. It either makes
them better, or it makes them worse (Rev. 22:11)." (J.A. Seiss)
Christ
(return to top)
"When you believe on Christ, you love Him as your Saviour. When you follow Christ,
you love Him as your Lord."
"You may expect to see Christ in your lifetime, but I know I will see Him at my
death-time."
"If Christ is not the eternal Son of God, than you are not the eternal child of
God."
"Christ did no sin; Christ knew no sin; Christ had no sin; Christ wouldn’t sin;
Christ couldn’t sin."
"The never changing Christ and His ever changing children."
"Christ’s work on our behalf is always a new work."
"Jesus Christ--the body of a man, the person of God."
"God is not as interested in your
experience with Christ, but Christ’s experience with you."
In Christ
(return to top)
"Our standing before God is in Christ and is under God's control. Our
fellowship with God is through Christ and is under our control."
Christ's Blood
(return to top)
"Sacrificial animals' blood covered sins for one year, but Christ's blood satisfied God's
wrath eternally."
Christ's Crucifixion
(return to top)
"The focus should not be on what they did to Him, but on what He did
for us."
Christ’s Death
(return to top)
"Christ’s death first satisfied the wrath of God toward sinners."
"Wave after wave of your sin was laid on Christ, and blow after blow of God's wrath
fell on Christ, until God was satisfied (propitiated)--and Christ was
sacrificed!"
"Jesus came to die for sinners. Everything else He did was an over-flow of His
goodness."
Christian Walk
(return to top)
"This situation is a case of your character."
"An earned Christian’s doctorate is made up of:
SS (Sunday School)
AMW
(Morning Worship)
PMW (Evening Worship)
WPM (Wed. Evening Prayer
Meeting)."
"Total victory demands complete surrender."
"To hate sin in another's life is noble. To hate sin in your own life is divine."
"Disciples are called to do something. Saints are called to be
something."
"Just because you are in the Kingdom of Heaven doesn’t mean you are fit
for the Kingdom!"
"The contemporary version for the ‘whole armor of God’ is vacation
attire." (Jerald Manley)
"Many a believer is far more concerned about his/her preparation for retirement than
about his/her preparation for Heaven." (Jerald Manley)
"We are no longer ‘strangers and pilgrims’ who are just passing through,
but settlers and citizens [here to stay]." (Jerald Manley)
"But with God all things are possible: "What in your life makes it impossible for God to do the possible? What hinders God
from doing His possible with your impossible?"
"Is Jesus Christ as real to you as others you know?" (Ned Derrance)
"When we are saved Christ gives us life. When we surrender we give our life
back to Christ."
"The
big picture is made up of individual frames--watch your walk!"
"The
whole Christian puts on the whole armour for the whole battle." (Eph. 6:13)
"Christian love is not an emotion, but a determination."
"Occupy (actively) the space where God has put you."
"Not an imitation of Christ, but a participation with Christ."
"Be willing to do the
work of a servant with the heart of a master."
"God does have a "plan" for your life---Heaven or Hell!"
"What needs to be done must be done before the day is done."
"Glance back; look around; but focus ahead."
"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the
world." (Deanna Peterson)
"Show me what you treasure, and I will show you your heart." (Matt. 6:21)
"Consider the place God puts you as your own responsibility."
"We are ultimately known by what we are, not by what we say we are."
"The power is in the Word we preach, and the power of a transformed life
that we display."
"Whatever total dependence on Christ brings, we should gladly accept."
"When men cannot understand something spiritual, they attribute your actions
to something they do 'understand'.”
"As the Lord moves men, men must move with the Lord."
"The grand science of a Christian consists in deriving good from every
thing, in having the art to render himself happy in all circumstances, and
to enjoy innocently whatever surrounds him, without injuring his virtue."
(C.C. Sturm, 1834)
"You can make the choice, but you can't chose the consequences."
(copied)
"Your word is your bond and your Bible is your conscience."
"I will not die an unlived life." (Deanna Peterson)
Children
(return to top)
"Children are a heritage of the Lord, but the responsibility
of the parents."
"Dads' teach children how to live.
Moms' teach children how to act."
(Griffin)
"The reason you THINK your children are doing alright is because
you don't KNOW what they are doing."
Church
(return to top)
"A scriptural NT church is:
1) Authorized by God,
2) Commissioned by Christ,
3)
Empowered by the Holy Spirit,
4) Ordered by the Bible,
5) Sustained by faith,
6)
Attended by saints."
"Church members want to see something happening, but they rarely know what is
happening!"
"The introduction of charismatic terminology, charismatic music, and charismatic
practices into Baptist churches is only the precursor to the preaching of charismatic
doctrine." (Jerald Manley)
"...the average Baptist church is one staff member change away from compromise and
one pastor change from the beginning of the road to eventual apostasy." (Jerald
Manley)
"The church is not a perch, but a platform for service and sacrifice."
"To the individual N.T. Baptist church's members, they are "the" body of
Christ. To the world, they are "a" body of Christ."
"It is not the business of the church to catch up with the spirit of this
age, but to change it." (Raymond Barber)
"We have striven to be mediocre, and we have almost attained our goal."
"An independent Baptist church should be 'a going church to a dying world'."
"The invisible motto of many independent Baptist churches is: 'A dying
church for a dying world'."
Church
Finances (return to top)
"Critical to leadership
is integrity, and there is no integrity without accountability”
Compassion
(return to top)
"Pity weeps and walks away. Compassion comes to help and stays." (Arthur Beals)
Counseling
(return
to top)
"No one can ‘counsel’ the prodigal on the way to the far country." (Jerald
Manley)
Covenant People of God
(return to top)
"As Israel was a covenant nation, so our entering into a scriptural
church covenant/membership makes us a covenant people of God."
Creation/Evolution
(return to top)
"O ye men of science, give me back my ancestors in the Garden of Eden,
and you may keep yours in the Zoological Gardens." (Dean Burgon)
"Time was when time wasn't"
Cults
(return to top)
"For a cult member;
1) The Word of God is not sufficient,
2) The Son of God is not
sufficient,
3) The grace of God is not sufficient."
"The problem with Islam is Islam."
Death
(return to top)
"To die for truth is noble, but to die for God's truth is glory." (Ken Orr)
Definitions
(return to top)
"Responsible = Response Able."
Discipleship/Training
(return to top)
"Teaching is not training. Teaching is telling. Training
requires elements such as learning, modeling, coaching, practicing, and correction until
the student does it just like the instructor." (Bill Monroe)
Enemies (return
to top)
"The purpose of loving our enemies is to prove our relationship to
the Father, to glorify the Father, and to call men to the
Son."
Evangelism
(return
to top)
"An evangelist: a traveling preacher who sometimes interrupts his
illustrations and/or stories to insert some Bible."
"The triumphant conclusion to a modern independent Baptist evangelist's
message, 'One more story and I am finished'."
Faith (return
to top)
"But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith,
but by resting on the Faithful One." (McCarthy)
"To be faithful (“full of
faith”) means you are so confident in God—because of your knowledge of
Him—that you go beyond your sight"
"Little faith, little obedience. Great faith, great obedience."
"Those that depend on anything other than faith in Christ are going to be sadly disappointed at their end."
"The amount of our faith is of much more concern to Christ than the danger
of our circumstances."
"Faith is substance (of hope),
Faith is evidence (not seen)."
Family
(return to top)
"If your Christianity does not work at home, it doesn’t work. Don’t export
it." (Howard Hendricks)
"It is not the church's responsibility to train children; rather it is the
church's responsibility to train parents to train their children." (Otis
Ledbetter)
Forgiveness
(return to top)
"I had forgiven him already--all he had to do was claim it. Until he
did ask to receive forgiveness, it is true that the forgiveness was never
active or applied to him, but the forgiveness was already in place."
(Jerald Manley)
God
(return to top)
"It is not that we don’t know that God is sufficient, but that we aren’t
sure if He is paying attention!"
"God is the same--man changes. When man changes, God deals with him
based on this change."
"You have created a false god when you 'tweak' God's standards to suit your
own desires."
"God deals with His children as a Father: either in blessings or
chastisement."
God’s Grace
(return to top)
"God’s grace is God being favorably disposed toward us. God’s mercy is
God’s acts of loving kindness toward us."
God's Law
(return
to top)
"God gave the Law to present man's sinfulness.
Christ kept the Law to provide justification.
Christians keep the Law to prove their salvation."
Government
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to top)
"Democracy = mob rule"
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the
incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." ([Socialist] G. B.
Shaw) (Disclaimer: we do not support
Socialism/Communism, nor do we support Shaw, but this definition has merit.
Ed.)
"Oligarchy = rule by the few"
"Republic = rule by law" (America was founded as a
Republic, but has been changed into an Oligarchy. Ed.)
Healers
(return to top)
"Every man who claims that he has a
commission to heal the sick, must, in order to convince of his authority, be
able to raise the dead also." (G. Campbell Morgan)
Heaven
(return to top)
"There is not a mansion just over the hilltop, but a room down
the hall from the Father."
Hell
(return to top)
"While sin lasts, Hell must last." (J.A. Seiss)
Holy Spirit (return to top)
"The Holy Spirit never leads down any path where the Word of God has already
posted a No Trespassing sign." (Shelton Smith)
Homosexuality (see Sodomy)
If The Truth Be Told
(return to top)
"My momma didn’t raise no idiot—she died in my infancy."
"I’d rather die than be hanged."
"Now that you are 60 your best years are still behind you."
"I'm very well known in lesser known circles."
"My wife and I have been married for 7 1/2 broken mirrors."
"We were so poor that I didn't know meat came in a solid piece until I was
12!"
"It isn't easy having fun!"
"I just passed gluttony and I'm headed for heart attack!"
"I used to care, now I just send cards."
"I just want to know where Cain's wife got her husband!"
"Just what do they do with the Grouper's hands?"
"How poor were you? We were so poor that my brother was made in
China." (Frank Coggins)
Judgment (return
to top)
"The
magnificence of God in nature bespeaks the might of God in judgment!"
King James Version
(return to top)
"Why is it that those who use the KJV Bible for preaching and teaching still
disparage its preservation as the authoritative Word of God?"
Leadership
(return to top)
“Critical to leadership is integrity, and
there is no integrity without accountability.” (unknown)
Liberty
(return to top)
"Religious tolerance is something created by government/man.
Soul
liberty is something God established when He created us." (Clarence Sexton)
"Liberty = the freedom to do what is right according to God's standard."
"Rebellion To Tyrants Is Obedience To God" (taken from the original
suggestion by Franklin, Adams and Jefferson as the motto for the Great Seal
of the United States).
"You can do anything you want to do in America, but that does not mean that
you can do it here!"
"No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too
trusting." (George Will)
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."
(Ronald Reagan). "Liberty, in Christ, is eternal!"
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Life
(return to top)
"The cycle of life is not a pretty sight, except to the
Christian."
"Lawyers' mistakes go to jail. Doctors' mistakes go to the cemetery.
But preachers' mistakes go to Hell!" (Anderson)
"Time started and time will end.
This world started and this world will end.
Life started and life will end.
So don't give up, but to Christ give in."
"My outward life is dying, but my inward life is thriving."
"Despite your age, you are still old enough to die!"
"Something that you could never comprehend conflicts with something that
you'd never understand." (Dilbert)
"A mime is a terrible thing to waste."
"If history is my guide, you will abuse the next hour of my life by
insisting that I defend your misunderstanding of what I think." (Dilbert)
"I am thinking about what I am going to do tomorrow, because I can't get
through today." (Phil Palinkas)
"When I awoke this morning, I discovered that I had died during the night."
"There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other
particular.
The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants if he only
tries. This is the general rule.
The particular rule is that every individual is more or less an exception to
the general rule." (Samuel Butler)
"When mimes have a meeting, who is the first to speak?"
"Everyone has the right to be stupid, but you seem to be abusing the right."
"You are too old to die young!" (Barbara Darst)
"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
(Abraham Lincoln)
"I like aberrant behavior because it proves there is a norm."
"Stupidity is free (see below)."
Life's Purpose in Stupid Sayings
(return
to top)
Jessica Simpson (singer/reality star/ Pizza Hut spokeswoman)
"...the purpose of life is to go through it smiling."
Rev. Ron Williams (Professor, Methodist
Theological Seminary), while sucking on his pipe and taking a swig of beer,
"It's no secret, just do your best, and everything will take care of
itself."
Lordship Salvation (return
to top)
"Accept Him as Saviour. Serve Him as Lord." (R.G. Lee)
Marriage
(return to top)
According to Gen. 3:16 the definition of marriage is: "One man and one woman
aggravating one another for one lifetime."
"The three particulars of marriage:
1) Commitment to God.
2) Commitment to God’s
will.
3) Commitment to one another."
"Women: they always give men more information then they need to know.
Men: they always give women less information then they want to know."
"The formula for a happy marriage is the same one for living in California.
When you find a fault, don't dwell on it." (Unknown)
"A man's integrity is a woman's security." (Unknown)
"'Elephantitus', a disease of the female mind whereby they never forget."
"In many marriages, Rocky Road is more than an ice cream flavor, it is a way
of life."
Missions
(return to top)
"Missions is showing God’s love to the world."
"A mission’s conference decides the fate of the world." (Harris)
"Will you forsake your culture to follow the will of God?"
"It is not as cold in Antarctica as it is hot in Hell."
"A missionary is one willing to go for one."
"'I will do as much as I can,' says one. Any fool can do that.
He that believes in Christ does what he can not do." (Spurgeon)
"Our willingness to sacrifice for an enterprise is always in proportion to
our faith in that enterprise." (Samuel Zwemer)
"The church's mission is missions."
"Our family always had missionaries over to eat, but then, we were
cannibals!"
"A man/woman who is not mission-minded does not have the mind of Christ."
Music
(return to top)
"You may not have noticed that the word SACRED is no longer used in
connection with gospel music. Perhaps this is because the word 'sacred' means
'holy, consecrated, opposed to profane and secular,' according to Webster's dictionary.
... Separation from the world in music is just as important as any other area of Bible
separation." (Gordon Sears)
"A Muslim could sing most contemporary praise
choruses and never utter a contradiction of his faith. In
contrast, a Muslim could not sing a Christian hymn without
professing doctrine that contradicts Islamic
faith...Contemporary praise choruses are so vague that they
could be sung to any false god." (Sword of the Lord)
"Music soothes or incites the soul of man."
"Some say that music is not that important, but Eve succumbed to the 'song'
of Satan."
"For Baptist churches to entice the lost with worldly music (CCM) is to
perpetrate a fraud upon sinners."
Nation of Islam
(return to top)
"The problem with Islam is Islam."
Nation of
Israel
(return to top)
"The
fulfillment of the original idea for a separate nation: not to be a pet, but
a pattern. Not that God might forget the rest, but that God
might reach the rest."
Obedience
(return to top)
"We
are Christians because we received Christ, but we are Baptists because we are obedient to
Christ."
"Blessings come through obedience."
"Notice the words, “follow Me,” do not outline the journey. It is enough to
know that we are going where Christ has already been, and that in going we
have His presence."
Observations
(return to top)
"Life is funny except to those who take it too seriously."
"Graduation is that giddy time between high school or college and reality."
"To plead insanity is crazy!"
"If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake up." (Anonymous.)
"The Academy Awards consist of sinners congratulating other sinners on their
sins."
"I don't know why you did not receive my letter. I copied your email
address correctly on the envelope!"
Persecution
(return to top)
"Abhor every approach, in any kind or degree, to the spirit of persecution.
If you cannot reason nor persuade a man into the truth, never attempt to
force a man into it. If love will not compel him to come, leave him to
God, the Judge of all." (John Wesley)
Politics
(return to top)
"The more things seem different the more, in the
end, they stay the same"
"'Bill Clinton said that he will spend his future years building bridges
across racial and ethnic lines'. It's true that black folks and white folks
have a difficult time getting along in America since neither one of us
speaks Spanish."
Prayer
(return to top)
"Prayer does not change God, it changes you!"
"Prayer:
1. Unburdens the soul.
2. Refocuses your sights on God and others.
3. Reminds you of your responsibility to intercede and assist.
4. Broadens your knowledge of God and others."
"When you go to God in prayer, stay there until God comes to you in
mercy and grace." (Heb. 4:16)
Preaching
(return to top)
"There was a young man that wanted to be a preacher in the worst way, and now he is
one."
"In preaching a preacher should give the sense, and the listeners should check their
Bibles to see if it makes sense!"
"Don’t preach the experiences of the apostles, experience the preaching of the
apostles."
"The purpose of preaching is to persuade God’s people."
"If your sermons are limited to Christ’s D.B.R. (death, burial,
resurrection) you are cheating God’s
people out of the life-changing knowledge of the unsearchable riches of Christ."
"It is the preaching of the Son that pleases the Father."
"Rash preaching, disgusts; timid preaching leaves poor souls fast asleep; bold
preaching is the only preaching owned by God." (Roland Hill)
"Plastic words create elastic truth." (Jerald Manley)
"To the world our message is--Christ crucified: to the believer, the church, our
message is--Christ is risen..." (Adolph Saphir)
"The preacher should never address a crowd without remembering his ultimate citadel
is the citadel of the human will." (copied)
"To scripturally handle the Word of God, you must first be handled by the Word of
God."
"The reason some men wax eloquently is to gloss over the truth."
"God's method to gain man's obedience."
"I can't say everything I could, but I must say everything I should."
"I knew a preacher who was so bad that his correspondence school demanded
their degree back plus all the postage!"
"Why are the people in the pews blamed for pabulum from the pulpit?"
"A lack of enthusiasm in the pulpit results in a lack of interest in the
pew."
Prophecy
(return to top)
"God has revealed much, but God has not revealed all."
Provision
(return to top)
"The provision is already on the path of obedience." (Ruben)
"God may or may not have sent the tempest, but He has set its boundaries."
Religion
(return to top)
"Religion: Something you are 'into' for what you can get out
of it. Relationship: Someone you are into for what God can get
out of you."
Revival
(return to top)
"Revival is not experiencing all that God has for you, but it is experiencing all
that God has for you right now."
"Revival: A return to godly, Biblical consistency"
"We want to be stirred, but we don't want to be changed." (Tom
Hendricks)
"The word 'revival' is not found in the New Testament."
Salvation
(return to top)
"Becoming a Christian is not a decision which we are qualified to make. We can admit
we are sinners, helpless, but we must realize that God is gracious and become willing for
Him to deliver us from our sins." (Edward Byrd)
"Religion is man reaching up to God. Salvation is God reaching down to man."
(unknown)
"The Old Testament Jews lived on the "continuing" side of the cross. We live on the
finished side."
"When you give God a gift, you are religious. When you accept the gift of God, you
are a Christian." (Robert Brien)
"It will be found at last, that the real cause of men’s rejection of the Truth,
is, a rooted aversion to that purity of heart and conduct which it requires."
(Fawcett)
"For the many that come to Bethlehem there be few that go on to Calvary." (Henry
Martyn)
"You are not inviting Christ into your heart, you are submitting yourself to
God as Saviour and Sovereign, and completely trusting in what He stated in
His Word."
"Salvation comes when God has brought you to the end of yourself."
(Doug Bookman)
"The ambassador of the King cannot compromise his mission by renegotiating
the terms of surrender." (Jerald Manley)
"In the Old Testament sinners were saved by faith in the Promised One.
In the Gospels sinners were saved by faith in the Present One.
In the Epistles sinners are saved by faith in the Precious One."
"We come to Christ in repentance and dependence."
"It is time to stop trying and time to try trusting."
"How many people have said, 'that I tried Christ and it didn’t
work.' But you don’t 'try Christ,' you trust Christ!"
"A sinner needs a sacrifice Who is a Saviour, for his salvation."
"Before Jesus Christ comes quickly, you should come quickly to
Christ."
Satan
(return to top)
"It is the Devil's mission, to give men anything, in order to keep Christ
out." (G. Campbell Morgan)
"Satan either, 1) attempts to take God's Word from us, or 2) attempts to
take us from God's Word."
Signs
(return to top)
"The God of Heaven never would give a sign that is in conflict with
the Word that the God of Heaven gave." (Jerald Manley)
Sin
(return to top)
"Decency must live in the closet while degeneracy walks the streets!" (Jerald.
Manley)
"I have Adam's sin; I have my parent's sin; I have my sin; I have a nature to sin; I
need a Saviour!"
"Government's right to enter the bedrooms of Sodomites extends from its place as a
minister of God." (Rom. 13:4)
"Your condition is what sin has caused, and what God has
allowed."
"When saved I did not leave sin, it left me."
"A
sinner by nature/birth, needing a Saviour by choice."
"The time to say 'no' is while you still have a choice."
"I Will...
be where God is by my own efforts.
exalt myself above God because of my own efforts.
take my rightful place upon the throne through my own efforts.
rise to my predetermined position based upon my own efforts.
assume the outward manifestations of the Most High as a result of my own
effort."
"The issue in every life is 'bad blood'.”
"To be self-exalted is to be divinely destroyed."
"A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults (sins) that
he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal
characteristics'." (Helen Rowland)
Sodomy
(return to top)
"I belonged to a "civil union" once, but the dues were too high!"
Soul-winning
(return to top)
"Conversion begins with a conversation." (David Bedell)
"What a mystery! The soul and eternity of one man depends upon the voice of
another!" (H. Bonar)
"When we see, we are moved.
When we are moved, we take
responsibility. When we take
responsibility,
we pray. When we
pray, we go.
When we
go, the Lord of the
harvest goes with us!"
"Sinners are hell-born, hell-bred, and hell-bent." (Ken Orr)
"The reason we are to love our enemies is to win our enemies to Christ."
Standards
(return to top)
"Departures from biblical standards are always tangential (‘in the direction of,
digressing’) and never parallel (‘precisely corresponding, similar’); the
degree of distance, while beginning almost inconsequential, eventually becomes
insurmountable. Error entrenched is a foe nearly impossible to rout." (Jerald Manley)
Study
(return to top)
"We have urgent need to study, for the teacher of others must himself be instructed.
Habitually to come into the pulpit unprepared is unpardonable presumption." (Charles
Spurgeon)
"The time you spend with God’s Word becomes the fountainhead of all your sermon
texts."
"Even the richest of the devotional words are a mischief, if they hinder you from
taking the Bible as your supreme inspirer in life." (Joseph Cook)
"There are three layers in the scriptures. As an example:
1. Surface layer: Abraham
2. Deeper layer: Abraham's faith
3. Unsearchable layer: The One Abraham put his faith in."
Suffering (return
to top)
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." (Barbara
Darst)
Teaching
(return to top)
"The law of the teacher is that the teacher must know that which he desires to teach.
Obviously, if he doesn’t know it, he’s communicating out of a vacuum. A good
teacher never stops studying; he’s a student among his students." (Howard Hendricks)
Thanksgiving
(return to top)
"The Pilgrims were not Baptists, but all Baptists are pilgrims."
Theology
(return to top)
Calvinism:
"Man's excuse for not being responsible before God."
"A theological lie that cloaks itself in the truth of God's sovereignty."
Trusting God
(return to top)
"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first
be overcome." (Samuel Johnson)
"Some things in this life seem permanent and therefore, we believe that they
are beyond the ability of God to change."
Truth
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"Truth had a beginning with God and an end with man."
"God give me strength to face the truth though it slay me." (adapted from
Thomas Huxley)
Wisdom
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"Wisdom sees God’s hand at work in different
ways in different people."
"Don't be fooled by modern day fools!"
Worldliness
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"I obtained my highest wishes, but was surprised to find that I had grasped a
shadow." (Henry Martyn)
"To be loved by the world is to be used by the world, but to be loved by Christ is to
experience all the fullness that the heavenly Father has provided for you."
"If you imagine that once you have accomplished your ambitions you will have time to
turn to the Way, you will discover that your ambitions never come to an end."
(Yoshida Kenko)
"I want what you have and I want it now!"
"Whatever 'great thing' you possess, God's provision is better." |
