Archived quotes:
from 1999 on:
 | Usefulness is not impaired by imperfection.
You can drink from a chipped cup.
--Greta K. Nagel
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| We don't always want
answers or advice.
Sometimes we just want company.
--Roberta Israeloff
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| "Faith is seeing the invisible,
but not the nonexistent." A.W. Tozer
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| "Heaven goes by favor; if it went by
merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." --Mark Twain
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| "But knowing right from wrong is the
easy part. Knowing is not the problem."
--Garrison Keillor in Lake Wobegon Days
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| "Don't try to find Truth by
looking within yourself;
you're the one who's confused."
quoted by Frank Peretti in his message, "The Chair"
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| "Our misery is that we
thirst so little for these sublime things,
and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space."
–Charles H. Spurgeon
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| "It is still easier to offer
a bull, sacrifice a goat,
make a special gift, or do a job than to grapple
with the hard realities of honest faith."—John I. Durham
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| Winston Churchill's definition of success:
Moving from failure to failure
without any loss of enthusiasm.
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| God will not look you over
for medals,
degrees, or diplomas, but for scars.
--Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book
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| "Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place
of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is a proverb.
Education will not;the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
--Calvin Coolidge |
| The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting.
It has been found difficult; and left untried. --G. K. Chesterton |
from fall '98:
| "Sweet praise is like perfume.
It's fine if you don't swallow it."
--Dwight Eisenhower
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| "God is in the hypocrite's mouth,
but the world is in his heart."
--Gurnall
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| "Preach Christ. And if you must, use words."
--St. Francis of Assisi
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| Since when is an interrupted moment secular
and a planned moment sacred?
--Chuck Swindoll (from his radio broadcast)
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| Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do
about this life and He will get us through it.
--Max Lucado, He Still Moves Stones, p. 90
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| God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a
perpetual strut.
And if it takes a thorn for him to make his point,
he loves us enough not to pluck it out.
--Max Lucado, Let the Journey Begin, p. 14
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| "Pessimists are more likely to be right; but
Optimists are more likely to be happy."
--quoted by Chuck Missler |
from July ' and August
98:
8-28-98
"When the train goes through a tunnel and the
world gets dark,
do you jump out? Of course not. You sit still and trust the engineer to get
you through."
--Corrie ten Boom
8-17-98
"The true nature of a person is seen not in
momentary heroics,
but in the ..humdrum of day to day living."
--Max Lucado, On the Anvil
7-28-98
"Lilies that fester smell far worse than
weeds."
--quoted by C.S. Lewis
7-20-98
"Welcome [birthdays] as mile-markers that
remind you
that you aren't home yet, but you're closer than you've ever been."
--Max Lucado, A Gentle Thunder, p. 64
7-15-98
"Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a
regrettable act;
it is a posture of defiance against a holy God."
--Max Lucado, A Gentle Thunder, p. 84
7-12-98
"Emotion without knowledge is as dangerous as
knowledge without emotion.
God seeks a balance."
Max Lucado, A Gentle Thunder , p. 69
7-10-98
"Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't
heaven, so don't expect it to be"
--Max Lucado, When God Whispers your Name, p. 175
7-7-98
"the only ultimate disaster that can befall us,
I have come to realize, is to feel ourselves
to be home on earth. As long as we are aliens,
we cannot forget our true homeland."
--St. Augustine
7-2-98
"To forgive someone is to admit our limitations.
We've been given only one piece of life's jigsaw puzzle.
Only God has the cover of the box."
--Max Lucado, When God Whispers your Name. p. 94
from June '98
6-22-98
"The repetition of small efforts will
accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents."
--Spurgeon
6-6-98
"all that is not eternal is eternally out
of date"
"In science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in
Christianity we find the poem itself."
--C. S. Lewis
6-5-98
"those complain first in our churches who
have the least to do. The gift of grumbling is largely dispensed among those who have no
other talents, or who keep what they have wrapped up in a napkin."
--Spurgeon
6-2-98
"Take away a toy from a child
and give him another, and he is satisfied. But if he is hungry, no toy will do."
--John Newton (are we looking for another "toy" or looking to be fed?)
from May '98:
5-26-98
"Oh, when we meet in heaven,, we shall see
how little we knew about it on earth"
--Payson
5-15-98
"a continual looking forward to the eternal
world is not..escapism...
but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.
It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in;
aim at earth and you will get neither."
--C. S. Lewis in Mere Christianity
5-12-98
"Be content to live unknown for a little
while...for by and by you shall reign with Christ..."
--Charles Spurgeon
5-8-98
"No man who says I'm as good as you
believes it. He would not say it is he did."
--C. S. Lewis in The Screwtape Letters
5-7-98
"God always chastises His children twice,
if they do not bear the first stroke patiently."
--Charles Spurgeon
5-4-98
"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our
conscience,
but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
--C. S. Lewis in The Problem of Pain
4-30-98
"If we would learn to profit by our
prosperity, we should not need so much adversity."
--Charles Spurgeon
4-28-98
"All this trying leads up to the vital
moment
at which you turn to God and say, 'You must do this. I can't.'"
--C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
4-25-98
"We are not far from home--a moment will
bring us there."
--Charles Spurgeon
4-24-98
"That is just why a vague religion--
all about feeling God in nature..is so attractive.
It is all thrills and no work...but you will not get eternal life
by simply feeling the presence of God in flowers or music.."
--C. S. Lewis in Mere Christianity
4-23-98
"If I find in myself a desire
which no experience in this world can satisfy,
the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
--C. S. Lewis in Mere Christianity
4-22-98
"...bravery is not what you feel but what
you make up your mind to do."
--Patsy Clairmont from Sportin' a 'Tude p. 65
4-18-98
"The only disability in life is a bad
attitude."
--Scott Hamilton
4-15-98
If joy were the only emotion God intended us to
feel,
He could just zap us and take us to heaven right now....
The truth is that our trials are a furnace forging us into gold."
--Barbara Johnson in The Joyful Journey
4-13-98
How monotonous all the great tyrants and
conquerors have been:
how gloriously different the saints."
--C. S. Lewis in Mere Christianity
4-8-98
"If the righteous were exempt from
accident, sickness, and death,
everyone would become a Christian--but for the wrong reason"
(paraphrased from Barbara Johnson in The Joyful Journey, p. 53)
4-4-98
When one door to happiness closes, another
opens;
but often we look so long at the closed door that we
do not see the one which has been opened for us."
--Helen Keller
4-2-98
"It has been my observation that people are
just
about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
--Abraham Lincoln
3-31-98
A world of nice
people,content in their own niceness,
looking no further, turned away from God,
would be just as desperately in need of salvation...
and might be even more difficult to save"
--C. S. Lewis
3-27-98
Christ says, 'Give me All. I don't want so much
of your time and so much of your money
and so much of your work:
I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it.'
--C. S. Lewis
3-26-98
If I find in myself a desire
which no experience in this world can satisfy,
the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
--C.S. Lewis
3-23-98
I think that many of us, when Christ has enabled us
to overcome 1 or 2 sins that were an obvious nuisance,
are inclined to feel..that now we are good enough.
He has done all we wanted Him to do
and we should be obliged if He would now leave us alone."
--C. S. Lewis
3-20-98
"When you read God's first question to man,
'Where are you?' as though He were some sort of policeman seeking a fugitive from justice,
you do not know anything about God. You must read it as though God were a broken-hearted
father looking for a lost child."
--author unknown (by me)
3-19-98
There is nothing we can do to make God love us more,
There is nothing we can do to make God love us less.
--Philip Yancey in his new book, Whats So Amazing About Grace?
(submitted by Ned Stoller)
3-17-98
"we have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin...But mere time does
nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but
by repentance and the blood of Christ."
--C. S. Lewis in The Problem of Pain
3-15-98
"Great horrors do not occur overnight, nor do they develop in a vacuum. They begin
with small compromises, unnoticed by most people."
--Cal Thomas in his column of 3-13-98
3-14-98
"If what you call your 'faith' in Christ does not involve taking the slightest
notice of what He says, then it is not Faith at all...but only intellectual acceptance of
some theory about Him."
--C. S. Lewis in Mere Christianity
3-9-98
"Always tell the truth and then you don’t have to remember anything."
--Mark Twain
3-5-98
"If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find
it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so
bad"
--C. S. Lewis
3-3-98
"He commands us to do slowly and blunderingly what He could do perfectly and in
the twinkling of an eye."
--C. S. Lewis
3-1-98
"We Christians sometimes fall short in encouraging others; we think that God will
take care of that. But we forget that God uses real people to do His encouraging."
--my friend, Sue Steffen
"Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little
decisions you and I make everyday are of such infinite importance."
--C. S. Lewis
2-23-98
"progress means not just changing, but changing for the better."
--C. S. Lewis
2-19-98
"Without a doubt the greatest hindrance to the Gospel...is the failure of those
who profess His name to live out the truth in everyday, practical experience.."
--Quinton J. Everest
2-16-98
"Goliath saw himself as big; David saw God as big"
--Patsy Clairmont in Sportin' a 'Tude
2-13-98
"..fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement; he is a
rebel who must lay down his arms."
--C. S. Lewis in Mere Christianity
2-12-98
"When a person's faith seems to collapse without warning, one can be sure it has
been the result of inner conflicts--the termites of disobedience."
--Quinton J. Everest