Quotables

This page offers all the quotes that appear in the sidebar throughout the blog. These quotes are in no particular order at the moment. If you have a quote you think I would like, please send it to me using the contact page.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.

Yes, it is true, if you seek the Lord and yet are unwilling to stop your sinning, you shall not find Him. Why? Because you are seeking Him in a place where He is not.
—Jeanne Guyon

You study the lines on your face, the bulge in your belly and the gray hairs creeping up. So why is it so hard to study something that changes your life—from the inside out?
—anonymous

If we would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we would feel the favorable assistance of God from heaven. For He who giveth us occasion to fight, to the end we may get the victory, is ready to succor those that fight manfully, and do but trust in His grace.
—Thomas à Kempis

The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by midnight.
—Dwight L. Moody

Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.
—St. Francis de Sales

There is nothing that makes us love someone so much as praying for them.
—William Law

The Lord sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.
—Dwight L. Moody

Be faithful in the little practices of love which will build in you the life of holiness and make you Christlike.
—Mother Teresa

No one should fear to understake any task in the name of our Savior, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. The working out of all things has been assigned to each person by our Lord, but it all happens according to His sovereign will.
—Christopher Columbus

I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time, to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn't do if it were the last hour of my life.
—Jonathan Edwards

Give me a hundred men who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I will shake the world. I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; and such alone will overthrow the kingdom of Satan and build up the kingdom of God on earth.
—John Wesley

A saint is never consciously a saint—a saint is consciously dependent on God.
—Oswald Chambers

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
—G. K. Chesterton

Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to that which is known to us of nature.
—St. Augustine

Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.
—Oswald Chambers

If you're willing to stand forever, then you won't be standing very long.
—Kenneth Hagin

Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favor that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it.
—Martin Luther

Before God we are all equally wise—and equally foolish.
—Albert Einstein

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
—Matthew Arnold

The greatest enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but good choices which are not quite good enough.
—Oswald Chambers

We are what we believe we are.
—C. S. Lewis

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
—Henry David Thoreau

One today is worth two tomorrows.
—Benjamin Franklin

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
—Ronald Reagan

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
—Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.
—L.B. Cowman

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
—Helen Keller

Christianity is not simply a doctrine: it is an encounter in faith with God made present in our history through the incarnation of Jesus.
—Pope John Paul II

No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
—Ronald Reagan

You've nothing to fear if you know where and how to stand.
—Kay Arthur

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
—William James

You awake us to delight in Your praise; for You made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You.
—St. Augustine

The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.
—Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christians who allow themselves to be shaped by secular culture are guilty, not only of betraying God, but of losing their own true selves.
—W. Paul Jones


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The Lord sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.
—Dwight L. Moody
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English Standard VersionAll Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Text provided by the Crossway Bibles Web Service.

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