A man often preaches his beliefs precisely when he has lost them and is looking everywhere for them, and, on such occasions, his preaching is by no means at its worst.

Philip Melanchthon

Not one of all the good promises which the Lord had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.

Joshua 21:45
The Revised Standard Version

Dan Clark recalls that when he was a teenager, he and his father once stood in line to buy tickets for the circus.  As they waited, they noticed the family immediately in front of them.  The parents were holding hands, and they had eight children in tow, all behaved well and all probably under the age of twelve.  Based on their clean but simple clothing, he suspected they didn’t have a lot of money.  The kids jabbered about the exciting things they expected to see, and he could tell that the circus was going to be a new adventure for them.  As the couple approached the counter, the attendant asked how many tickets they wanted.  The man proudly responded, “Please let me buy eight children’s tickets and two adult tickets so I can take my family to the circus.”  When the attendant quoted the price, the man’s wife let go of his hand, and her head drooped.  The man leaned a little closer and asked, “How much did you say?”  The attendant again quoted the price.  The man obviously didn’t have enough money.  He looked crushed.  Clark says his father watched all of this, put his hand in his pocket, pulled out a twenty-dollar bill, and dropped it on the ground.  His father then reached down, picked up the bill, tapped the man on the shoulder, and said, “Excuse me, sir, this fell out of your pocket.”  The man knew exactly what was going on.  He looked straight into Clark’s father’s eyes, took his hand, shook it, and with a tear streaming down his cheek, replied, “Thank you, thank you, sir.  This really means a lot to me and my family.”  Clark and his father went back to their car and drove home.  They didn’t have enough money to go to the circus that night, but it didn’t matter.  They had encouraged a whole family.  And it was something neither family would ever forget.

John C. Maxwell

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The ultimate proof of the sinner is that he does not recognize his own sin.

Martin Luther

“For I am the Lord, I do not change; Therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob.  Yet from the days of your fathers You have gone away from My ordinances And have not kept them.  Return to Me, and I will return to you,” Says the Lord of hosts.

Malachi 3:6-7
The New King James Version

Life Is Too Short…
To remember slights or insults.
To cherish grudges that rob me of happiness.
To waste time in doing things that are of no value.
To let past sins or mistakes cloud future happiness.
To miss making friends because I am too busy making money.
To give my youth to the divil and my old age to God.
To dream of tomorrow when I may never have one.
To put off making a confession of Christ now.

Charles M. Sheldon

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Let us try to follow the Savior’s steps; let us remember all day long what it is to be men: that it is to have everyone whom we meet for our brother in the sight of God; that it is this, never to meet any one, however bad he may be, for whom we cannot say, “Christ died for that man, and Christ cares for him still.  He is precious in God’s eyes, and he shall be precious in mine also.”

Charles Kingsley

Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.

Hebrews 3:12
The English Standard Version

I try not to worry about life too much because I read the last page of THE book and it all turns out all right.

Billy Graham

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It requires moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.

Soren Kierkegaard

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions.  Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

Psalm 51:1-2
The New International Version

We are, after all, like lumps of clay.
There are brittle pieces, hard pieces.
We have little shape or beauty.
But we need not despair.
If we are clay, let us remember there is a
Potter, and His wheel.

Peter Marshall

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My mind is absorbed with the sufferings of man.  Since I was twenty-four there never has been any vagueness in my plans or ideas as to what God’s work was for me.

Florence Nightingale

“O Sovereign Lord! You made the heavens and earth by your strong hand and powerful arm. Nothing is too hard for you!”

Jeremiah 32:17
The New Living Translation

A boy sang in our choir, Joey, who was not quite bright.  He would never leave the tabernacle at night till he could shake my hand.  He would stand right next to me until the last man had gone in order to say good-bye.  It was embarrassing at times.  One evening a man came forward to speak to me.  He said, “I want to thank you for being so kind to Joey.  He isn’t quite bright and has never had anything he enjoyed so much as coming here and singing in the choir.  He has worked hard during the day in order to be ready in time to come here at night.  He has coaxed us to come too, and it is through him that my wife and our five children have been led to the Lord.  His grandfather, seventy-five years old and an infidel all his life, and his grandmother have come tonight, and now the whole family is converted.”

Homer Rodeheaver, Billy Sunday’s choir leader

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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength.  It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Jonathan Swift

Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

Deuteronomy 5:33
The King James Version

You are not tempted because you are evil; you are tempted because you are human.

Fulton J. Sheen

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Don’t make the mistake of taking your will for God’s will.

Unknown

Wisdom is a fountain of life to him who has it, but folly is the chastisement of fools.

Proverbs 16:22
The Revised Standard Version

Back of the bread is snowy flour;
And back of the flour the mill.
And back of the mill is the wheat and the shower,
And the sun and Father’s will.

Maltbie D. Babcock

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We learn from Saul’s failure that the surrendered life is the only secure and truly successful life.

Henrietta C. Mears

It is good to praise the Lord and make music to your name, O Most High, proclaiming your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night,

Psalm 92:1-2
The New International Version

Many Christians estimate difficulties in the light of their own resources, and thus attempt little and often fail in the little they attempt.  All God’s giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His power and presence being with them.

J. Hudson Taylor

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Use what you have, that you may have more to use.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Your dead shall live; Together with my dead body they shall arise.  Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; For your dew is like the dew of herbs, And the earth shall cast out the dead.

Isaiah 26:19
The New King James Version

An old schoolmaster said one day to a clergyman, who came to examine his school, “I believe the children know the catechism word for word.”  “But do they understand it?  That is the question,” said the clergyman.  The schoolmaster bowed respectfully, and the examination began.  A little boy had repeated the fifth commandment, “Honor thy father and thy mother,” and he was asked to explain it.  Instead of trying to do so, the little boy, with his face covered with blushes, said, almost in a whisper, “Yesterday I showed some strange man over the mountain, and the sharp stones cut my feet.  The man saw they were bleeding, and gave me some money to buy shoes.  I gave it to my mother, for she had no shoes either, and I thought I could go barefooted better than she could.”

Unknown

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It was Paul who had malaria and poor eyesight, who was whipped, imprisoned, stoned and shipwrecked who said, “God has turned my life into a pageant of triumph.

A. Bonningram

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.  In him was life, and the life was the light of men.  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

John 1:1-5
The English Standard Version

In answer to a query about working on Sunday…”It should not detract from a man’s reverence to do what is required.  Even Jesus spoke about the ox in the ditch on the Sabbath.  But if your ox gets in the ditch every Sabbath, you should either get rid of the ox or fill up the ditch.”

Billy Graham

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