"By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." ~~ Jesus (John 13:35)
"Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God." ~~ Jesus (Matthew 5:9)
"Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God." ~~ Jesus (Matthew 5:8)
"The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise." Proverbs 11:30
"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Philippians 4:13
"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways, acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths." Proverbs 3:5-6
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:30-31
"Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves." ~~ Apostle Paul (Philippians 2:3)
"Let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth." I John 3:18
"If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:8-9
"Call upon me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not." Jeremiah 33:3
"And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." Galatians 6:9
"The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust..." Psalm 18:2
"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." Philippians 4:8
"I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.." Psalm 121
"He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler." Psalm 91:4
"For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him." II Chronicles 16:9
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"The Bible is the game plan for life." Tommy Bowden
"Don't let fear keep you from doing what you want to do." Shirley Gallamore
"Life is short. I want to live to make a difference. I want to live as intentionally and as committed as I can to make as many differences as I can for the glory of God." Dr. Johnny Hunt
"People of character do the right thing not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world."
"In this life, we cannot always do great things, but we can do small things with great love." Mother Teresa
"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may just never be enough; Give the world the best you have anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it's all between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway." Kent Keith
"It's not what you know. It's what you obey." Dr. Johnny Hunt
"You're never more like Jesus than when you're giving." Dr. Johnny Hunt
"One third of the world’s population is living on one meal every two days. We’re rich." Dr. Johnny Hunt
"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."
"You can't demand respect. You earn it."
"The people in your community are not anti-God. They've just lost interest in church." Andy Stanley "Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." Leo Buscaglia "Jesus didn’t practice what He preached. He preached what He practiced." Dr. Adrian Rogers "When you stand for truth, you’re going to have a head-on collision with error." Dr. Adrian Rogers "If there is no opposition, there is no victory." Dr. Adrian Rogers "Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but no one has a right to be wrong about the facts." Dr. Adrian Rogers "You always reap what you sow. You reap later than you sow, and you reap more than you sow." Dr. Adrian Rogers "The LORD wants to use you to bless someone today. Won't you allow Him?" Dr. Charles Stanley God is truth. God is love. God is holy. God is wise. God is our protector. God is all knowing. God is everywhere. He is the light of the world and is the same yesterday, today, and forever. God is powerful. God is faithful. God is eternal. God is just. God is good. God is our provider. God is merciful. God is forgiving. God is worthy. God is our rock, our fortress, and our deliverer. God is our strength and our shield. God is our Saviour and deliverer. God is the greatest giver. God is. There is true grit in integrity. Definition of grit: "firmness of mind or spirit, unyielding courage in the face of hardship or danger." Definition of integrity: "steadfast adherence to a moral or ethical code." God is in the construction business. He lifts us up when we're down. He molds and shapes us into His image. He creates in us a new heart. Satan is in the destruction business. He tears down and attacks and also shapes others into his image. Whom we emulate reveals our true father. Let us strive to be carpenters, and build a life of kindness, compassion, love, and truth. Don't feel threatened by the devil. Be a threat to the devil. We are to be valiant soldiers for Christ. Our victory is in winning souls. Our defeat is in losing them. Christianity in principle but not in practice is no better than no religion at all. Christians must seek to live what we say we believe. Greater is he that is in the Word than he that is in the world. Respect lives on a two-way street. God knows the truth, because God is truth. Jesus is the ultimate giver, and Jesus is the ultimate gift. His eyes? His smile? Most beautiful about Jesus' face is that He has only one. Our definition of truth needs to be God's definition of truth. Anything less is not truth. Our definition of love needs to be God's definition of love. Anything less is not truly love. Our definition of kindness needs to be God's definition of kindness. Anything less is not genuine kindness. Gossip. One can't even say the word without making a 'hissing' sound, the sound of a snake. It should never be the sound from the lips of a lady or a gentleman. Prayer is essential, yet so is action.
"There are people in your community whose time is running out." Andy Stanley
"How many legs would a dog have, if you call its tail a leg? Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg." Abraham Lincoln
"Character is doing right even when no one is watching."
"You’re never too important to treat people like Jesus would treat people." Dr. Danny Akin
"He wants us to love other people in such a way that, when they see us, they see Jesus." Dr. Danny Akin
"When you are humble, you are not a doormat. You are a doorway to wisdom."
Dr. Johnny Hunt
"(The Book of) James sees wisdom as a careful application of knowledge to personal living. In other words, it’s not somebody that knows their Bible. It’s somebody that lives their Bible." Dr. Johnny Hunt
"Life is fragile. Handle with prayer."
"We stand strongest and tallest on our knees." Dr. Charles Stanley
"A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered." C.H. Spurgeon
"People will never forget how you made them feel." Donald Hardy
"Only the light of eternity can fully reveal the wisdom of our choice to follow JESUS today." Roy Lessin
"Right doctrine must be accompanied by right actions." Thom Rainer
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"How far that little candle throws his beams, so shines a good deed in a weary world." William Shakespeare
"Words said in seconds are never forgotten in a lifetime. Choose your words wisely!" Ike Reighard
"He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass." Thomas Adams
"Practice what you read." Dr. Greg Laurie
"If you always tell the truth you won't have to remember what you said yesterday!" Donald Hardy
"Error does not become truth because it is widely accepted; truth does not become error, even when it stands alone." John MacArthur
"Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it." Moses Maimonides, 12th Century
"A loving heart is the truest wisdom." Charles Dickens
"A Bible that's falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn't." Dr. Vance Havner
"If you have a Bible that’s falling apart, you’ll have a life that’s not." Dr. Adrian Rogers
"Don’t let your conscience be your guide unless God guides your conscience." Dr. Adrian Rogers
"It’s better to know the truth and to stand alone than it is to be wrong with a multitude." Dr. Adrian Rogers
"We need to be very cautious about being spokespersons for God." Dr. Adrian Rogers
"If what I preach fits your gun, then shoot it. But use your own powder." Dr. Adrian Rogers
"God doesn’t love us because we’re valuable. We’re valuable because God loves us." Dr. Adrian Rogers
"The best argument for Christianity and the best argument against Christianity is the life of a Christian. Not only are we to be His witnesses; we ought to be part of the evidence." Dr. Adrian Rogers
"If you please God, it doesn’t matter whom you displease. If you displease God, it doesn’t matter whom you please." Dr. Adrian Rogers
"God is more impressed with the church being the church than the church going to church." Dr. Johnny Hunt
"That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind." Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The time is always right to do what is right." Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?" Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." David Brinkley
"Jesus did not say that the whole world should go to Church, but rather that the Church should go to the whole world." Dr. Greg Laurie
"The disciple realizes that it is his Lord's honor that is at stake in his life, not his own honor." Dr. Johnny Hunt quoting Oswald Chambers
"A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for." John A. Shedd
"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist." Indira Gandhi
"Don't find fault. Find a remedy." Henry Ford
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." Edith Wharton
"It's nice to be important; it's more important to be nice." Unknown
"It’s not how much you know; it’s whether you’ve got the love of God motivating you to share that precious truth." Dr. Johnny Hunt
"Today, there are over a billion people in our world who are living on less than a dollar a day, joined by two billion others living on less than two dollars a day. That's half the world living on less than I paid for french fries for dinner last night. According to UNICEF, 26,000 children will die today of either starvation or a preventable disease." David Platt
"The Gospel demands radical sacrifice." David Platt
"God is a gentleman. We can take Him at His word." Anne Graham Lotz
“The greatest strength is gentleness.” Iroquois proverb
"Speak truth in humility to all people. Only then can you be a true man." Sioux proverb
"Love one another and do not strive for another's undoing." Seneca proverb
"We will be known forever by the tracks we leave." Dakota proverb
"Take only what you need and leave the land as you found it." Arapaho proverb
"People hardly noticed the donkey; they looked at Jesus. So they cheered for Christ and not the donkey." Dr. Adrian Rogers speaking of the donkey that carried Jesus.
"For every Goliath, there is a stone." seen on a church sign
"Truth is powerful, and it prevails." Sojourner Truth
"It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts, and then heals, than falsehood that comforts, then kills. It is not love, and it is not friendship, if we fail to declare the whole counsel of God. It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie. It's better to stand alone with the truth than to be wrong with a multitude. It is better ultimately to succeed with truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie." Dr. Adrian Rogers
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." Winston Churchill
"Keep conscience clear, then never fear." Benjamin Franklin
"The truth is obviously Jesus Christ, so we always want the focus to be on Christ, but He uses personalities to communicate the truth. And, if He's going to use those personalities, we have to be willing to open up about our life experiences. I think when we open up, though, we want to be sure that we're being vulnerable, and we're admitting areas where we've blown it, where we have fallen short." Dr. Bryant Wright
"If you don't know the truth, you're going to be deceived." Dr. Charles Stanley
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Original Quotes
How comforting to know that our God is omnipotent, all powerful and cannot be defeated, that our God is omniscient, knowing everything and cannot be deceived, that our God is omnipresent, present everywhere and seeing and hearing everything. All seeing, all hearing, all knowing, all powerful -- What an awesome God we serve.
God's love for us is not based on who we are, but on whose we are -- We are children of His and belong to Him.
Seen on a church sign: "For every Goliath, there is a stone." A verse in scripture, Psalm 18:2, says, "The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust..." So, when you face some sort of 'giant' in your life, remember that the giant will fall with only one rock, and that rock to trust in is Jesus.