Quotes

I don't know about you, but I love quotes!  I have books full of them and notebooks full of ones I have discovered and appreciated over the years.  Here I share some that I really like - some poignant, some convicting, some encouraging, some inspiring, some literary and some that are just plain funny!  I will certainly add more as time goes on, so be sure to check back occasionally!

"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."  ~Theodore Roosevelt  (and how many young adults lose their faith when they go to college and have that all-important 'college experience'??  I'm not against going to college: secular, private, Christian or online, but it does make you pause to think and prioritize, doesn't it?)

"It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desire He creates."  ~Amy Carmichael  (doesn't that just make your heart sing?)

"When we deliberately choose to obey God, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist us with His almighty power."  ~Oswald Chambers

"The Christian life can be explained only in terms of Jesus Christ, and if your life as a Christian can still be explained in terms of you - your personality, your willpower, your gifts, your talent, your money, your courage, your scholarship, your dedication, you sacrifice or your anything - then although you may have the Christian life, you are not yet living it."  ~Ian Thomas (ouch!)

"Tell me, in light of the Cross, isn't a scandal that you and I live today as we do?"  ~Alan Redpath (double ouch!)

"If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the Kingdoms of Europe were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all."  ~Fenelon

"Nothing so needs reforming than other people's habits."  ~Mark Twain

"She sang, of course, 'M'ama!' and not, 'he loves me,' since an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German texts of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences."  from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton  (horrible book, but hilarious quote!!)

"God can draw a straight line with a crooked stick."  ~Martin Luther

"The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else."  ~Oswald Chambers

"Try this recipe, O believer, whenever you are sad of heart and in heaviness of spirit.  Forget yourself and your little concerns and seek the welfare and prosperity of Zion for the people of God.  When you bend your knee in prayer fo God, limit not your petition to the narrow circle of your own life, tried though it may be, but send out your longing prayers for the church's prosperity.  Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, and your own soul shall be refreshed."  ~Charles Spurgeon

"Though you be no better than a mere cipher [a zero], yet the Lord can make something of you.  Set 1 before a 0 and it is a 10 immediately.  Let two or three zeros combine to serve the Lord and, if the Lord heads them, these nothings become tens of thousands.  Who knows what you can do?"  ~Charles Spurgeon

"Years ago, my mother used to say to me, she'd say, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh, so smart or oh, so pleasant.'  Well, for years I was smart.  I recommend pleasant.  You may quote me."  ~Elwood P. Dowd from the movie, Harvey