A Selection of Quotations

Dear Friends,

Today I’d like to share a selection of quotes on a variety of topics from both well-known and not so well-known people. I share them because I agree with them. They ring true to me. They challenge me, convict me, make me look at something in a way I had not before, or put words to things I’ve known but could never have phrased as well as they do. They may resonate with your soul too, or maybe not! Yet if they get you to think, they have accomplished their purpose! I offer you twenty. May you find at least one that strikes home. Enjoy.

“If you believe in the Gospel only what you like, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.”
St. Augustine

“If I were called upon to identify the principal trait of the entire twentieth century, I would be unable to find anything more precise than to repeat once again, “Men have forgotten God.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.”
Thomas Fuller

“To forsake Christ for the world is to leave a treasure for a trifle, eternity for a moment, and reality for a shadow.”
William Jenkyn

“Only the fear of God can deliver us from the fear of man.”
John Witherspoon

“The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God.”
Brother Lawrence

“I cannot believe a man is on the road to heaven when he is habitually performing the kind of deeds that would logically indicate that he ought to be on his way to hell.”
A. W. Tozer

“A man’s “god” is that for which he lives, for which he is prepared to give his time, his energy, his money, that which stimulates, arouses, excites and enthuses him.”
David Lloyd-Jones

“Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but he will also finish His work in us.”
John Flavel

“It is not that prayer changes God, or awakens in Him purposes of love and compassion that he has not already felt. No, it changes us, and therein lies its glory and its purpose.”
Hannah Hurnard

“Let a man go to the grammar school of faith and repentance before he goes to the university of election and predestination.”
George Whitefield

“One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the mountain top.”
G. K. Chesterton

“As sure as God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.”
Charles Spurgeon

“The devil’s snare does not catch you unless you are first caught by the devil’s bait.”
St. Ambrose

“Temptation is not a sin, it is a call to battle.”
Erwin Lutzer

“When evil thoughts come into your heart, dash them at once upon the Rock of Christ.”
St. Benedict

“What we think about when we are free to think about anything – that is what we are, or will soon become.”
A. W. Tozer

“Every church should be engaged in continuous self-reformation, scrutinizing its traditions in light of the Scriptures and where necessary modifying them.”
John R. W. Stott

“Evil people have a kind of enamorment with their own will. When there is conflict between conscience and their will, it is conscience that has to go. They are extraordinarily willful people and extraordinarily controlling people.”
M. Scott Peck

“There is no more dangerous moment in our lives [in terms of temptation] than that which follows a great victory.”
Stephen Olford

Living in His All-sufficient Grace, Pastor Jeff