Dear Friends,
As some of you may have guessed, I am a collector of quotes. Every book I’ve read has sentences underlined, paragraphs circled, arrows leading to comments in the margins, or various colors of highlighters making it easy to go back and find quotes I consider helpful. In fact, I’ve incorporated many of them into my faith-walk, even memorizing them, so I can have them ‘available’ to share with others.
So, today, I offer you many that altered my perspective and have ever since become an ongoing part of my personal outlook. Maybe you will find one or two in the many below that will become like that for you. I offer many in the hope you can find at least one for yourself. Enjoy.
“The Gospel is this: ‘We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.’” Tim Keller
“Preach the gospel to yourself every day.” Jerry Bridges
"Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace." Jerry Bridges
“He who moves one inch toward God through doubtings dim, God will move one mile in blazing light toward him.” Anonymous
“Faith is not belief without doubt; faith is trusting God in spite of your doubts.” Anonymous
“The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor.” Charles Stanley
“We are never nearer to Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.” John Owen
“The day you find anything more beautiful than Jesus is the day you can know you never knew Jesus.” John Hannah
“My most cherished possession I wish I could leave you is my faith in Jesus Christ, for with Him and nothing else you can be happy, but without Him and with all else, you can never be happy.” Patrick Henry
“When a man is all wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.” John Ruskin
“There was once in man a true happiness, of which there now remains to him only an empty trace which he now tries to fill with things from his environment. Yet all these efforts are inadequate, because the infinite abyss in the human soul can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object – that is, by God Himself.” Blaise Pascal
“Grace is the unfathomable gift of everything, for nothing, to those who don’t deserve anything.” Paul R. VanGorder
“The only thing of my very own which I contribute to my redemption is the sin from which I need to be saved.” William Temple
“Our works will never earn God's affection, just as they will never merit his pardon. Our best deeds will never be sufficiently free of the contamination of human motive and imperfection that they are acceptable to God on their own merit. Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of Jesus.” John Owen
“Grace is doing good to someone when there is no compelling reason to do so and every reason not to.” Peter Alwinson
“All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching. Those who never quote others will never be quoted.” Charles Spurgeon
“It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.” Martin Luther
“Live your life as if you were someone else’s only role model. Live your life in such a way that all you want your children to be they see in you.” Unknown
“A friend is one to whom we may pour out all the contents of our heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take it and sift it – keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.” Arabian Proverb
“Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.” Jim Elliot
“Faithful Gospel preaching will do two things; it will comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” Unknown
“It is sweet to be nothing, and less than nothing, that Christ may be all in all.” David Brainerd
“Maturity in the Christian life is measured by only one test: how much closer to Jesus’ character have I become?” Elyse Fitzpatrick
“The only way that I can keep leading is to keep growing. The day I stop growing somebody else takes the leadership baton. That’s the way it always is.” John Maxwell
“A ‘leader’ is a person who, on a large scale, is able to rise above their own insecurities, anxieties, fears and and so succeed in changing the world. They can work for years at their purposes against great odds, yet they have to have something absolutely mold their vision. What is not before their eyes must be more real than what is. When people have a vision of what they want to do, and are willing to accept torture, danger, difficulty, anxiety, instability, insecurity, and even death, then they are leaders. And if they are successful, then that certifies it.” Norman Mailer (speaking of Martin Luther King Jr.)
“Those who aren’t following Jesus aren’t his followers… Followers follow, and those who don’t follow aren’t followers.” Scott McKnight
“To judge another person’s heart is only to expose what’s in your own.” Frank Viola
“If Jesus Christ be God, and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.” C.T. Studd
“God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” C.S. Lewis
“It is to be remembered that the efficacy of faith does not reside in itself. Faith is not something that merits the favor of God. All the efficacy of faith unto salvation resides in the Saviour. As one has aptly and truly stated the case: ‘it is not faith that saves but faith in Jesus Christ; strictly speaking, it is not even faith in Christ that saves but Christ that saves through faith.” John Murray
“The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.” Thomas Carlyle
Thankful for the insights of the wise, past and present, passed down for our benefit, Pastor Jeff
As some of you may have guessed, I am a collector of quotes. Every book I’ve read has sentences underlined, paragraphs circled, arrows leading to comments in the margins, or various colors of highlighters making it easy to go back and find quotes I consider helpful. In fact, I’ve incorporated many of them into my faith-walk, even memorizing them, so I can have them ‘available’ to share with others.
So, today, I offer you many that altered my perspective and have ever since become an ongoing part of my personal outlook. Maybe you will find one or two in the many below that will become like that for you. I offer many in the hope you can find at least one for yourself. Enjoy.
“The Gospel is this: ‘We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.’” Tim Keller
“Preach the gospel to yourself every day.” Jerry Bridges
"Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace." Jerry Bridges
“He who moves one inch toward God through doubtings dim, God will move one mile in blazing light toward him.” Anonymous
“Faith is not belief without doubt; faith is trusting God in spite of your doubts.” Anonymous
“The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor.” Charles Stanley
“We are never nearer to Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.” John Owen
“The day you find anything more beautiful than Jesus is the day you can know you never knew Jesus.” John Hannah
“My most cherished possession I wish I could leave you is my faith in Jesus Christ, for with Him and nothing else you can be happy, but without Him and with all else, you can never be happy.” Patrick Henry
“When a man is all wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.” John Ruskin
“There was once in man a true happiness, of which there now remains to him only an empty trace which he now tries to fill with things from his environment. Yet all these efforts are inadequate, because the infinite abyss in the human soul can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object – that is, by God Himself.” Blaise Pascal
“Grace is the unfathomable gift of everything, for nothing, to those who don’t deserve anything.” Paul R. VanGorder
“The only thing of my very own which I contribute to my redemption is the sin from which I need to be saved.” William Temple
“Our works will never earn God's affection, just as they will never merit his pardon. Our best deeds will never be sufficiently free of the contamination of human motive and imperfection that they are acceptable to God on their own merit. Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of Jesus.” John Owen
“Grace is doing good to someone when there is no compelling reason to do so and every reason not to.” Peter Alwinson
“All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching. Those who never quote others will never be quoted.” Charles Spurgeon
“It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.” Martin Luther
“Live your life as if you were someone else’s only role model. Live your life in such a way that all you want your children to be they see in you.” Unknown
“A friend is one to whom we may pour out all the contents of our heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take it and sift it – keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.” Arabian Proverb
“Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.” Jim Elliot
“Faithful Gospel preaching will do two things; it will comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” Unknown
“It is sweet to be nothing, and less than nothing, that Christ may be all in all.” David Brainerd
“Maturity in the Christian life is measured by only one test: how much closer to Jesus’ character have I become?” Elyse Fitzpatrick
“The only way that I can keep leading is to keep growing. The day I stop growing somebody else takes the leadership baton. That’s the way it always is.” John Maxwell
“A ‘leader’ is a person who, on a large scale, is able to rise above their own insecurities, anxieties, fears and and so succeed in changing the world. They can work for years at their purposes against great odds, yet they have to have something absolutely mold their vision. What is not before their eyes must be more real than what is. When people have a vision of what they want to do, and are willing to accept torture, danger, difficulty, anxiety, instability, insecurity, and even death, then they are leaders. And if they are successful, then that certifies it.” Norman Mailer (speaking of Martin Luther King Jr.)
“Those who aren’t following Jesus aren’t his followers… Followers follow, and those who don’t follow aren’t followers.” Scott McKnight
“To judge another person’s heart is only to expose what’s in your own.” Frank Viola
“If Jesus Christ be God, and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.” C.T. Studd
“God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” C.S. Lewis
“It is to be remembered that the efficacy of faith does not reside in itself. Faith is not something that merits the favor of God. All the efficacy of faith unto salvation resides in the Saviour. As one has aptly and truly stated the case: ‘it is not faith that saves but faith in Jesus Christ; strictly speaking, it is not even faith in Christ that saves but Christ that saves through faith.” John Murray
“The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.” Thomas Carlyle
Thankful for the insights of the wise, past and present, passed down for our benefit, Pastor Jeff
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