“The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.”
Mere Christianity = Love
“If you find the Christian life hard, take the manmade things out of your life! Get back to the easy yoke—Christ’s and Christ’s only.” -Pastor Bill Conn
“For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline and virtue. For the modern mind, the cardinal problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.”
-C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon but that we wait so long to begin living life.”
Disputes regarding wills? Refer to Ecclesiastes…it’s all meaningless!
“One of the most important things about worship is that its to be done now.” -Pastor Bill Conn
“God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation… Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts, and join his global purpose…
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t. Worship is the ultimate (goal of the church), not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides for ever.”
-John Piper
http://www.passageway.org/etcetera/missions.asp
“Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
-C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)
For of all the sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these:
“It might have been.”
-John Greenleaf Whittier
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe
“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.” -Oscar Wilde
“The preoccupation of seventeen-year-old girls—their looks, their clothes, their social life—do not change very much from generation to generation. But in every generation there seem to be a few who make other choices.” –Elisabeth Elliot, A Chance to Die
We need to have the kind of faith that holds up in the emergency rooms of life.
“It is a glorious experience to have and to know children. The risks of parenthood are well worth taking.” -Ralph T. Mattson
“Raising marriage rates is a better way to cut crime rates than building more prisons or putting more police on the streets.”
“How little people know who think that holiness is dull . . . When one meets the real thing, it’s irresistible.”
-C. S. Lewis
“Our mind is where our pleasure is, our heart is where our treasure is, our love is where our life is, but all these, our pleasure, treasure, and life, are reposed in Jesus Christ.’
-Thomas Adams
Freedom
The Statue of Liberty
In New York Harbor stands a Lady
With a torch raised to the sky;
And all who see her know she stands for
Liberty for you and me.
I’m so proud to be called an American,
To be named with the brave and the free;
I will honor our flag, and our trust in God,
And the Statue of Liberty.
On lonely Golgotha stood a cross
With my Lord raised to the sky;
And all who kneel there live forever
As all the saved can testify.
I’m so glad to be called a Christian,
To be named with the ransomed and whole
As the statue liberates the citizen,
So the cross liberates the soul.
Oh, the cross is my Statue of Liberty
It was there that my soul was set free
Unashamed I’ll proclaim that a rugged cross
Is my State of Liberty.
A song by Neil Enloe
“The one thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
– Edmund Burke
“In my opinion one cannot be both a patriot and a pacifist. If a man is not willing to sacrifice his life for his country, he cannot claim to love her.” – Anonymous
“War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” -John Stuart Mill
“My Creed”
I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon—if I can. I seek opportunity—not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed.
I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the still calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations and to face the world boldly and say, this I have done. All this is what it means to be an American.
–Dean Alfange
Forgiveness
“When you come to a brother who has sinned, come with the attitude that you could just as easily fall in that same area.”
-Pastor Bill Conn
“You will never forgive anyone
as much as God has forgiven you.”
“Forgiveness is setting a prisoner free and then discovering the prisoner was you.”
“Forgiveness is a choice.
It is not a feeling, but an act of the will.”
-John Eldredge
“Don’t wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving; you will never get there. Feelings take time to heal after the choice to forgive is made.” -Neil Anderson
“If your forgiveness doesn’t visit the emotional core of your life, it will be incomplete.”
“This is not saying, ‘It didn’t really matter’; it is not saying, ‘I probably deserved part of it anyway.’ Forgiveness says, ‘It was wrong, it mattered, and I release you.’”
-John Eldredge
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