Friday, December 24, 2004

More Quotes for today

"If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles."--
C.S. Lewis

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.--
Dwight L. Moody

"Be brave and dare with a holy boldness."--
Teresa of Avila

"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation."--
Corrie Ten Boom

Churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.--
Billy Sunday

There wouldn't be so many non-church goers if there were not so many non-going churches.--
Billy Sunday

Going to church doesn't make a man a Christian, any more than going to a garage makes him an automobile.--
Billy Sunday

The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.--
Billy Sunday

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.
Dwight L. Moody

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.
John Wesley

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
John Wesley

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
Charles R. Swindoll

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Charles R. Swindoll

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
Thomas Merton

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
Thomas Merton

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
Thomas Merton

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
Frederick Buechner

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
Billy Graham

Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.
Billy Graham

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.
Billy Graham

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
Saint Francis de Sales

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Saint Francis de Sales

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
St. Francis of Assisi

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assisi

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Saint Augustine

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Saint Augustine

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
Saint Augustine

Love, and do what you like.
Saint Augustine

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint Augustine

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Saint Augustine

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
Saint Augustine

There is no possible source of evil except good.
Saint Augustine

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Saint Augustine

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
Saint Augustine

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