Daily Quotes and Illustrations

2011-03-20T23:46:00.000-04:00

Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.

- Vance Havner

2011-03-02T23:45:00.000-05:00

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.

- William Gurnall

2011-01-22T23:24:00.000-05:00

Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently.

- John Piper

2011-01-20T23:23:00.000-05:00

For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime to rob it of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man's house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.

- John Calvin

2010-12-11T16:20:00.000-05:00

'Twas the night before Jesus came and all through the house
Not a person was praying, not one in the house.
The Bibles were left on the shelf without care,
For no one thought that Jesus would come there.
The children were dressing to crawl into bed,
Not once ever kneeling or bowling a head.
And mom in her rocker with baby in her lap
Was watching the Late Show while I took a nap.

When out of the east there arose such a clatter,
I sprang to my feet to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash
Tore open the shutter and lifted the slash!
When what to my wondering eyes should appear
But angels proclaiming that Jesus was here!

2010-10-04T14:08:00.002-04:00

Tomorrow's Forecast: God reigns and the Son shines.

- Unknown

2010-06-25T23:20:00.000-04:00

Don't choose to keep remembering what God has chosen to forget.

-Unknown

2010-04-25T23:17:00.000-04:00

The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.

- William Gurnall

2010-04-21T23:19:00.000-04:00

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

- Goethe

2010-04-05T23:49:00.000-04:00

You don’t have to go to heathen lands today to find false gods. America is full of them. Whatever you love more than God is your idol.

- D. L. Moody

2010-03-25T22:44:00.000-04:00

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

- Augustine

2010-03-19T00:09:00.000-04:00

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

- Augustine

2010-03-17T23:14:00.000-04:00

To love God is the greatest of virtues; to be loved by God is the greatest of blessings.

- Unknown

2010-03-17T00:08:00.000-04:00

There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its biblical sense, but something else and something less.

- A. W. Tozer

2010-03-16T00:02:00.000-04:00

There is nothing so deluding as feelings. Christians cannot live by feelings. Let me further tell you that these feelings are the work of Satan, for they are not right feelings. What right have you to set up your feelings against the Word of Christ.

- Charles Spurgeon

2010-03-15T22:55:00.000-04:00

If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper. I make it a practice to read the Bible through once every year.

- Daniel Webster

2010-03-14T23:59:00.000-04:00

The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.

- Martin Luther

2010-03-13T00:12:00.000-05:00

Spiritual leadership is not won by promotion, but by prayers and tears. It is attained by much heart-searching and humbling before God; by self-surrender, a courageous sacrifice of every idol, a bold uncompromising, and uncomplaining embracing of the cross, and by an eternal, unfaltering looking unto Jesus crucified. This is a great price, but it must be unflinchingly paid by him who would be a real spiritual leader of men, a leader whose power is recognized and felt in heaven, on earth and in hell.

- Samuel Brengle

2010-03-12T13:10:00.000-05:00

I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.

- Martin Luther

2010-03-10T23:29:00.000-05:00

Human things must be known to be loved: but Divine things must be loved to be known.

- Blaise Pascal

2010-03-09T23:53:00.000-05:00

It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship.

- Patrick Henry

2010-03-08T23:43:00.000-05:00

I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.

- John Knox

2010-03-07T23:57:00.000-05:00

Holy Scripture, being God’s own Word, written by men prepared and superintended by His Spirit, is of infallible divine authority in all matters upon which it touches: it is to be believed, as God’s instruction, in all that it affirms; obeyed, as God’s command, in all that it requires; embraced, as God’s pledge, in all that it promises.

- The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy

2010-03-06T11:36:00.000-05:00

Nature teaches us to love our friends, but Christ teaches us to love our enemies.

- Unknown

2010-03-05T23:27:00.000-05:00

The desire of love is to give. The desire of lust is to take.

- Unknown

2010-03-04T23:39:00.000-05:00

The fear of the Lord is just the proper reaction of sinners to God’s infinite holiness, or of creatures to God’s infinite majesty. As we grow in the knowledge of God, we will learn truly to tremble before His great glory and burning purity, and see this as indeed the beginning of wisdom.

- Eric Alexander

2010-03-03T23:32:00.000-05:00

Love is not blind; that is the last thing it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

- G. K. Chestertown

2010-03-02T01:01:00.000-05:00

Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.

- Jonathon Edwards

2010-03-01T22:52:00.000-05:00

The Bible is either absolute, or it's obsolete.

- Leonard Ravenhill

2010-02-28T06:10:00.000-05:00

When the time comes for you to die, you need not be afraid, because death cannot separate you from God's love.

- Charles Spurgeon

2010-02-27T06:08:00.000-05:00

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

- Benjamin Franklin

2010-02-26T06:07:00.000-05:00

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

- Goethe

2010-02-25T22:46:00.001-05:00

This book will keep you from sin or sin will keep you from this book. (Speaking of the Bible.)

- D. L. Moody

2010-02-05T22:48:00.000-05:00

The Bible opens and closes with a wedding.

- Selwyn Hughes

2010-01-25T22:58:00.000-05:00

A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.

- Leonard Ravenhill

2010-01-05T23:00:00.000-05:00

'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the world.

- William Booth

2009-12-21T15:43:00.000-05:00

God Sent Us a Savior

From glory to a manger...
from the manger to a cross...
from the cross to a tomb...
from the tomb back to glory...
from glory to our hearts.

- Unknown

2009-09-12T10:35:00.000-04:00

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

- Oswald Chambers

2009-01-28T23:05:00.000-05:00

The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.

- William Townsend

2008-12-25T15:29:00.000-05:00

Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under a tree.

- Charlotte Carpenter

2008-12-23T01:04:00.000-05:00

It is one thing to know there is a God; it's another thing to know the God that is.

- Dr. Bob Jones, Sr.

2008-12-22T15:47:00.000-05:00

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.

- Phillips Brooks

2008-12-21T15:32:00.000-05:00

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

- Bing Crosby

2008-12-20T15:24:00.000-05:00

Rejoice, that the immortal God is born, so that mortal man may live in eternity.

- John Hus

2008-12-18T16:05:00.000-05:00

Good news from heaven the angels bring,
Glad tidings to the earth they sing:
To us this day a child is given,
To crown us with the joy of heaven.

- Martin Luther

2008-12-17T15:42:00.000-05:00

A scientist said, making a plea for exchange scholarships between nations, "The very best way to send an idea is to wrap it up in a person." That was what happened at Christmas. The idea of divine love was wrapped up in a Person.

- Halford Luccock

2008-12-16T15:38:00.000-05:00

When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness.

- Bob Hope

2008-12-15T15:36:00.000-05:00

At Christmas, all roads lead home.

- Marjorie Holmes

2008-12-14T16:02:00.000-05:00

Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merry making. It is more than that. It is a time for the contemplation of eternal things. The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.

- J. C. Penney

2008-12-13T15:35:00.000-05:00

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

- Lenore Hershey

2008-12-12T15:33:00.000-05:00

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

- Charles Dickens

2008-12-11T15:43:00.000-05:00

God Sent Us a Savior

From glory to a manger...
from the manger to a cross...
from the cross to a tomb...
from the tomb back to glory...
from glory to our hearts.

- Unknown

2008-12-11T15:26:00.000-05:00

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts!

- Benjamin Franklin

2008-11-28T16:06:00.001-05:00

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels grateful and has no one to thank.

- Samuel Cavert

2008-11-25T16:31:00.000-05:00

Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; but to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude allows.

- Edward Sandford Martin

2008-11-23T01:03:00.000-05:00

The door to the room of success swings on the hinges of opposition.

- Dr. Bob Jones, Sr.

2008-11-22T16:29:00.000-05:00

Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.

- W. J. Cameron

2008-11-22T16:27:00.000-05:00

For flowers that bloom about our feet;
For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;
For song of bird, and hum of bee;
For all things fair we hear or see,
Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

2008-11-19T16:26:00.000-05:00

He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart.

- J. A. Shedd

2008-11-17T16:04:00.003-05:00

I give thanks unto my God for this; that I am found worthy to be among those whom the world hateth.

- Jerome

2008-11-12T10:37:00.000-05:00

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.

- C. S. Lewis

2008-11-10T05:00:00.000-05:00

It is, in a way, an odd thing to honor those who died in defense of our country in wars far away. The imagination plays a trick. We see these soldiers in our mind as old and wise. We see them as something like the Founding Fathers, grave and gray-haired. But most of them were boys when they died; they gave up two lives — the one they were living and the one they would have lived. When they died, they gave up their chance to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers. They gave up their chance to be revered old men. They gave up everything for their county, for us.
All we can do is remember.

- Ronald Wilson Reagan Remarks at Veteran's Day ceremony, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, November 11, 1985

2008-11-01T01:09:00.000-04:00

Expect great things from God.
Attempt great things for God.

- Dr. Bob Jones, Sr.

2008-10-23T01:02:00.000-04:00

It is a sin to do less than your best.

- Dr. Bob Jones, Sr.

2008-10-22T21:07:00.000-04:00

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

- Winston Churchill

2008-10-21T21:07:00.000-04:00

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

- Winston Churchill

2008-10-13T21:05:00.000-04:00

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

- Winston Churchill

2008-10-12T10:31:00.000-04:00

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.

- Ronald Reagan

2008-10-07T01:08:00.000-04:00

A man is a fool who leans on the arm of flesh when he can be supported by the arm of Omnipotence.

- Dr. Bob Jones, Sr.

2008-10-01T01:21:00.000-04:00

If lips and life do not agree, the testimony will not amount to much.

- Harry A. Ironside

2008-09-24T10:21:00.001-04:00

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.

- Ronald Reagan

2008-09-23T21:04:00.000-04:00

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill

2008-09-23T01:00:00.000-04:00

The greatest ability is dependability.

- Dr. Bob Jones, Sr.

2008-09-22T21:03:00.000-04:00

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

- Winston Churchill

2008-09-22T10:19:00.000-04:00

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

- Calvin Coolidge

2008-09-21T10:11:00.001-04:00

If you are strangers to prayer, you are strangers to power.

- Billy Sunday

2008-09-19T10:48:00.001-04:00

There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war; it's to be prepared for peace.

- Ronald Reagan

2008-09-17T10:38:00.000-04:00

Without Christ, not one step; with Him, anywhere!

- David Livingstone

2008-09-16T10:35:00.000-04:00

Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of faith is to see what we believe.

- Augustine

2008-09-16T10:30:00.000-04:00

We've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of government himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?

- Ronald Reagan

2008-09-14T10:50:00.000-04:00

I have found that there are three stages in every great wok of God; first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.

- Hudson Taylor

2008-09-13T17:12:00.000-04:00

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.

- Laurence Peter

2008-09-12T01:28:00.000-04:00

When led of the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to be silent as to speak.

- Lewis Sperry Chafer

2008-09-10T01:06:00.000-04:00

The two biggest little words in the English language are the two little words "do right."

- Dr. Bob Jones, Sr.

2008-08-30T01:27:00.001-04:00

Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

- Lewis Sperry Chafer

2008-08-29T01:36:00.000-04:00

It is much better to be drawn by the joys of heaven, than driven by the sorrows of earth.

- C. H. Mackintosh

2008-08-23T01:00:00.000-04:00

The test of your character is what it takes to stop you.

- Dr. Bob Jones, Sr.

2008-08-16T02:00:00.000-04:00

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

- Calvin Coolidge

2008-08-15T01:05:00.000-04:00

What you love and what you hate reveal what you are.

- Dr. Bob Jones, Sr.

2008-08-12T01:25:00.000-04:00

Salvation is the work of God for man; it is not the work of man for God.

- Lewis Sperry Chafer

2008-08-11T01:17:00.000-04:00

Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently hidden meanings; and beware of the confusion created by the senseless rash of new versions, translations, editions, and improvements upon the tried and tested Bible of our fathers and grandfathers.

- M. R. DeHaan

2008-08-04T01:30:00.000-04:00

A servant of God has but one Master.

- George Muller

2008-08-01T01:33:00.000-04:00

Some want to live
within the sound
of church or chapel bell;
I want to run
a rescue shop
within a yard of hell.

- C. T. Studd

2008-07-30T01:35:00.000-04:00

Love to Christ is proved by doing the things which He commands, and not merely saying, Lord, Lord.

- C. H. Mackintosh

2008-07-29T01:23:00.000-04:00

Anything that dims my vision for Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps me in my prayer life, or makes Christian work difficult, is wrong for me; and I must, as a Christian turn away from it.

- J. Wilbur Chapman

2008-07-28T01:16:00.000-04:00

We need not all agree, but if we disagree, let us not be disagreeable in our disagreements.

- M. R. DeHaan

2008-07-27T01:20:00.001-04:00

Christ is a substitute for everything, but nothing is a substitute for Christ.

- Harry A. Ironside

2008-07-26T01:19:00.000-04:00

Beloved, let the fact of what our Lord suffered for you grip you, and you will never again be the same.

- Oliver B. Greene

2008-07-25T01:13:00.000-04:00

If it be the duty of all men to believe the Gospel ... then it be the duty of those who are entrusted with the Gospel to endeavor to make it known among all nations.

- William Carey

2008-07-24T01:00:00.000-04:00

Trust God as if it all depends upon Him, and work as if it all depends upon you.

- Dr. Bob Jones, Sr.