Favorite Quotes
Quotes to Live BY:
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak, not to act is to act.” —Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it (evil).” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw the truth of God attacked and yet would remain silent.” —John Calvin
“Within us there is a propensity to evil, evil is sleeping in us; if you do not know this about yourself, then you do not know yourself. However the righteous man will not awaken evil, it keeps it in chains, or kills it, and the man of integrity does not awaken evil in its companions.” —Stephen Black
“Preach the Gospel all day long and if necessary use words.” —St. Augustine
“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” —Edmund Burke
“It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie. It is better to stand alone with the truth, than to be wrong with a multitude. There is only one Gospel.” —Adrian Rogers (1931-2005)
“Our measure of humility is not by how humble we are before God, but is actually measured by our humility before man.” —Andrew Murray.
“Nobody ever outgrows scripture; the Book widens and deepens with our years” —Charles Spurgeon
“Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficulties” —Charles Spurgeon
“God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.” James 4:6
“Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.” Proverbs 16:18
“For every time you see your sin, you must look to the Savior ten times.” —Robert Murray M’Cheyme
“The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else.” —Oswald Chambers
“The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.” —Oswald Chambers
“Faith is the substance of things hope for the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1
“For without faith it is impossible to please God, for He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Hebrews 11:6
“I want to know God’s thoughts… the rest are details.” —Albert Einstein
” There are two ways to live, one is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.” —Albert Einstein
“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched they must be felt with the heart.” —Helen Keller
“This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” —Winston Churchill
“There’s only one proof of the Holy Ghost in your life and that’s a holy life.” —Leonard Ravenhill
“God-sent ministry, heeded and bowed to, leads to enlargement and blessing; but the Spirit’s testimony rejected increases the guilt of him who hardens himself against it, and makes his condition far worse than before. It is ever the case that light refused makes the darkness all the deeper. Hence the need of a tender conscience, quick to respond to every word from God.” —H. A. Ironside
Founding Forefather Quotes – Quotes to Stand BY:
“ It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible.” —George Washington, First President of the United States of America
“”The principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man, therefore, who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that BOOK may be accessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer.” —Noah Webster – Forefather and Founder of Education in the USA
[W]e have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion (Christianity). . . . Our constitution was made only for a moral and (Christian) religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. —John Adams (second President, signer of the Declaration of Independence)
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government — lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.” —Patrick Henry
“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” —Thomas Jefferson
“When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny.” —Thomas Jefferson
“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” —Benjamin Franklin
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take everything you have.” —Thomas Jefferson & Gerald Ford
[I]t is religion (Christianity) and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue. —John Adams
“The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend all to the happiness of mankind.” —Thomas Jefferson
“Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled either by a power within them or by a power without them; either by the Word of God or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible or by the bayonet.” —Robert Winthrop, Former Speaker of the US House of Representatives in 1847
“You can’t make a weak man strong, by making a strong man weak.” —Abraham Lincoln
“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right” –Abraham Lincoln
“The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” –Abraham Lincoln
“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” —Thomas Jefferson
“There are no easy answers’ but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” —Ronald Reagan
“My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.” —Thomas Jefferson
“The BIBLE is the rock on which our Republic rests” —Andrew Jackson
