Category Archives: Quotes

Quotes on Death

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1.  A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. (Stalin)

2.  Ah! Is this dying?  How have I dreaded as an enemy this smiling friend? (Thomas Goodwin)

3.  When Christ calls me home I shall go with the gladness of a boy bounding away from school.  (Adoniram Judson)

4.  If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he should arise sound the next morning; or a man today, in despicable poverty, had assurance that he should tomorrow arise a prince; would they be afraid to go to bed…?…

Quotes on happiness

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1.  I submit that the whole hectic scrample after happiness is an evil as certainly as is the scramble after money or fame or success.  (A.W. Tozer)

2.  I never met a happy individual who was not committed to a job or cause outside himself.  Because such people have a mission in life, they are not self-centred and introspective.  For them happiness is the by-product of work and duty.  (Abraham Maslow)

3.  Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.…

Quotes on the Holy Spirit

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1.  The first work of the Spirit is to make a man look upon sin as an enemy and to deal with sin as an enemy, to hate it as an enemy, to loathe it is an enemy and to arm against it as an enemy.  (Thomas Brooks)

2.  The Spirit never loosens where the Word binds; the Spirit never justifies where the Word condemns; the Spirit never approves where the Word disapproves; the Spirit never blesses where the Word curses. …

Quotes on preaching

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1.  A man preacheth that sermon only well to others, which preacheth itself in his own soul…If the word do not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.  (John Owen)

2.  The preacher’s job is to preach the faith, not to provide entertainment for unbelievers – in other words, to feed the sheep rather than amuse the goats.  (J.I. Packer, Among God’s Giants, 375)

3.  Put the hay down where the sheep can reach it. …

Quotes on Theology

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1.  Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.  (Karl Barth’s summary of his theology)

2.  A theologian is a man who spends his time answering questions that nobody is asking.  (William Temple)

3.  Everything a theologian does in the church contributes to the spread of the knowledge of God and the salvation of men.  (Luther)…

Quotes on Sin

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For evil to triumph, it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.  (Edmund Burke)

Before I can preach love and grace, I must preach sin, law and judgement.  (John Wesley)

Sin is the dare of God’s justice, the rape of his mercy, the jeer of his patience, the slight of his power, and the contempt of his love.  (John Bunyan)

He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God. (John Owen)

No sin is small. …

Quotes on God’s love

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. (Augustine)

“My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.” (Thomas Goodwin)

“I think it is possible on earth to build a young, new Jerusalem, a little, new heaven of this surpassing love. God, either send me more of this love, or take me quickly over the water, where I may be filled with his love.”…

Quotes on Life

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God has given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.  (Jeremy Taylor)

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.  (Henry Ward Beecher)

I asked God for all things so I could enjoy life. He gave me life so I could enjoy all things.…

Quotes on leadership

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The person who can’t lead and won’t follow makes a dandy roadblock.  (Illustrations for Biblical Preaching, 214)

He who would be a good leader must be prepared to deny himself much.  (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

I believe it might be accepted as a fairly reliable rule of thumb that the man who is ambitious to lead is disqualified as a leader.   (A. W. Tozer)

I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow. …

Quotes on Character

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‘Sow an act and you reap a habit.  Sow a habit and you reap a character.  Sow a character and you reap a destiny.’ – Charles Reade

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. – Henry Ward Beecher

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s. – Johann Paul Friedrich Richter…