“God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking His words and causing the power of them to persist across the years.”
…A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
True progress is not found in breaking away from the old ways, but in abiding in the teaching of Christ and His Spirit in the Church. There is an apparent contradiction here, for how can we abide, and yet advance? It is a paradox, like much else in scripture; but Christian experience proves it true. Those make the best progress in religion who hold fast by the faith once for all delivered to the saints, and not those who drift away from their moorings, rudderless upon a sea of doubt.
…Henry Barclay Swete (1835-1917)
Do little things as though they were great, because of the majesty of Jesus Christ who does them in us, and who lives our life: and do the greatest things as though they were little and easy, because of His omnipotence.
…Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), Pensées [1660]
God Himself does not propose to judge a man until he is dead. So why should you?
If God is your Copilot – swap seats!
True prayer is something more than desire. It is no mere subjective instinct, … no blind outreach. If it met no response, no answer, it would soon be weeded out of the race. Prayer has stood the test of experience. In fact, the very desire to pray is in itself prophetic of a heavenly Friend. So this native need of the soul rose out of the divine origin of the soul, and it has steadily verified itself as a safe guide to reality. In the first instance it is not asking for anything, it is not petition; all it seeks is God Himself: Let me find Thee, let me know Thee, then I will ask of Thee.
…George B. Stevens
“I don’t believe in God . . . that’s OK,; God believes in you!”
Count of Monte Cristo
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
…William James
A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough… It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again,” to the sun; and every evening, “Do it again,” to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike: it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.
…G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), Orthodoxy [1909]
Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
…Jim Elliot (1927-1956), missionary, martyr, The Journals of Jim Elliot [1978]