It's a book of quotes.

When you read God's word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me." - Soren Kierkegaard

Most people are bothered by those passages in scripture which they cannot understand; but as for me I always noticed that the passages in scripture which trouble me most are those which I do understand - Mark Twain

It is unnatural for Christianity to be popular. - Billy Graham

Becoming a Christian must be seen as and believed to be a passing from darkness to light, from death to life - not the joining of a rather pleasant religious club. - George G. Hunter III

Christianity is not a system of morals, it is the worship of a person. - W.H. Lecky

Authentic spirituality is lived in community. - Gordon T. Smith

If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you? - David Otis Fuller

If Christians wish us to believe in their redeemer, why don't they look a little more redeemed? - Friedrich Nietzsche

The church is the only organization on earth which does not exist for the sake of its members. - William Temple

It's a good start if you feel wretched in God's presence. - Martin Lloyd-Jones

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. - Miguel de Unamuno

The simplest meaning of Easter is that we are living in a world in which God has the last word. - unknown

The minister lives behind a "stained glass curtain." The layman has opportunities for evangelism which a minister will never have. - James I. McCord

You are a Christian today because someone cared. Now it's your turn. - Warren W. Wiersbe

Faith is believing what one cannot see, and the reward of faith is to see what one believes. - St. Augustine

Man is capable of nothing; it is God who gives everything, who gives man faith. - Soren Kierkegaard

You can never test the resources of God until you attempt the impossible. - F.B. Meyer

Where is the foolish person who would think it is in his power to commit more than God could forgive? - St. Francis de Sales

A comprehended God is no God. - John Chrysostom

God does not play dice with the world. - Albert Einstein

The remarkable thing about the way in which people talk about God, or about their relation to God, is that it seems to escape them completely that God hears what they are saying. - Soren Kierkegaard

What matters supremely, therefore, is not…the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that he knows me. - J.I. Packer

Our love of God is tested by the question of whether we seek him or his gifts. - Ralph W. Sockman

What is the chief end of man?
To glorify God and to enjoy him forever - the Westminster Catechism

The word "grace" is unquestionably the most significant single word in the Bible. - Ilion T. Jones

Faith accepts quiet guidance. Only unbelief demands a miracle. - unknown

Heaven is the presence of God. - Christina Rossetti

It is not always realized that Jesus spoke more often of hell than of heaven. For him the consequences of unforgiven sin were terrible to contemplate. - Leon Morris

As alien and archaic as the idea may seem the task of the church is not to make men and women happy, it is to make them holy. - Charles W. Colson

The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry to assist each other in this task. The most selfish and hateful life of all is that of two beings who unite in order to enjoy life. The highest calling is that of the man who has dedicated his life to serving God and doing good, and who unites with a woman in order to further that purpose. - Leo Tolstoy

Humility is the proper estimate of oneself. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We are in the most anti-intellectual period in the history of the church. People don't want to hear that stuff. They want to be entertained. They want the quick and easy answer. - R.C. Sproul

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it. - Thomas Carlyle

I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I have founded empires. But upon what did we rest the creation of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love, and at this hour millions of men would die for him. - Napoleon

"Gentle Jesus, meek and mild" is a sniveling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels. - George Bernard Shaw

Jesus loves me - this I know
For the Bible tells me so. - Susan Warner

Joy is the surest sign of the presence of God. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The opposite of joy is not sorrow. It is unbelief. - Leslie D. Weatherhead

Let us be servants in order to be leaders. - Feodor Dostoevsky

You love God as much as the one you love least. - John J. Hugo

If we do not show love to one another, the world has a right to question whether Christianity is true. - Francis Schaeffer

It is absurd for Christians to constantly seek new demonstrations of God's power, to expect a miraculous answer to every need, from curing ingrown toenails to finding parking spaces; this only leads to faith in miracles instead of faith in God. - Charles W. Colson

We cannot love good if we do not hate evil. - St. Jerome

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. - Philo Judaeus

It's a sad commentary when a Christian gets involved in a controversy with a non-Christian and the onlookers can't tell which is which. - G. Roger Schoenhals

You are either a missionary or a mission field: one of the two. - Olaf Skinsnes

The best measure of spiritual life is not ecstasies but obedience. - Oswald Chambers

God has given his order: that is the end of it. There is no need for argument. - James S. Stewart

When we pray it is far more important to pray with a sense of the greatness of God than with a sense of the greatness of the problem. - Evangeline Blood

And Satan trembles when he sees
The weakest saint upon his knees. - William Cowper

From the cowardice that dare not face new truths,
From the laziness that is contented with half truth,
From the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth,
Good Lord, deliver me. - Kenyan prayer

The Christian church does not need more popular preaching, but more unpopular preaching. - Walter Russell Bowie

Repentance was perhaps best defined by a small girl: "It's to be sorry enough to quit." - C.H. Kilmer

The church once changed society. It was then a thermostat of society. But today…the church is merely a thermometer which measures rather than molds popular opinion. - Martin Luther King Jr.

The culture most lost to the gospel is our own…It's a culture that can't say two sentences without referencing a TV show or a pop song, and that can't remember what it was like to have to get up and change channels. It's a culture more likely to have a body part pierced than it is to know why Sarah laughed…It's a culture that we stopped evangelizing, and have instead declared a culture war upon. - Dwight Ozard

Salvation is so simple that we overlook it; so profound that we never comprehend it; so free we can't believe it. - Paul White

You can tell whether you are becoming a servant by how you act when people treat you like one. - Gordon MacDonald

Our sense of sin is in proportion to our nearness to God. - Thomas D. Bernard

We are not stray sheep or wandering prodigals even, but rebels taken with weapons in our hands. - P.T. Forsyth

Sin is disappointing. Whoever got out of sin half as much pleasure as he expected? - Ignatius Smith

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. - Thomas Jefferson

The 11 o'clock hour on Sunday is the most segregated hour in American life. - James A. Pike

Tithe if you love Jesus. Any idiot can honk. - bumper sticker

Never judge God by suffering, but judge suffering by the cross. - Father Andrew

Worship is the overflow of the heart that asks nothing of God. - Carl Amerding

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word "darkness" on the wall. - C.S. Lewis

Worship is one thing and entertainment is another, and it is dangerous business to play lightly with holy things, to tickle the senses in place of calling men to bow their hearts in faith and repentance. - John C. Neville

Can we expect the flames of our worship of God to burn brightly in public on the Lord's Day when they barely flicker for him in secret on other days? Isn't it because we do not worship well in private that our corporate worship experience often dissatisfies us? - Donald Whitney

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