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Last updated 7/25/10
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HABITS
A person doesn’t decide his future. He decides his habits and his habits decide his future
Champions are willing to do daily what others only do occasionally – Mike Murdock
You will never change your life until you change the things you do daily
What you do daily determines what you will become permanently – Mike Murdock
Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them – Frank Clark
First we form habits then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken – Samuel Johnson
Habits seldom are eliminated but they can be substituted. Put a New Testament where there used to be a cigarette pack.
Do something consistently for 21 days and it will likely become a permanent part of your life
I am not a machine, though I work with all the precision of a machine plus the intelligence of a man. You may run me for profit or run me for ruin – it makes no difference to me. Take me, train me, be firm with me, and I will place the world at your feet. Be easy with me and I will destroy you. Who am I? I am habit
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny – Frank Outlaw
Larry Bird shot 500 free-throws every morning
Mary Kay Ash’s habit, she wrote down six things she was to do every day and she did it, year after year
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing – Vince Lombardi
Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams - Og Mandino
What you do daily determines what you will be permanently - Mike Murdock
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones - Ben Franklin
Habits are first cobwebs, then cables - Spanish Proverb
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit - Aristotle
HAPPINESS
Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes – Hugh Downs
The only way I could feel better is if I were twins – Van Crouch
Benjamin Franklin was, as usual, on to something when he said, "Beer is living proof that G-d loves us and wants us to be happy." Or, less judgmentally, and for secular people who favor a wall of separation between church and tavern, beer is evidence that nature wants us to be – George Will
Some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go – George Burns
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being," a novel Brown admires, Milan Kundera writes: "Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition."
Whines are the products of sour grapes
Happiness is not the destiny, it is the journey
The world’s concept of happiness is having what we want. God’s concept is wanting what we have – Neil Anderson
Sorry sour sick sad sacks
Raise both fists in the air Rocky-style and then say, “I’m depressed”. It is impossible. You can’t be depressed when you act victorious – Jack Canfield
Oh what a happy child I am although I cannot see,
For I am determined in this world, happy shall I be,
For the blessings I enjoy that other people don’t,
To weep inside because I’m blind, I cannot and I won’t! – Fannie Crosby at age 8
Assume a cheerfulness you do not feel, and shortly you feel the cheerfulness you assumed - Chinese proverb
HEALTH/HEALING (exercise, dieting, etc)
What’s the hard part about healing, patience, fasting, memorizing scripture, what? The hard part was the whip, the nails and the crown. Everything else is easy…just receive.
Here’s to your health!
Job lived 140 years after his healing
If you’re nursing a grudge prepare to pay some huge doctor bills
You’ve got to eat right, exercise and have goals and challenges. Exercise is king; nutrition is queen. Put ‘em together and you’ve got a kingdom – Jack Lallane at 90 yrs old
One preacher lived by grace, grit and grain
Health clubs, rotary clubs, golf clubs, night clubs, bridge clubs, hunting clubs…a lot of people are being “clubbed” to death!
People will stand three hours in a healing line but won’t jog for fifteen minutes – Mike Murdock
John Lake prayed for quarantined Africans suffering from bubonic plague, laying hands on them, without being inoculated. When they examined by microscope froth that was on his hands they found the deadly germs were all dead.
Thomas Jefferson and John Q. Adams both died on the same day, 4th of July 1826, 50th anniversary of Independence Day. Faith enabled them to hold on to that monumental day. Jefferson’s last words were, “Is it the 4th?” and Adams asked, “Is Tom still alive?”
Take care of your body. If you owned a million dollar thoroughbred would you let him stay up till 3 am drinking coffee, smoking and never exercising? Well, you are the real billion dollar man. Think of how much you would sue for if you lost an arm or a leg through someone’s negligence. Your body is valuable, “the temple of the Holy Ghost”. Guard it with all diligence
According to 3 John 2 God wants us to be happy, healthy and holy – “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper, and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth”
Daily meditation will eliminate the need for daily medication
The first wealth is health – Emerson
Obeying the 5th Commandment is the greatest thing one can do for his health
We can’t afford not to exercise. The endorphins released during exercise are natural uppers. A few minutes of running in the morning will reap hours of productivity the rest of the day
God is responsible for your healing; you are responsible for your health – Mike Murdock
Where would we be without our kids? Umm – Maui, Acapulco, Key West…
Now a word about healing – you are not going to be healed today, I said, you are not going to be healed today. You were healed 2,000 years ago when He paid the price for your healing!
When people jog they are running from their funerals and running for their lives
Psalm 23 is a prescription you can take with meals, bedtime or when you get up or at the first sight of any nauseum - S. I. McMillen
If we keep patting ourselves on our broken backs, how will they ever mend? - Beth Moore
When you say, "I have a gut feeling about such and such", you're not speaking metaphorically, you're speaking literally, because your gut makes the same chemicals as your brain when it thinks - Deepak Chopra
If I find a green meadow splashed with daisies and sit down beside a clear-running brook, I have found medicine - Deepak Chopra
In-curable means curable from within
HEAVEN
As the ship goes over the horizon we on this side say, “She is gone”, not knowing that others on the other side are saying, “She is coming”
I can no more adequately provide a message on heaven than a one inch pipe can adequately conduct the flow of the Amazon River or a flickering candle can adequately light up the sunset or a single wheelbarrow can adequately haul away a Midwest wheat crop – R.G. Lee
Notice heaven’s multitudes, mansions, music, marvels, meetings and Master
Robbing a man of his hope of heaven is more dastardly than knocking the crutches out from under a cripple, taking the wheels off an invalid’s wheelchair, stealing money from a blind man’s cup, giving the hungry beggar a stone for a fish or draining the water from a gold fish’s bowl – R.G. Lee
You grow to heaven, you don't "go" to heaven
Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
And only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If I were going to dwell in any place in this country, if I were going to make it my home, I would inquire about its climate, about the neighbors I would have -- about everything, in fact, that I could learn concerning it. If soon you were going to emigrate, that is the way you would feel. Well, we are all going to emigrate in a very little while. We are going to spend eternity in another world. … Is it not natural that we should look and listen and try to find out who is already there and what is the route to take? - D.L. Moody
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither - C.S. Lewis
Brethren, I am on my way to heaven and I don't intend to get lost - Bishop Hughes
If you read history you will find that Christians who did the most for the present world were just those who thought the most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this - C.S. Lewis
I desire to have heaven and hell ever in my eye while I stand in this isthmus of life between these two boundless oceans; and I verily think the daily consideration of both highly becomes all men of reason and religion - John Wesley letter to John Smith
Booksellers used to offer their customers a prospectus, the covers and sample pages of the complete book…God offers us even now a prospectus of that which is to come…we can enjoy the prospectus before we get to the heavenly library to read the never-ending book - Vance Havner
The outfit of the animal seems an ideal provision for the purely terrestrial sphere in which it is placed, while the outfit of man, if the terrestrial sphere be all that is appointed for him, seems clearly a vast overprovision - James Martineau
Heaven begun is the living proof that makes the heaven to come credible - Frederick Robertson
HELL
To know white there must be black, day – night, heat – cold, Summer – Winter, love – hate, good – evil, winning – losing, success – failure, so if there is God then there is Satan, and if there is Heaven it could not be known unless there is also Hell
Disgraced in time, damned in eternity
Satan put a seal on Christ’s tomb and He broke it. In Revelation 20 Christ will out a seal on the devil’s tomb and he will never break it
The man who will not believe in hell must then surrender his belief in heaven as well – AW Tozer
West Warwick, Rhode Island nightclub – February ‘03, 98 died in Great White concert pyrotechnics fire. They went from the Great White Concert to the Great White Throne. One survivor who laid on his side under the pile of human torches heard shrieking screams – “Oh God, I don’t want to die like this!” I thought nightclubs were supposed to be fun
Some words about hell: Exit is not a word in the vocabulary of Hell. Hell is a place of torment, tears, temperature and timelessness. We need to note hell’s cells, hell’s smells, hell’s yells and hell’s bells. Hell’s infernal drums are beating in time to the ceaseless groans of the doomed and damned
The sinner’s wickedness makes him heavy as lead, pressing him downward to hell. Your healthy constitution, wisdom and care would not slow that fall any more than a spider’s web would stop a falling rock – Jonathan Edwards
There is the place of the glorified, the place of the horrified; eternal light, eternal night
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality – Dante
HERESY
The starting point of every heresy is the corrupting of the innocence of intelligence by conceit – Oswald Chambers
HOLINESS
God is scouring the inside of the cup and platter today with lye soap, but it has to be done
Holiness is imputed by the Father, imported by the Son and imparted by the Spirit
A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine – D.L. Moody
The angel’s theme was not happy, happy, happy, but holy, holy, holy is the Lord
There are those who sing lustily in the choir on Sunday then live lustfully in the world the rest of the week. They go from the choir to the mire
The battle is between Ishmael and Isaac – physically the battle is for the soil, spiritually the battle is for the soul
They are Sunday morning saints and Monday morning ain’ts
God will take away the jug, the drug, the plug and the jitterbug – Ray Hughes
“Is holiness preaching popular where you are from?” John Wesley Riley replies, “No, but it’s sure popular where I’m going!”
It used to be that there was a high death rate at birth. The simple diagnosis was that the doctors needed to wash their hands before delivery. How many spiritual babes have perished because we religious doctors have dirty hands? It’s time to be clean “ye that bear the vessels of the Lord”
We need clean hands before God – hands clean from greed and grime and the grasp for gain
Today’s cheap gospel delivers men from the penalty of sin but does nothing about the power or pollutions of sin. It deals with condemnation but does nothing about contamination
Our bodies are to be temples, not taverns
In First Corinthians Paul dealt with carnalities before he could speak on spiritualities
The church picture today – carnage without and carnality within
Every believer can choose his own zip code – Egypt which stands for the natural man, Wilderness which is the carnal man, or Canaan which is the spiritual man
We must oppose sin, not appease sin. God would rather you be on the wrong side of the fence than on the fence. The worst enemies of the apostles were not the opposers but the appeasers
God will forgive our sins but we must forsake our sins
We go to the Cross for life in regeneration and for death in sanctification
As Howard Hendricks said, “It’s not hard living the Christian life – it is impossible”. We must have the Holy Spirit’s help to live holy lives
In John chapter 8, concerning the woman caught in adultery, Jesus did not condemn her but neither did He condone her
Are you riding on the old S & N? – “Strait is the gate and narrow is the way…”
A train only has freedom if it remains on the tracks. Jump the track and all freedom becomes chaos and bondage
Our nation was once shocked with news that a gang of Florida teenagers had brutally killed three motorists. They did so with neither gun nor knife. Instead they removed the stop signs from a dangerous intersection and the resulting collision was fatal. Today the stop signs are slowly being removed…
The straight and narrow way has the least accidents and the lowest casualty rate
Then you’ve heard of the lady with the PHD? Pentecostal Hairdo
We need to move from a holy laugh to a holy life
The man of God is not here to catch the spirit of the age but rather to condemn and correct it. He is not to be a chip carried by the current, but a rock jutting out into the stream around which the waters may boil because it will not be moved – R.G. Lee
When Jesus comes back to earth the labels aren’t going to read ‘Made in Mexico’ or ‘Made in Japan’ – they are going to say HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD – Darrell Friend
When you find yourself in some hot water, just remember that hot water can make you clean – Darrell Friend
The Bride is not getting herself ready for a "date" but for a marriage - Francis Frangipane
Prayer is the lungs through which holiness breathes - E.M. Bounds
HOLLYWOOD/ Broadway
Hollywood, where they shoot too many movies and not enough directors
Most of today’s playwrights are play wrongs
Strip away all the phony tinsel from Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath
A drama critic is a person who leaves no turn unstoned – George Bernard Shaw
The play itself was a profound success, but the crowd was a profound failure – Oscar Wilde
Give me two years and I’ll make her an overnight star
We can be broadminded without being Broadway minded
America has an affection for super models but not role models
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars - Fred Allen
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart - Fred Allen
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood - Fred Thompson
Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel - Oscar Levant
We are not just broadminded today – we have become Broadway-minded
HOLY SPIRIT
There is someone inside you besides you – Keith Moore
Today’s church is out of step, out of breath, out of touch and about out of time. We need a quickening and we need it quick
Praying for the Holy Spirit to move is like praying for fire to be hot or water to be wet. Moving is what He does
The Holy Spirit, like a dove, was seen descending from heaven, but no one has ever seen Him fly back to heaven
The Holy Spirit is “with you”, “in you” and “upon you”
There are ministers who are ordained yet ordinary, called yet cold, licensed yet licentious, talented yet intimidated, endowed but not endued, on file but not on fire, appointed yet not anointed
Programs that are on a heart-lung artificial support system need to be allowed to die
Incubation (Gen 1:2), incarnation (Mat 1:18), inspiration (2 Tim 3:16)
If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. If the Holy Spirit had been withdrawn from the New Testament church, 95 percent of what they did would stop, and everybody would know the difference – A.W. Tozer
When He grieves He leaves
The early church healed a crippled beggar – the modern church is crippled and begs for alms to keep its programs afloat
We need a new commission not a new committee, a new vision not a new version, new touchings not more new teachings, a new man of flame not another man of fame
Christians now run to the psychiatrist to get ‘shock treatment’ – I remember when they went down to the brush arbor to get their shock treatment – Lester Roloff
Buzzards only go after dead things. Eagles only go after living things. Many Christians, like buzzards, wait for the death or removal of someone in a position of authority so they can pounce on an opportunity
Trying to live without the Holy Spirit is like a car without gasoline, sail boat without wind, a locomotive without coal or steam, a light bulb without electricity, a gun without a bullet, a plant without rain, a heartbeat without blood, lungs without air or a body without food
The Holy Spirit is the conductor of the Information Super-highway
The One who - at our invitation - seeps like water under every closed door of our souls, filling each empty place with Himself until the flood rises and the door is swept from its hinges - Beth Moore
HOME
Strange development: before the wedding he would go home, after the wedding he won’t stay home
Home, the only bliss of Paradise that hast surviv’d the Fall – William Cowper
You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right - Maya Angelou
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room - Beecher Stowe
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in - Robert Frost
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it - George Moore
HONESTY
Your teeth may be false but your tongue can be true
No man for any considerable period of time, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the truth – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Adam was stripped naked before his wife then before his God. Two most important needs, be honest before your mate and your Maker
I’d rather be right than be president – Henry Clay
Bear in mind tat withholding truth is always a potential lie, and that each instance in which the truth is withheld, a significant moral decision is required – M. Scott Peck
If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything – Mark Twain
Spin is sin
There's a story about a woman finding herself alone in an elevator with the famous and
very handsome Robert Redford. As the elevator moved up the floors, the woman, like many of us might, found herself uncontrollably staring at the movie star. Finally, in her excitement and nervousness, she blurted out: "Are you the real Robert Redford?" To which Redford responded, "Only when I'm alone."
This above all, to thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man – In Hamlet, Polonius giving advice to Laertes
He who is slow in promising is always the most faithful in performing – Rousseau
I don’t want any yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell me the truth, even though it costs him his job – Samuel Goldwyn
Promises are like money, easier made than kept
Honest men fear neither the light nor the dark – Thomas Fuller
Honesty is still the best policy. However, there are les policy holders than there used to be - John Mason
A shady person never makes a shining witness
An honest man alters his ideas to fit the truth and a dishonest man alters the truth to fit his idea - John Mason
When anybody in business accuses everybody in business of being dishonest, they convict at least one person - R.A. Torrey
HONOR
Honor is better than honors
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to receive honors and not deserve them – Mark Twain
HOPE
Life with Christ is endless hope, without Christ it is a hopeless end
Many with no rope, no cope, no hope, only dope
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer – Albert Camus
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks – Helen Keller
A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on
Man can live forty days without food, four days without water, four minutes without air, but he can’t live four seconds without hope
The best bridge between despair and hope is often just a good night’s sleep
As a man will grab for anything to steady himself on a slick sidewalk, so people are grabbing for anything and anyone that can give them a steady hope in this icy age
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope – Martin Luther King
Churchill said that England’s greatest weapon against Hitler was hope
G. Campbell Morgan tells of a Chicago man whose shop burned to the ground. The next morning he set up a table amid the charred debris with an optimistic sign – “Everything lost except wife, children and hope. Business will resume as usual tomorrow morning”
Bumper sticker – “Due to recent cutbacks the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off”
A young man questioned why he had robbed a bank said, “I’ll get a free meal every day in jail, or else I’ll escape and get off scot-free or perhaps the police will shoot me and any of those would be better than what I have now”
HUMANITY
To err is human; to blame it on someone else is even more human
To err is human; to really foul things up takes a computer
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud – Carl Sandburg
Tears are the lowest common denominator of humanity
We all are part of the Adam’s Family
Human nature – insurance company says, We have found 2000 people who have had their fenders smashed in parking lots, but not one that smashed someone else’s
We are not human beings seeking a spiritual experience but rather spiritual beings living a human experience
People want the front of the bus, the back of the church, and the center of attention
Man is more interesting than men. It's him, not them, whom God made in his image. Each is more precious than all - Andre Gide
"We try to be Super Man, but we don't go to bed wearing our cape" - Ronnie Webb. (After hours we are back to being Clark Kent)
HUMILITY
The hardest instrument in the orchestra to play is second fiddle – Leonard Bernstein
A young seminary graduate came up to the lectern, very self-confident and immaculately dressed. He began to deliver his first sermon in his first church and the words simply would not come out. Finally he burst into tears and ended up leaving the platform obviously humbled.
There were two older ladies sitting in the front row and one remarked to the other, "If he'd come in like he went out, he would have gone out like he came in."
Humility comes from the word “humus”, of the earth, lowly
Paderewski felt unworthy to play Beethoven’s piano
Don’t be humble; you’re not that great – Golda Meir
We grow small trying to be great – E. Stanley Jones
He’s a legend in his own mind
Alex Haley, the author of Roots, has a picture in his office, showing a turtle sitting atop a fence. The picture is there to remind him of a lesson he learned long ago: "If you see a turtle on a fence post, you know he had some help." Says Alex, "Any time I start thinking, "Wow, isn't this marvelous what I've done!" I look at the picture and remember how this turtle - me - got up on that post
I may have my faults, but being wrong ain’t one of them – Jimmy Joffa
God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him – Martin Luther
Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change. And when we are right, make us easy to live with – Peter Marshall
The fellow that does things that count usually doesn’t take time to count them
God made the world out of nothing and as long as we are nothing he can make something out of us – Martin Luther
The moment you think you have humility you’ve lost it
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker – Helen Keller
The humble never stumble
I’m not on an ego trip but a success trip – Robert Schuller
A young second lieutenant at Fort Bragg discovered that he had no change when he was about to buy a soft drink from a vending machine. He flagged down a passing private and asked him, "Do you have change for a dollar?" The private said cheerfully, "I think so, let me take a look." The lieutenant drew himself up stiffly and said, "Soldier, that is no way to address an officer. We'll start all over again. Do you have change for a dollar?" The private came to attention, saluted smartly, and said, "No, sir!" James W. Hewitt, Illustrations Unlimited, Wheaton: Tyndale, 1988, p. 42.
If you put a small value on yourself the world will not offer to up the price
Saul went from self-depreciation to self-glorification, at one moment hiding behind the baggage feeling unworthy of promotion, then seeking to build a monument to himself
It’s better to walk with an occasional limp than a continuous strut
Humility isn’t thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less
The vine in a grapevine are so intertwined that you really can’t distinguish which branch it is that bears the fruit – the fruit doesn’t brag!
The person who is wrapped up in himself makes a very small package, and the package contains an unhappy person
Humility is not denying the power you have but in sharing that the power comes through you not from you
THE INDISPENSABLE MAN
“Sometime when you’re feeling important, sometime when your ego’s in bloom,
Sometime when you take it for granted that you’re the best qualified in the room,
Sometime when you think that your going would leave an unfillable hole,
Just follow this simple instruction and see how it humbles your soul,
Take a bucket and fill it with water, and put your hand in it up to the wrist,
Pull it out and the hole that’s remaining is the measure of how you’ll be missed,
You may splash all you please when you enter, and may stir up the water galore,
But stop and you’ll find in a minute that it looks quite the same as before,
The moral in this quaint example is to do just the best that you can,
Be proud of yourself but remember, there’s no indispensable man”
Toscanini was one of the greatest orchestral conductors in the world. Once when he was talking to an orchestra when he was preparing to play one of Beethoven’s symphonies with them he said: “?Gentlemen, I am nothing; you are nothing; Beethoven is everything”
We've all used the story of the woodpecker whose tree was struck by lightning and thought he had brought the tree down himself
God dwells in the highest heaven but also in the lowliest heart
I find in my own ministry that supposing I pray for my own little flock, ‘God bless me, God fill my pews, God send my flock a revival,” I miss the blessing; but as I pray for my big brother, Mr. Spurgeon, on the right-hand side of my church, ‘God bless him’; or my other big brother, Campbell Morgan, on the other side of my church, ‘God bless him’; I am sure to get a blessing without praying for it, for the overflow of their cups fills my little bucket – F.B Meyer at Christ’s Church, London
We gain humility through humiliations
If I were to pick out two phrases necessary for spiritual growth, I would pick out these: 'I don't know' and 'I am sorry.' And both phrases are the evidences of deep humility – anonymous missionary
True humility is not putting ourselves down but rather lifting up others. If we concentrate on lifting up others, putting down ourselves will take care of itself
To get the wrinkles out of a feed sack you flatten it. To get them out of a rug you roll it out and walk on it
The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly - G.K. Chesterton
If I were two-faced don’t you think I would be wearing the other one?
The longer uneaten crow remains on your plate, the worse it tastes
My honest confession of impotence opened the door to omnipotence - Jack Hayford
HUNGER
More important than our earning power is our yearning power
In the old days of revival if we didn’t have a break we didn’t get a break. Services would last 2-3-4 weeks until the breakthrough came – Ray Hughes
Now we just have weekend meetings which are weakened meetings
Believers today are not hard to please because they are spiritual. They are hard to please because they are spoiled. They have become charismatic connoisseurs after a gourmet gospel. They are pampered, picky and plump and have little yearning for the deep things of God
When we get as anxious for services to go into overtime as we are for the Super-Bowl to, we will be ready for revival
As when the Creator gives His creature the power of thirst, it is because water exists to meet its thirst; and as when He creates hunger there is food to correspond to the appetite; so when He inclines men to pray it is because prayer has a corresponding blessing connected with it - Dick Eastman
Not all who wander from church to church are uncommitted or superficial Christians. A significant number are honestly searching for Christ. They are asking, "Have you seen Him?" - Francis Frangipane
HYPOCRISY
A hypocrite has been accurately described as one who is not himself on Sunday
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
No hypocrite intends to be what he pretends to be
Too many hypocrites in the church? Come on in – one more won’t hurt
Karl Marx’s Jewish father joined the Lutheran Church to get better business deals. The young man disillusioned with his father’s hypocrisy penned that “religion is the opiate of the masses”
Baptist pastor said to his teenage daughter after staying out all night. “Good morning thou child of the devil”. She responded, “Good morning to you father”
Everyone knows what a hypocrite is…hat's the guy who gripes about the sex, violence and nudity on his VCR – Zig Ziglar
The Bible suffers more from its proponents than its opponents – Spurgeon
Are you willing to preach what you practice?
Trouble with Baptists, if one goes fishing with you he'll drink all your beer, if two go with you they won't drink any of it - Branson Comic
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