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SACRIFICE
A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing – Martin Luther
I never made a sacrifice. We ought not to talk of sacrifice when we remember the great sacrifice which he made who left his Father’s throne on High to give himself for us – David Livingstone
For fire to fall and consume the sacrifice, it must be innocent and without blemish but, most of all, it must be on the altar to stay - Mario Murillo
Many will write a check now and then but would never think of placing themselves in the offering plate
SALVATION
If the repentant thief had been pardoned and taken down from the cross do you think he would have went back to his robberies?
Jesus died between two thieves. They are Legalism and License
Back in 1830 George Wilson was convicted of robbing the U.S. Mail and was sentenced to be hanged. President Andrew Jackson issued a pardon for Wilson, but he refused to accept it. The matter went to Chief Justice Marshall, who concluded that Wilson would have to be executed. "A pardon is a slip of paper," wrote Marshall, "the value of which is determined by the acceptance of the person to be pardoned. If it is refused, it is no pardon. George Wilson must be hanged." For some, the pardon comes too late. For others, the pardon is not accepted
In 1981, a Minnesota radio station reported a story about a stolen car in California. Police were staging an intense search for the vehicle and the driver, even to the point of placing announcements on local radio stations to contact the thief. On the front seat of the stolen car sat a box of crackers that, unknown to the thief, were laced with poison. The car owner had intended to use the crackers as rat bait. Now the police and the owner of the VW Bug were more interested in apprehending the thief to save his life than to recover the car. So often when we run from God, we feel it is to escape his punishment. But what we are actually doing is eluding His rescue
Exo 12:3-5/ A Lamb (vs 3) – A Savior (Luke 2:11), The Lamb (vs 4) – The Savior (John 4:42), Your Lamb (vs 5) – My Savior (Luke 1:47)
A woman was asked by a coworker, "What is it like to be a Christian?” The coworker replied, "It is like being a pumpkin." God picks you from the patch, brings you in, and washes all the dirt off of you. Then He cuts off the top and scoops out all the yucky stuff. He removes the seeds of doubt, hate, and greed. Then He carves you a new smiling face and puts His light inside of you to shine for all the world to see."
If we can’t be saved by our good works how can we be lost by our bad works? – Wiersbe
A headline in The Grand Rapids Press caught my attention: "Conversion to Hindu Faith Is Torturous." The article stated, "A West German businessman has completed his conversion to the Hindu faith by piercing himself through the cheeks with a one-quarter-inch thick, four-foot-long steel rod, and pulling a chariot for two miles by ropes attached to his back and chest by steel hooks…Others walk through twenty-foot-long pits of fire, don shoes with soles made of nails, or hang in the air spread-eagle from hooks embedded in their backs”
The story is told of a man who came eagerly but very late to a revival meeting and found the workmen tearing down the tent in which the meetings had been held. Frantic at missing the evangelist, he decided to ask one of the workers what he could do to be saved. The workman, who was a Christian, replied, “?You can’t do anything. It’s too late.?” Horrified, the man said, “?What do you mean? How can it be too late??” “?The work has already been accomplished,?” he was told. “?There is nothing you need to do but believe it.?”
The door to a house avails nothing for entrance unless one enters…To be near is not to be inside. To be almost in but not in is to be altogether outside, even as to be almost saved is to be altogether damned. To be one step outside is to be just as much as to be a mile away from the door. Inside the house the fire burns, but you will not feel its cheering warmth until you are inside – RG Lee
The African guide said, “There is no way, I am the way”. We face jungles in life too with no charted course. Christ alone is the way. We don’t need a path, we need a Person
One critic said he had gone to many churches and heard the preacher say, "Don’t try to impress God with your works" or "Don’t attempt to please God with your merits" or "Don’t try to keep the rules and regulations and thus win your way." He looked around at nearly slumbering collections of utterly casual Christians and wondered, "Who’s trying?" – Martin Marty
Your spirit was saved, that’s justification. Your soul is being saved, that’s sanctification. Your body will be saved, that’s glorification
The sooner you come to Christ, the surer you are to come to Christ - R.A. Torrey
You need a new life? God accepts trade-ins - Ron Webb
SANCTIFICATION
It took one day to get Israel out of Egypt but it took forty years to get Egypt out of Israel
Sheep are clean animals, preferring green pastures to garbage dumps
We go to the cross for life in regeneration but death in sanctification
SECOND COMING
The Jehovah's Witnesses have changed their minds. After warning for decades that the world would end within this present generation, the leaders of the sect announced in December 1995 that they have softened their position. As a spokesman explained, "Jesus said that 'this generation will not pass away' until a number of signs have taken place (Mark 13:30). When we reflected on the scriptures, we decided that he was talking about his generation rather than ours." Ex-Witness James Fenton, professor emeritus at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, is pleased by the change in doctrine. The Witnesses probably won't be knocking on our doors, he notes. The reason for their urgency no longer exists. Since the Jehovah's Witnesses have officially declared that the world probably will not end tomorrow, they will have a harder time motivating their members to ring more doorbells and gather more followers – No Box Seats In The Kingdom, William G. Carter
There is a woman who is buried under a 150-year-old live oak trees in the cemetery of an Episcopal church in rural Louisiana. In accordance with this woman's instructions, only one word is carved on the tombstone: "Waiting" – Philip Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew
When Joseph’s brothers entered Egypt the second time Joseph revealed himself to them. Jesus will reveal Himself the second time to Israel
Apart from the second coming of Christ, the world is more likely to sink into pandemonium than rise to a millennium - Charles Spurgeon
SECURITY
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability – Henry Ford
We are saints positionally, saints practically and saints permanently
Christ’s salvation is eternal – He gates our past, garrisons our present and guarantees our future
God turned His back on His Son so He wouldn’t have to turn His back on us
Peter felt more secure standing with Jesus on the stormy water than he felt sitting with his friends in the boat
SEED FAITH
You can’t move to the next level of harvest till you move to the next level of seed
God gives you feed and He gives you seed. Feed is to eat – seed is to sow.
Nothing leaves heaven until something leaves earth
A seed of nothing produces a season of nothing – Mike Murdock
Seed is in your hand – harvest is in His hand
To see good things sow good things
When the seed leaves your hand it doesn’t leave your life – Mike Murdock
You can’t be fruitful if you’re not seedful – TD Jakes
If you don’t like your harvest change your seed – Mike Murdock
I shouldn’t judge today by the harvest I reap but by the seeds I plant
Erratic sowing brings an erratic harvest. Consecutive sowing brings a consecutive harvest – Mike Murdock
If farmers treated their seed as millions of church members today treat God's "imperishable seed", the world would starve to death - F.F. Bosworth
You are a walking warehouse of seed; you can trade it for whatever future you want - Mike Murdock
SEEKING
We serve God because we know Him, we seek Him because we do not know Him
The same seeking it took to find Him is the seeking it will take to keep Him
SELF
Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but going faster is a maniac? – George Carlin
Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken
Show-offs will be shown up and shown out
In 1960, Yuri Vlasov of the Soviet Union won gold in the Olympic weightlifting super heavyweight category. He was a favorite to win gold again for the 1964 Olympics, too. His only real competition would come from one of his own teammates, Leonid Zhabotinsky. In the first few rounds of the '64 Olympics, Vlasov stayed comfortably ahead of Zhabotinsky. He was confident of an easy win. Moments before the last round, Zhabotinsky even approached Vlasov and congratulated him on winning the competition. But moments later, Zhabotinsky turned in a stunning performance that beat out Vlasov's score. Zhabotinsky won the gold! How did it happen? Yuri Vlasov, lulled by Zhabotinsky' flattery, had eased up on himself and lost his focus. His overconfidence led to laziness. He had fallen right into Zhabotinsky's trap. Yuri Vlasov, disgusted by his own pride, threw his second-place medal out a window – David Wallechinsky, The Complete Book of the Olympics (Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1992)
Everyone listens to the radio station WII-FM – What’s In It For Me?
Has God forgotten all that I have done for him? – Louis XIV (1709)
Conceit is such an odd disease, it makes everyone sick accept the one who has it
The counterfeit trinity is me, myself, and I – Edwin Louis Cole
The last time I saw him he was walking down lover’s lane holding his own hand – Fred Allen
Swelling head – shrinking brain
Anything done in our own strength will fail miserably or succeed even more miserably – G.K. Chesterton
When leaders have influence people start to follow them; when they have respect people continue to follow them – John Maxwell
A chip on your shoulder can weigh a ton
An egotist is me-deep in conversation. An egotist is a self-made man who worships his creator. One good thing about an egotist, he usually never gossips about other people
Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates – Thomas Szasz
Many are shipwrecked on their personal I-lands. There is an I-land and a You-land
This dying to self is killing me!
When Christ calls a man, He bids Him come and die – Dietrich Boenhoffer in the Cost of Discipleship
I had a little party this afternoon at three,
‘Twas very small, just three in all, just I, myself and me,
Myself ate all the sandwiches, while I drank all the tea,
‘Twas also I that ate the pie and passed the cake to me
Top magazine of the ‘60s was Life, ‘70s was People and ‘80s was Self
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people - Andres Dubus
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted - Emerson
Never make your appeal to a man's better nature; he may not have one. Always make your appeal to his self-interest - Lazarus Long
SELF-CONTROL
To stay out of hot water keep a cool head
You can’t control the contour of your face but you can control its expression. It’s better to raise your eyebrows than to raise the roof
No one should govern others that can’t govern himself
The emptier the pot, the quicker the boil
A woman in a supermarket needs to practice shelf control
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
If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you - T.S. Eliot
SELF-ESTEEM
Diana Ross's teacher at Cass Technical School was probably supremely surprised when the dreamy-eyed student she caught mooning over a newspaper made it big. What was Diana reading in study hall? Mary Constance demanded. Diana handed her an article from the Detroit News on a group called the "Primes." "You know I'm going to be a singer, don't you?" Diana told her. "I know these guys. And I sing on weekends myself." "I looked at her," Constance recalled, "and said to myself, 'Oh, you poor child. You'll never make it.' "Fortunately she kept her comments to herself. Others haven't
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with – DR. Wayne Dyer
Norman Vincent Peale stopped in tattoo shop in Hong Kong. Man was wearing “Born to lose”. Engraver said, “Before tattoo on the body, tattoo on the mind”
When a child gets five A’s and one B, do we applaud the A’s or focus on the one B?
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are – Malcolm Forbes
Treasure can be surrounded by trash and still not lose its value. Is a diamond less valuable if it’s found in a clogged drain? – TD Jakes
Psychiatrist said to the patient, “The whole world isn’t against you. There are millions who don’t care one way or the other”
In the country of Thailand is a statue of the Buddha that is ten feet tall and made of solid gold. Estimates of its worth range around $200 million. But for many centuries, no one knew this statue's worth. When the Burmese invaded Thailand many centuries ago, it is believed that the Thai villagers covered the Buddha statue with layers of mud so that the Burmese wouldn't steal it. It wasn't until 1957, when workers tried to move the statue to a new location, that the mud began to fall away and reveal the true nature of the statue. For centuries, no one had known its true value
The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others
If it is to be, it is up to me – William Johnson
If you think you are beaten, you are; If you think that you dare not, you don't;
If you'd like to win and you think you can't It's almost certain that you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you've lost; For out in the world you'll find,
Success begins with a fellows will- It's all in the state of mind.
If you think that you are out-classed, you are; You've got to think high to rise;
You've got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man,
But sooner or later the man who wins Is the man who thinks he can – Edgar Guest
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let every one know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it – James A. Garfield
Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners – Laurence Sterne
A sinner that feels good about himself will out-produce a saint that doesn’t – Mike Murdock
Gallup did poll for Robert Schuller that showed only one in three Americans feel really good about themselves
Self-esteem is like having poker chips. The more chips one has the more he is willing to play and risk – Jack Canfield
People LIKE me – Lovable, Inviting, Kind, Enthusiastic
Peak performance, peek performance, pique performance
People’s #1 fear is public speaking. The #3 fear is fear of death. That would mean people would rather die than have to speak.
Mephibosheth saw himself as a dead dog so he sat on the floor like one. He was crippled more in his mind than in his legs. Invited to sit at the table he opts for the floor – TD Jakes
You are not what you think you are, but what you think – you are! – Norman Vincent Peale
Never build a case against yourself – Robert Rowbottom
In a novel, the author writes the conclusion; in a self-help book, the reader writes the conclusion
We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to - W.C. Fields
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway - Mary Kay Ash
It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head - Sally Kempton
The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves - Ellen Goodman
Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves - Mignon McLaughlin
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor - Nicholas de Chamfort
God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily
We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do - Olin Miller
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose - Lou Holtz
Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows." "I do," retorted Holmes, "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies"
The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others - Sonya Friedman
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering - St. Augustine
The person who walks in another's tracks never leaves his own footprints - John Mason
What you picture in your mind, your mind will go to work to accomplish. When you change your picture, you automatically change your performance - Zig Ziglar
You train people how to treat you by how you treat yourself - Martin Rutte
Everyone has two persons living within them, a king and a fool. The one that is talked to is the one that grows - Mike Murdock
SELF-IMPROVEMENT
You are an un-do-it-yourself project
The door to self-improvement only opens from within – Burke Hedges
You are founder, president and 100% stockholder in your own company,You, Incorporated – Burke Hedges
Business owners need to go to work ON their business not IN their business – Burke Hedges
There are two kinds of people on the road of life, passengers and drivers.
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself – Novelist Mary McCarthy
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself - Michel de Montaigne
Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers - Veronica Shoffstall
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes - Sally Field
I am not a has-been. I am a will be - Lauren Bacall
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others - Mark Twain
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her - David Brinkley
It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly - Buckminster Fuller
SERVICE/ SERVANTHOOD
God is as concerned about the servant as He is the service…He not only wants to do something through us, He wants to do something in us – Warren Wiersbe
Peter picked up a sword but was reluctant to embrace a towel – Tommy Tenney
Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you – Mother Teresa
Doing nothing, not only do you not gain, but you risk losing even the little that you have
Learn to empower instead of overpower – Tommy Tenney
People pray, “God use me, please use me”, then when they get involved at church they complain that they are “being used”
When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it’s time to turn out the lights – George Burns
Mechanic said to heart surgeon, “We both cut things open and replace faulty valves, why are you paid so much more than me?” Surgeon answered, “Try doing it while it’s running”
The true measure of a man is not the number of servants he has, but the number of people he serves – Arnold Glasgow
The body is not made for sin, it’s made for service
Military personnel are “in the service”. Is it possible to be military if you wear army clothes, have a gun and go to the war then just sit and watch?
One hundred years from now it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in my bank account, or what my clothes looked like. But one hundred years from now the world may be a little better because I was important in the life of a child
If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we rear temples, they will crumble to dust. But if we work on men’s immortal minds, if we impress on them high principles, the just fear of God, and love for their fellowmen, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity – Daniel Webster
Teamwork makes the dream work
Some have great talents but lousy attitudes so God can’t promote them. They are loiterers (sitting in the lobby during preaching), and litterers (making messes of relationships), instead of leaders. If you can’t put a towel on your waist, He can’t put a crown on your head!
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live in such a way that when you die, the world will cry and you will rejoice! – Middle-eastern proverb
Wouldn’t you love to have held Columbus’ telescope, shined Washington’s boots, washed Michelangelo’s paint brush, held Wesley’s coat, turned pages for Handel? We have privilege of serving a cup of cold water for Jesus
We can lose the wonder of it during the work of it
SEXES
Man asked the saleswoman – “Could you tell me where to find the book ‘Man, the Superior Sex’?” “Sure, it’s upstairs in the science fiction department”, she replied.
Look!" she said. "I want something that goes from 0 to 200 in just a few seconds. Nothing else will do. My birthday is coming up so surprise me!" Joe did just that. For her birthday, he bought her a brand new bathroom scale
The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man – William Blake
People are loose with their souls before they are loose with their bodies – Keith Moore
Someone mixed up – “If you want safe sex try monotony” (meant monogamy)
A minister decided to do something a little different one Sunday morning. He said "Today, in church, I am going to say a single word and you are going to help me preach. Whatever
single word I say, I want you to sing whatever hymn that comes to your mind. The pastor shouted out "CROSS." Immediately the congregation started singing in unison, "THE OLD RUGGED CROSS." The pastor hollered out "GRACE". The congregation began to sing "AMAZING GRACE, how sweet the sound." The pastor said "POWER". The congregation sang "THERE IS POWER IN THE BLOOD." The Pastor said "SEX". The congregation fell into total silence. Everyone was in shock. They all nervously began to look around at each other afraid to say anything. Then all of a sudden, way from in the back of the church, a little old 87 year old grandmother stood up and began to sing "PRECIOUS MEMORIES."
SON: Daddy, how was I born? DAD: Ah, well, my son, one day you will need to find out anyway! Mom and Dad got together in a chat room on MSN. Dad set up a date via e-mail with your mom and we met at a cyber cafe. We sneaked into a secluded room, and then your mother downloaded from dad's memory stick. As soon as dad was ready for an upload, we discovered that neither one of us had used a firewall. Since it was too late to hit the delete button, nine months later the blessed little virus appeared
Son asked his father what the two steel walls were that divided and came back together again in a big city hotel lobby. Dad didn’t know, so they watched a little longer as an old lady in a wheelchair went through those doors (elevator). They closed, an arrow went up then back down, and out popped a twenty year-old beauty. Dad said, “Son, run and get your Mama!”
A man died and the preacher asked his young son if his father had any special last words. The boy said, “No, Pa didn’t have no last words. Ma was with him clear up to the end”
For the final test, the FBI agents took one of the men to a large metal door and handed him a gun. "We must know that you will follow your instructions no matter what the circumstances. Inside the room you will find your wife sitting in a chair. Kill Her!!!" The man said, "You can't be serious, I could never shoot my wife" The agent said, "Then you're not the right man for this job. Take your wife and go home." The second man was given the same instructions. He took the gun and went into the room. All was quiet for about 5 minutes. The man came out with tears in his eyes, "I tried, but I can't kill my wife." The agent said, "You don't have what it takes. Take your wife and go home." Finally, it was the woman's turn. She was given the same instructions, to kill her husband. She took the gun and went into the room. Shots were heard, one after another. They heard screaming, crashing, banging on the walls. After a few minutes, all was quiet. The door opened slowly and there stood the woman, She wiped the sweat from her brow. "This gun is loaded with blanks" she said. "I had to beat him to death with the chair."
Sex was not made for lusting and getting; it was made for loving and giving – Ed Cole
A man and his wife were sitting in the living room and he said to her: "Just so you know, I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle." He continues..."If that ever happens, just pull the plug." His wife dutifully got up, unplugged the TV and threw out all of his beer.
Nancy Astor…shouted, "If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee!" Whereupon Winston Churchill with equal heat and sincerity answered, "And if I were your husband I would drink it"
[Braddock:] Mr. Churchill, you are drunk
[Churchill:] And you madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober tomorrow
Bachelor: someone who sees all women as sequels
The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another - Friedrich Nietzsche
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Stages of adult sex-life: Tri-weekly, try weekly, try weakly
Man in a bar asked the young lady, "What would I have to give you to get a little kiss?" She answered, "Chloroform"
A few Nashville song titles - "How can I miss you if you never go away?" "If the phone doesn't ring, you'll know it's me" "If I'd killed her when I first met her, I'd be out of jail by now" "If you don't leave me alone I'll find someone who will" "It's so miserable being without you, it's almost like having you here" "Sorry I made you cry but at least your face is cleaner" "Take me out to the cornfield honey, I'll kiss ya between the ears" "If my nose was running money, I'd blow it all on you" - Aaron Wilburn
SIMPLICITY
Live simply that others may simply live
Too many of us metaphysicians don’t know how to tangibilitate – Father Divine
Benjamin Disraeli described William Gladstone, "a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity"
The Lord’s Prayer- 66 words, 10 Commandments – 179 words, Gettysburg Address – 286 words, Declaration of Independence – 1300 words, US Government regulation on sale of cabbage – 26,311 words
All English literature is composed of only 26 letters. All music is composed of 12 notes. All colors from only 3 primary colors.
If you have all the numbers in a combination except one you won’t enter the safe
Our life is frittered away by detail . . . simplify, simplify – Henry David Thorreau
One Jewish believer said – it all started in Israel with a simple relationship with Jesus. Rome got hold of it and it became political. Europe got a hold of it and it became ceremonial. America got hold of it and it became big business. Oh, to bring it back to Israel and become simple again
The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find Him at all – Richard J. Foster
He does most in God’s great world who does his best in his own little world – Thomas Jefferson
He is invited to do great things who receives small things greatly – Cassiodorus
I remember when shampoo just cleaned hair. But none of the shampoos in the shower were satisfied with simple cleaning. They wanted to change my life. One shampoo promised to "amplify" my hair. I didn't want big hair, just clean. Another assured me it could "correct and restructure" my hair. I like my hair. I don't claim it is the best in the world, but does it need to be corrected? My grandpa was bald in high school, so since I am nearly 47 and still have hair which is only partially gray, I feel I am ahead of the game. Restructuring seems extreme. Another shampoo would "clarify" my hair. But isn't clear hair about the same as bald? What is an old-fashioned old-fogy supposed to do? My hair is clean now; volumized, amplified, corrected, restructured, and clarified! Only in America does someone need a doctorate to understand shampoo. I long for the days of "lather, rinse, repeat” – Pastor David Miller
We never become so literary that we do not need the alphabet. We never become such music masters that we get away from the scale. It is possible to become so involved in spiritual mathematics that we forget simple arithmetic - Vance Havner
While scholars write wordy volumes that few people read, the prophet says it in one colorful paragraph - Vance Havner
I saw a bird-watcher lugging three cameras, two pairs of binoculars, and several books. He couldn't watch the birds for keeping up with his bird-watching equipment - Vance Havner
SIN
When the prodigal ended up getting all he wanted he didn’t want all he got
All the darkness in the world can’t defeat a lightning bug – Kenneth Copeland
There must be a Hell. If there isn't where would these low down scoundrels who force motherhood upon a woman and then haven't the manhood to accept fatherhood go? – Billy Sunday
Men are not punished for their sins but by them – Ken Hubbard
Sin breaking out into sins, is the mark of the sinful and fallen nature – Hamilton
Sin is generic but sins are specific. Sin is character but sins are in conduct. Sin is the center but sins are the circumference. Sin is the root but sins are the fruit. Sin is the fountain but sins are the flow – RG Lee
Sin is source, sins are the secretion. Sin is the smoldering volcano, sins are the burning sulfurs…Sin is the hive, sins are the deadly hornets…Sin is the sire, sins are the sons…Sin is what we are, sins is what we have done. Sin is the fact, sins are the act – RG Lee
This vicious cycle leads to a desire to go even deeper into sin. If you paint the town red tonight, you have to have a bigger bucket and a bigger brush for tomorrow night – J. Vernon McGee
Only one thing all of us have in common. We’re not equal in skin color, bank balance, education etc. but we are equal in that we have all sinned
Someone says, “I couldn’t help myself. She makes me so mad I can’t help but slap her”. Oh? If four football linemen said the same words or acted the same way to you, would you be able to help yourself in their presence, or would you slap them? See, you can practice self-control – Keith Moore
Heard of the Irani who sent a letter bomb out with insufficient postage. It came back and blew his own place up. Sin pays similar wages
God looks on sin as you would look on a rattlesnake if you found it coiled in your baby’s bed…God looks on sin as you would look on a buzzard in your dining room – RG Lee
Between the saint and the sinner is the open grave, and the sinner is on this side facing it, and the saint is on the resurrection side, leaving it behind, having conquered it – RG Lee
It is the one great security against sin to be shocked at it – Cardinal Newman
In diving to the depths of the sea of pleasure you bring up a lot more gravel than pearls
If sin is our worst enemy, it is easy to prove that He who saves us from it is our best friend – RG Lee
Sin is wickedness, which means to be twisted or warped. Wicker furniture comes from that word “wicked”, it is all twisted and curled
Secret sin on earth is open scandal in heaven – Neil Anderson
Playing with rattlesnakes, high voltage wires, fire, the edge of the cliff, none are as bad as playing with sin. These bear only temporary results, sin eternal results
The essential nature of sin is my claim to my right over myself – Oswald Chambers
The dumb-ination, domination and damnation of sin
Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else – Chuck Smith
Sin is like an onion. The outer crust is hard and dry. Peel back the outer wrapping of self-righteousness and what you find inside will make you cry
We wouldn’t touch some people with a ten foot pole but Jesus died for them on a ten foot pole
The spurious convert uses grace just like a fornicator uses a contraceptive pill
Sin is a debt – grace is a payment. Sin is a stain – grace is a detergent. Sin is a poison – grace is an antidote. Sin is a disease – grace is a medicine. Sin is a desert – grace is a rainstorm. Sin is a blot – grace is an eraser. Sin is a plague – grace is a vaccine. Sin is a burden – grace is a leverage. Sin is a darkness – grace is a great light. Sin is a cancer – grace is a surgeon. Sin is a bacteria – grace is a germicide. Sin is a weed – grace is an herbicide. Sin is a filth – grace is a soap. Sin is a death – grace is a resurrection – RG Lee
People who do things for kicks get kickbacks
Sin in the Old Testament was against Jehovah God, sin in the New Testament was against the Son of God, sin in the modern church is against the Spirit of God
Sin with hellish alchemy changes homes into hells, fathers into fiends, mothers into monsters, brothers into brutes and sisters into seductresses – R.G. Lee
The sweetest fruit spoils the fastest, likewise with forbidden fruit
Are our noses more sensitive than Christ’s? Sin stinks in the nostrils of God, but Christ looked beyond Lazarus’ stench and saved him from the grip of death – R.G. Lee
Sin will take you farther than you want to go, cost you more than you want to pay and keep you longer than you want to stay
There are sins of commission, omission and disposition
A poisonous snake in a child's crib would bring a violent reaction from a parent - Jack Hayford
Our Lord judges us in what we put up with as much as in what we actively practice - Vance Havner
If God is kept on the outside, something is wrong on the inside - John Mason
[God] preferred to see His Son die rather than that sin should reign…[Jesus] preferred to die rather than that man should be held in its power - Andrew Murray
Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or removes your relish for spiritual things, that is sin to you - Susanna Wesley
SINGING
I was once invited to sing at a deaf service
Occasionally I get requested to sing “on a hill far away”
One guy claimed to be a ‘prison singer” – he was always behind a few bars and never able to find the right key
I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't - Harry Dean Stanton
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song - Maya Angelou
You can cage the singer but not the song - Harry Belafonte
I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing - William James
God respects me when I work; but God loves me when I sing - Rabindranath Tagore
The total person sings not just the vocal chords - Esther Broner
Gypsy Smith told the singing instructors that he didn't want to sing from his diaphragm, he wanted to sing from his heart
SMILE
Live your life with style and a smile
When you meet a man without a smile, give him one of yours
A Smile can add a lot to one’s face value
A Smile is the lighting system of the face and heating system of the heart
A smile is a light in the window of your face that lets the world know that your heart is home
You’re never fully dressed without a smile
All people smile in the same language
A smile is a curved line that sets things straight
The single most effective thing you can do to influence others is to smile at them. A smile is the most powerful social tool we have available to us
Laugh and the world laughs with you – cry and you only get wet!
It takes 43 muscles to frown but only 17 to smile, so save yourself some energy and smile awhile
Someone said that if I smiled it would be fake. That’s all right, folks would rather see a fake smile than a sincere frown any day
It’s tragic when someone’s so religious that he has to consult the rulebook to see if it’s all right to smile
I’m not a grouch – I’ve just been in a bad mood for the last forty years!
The thing that goes the farthest in making life worthwhile,
It’s worth the most and costs the least, is just a pleasant smile,
It’s full of worth and goodness too, with heavenly kindness sent,
It’s worth a million dollars but it doesn’t cost a cent – Robert Larson
The world is like a mirror, frown at it and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles too - Herbert Samuel
SMOKING
Brooke Shields said, “Smoking kills. If you’re killed you lose a very important part of your life”
Fire on one end. Fool on the other
Why doesn’t God take these cigarettes from me? ‘cause He doesn’t smoke!
The cigarette does the smoking; you do the sucking. So you’re not a smoker but rather a sucker
SOCIETY
America today is like an elephant hanging from a thousand-foot cliff with its tail tied to a daisy
Modern society is anti-faith, anti-family and anti-freedom
We have too many men of science and not enough men of God. We live in an age of nuclear giants and spiritual pigmies – Gen. Omar Bradley
What do you get when you cross a skunk with a bald eagle? I don’t know but it stinks to the high heaven – Cecil Todd
The world is more likely to sink into pandemonium than to rise into millennium – Spurgeon
When authority goes out anarchy comes in
It takes two to make a criminal, an individual and a society
SOUL WINNING
Do you remember the Mercedes TV commercial a few years ago that showed a Mercedes crashing into a concrete wall during a safety test? An engineer in a white lab coat walks over after the crash and kneels down to examine the damage, which is minimal. A reporter then asks the engineer about Mercedes' energy absorbing car body. After the engineer tells all about the unique design the reporter asks him why Mercedes doesn't enforce their patent on the design, a design evidently copied by several other companies because of its success.
The engineer then replies matter-of-factly, "Because some things in life are too important not to share." How true this is. There are many things in life that fall into this "too important not to share" category. Advances in science, in medicine, in technology. But all of these pale in importance to that of sharing our faith.
A redneck goes to his own family reunion to find a date. Is it any different when we go to the church to find someone to win to Christ?
Paul wasn’t concerned about saving the ship. He was concerned about saving the passengers
We are to be running a life-boat not a show-boat, a battleship not a pleasure cruise
Here’s the real S&L Crisis – Saving the Lost!
We’re not called to deliver sermons but to deliver souls
God saves from the uttermost to the gutter-most
God saves from Saint Paul to Ru Paul
The 1994 Barna Research Report showed that 75% of Christians couldn’t define the Great Commission and that only 1% had witnessed to someone recently
The Great Commission has become the Great Omission for most believers today
Let me give you four reasons why we don’t witness effectively – 1) Lack of Conviction, 2) Lack of Courage, 3) Lack of Consecration, 4) Lack of Consistency
More important than daylight saving time is soul-saving time
We must always keep our eyes on people. It is so easy to build churches but forget about members, build hospitals but forget about patients, build schools but forget about students, bild governments but forget about citizens, build houses but forget about children and build denominations but forget about people
Have you seen the bumper sticker that says, “friends don’t let friends die drunk?” I saw one the other day that said, “friends don’t let friends die without Jesus”
The man not concerned for his neighbor’s soul needs to be concerned for his own soul
The shipwrecked of life are crying S.O.S. – that’s Save Our Souls!
If your billfold or credit cards were lost you wouldn’t be able to sleep. Why is it that we can sleep so well when we know that our neighbors or our kids are lost?
The average Christian has heard 6,000 sermons, 12,000 prayers and 20,000 hymns, but the average Christian has led 0 people to Christ – Jerry Haynes
The church needs to do some asphalt angling – Jerry Haynes
Jesus said to enter into the closet but He didn’t say to stay there – Jerry Haynes
2 million go to Hell every week in our world. That’s something like 130,000 more every 24 hours
We need to intercede then we need to interact
The soul-winner must see people as prospects not as suspects
There is no such thing as the “invisible” church – we must be visible to be viable. Many belong to this so-called invisible church – they are invisible on Sunday morning, most Sunday nights, all Wednesdays. They are invisible on work-day, soul-winning nights, revivals, on and on
The most important thought that ever entered my mind is of my personal accountability to God – Daniel Webster
No one ever remorsed on his deathbed, “I wish I would have spent more time at the office”, but many do remorse, “I wish I would have spent more time with my family, with my God, or in winning others to Christ”
The soul-winner needs to see people as prospects not suspects
SPIRITUALITY
We're not just human beings having a temporary spiritual experience. But we're spiritual beings having a temporary human experience – Teilhard de Chardin, French Priest
Spirit is breath. But rote performance is an iron lung, methodical, dependable, making the right motions, but lifeless - Jack Hayford
We are not the body. We are not the mind. We are the ones who have mind and body - Deepak Chopra
STRIFE
Get strife out of your life!
Strife is the manifest presence of Satan – Keith Moore
Strife is evidence that division is at work. Peace is evidence that love is at work - Keith Moore
It's not about who's right; it's about what's right!
STRUGGLE
Struggle is the proof that you have not yet been conquered – Mike Murdock
Stop eating and you die physically, stop learning and you die intellectually, stop praying and you die spiritually, stop struggling and you die emotionally
SUCCESS
You don’t have to lay awake nights to succeed, just stay awake days
Good barbers have climbed the lather of success
A true measure of a man’s worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success – Cullen Hightower
Success is choosing to enter the arena of action, determined to give yourself to that cause which will better mankind and last for eternity – John Maxwell
In the world “self demands life, whereas according to the Christian definition of success, life demands of self” – John Maxwell
In other words, to be all I can be I need to help you be all you can be – John Maxwell
Someday I hope to enjoy enough of what the world calls success so that somebody will ask me, "What’s the secret of it?" I shall say simply this: "I get up when I fall down – Paul Harvey
It takes twenty years to make an overnight success
Be awful nice to ‘em going up, because you’re going to meet them coming down – Jimmy Durante
We need to prepare for survival, success and succession
Princeton president said to be careful how you treat you’re a and B students because they will come back to be your professors. And be specially careful how you treat your C and D students because they will come back to give $2 million towards a science lab!
You don’t need everyone to like you, just the right one, that can make a difference for your future
If at first you don’t succeed, you’re running about average. If at first you don’t succeed, don’t try skydiving anymore
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure – Earl Wilson
You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets
In spite of what some “success preachers” say, God’s goal for our lives is not money but maturity, not happiness but holiness, not getting but giving – Warren Wiersbe
Ask not what the world needs, ask rather what makes your heart sing and go do that. For what the world needs is people with hearts that sing – Phillip Batcher
You can best get to the top by getting to the bottom of things – Zig Ziglar
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful – Albert Schweitzer
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first – Reggie Leach
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places
The road to success is uphill, so don’t expect to set any speed records
“I did it!” inspires “I can do it!” Nothing breeds success like success
Success is an unselfish goal, while failure is a selfish goal. It is impossible to succeed without helping a bunch of people along the way. The secret of success is simple: find a hurt and heal it, find a problem and solve it, find an obstacle and remove it, bridge it, or turn it into an opportunity – Robert Schuller
Success is the “progressive realization of a predetermined, worthwhile goal”
It’s lonely at the top, but then, it’s lonely at the bottom too
One guy said, “I’m never down, I’m either up or getting up”.
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the thing we have made of ourselves on the other – HG Wells
An eagle does not roost in a sparrow’s nest – Joseph Parker
Success is a satisfying movement toward worthwhile goals that God has scheduled for your life. The smallest step in the right direction creates joy – Mike Murdock
Ethyl Waters, dynamic Gospel singer seen on Billy Graham Crusades, was born of a mother raped by a white man when she was twelve. She became a star in vaudeville, acting and singing, in the ‘50s. When asked how she reached such fame, she answered – “God don’t sponsor no flops!”
Followers see the hard work of climbing the mountain of success, leaders see the success of climbing the mountain of hard work – John Maxwell
Our successes should be building blocks to build on, not pedestals to rest on
The road to success is always under construction - John Mason
SUFFERING
It’s one thing to stand on the bank and give it. It’s another to sit in jail and take it. John did both.
When I’m in the cellar of affliction, I look for the choicest of the Lord’s wine – Samuel Rutherford
Turn your scars into stars – Robert Schuller (and daughter Carol who lost her leg in motorcycle accident)
If the wrong question is “Why do bad things happen to good people?” then what is the right question? It is “What happens to good people when bad things happen to them?” – Robert Schuller
The cross is a minus turned into a plus – Robert Schuller
Cripple a man and you have Sir Walter Scott, lock him in prison and you have John Bunyan, bury him in the snows of Valley Forge and you have George Washington, raise him in poverty and you have Abe Lincoln, strike him down with polio and you have FDR, deafen him and you have Ludwig Von Beethoven, call him a retard and uneducable and you have Albert Einstein
Before you leave this place life will have made your heart hard, very soft or broken. No one escapes
The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations get into the shell... And when he cannot get rid of them, he uses the irritations to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has the chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl – Henry Emerson Fosdick
Let no man pray that he know not sorrow,
Let no soul ask to be free from pain,
For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow,
And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain... – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
There is no will or act of creatures, men, angels or demons that can do other than work for our good. No dog can bark against us, no man can act or speak against us…But all must be for our good…The law of gravity cannot make anything fall on us, unless it has been sifted through the will of God and His purpose for our good – Donald Grey Barnhouse
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun – Pablo Picasso
All sunshine makes a desert – Arab proverb
Where a man’s wound is, that is where his genius will be – Bly
The iron crown of suffering precedes the gold crown of glory
Oh what I owe to the furnace, the file and the hammer of my Lord Jesus! – Samuel Rutherford
In Gethsemane the cross weighed more on His heart than it did the next day on His shoulders
My barn having burned to the ground, I can now see the moon - Japanese poet Masahide
You may never know that JESUS is all you need, until JESUS is all you have - Corrie Ten Boom
If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ? - Thomas à Kempis
God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars - Elbert Hubbard
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust - Samuel Johnson
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? - Kahlil Gibran
You need a buffer when you suffer. You need to snuggle when you struggle - Louis Greenup
SUICIDE
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem – Phil Donahue
SUPERSTITION
Past disasters linked to the number 13 hardly help triskaidekaphobics overcome their affliction. The most famous is the Apollo 13 mission, launched on April 11, 1970 (the sum of 4, 11 and 70 equals 85 - which when added together comes to 13), from Pad 39 (three times 13) at 13:13 local time, and struck by an explosion on April 13
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit
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