QUOTE for the day

[Triumph1300]

It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

 

[Matthias]

“No matter how talented you are, if you’re in the wrong environment, you won’t be valued.” - Ravi Shah

 

[Matthias]

“Days are long; years are short.” - Lucius (an old man from Shawhan whom I knew in the 1960’s. I didn’t understand back then what he meant. I do now.)

 

[Matthias]

“Don’t trust in good seminary training to keep you from heresy. Stay near to Jesus daily.” - Trevor Sheatz

 

[Matthias]

“Your strength is vanity, your power is a delusion, your might is a lie.” - C.H. Spurgeon

 

[Jay Ross]

“Providing amusement for the people is nowhere spoken of in the scriptures as a function of the church. The need is biblical doctrine, so understood and felt that it sets men afire” – Charles H Spurgeon.

 

[Matthias]

“The people closest to you should not receive the leftovers of your Christianity. They should see its clearest evidence.” - Scott Roberts

 

[Jay Ross]

“Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.” - Henri Nouwen

 

[Matthias]

“I find it a great oversight in our general discourse that people think Christians are the only ones that have the burden of proof to explain their worldview.” - Frank Turek

 

[Matthias]

“Preachers who don’t trust the Bible cannot be trusted.” - Rich Bitterman

 

[Jay Ross]

“Preachers who don’t trust the Bible cannot be trusted.” - Rich Bitterman

I trust the Bible but not the flawed translations that many people believe in and use to hammer home their assumed points of view.

 

[Matthias]

“Do not expect the world to understand you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but, inasmuch as Christ has chosen you out of the world, do not expect that the world will know you. If it did not know him, who was so much better and clearer than you, how should it know you?” - C.H. Spurgeon

 

[Matthias]

“There are few places more dangerous than having an open Bible in your hands while possessing a heart already determined not to obey it.” - Jeremiah Knight

 

[Jay Ross]

"God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart. When you are so weak that you cannot do much more than cry, you coin diamonds with both your eyes. The sweetest prayers God ever hears are the groans and sighs of those who have no hope in anything but his love.” - C.H. Spurgeon

 

[Matthias]

“The longer I study the Bible the less impressed I am by merely knowing Bible facts. I want obedience.” - Rich Bitterman

 

[Matthias]

“God is more glorified in the Christian who is meek, humble, gentle, and kind while still speaking the truth than in the Christian who knows the Bible more but constantly lacks love toward others.” - Trevor Sheatz

 

[Matthias]

“The Beatitudes are Jesus’s own guide for ethical conduct in Christian life.” - John Fugelsang

 

[Matthias]

“Wherefore, be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with the world, and becoming an idolator, as so many of your fellow-men are.” - C.H. Spurgeon

 

[Matthias]

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” - Galileo Galilei

 

[Matthias]

“A prayerless day is a proud declaration that you do not need God. Humble yourself and seek his face before you start your morning. You cannot survive the battles of life without his daily grace.” - Trevor Sheatz