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Edited By Dr Terry W. Preslar

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The Home Bible Study LibraryCollectable Quotes & Notes

(Important Clips of Quotes From Various Speakers)

Editor’s PrefaceQuotes & Notes has been collected from many different resources over the course of many years with

the Christian writer, teacher, speaker and preacher in mind. As far as the editor is aware, all quotes are inthe public domain and are credited to authors that are known. Mistakes may have been made but care hasbeen taken to affix credit after research and investigation. This is the day of the “sound-bite,” the “news-clip,” and “headline-proses.” – These quotes are the heart of wit from the greats and in-greats of days past.

The Editor disclaims originality – there are many books of this nature. I have offered this book to thepublic to fill a need that I have in my own work. Other men have labored, I have but entered into their labors.The results of study and research has netted a bounty of wonder in this matter. The Editor has only proposedto himself the modest task of summarizing, arranging and condensing this mass of material into a convenientform. It is to the faithful student that I dedicate this book.

Abbreviations of the names of the books of the Bibleused in this book and many other reference books.

Genesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gen.Exodus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ex.Leviticus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lev.Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Num.Deuteronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deut.Joshua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Josh.Judges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Judg.Ruth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ruth1 Samuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sam.2 Samuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Sam.1 Kings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Kings2 Kings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Kings1 Chronicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chron.2 Chronicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Chron.Ezra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EzraNehemiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Neh.Esther . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Est.Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JobPsalms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Psa.Proverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prov.Ecclesiastes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eccl.Song of Solomon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Song of Sol.Isaiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Isa.Jeremiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jer.Lamentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lam.Ezekiel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ezek.Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dan.Hosea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hos.Joel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JoelAmos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AmosObadiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oba.Jonah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JonahMicah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mic.

Nahum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NahumHabakkuk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hab.Zephaniah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zeph.Haggai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hag.Zechariah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zec.Malachi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mal.Matthew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Matt.Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MarkLuke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LukeJohn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JohnActs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ActsRomans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rom.1 Corinthians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Cor.2 Corinthians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Cor.Galatians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gal.Ephesians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eph.Philippians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Phil.Colossians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Col.1 Thessalonians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Thes.2 Thessalonians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Thes.1 Timothy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Tim.2 Timothy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Tim.Titus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TitusPhilemon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Phm.Hebrews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heb.James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James1 Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Peter2 Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Peter1 John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 John2 John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 John3 John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 JohnJude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JudeRevelation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rev.

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Table of Contents – A – AbilityActionAdversityAdviceAfflictionAgeAngelsAngerAppearanceAppreciationAspirationAssuranceAtheismAtonement

– B – BeautyBeliefBenevolenceBibleBles sed ness &

BlessingBlood, Christ’sBrotherhood

– C – CarnalityCautionCharacterCharityCheerfulnessChildrenChristChristianChurchClergymanComfortCommitmentCommon SenseCommunityCompensationComplainingConduct

ConfessionConfidenceConscienceConsecrationContentmentConversationConversionCourtesyCovetousnessCriticismCross

– D – DeathDeedsDemocracyDesireDespairDestinyDevilDevotionDifficultyDisappointmentDiscontentDiscretionDisplayDoubtDrinkDuty

– E – EarnestnessEatingEconomyEducationEgotismEmulationEnemyEnthusiasmEnvyEqualityErrorEternityEvil

ExampleExcuseExpectationExperienceEyes

– F – FailureFaithFalsehoodFameFateFaultFavorFearFellowshipForbearanceForgivenessFortuneFriendshipFuture

– G – GenerosityGeniusGifts, GivingGodGood-humorGoodnessGospelGratitudeGreatnessGrief

– H – HabitHandsHappinessHateHearingHeavenHellHelpHistory

HolinessHoly SpiritHomeHonestyHonorHopeHospitalityHumanityHumilityHumorHungerHusbandHypocrisy

– I – IdealsIdeasIdlenessIdolatryIgnoranceImaginationImitationImmortalityImpatienceImpossibleImprovementIncarnationInfluenceIngratitudeInjuryInjusticeInspirationIrresolution

– J – JealousyJesusJoyJudging OthersJustice

– K – KindnessKingdom of God

Knowledge

– L – LaughterLearningLibertyLifeLightLittle ThingsLordshipLord’s SupperLossLoveLuckLying

– M – ManMannersMartyrMeditationMemoryMercyMiraclesMisfortuneMissionsModerationModestyMoneyMoralityMotherMurmuringMusic

– N – NatureNecessity

– O – ObedienceObstinacy

OmnipresenceOmniscienceOpinionOpportunityOptimismOvercoming

– P – Pardon ParentPatiencePeacePeoplePersecutionPerseverancePessimistPityPleasuresPossessionPovertyPowerPraisePrayerPreachingPrejudicePrideProcrastinationProfanityProfitProgressPromisePromptnessProphet, ProphecyProsperityProverbsProvidencePurityPurpose

– Q – Quality

QuarrelingQuietness

– R – ReligionRepentanceReputationRestRevengeRichesRight

– S – SabbathSacrificeSaintsSalvationScandalSecuritySelf-controlSelfishnessSelf-loveSelf-relianceSermonServiceSilenceSimplicitySinSlanderSocietySolitudeSorrowSoulSpeechStewardshipSubstitutionSuccessSufferingSympathy

– T – TalentTalkTeachingTearsTemptationThoughtTimeTongueTrialsTroubleTrustTruth

– U – UnionUnselfishness

– V – ValueVirtue

– W – WaitingWantsWealthWillWisdomWishWitnessWorkWorldWorryWorship

– Y – Youth

– Z – Zeal

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ABILITYWe judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (1807-1882) American poet and translator A buried talent is never a buried treasure. Talents become treasures only through use. – Prince Rupert of theRhine (1619-1682), soldier and inventor They are able because they think they are able. – Vergil (70-19 B.C.) Roman man of letters and poet

ACTIONWhat’s done can’t be undone. – William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet Heaven ne’er helps the men who will not act. – Sophocles (496-405 B.C.) Greek dramatist

ADVERSITY God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them. – John Hill Aughey (1828-1911),American Presbyterian Clergyman & author He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. Heaven prepares good men with crosses. –Johnson Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. –Francis Bacon, (1561-1626) English statesman and philosopher of science

ADVICE Never give advice unless asked. – German Proverb Whatever advice you give be short. – Horace (65-8 B.C.), Roman poet Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it. – Publius Syrus. (42 B.C.), Roman Philosopher We all, when we are well, give good advice to the sick. – Terence (190-158 B.C.), Roman dramatist AFFLICTION The greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted. – Anonymous Not they who have studied much but they who have suffered much are the deliverers of mankind. –Anonymous It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetestmelodies. – Hamilton

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Sometimes God makes his people’s troubles contribute to the increase of their greatness, and their sun shinesthe brighter for having been under a cloud. – Henry There are no crown-wearers in heaven that were not cross-bearers here below. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher As sure as God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them. – Charles H. Spurgeon(1834-1892) English Baptist preacher Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune. – Sterne Great trials seem to be necessary preparation for great duties. – Thompson Among my list of blessings infinite stands this, the foremost-that my heart has bled. – Young

AGE He, who has not the spirit of his age, has all the misery of it. – Voltaire (1694 - 1778) French author,humanist, rationalist, & satirist It is always in season for old men to learn. – Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Athenian tragic dramatist To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the greatart of living. – Henri Frédéric Amiel. (1821-1881), Swiss writer of French language To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind and the heart-and to keep these inparallel vigor one must exercise, study and love. – Charles Victor of Bonstetten (1745-1832), Swiss writer An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitestwhich are nearest to heaven. – Chapin The harvest of old age is the memory and rich store of blessings laid up earlier in life. – Cicero (106-43 B.C.)Roman orator, politician, and philosopher As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it. – Deland Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old and some nevergrow old. – Edwards If wrinkles must be written upon our brow let them not be written upon our heart. The spirit should not growold. – Garfield The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it. – Joseph Joubert (1754-1824), French philosopher Growing old is more like a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. – Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967),French author In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long. – Panin

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The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything. – Oscar Wilde(1854-1900), Irish playwright & poet If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should notgrow old. – Garfield It is not years that make souls grow old, but having nothing to love, nothing to hope for. – William Congreve(1670-1729), English playwright & dramatist ANGELS There’s not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs, thanwith his children, servants and neighbors. – Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887) American preacher, editorand orator We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that seeand know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts. – Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887) Americanpreacher, editor and orator Music is well said to be the speech of angels. – Thomas Carlyle, (1795-1881) Scottish author The angels may have wider spheres of action and nobler forms of duty than ourselves, but truth and rightto them and to us are one and the same thing. – Chapin Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, theyare present with you. – Sales When a man dies they who survive him ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over thedying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him. – The Holy Koran Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake. – John Milton(1608-1674), 17th Century English author Who does the best his circumstance allows does well, acts nobly; angels could do no more. – Young

ANGER An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes. – Cato Beware the fury of a patient man. – Dryden Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. – Horace (65-8 B.C.), Romanpoet I heard someone say that he was sorry he had lost his temper. I was uncommonly glad to hear that he hadlost it, but I regretted that he found it again so soon. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptistpreacher When I hear of anybody losing his temper, I always pray that he may not find it again. Such tempers are bestlost. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

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APPEARANCE A good appearance is at a premium everywhere. – Anonymous Do not judge from mere appearance; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over thedepths of a sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. – Chapin How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems. – Robert Southey(1774-1843), English poet

APPRECIATION Next to beauty is the power of appreciating it. – Fuller He is incapable of truly a good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.– Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801), Swiss theologian, and poet If you want to live more you must master the art of appreciating the little, everyday blessings of life. Thisis not altogether a golden world, but there are countless gleams of gold to be discovered in it if we give ourminds to them. – Porter We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not to have his work despised in his presence.Now God is present everywhere and every person is His work. – St. Francis De Sales If my friends have alabaster boxes laid away full of fragrant perfumes or sympathy and affection that theyintend to break over my dead body, I would rather they would bring them in my weary and troubled hoursand open them that I might be cheered and refreshed by them when I need them. I would rather have a plaincoffin without a flower, a funeral without a eulogy, than a life without the fragrance of love and sympathy.– Watterson We should learn to prepare ourselves before for the burial. Post mortem kindness does not cheer theburdened spirit, and flowers upon the coffin cast no fragrance backward over the weary way. If, therefore,there is any kind thing I can say or any good thing I can do, let me do it now. Let me not defer it nor neglectit, for I shall not pass this way again. – Watterson

ASPIRATION There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better, nobler, holier than itknows now. – Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887) American preacher, editor and orator Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights. – Thomas Carlyle, (1795-1881) Scottishauthor O for a closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame, A light to shine upon the road that leads me tothe Lamb! – William Cowper (1731-1800) English poet and hymn-writer. It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certainthings we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. – Eliot God, give me hills to climb, and strength for climbing! – Guiterman

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This world has too low a ceiling for aspiring man! – Hamilton Aspirations after the holy-the only aspirations in which the soul can be assured it will never meet withdisappointment. – McIntosh There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word that raises us above ourselves. – Stanley The heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high. – Henry David Thoreau, (1817-1862) Americanessayist, naturalist, and lecturer

ASSURANCE I know not when I go or where from this familiar scene; But He is here and He is there, and all the waybetween; And when I leave this life, I know, for that dim vast unknown, Though late I stay, or soon I go, Ishall not go alone. – Anonymous Full assurance is not essential to salvation, but it is essential to satisfaction. May you get it-may you get itat once. May you never be satisfied to live without it. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptistpreacher “The Lord is my Shepherd,” not was, not maybe, not will be. “The Lord is my Shepherd”-is on Sunday, ison Monday, and is through every day of the week; is in January, is in December, and every month of theyear; is at home, and is in China; is in peace, and is in war; in abundance and in poverty. – Taylor ATHEISM Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man. – Francis Bacon, (1561-1626) English statesman andphilosopher of science There are no atheists in foxholes and rubber rafts. – Whittaker

ATONEMENT When we think of the atonement we are apt to think only of what man gains. We must remember what it costGod and what it costs him now when men refuse his love. – Fitt Let us not forget that the crucifixion of Christ was, and was intended to be to all the intelligences of theuniverse, the most significant exhibition of the love of God. “Herein was love.” – Lawson I must die or get somebody to die for me. If the Bible doesn’t teach that, it doesn’t teach anything. And thatis where the atonement of Jesus Christ comes in. – Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899) American evangelist When God pardons, he consigns the offense to everlasting forgetfulness. – Rosell The atonement, for which the cross is but the symbol, is wholly ethical in its implications; for in thecross...mercy and truth met together, righteousness and peace embraced each other... – Smith The heart of Christ became like a reservoir in the midst of the mountains. All the tributary streams ofiniquity, and every drop of the sins of his people, ran down and gathered into one vast lake, deep as hell andshoreless as eternity. All these met, as it were, in Christ’s heart, and he endured them all. – Charles H.Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

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I have no hope beneath the canopy of heaven, neither in time nor in eternity, save only in this belief-thatJesus Christ, in my place, bore both my punishment and sin. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) EnglishBaptist preacher The marvel of heaven and earth, of time and eternity, is the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This is the mysterythat brings more glory to God than all creation. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptistpreacher

BEAUTY The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. – Francis Bacon, (1561-1626) Englishstatesman and philosopher of science The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the might of God.– Pascal The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. – William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Englishdramatist and poet I pray thee, O God that I may be beautiful within. – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) Greek philosopher

BELIEF Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. – Francis Bacon, (1561-1626) English statesman andphilosopher of science Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. – Bagehot What a man accomplishes depends on what he believes. – Bankers Bulletin Believe nothing merely because you have been told it...or because it is traditional, or because you yourselveshave imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. Butwhatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, thewelfare of all beings-that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide. – Buddha A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things. – Thomas Carlyle,(1795-1881) Scottish author One does not have to believe everything one hears. – Cicero (106-43 B.C.) Roman orator, politician, andphilosopher Each man’s belief is right in his own eyes. – William Cowper (1731-1800) English poet and hymn-writer. To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe. – France He does not believe that does not live according to his belief. – Fuller What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.– Huxley

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. – James Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed. – Lippmann A well-bred man keeps his beliefs out of his conversation. – Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967), French author We are the personification of the things we really believe in. – Megiddo Message One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. – Mill That man will go far; he believes all he says. – Mirabeau To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. – Robertson BENEVOLENCE We enjoy thoroughly only the pleasures that we give. – Dumas There cannot be a more glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditatingin what manner he may render himself most acceptable to the Creator by doing good to his creatures. –Fielding The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment. – Gay Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good actions; try to use ordinary situations. – Richter It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. – Seneca (4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Tutor of theRoman Emperor Nero Rich gifts prove poor when givers prove unkind. – William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist andpoet Do all the good you can, to all the people you can, in all ways you can, as often as ever you can, as long asyou can. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher Loving-kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies. – The Talmud The best portion of a good man’s life-his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. –William Wordsworth, (1770-1850) British poet Charities that soothe and heal and bless lie scattered at the feet of men like flowers. – William Wordsworth,(1770-1850) British poet

BIBLE A young Christian packing his bag for a journey said to a friend, “I have nearly finished packing. All I haveto put in are a guidebook, a lamp, a mirror, a microscope, a telescope, a volume of fine poetry, a fewbiographies, a package of old letters, a book of songs, a sword, a hammer, and a set of tools.” “But youcannot put all that into your bag,” objected the friend. “Oh, yes,” said the Christian. “Here it is.” And heplaced his Bible in the corner of the suitcase and closed the lid. – Anonymous

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The Unchanging Word Feelings come and feelings go,And feelings are deceiving;My warrant is the Word of God –Naught else is worth believing.

Though all my heart should feel condemnedFor want of some sweet token,There is One greater than my heartWhose Word cannot be broken.

I’ll trust in God’s unchanging WordTill soul and body sever,For, though all things shall pass away,HIS WORD SHALL STAND FOREVER! – Copied from Echoes of Grace, Bible Truth Publishers

The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering and the most comfortable wayof dying. – Flavel The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find I reading God’s word. – Grey No one ever graduates from Bible study until he meets the Author face to face. – Harris The New Testament holds up a strong light by which a man can read even the small print of his soul. –Hutton If God is a reality and the soul is a reality, and you are an immortal being, what are you doing with yourBible shut! – Johnson When you read God’s word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, “It is talking to me, and about me.”– Soren Kierkegaard, (1813-1855) Danish philosopher and religious thinker The Bible continues to be the best selling book; it is regarded as the most economical of all fire escapes. –Leader The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in theworld equals the Bible for that. – McCosh I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me. – Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899) American evangelist I read my Bible to know what people ought to do, and my newspaper to know what they are doing. –Newman If all the neglected Bibles were dusted simultaneously, we would have a record dust storm and the sun wouldgo into eclipse for a whole week. – Nygren In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world-God and you. The Bible is thestory of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished

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autobiography of the creature and the Creator. – Oursler The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. – William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet What makes the difference is not how many times you have been through the Bible, but how many timesand how thoroughly the Bible has been through you. – Smith Be walking Bibles. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher The Bible is a harbor where I can drop down my anchor, feeling certain that it will hold. Here is a placewhere I can find sure footing; and, by the grace of God, from this confidence I shall never be moved. –Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher Perhaps there is no book more neglected in these days than the Bible. I believe there are moldier Bibles inthis world than there are of any sort of neglected books. We have no book that is so much bought, and thenso speedily laid aside and so little used, as the Bible. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptistpreacher

BLESSEDNESS – BLESSING Blessed is the man who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. – Anonymous Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. –Augustine of Hippo (354-430) Christian theologian Make no mistake about it; responsibilities toward other human beings are the greatest blessings God cansend us. – Dix Blessed is he who does good to others and desires not that others should do good to him. – Brother Giles Never undertake anything for which you wouldn’t have the courage to ask the blessings of Heaven. –Lichtenberg

BLOOD, CHRIST’S There may be some sins of which a man cannot speak, but there is no sin which the blood of Christ cannotwash away. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher Plunge into the “fountain filled with blood, drawn from Immanuel’s veins,” and in an instant you are whiterthan snow. Every speck, spot, and stain of sin is gone, and gone forever. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)English Baptist preacher Trust Christ and you shall live. The bloody sacrifice of Calvary is the only hope of sinners. – Charles H.Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

BROTHERHOOD If any lift of mine may ease the burden of another, God give me love and care and strength to help my ailingbrother. – Anonymous I sought my soul-but my soul I could not see; I sought my God-but my God eluded me; I sought my brother-

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and found all three. – Anonymous Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. – Aurelius When people universally realize that all are united by the common bond of mortality and by the basicneeds...the need to worship and to love, to be housed and fed, to work and play-perhaps we will have learnedto understand-which is to love spiritually, and there will be peace and brotherhood on earth. Withoutbrotherhood, peace is not possible. – Baldwin Christians may not see eye to eye, but they can walk arm in arm. – Brotherhood Journal Of a truth men are mystically united; a mysterious bond of brotherhood makes all men one. – ThomasCarlyle, (1795-1881) Scottish author Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, throughthe fatherhood of God. – Calvin Coolidge, (1872-1933) President of the United States Jesus throws down the dividing prejudices of nationality, and teaches universal love, without distinction ofrace, merit, or rank. – A man’s neighbor is every one that needs help. – Geikie If you really believe in the brotherhood of man, and you want to come into its fold, you’ve got to leteveryone else in too. – Hammerstein Brotherhood doesn’t come in a package. It is not a commodity to be taken down from the shelf with onehand-it is an accomplishment of soul-searching prayer and perseverance. – Hobby It is through fraternity that liberty is saved. – Victor Hugo, (1802-1885) French author of poetry, drama, andnovels Brotherhood, once a dream and a vision, has now become a dire necessity. – Mann We must not only affirm the brotherhood of man, we must live it. – Potter We are members of one great body, planted by nature in a mutual love, and fitted for a social life. We mustconsider that we were born for the good of the whole. – Seneca (4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Tutor of the RomanEmperor Nero The world is now too dangerous for anything but the truth, too small for anything but brotherhood. –Stevenson The opportunity to practice brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being. – Wyman

CARNALITY Inbred corruption is the worst corruption. “Lord,” said Augustine, “deliver me from my worst enemy, thatwicked man-myself.” – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher When a man who professes to be converted says that he goes into the world and into sin for pleasure, it isas if an angel went to hell for enjoyment. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

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CAUTION Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. – Miguel Cervantes Saavedra, (1547-1616) Spanish novelist,playwright, and poet The cautious seldom err. – Confucius (551-479 b.c.) Chinese philosopher

CHARACTER When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost!– Anonymous Snarling at other folks is not the best way of showing the superior quality of your own character. –Anonymous Characters are achieved-not received. They grow out of the substance of a man’s soul. – Anonymous Character is like bells, which ring out sweet notes, and which, when touched-accidentally even-resound withsweet music. – Brooks, Phillips (1835-1893), American Episcopal bishop Grandeur of character lies in force of soul-that is, in the force of thought, moral principles, and love; andthis may be found in the humblest conditions of life. – Channing You must look into people as well as at them. – Chesterfield The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, and to be a party to nothing underhand or mysterious. – CharlesDickens, (1812-1870) Generally considered England’s greatest novelist You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. – Froude Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.– Geikie Fame is vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings. Only one thing endures, and that is character. –Horace Greeley, (1811-1872), American newspaper editor Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.– Karr The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. –Macaulay Be good at the depths of you, and you will discover that those who surround you will be good even to thesame depths. Therein lies a force that has no name; a spiritual rivalry that has no resistance. – Maeterlinck Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. – Eleanor Roosevelt To be worth anything character must be capable of standing firm upon its feet in the world of daily work,temptation and trial; and able to bear the wear and tear of actual life. Cloistered virtues do not count formuch. – Smiles

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Not education but character is man’s greatest need and man’s greatest safeguard. – Spencer

CHARITY Charity is a virtue of the heart and not of the hands. – Addison Charity is a virtue of the heart; not of the hands. – Anonymous The living need charity more than the dead. – Matthew Arnold, (1822-1888) English poet and literary critic Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. – Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887) Americanpreacher, editor and orator No sound out to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. – Burke Better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than fail in assisting the unfortunate. – Du Coeur There is much truth in the observation that charity eases the conscience of the rich more often than it easesthe condition of the poor. – Flamm Charity sees the need not the cause. – German Proverb Charity gives itself rich; covetousness hoards itself poor. – German Proverb Charity is the spice of riches. – Hebrew Proverb There can be no greater argument to a man of his own power than to find himself able not only toaccomplish his own desires, but also to assist other men in theirs; and this is that conception whereinconsisteth charity. – Hobbes As the purse is emptied the heart is filled. – Victor Hugo, (1802-1885) French author of poetry, drama, andnovels The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.– Hutton We have made the slogan “Charity begins at home” a part of our religion-although it...is directly contraryto the story of the Good Samaritan. Charity begins where the need is greatest and the crisis is mostdangerous. – Laubach Justice forbids us to use slander or libel. Charity goes still further: it orders us to defend absent personsagainst slander or libel. – L’Etoile Charity is never lost: it may meet with ingratitude, or be of no service to those on whom it was bestowed,yet it ever does a work of beauty and grace upon the heart of the giver. – Middleton Charity is a naked child, giving honey to a bee without wings. – Quarles

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The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window. – Ray True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense. – Swedenborg He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving, has but glanced at the joys of charity. – Swetchine I hate nobody; I am in charity with the world. – Swift Loving-kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies. – The Talmud I rather think there is an immense shortage of Christian charity among so-called Christians. – Truman I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself. – Whitman

CHEERFULNESS There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things. – Anonymous Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. – Barrie People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. – Butler He who sings frightens away his ills. – Miguel Cervantes Saavedra, (1547-1616) Spanish novelist,playwright, and poet You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer thatpleasure on others. – Child The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except the fact that theyare so-a good reason, no doubt. – Inge I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work thatGod appoints. – Ingelow We ought to be as cheerful as we can, if only because to be happy ourselves is a most effectual contributionto the happiness of others. – Lubbock Happiness adds and multiplies as we divide it with others. – Nielen The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We havesufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions. – Peacock We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth withoutproducing it. – Shaw Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly. – Sheldon A happy man or woman is a radiant focus of good will, and their entrance into a room is as though anothercandle had been lighted. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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If good people would but make their goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, howmany would they win to the good cause. – Usher A careless song, with a little nonsense now and then, does not misbecome the monarch. – Walpole

CHILDREN Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into congenial life as acts of kindness andaffection. Judicious praise is to children what sun is to flowers. – Bovee Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all goodaffections grow. – Bray Teach your child to hold his tongue, He’ll learn fast enough to speak. – Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) Oneof America’s Founding Fathers Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. – Hulbert Children have more need of models than of critics. – Joseph Joubert I would rather plant one living truth in the heart of a child that will multiply through the ages than scattera thousand brilliant conceits before a great audience that will flash like sparks for an instant and like sparksdisappear forever. – Pell The wildest colts make the best horses. – Plutarch It is the highest wisdom to pray for our children that while they are young their hearts may be given to theSavior. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher A parent should never make distinctions between his children. – The Talmud Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility. – Wiggin The potential of a child is the most intriguing thing in all creation. – Wilbur

CHRIST All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass-Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. –Alexander The death of Christ did not terminate but did germinate his work. – Anonymous Nothing will do except righteousness; and no other conception of righteousness will do except Christ’sconception of it. – Matthew Arnold, (1822-1888) English poet and literary critic Christ is not valued at all unless he be valued above all. – Augustine of Hippo (354-430) Christiantheologian God be thanked for that good and perfect gift, the gift unspeakable; His life, His love, His very self in Christ

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Jesus. – Babcock The name of Christ-the one great word-well worth all the languages in earth or heaven. – Bailey If revelation is by the Word alone, then Christ lived for nothing, and the Word was made flesh in vain. –Baillie If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love andhope decline. – Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887) American preacher, editor and orator A man who can read the New Testament and not see that Christ claims to be more than a man, can look allover the sky at high noon on a cloudless day and not see the sun. – William Edward Biederwolf, (1867-1939)American Bible teacher, Pastor.

Man of Sorrows! what a nameFor the Son of God, who cameRuined sinners to reclaim!Hallelujah, what a Saviour! -Philip Paul Bliss (1838-1876) American gospel hymn-writer, singer, and composer

Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor,that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the crown. – Brooks, Phillips (1835-1893), AmericanEpiscopal bishop Never does human nature see so courageous and so wicked all at once as when we stand before the crossof Jesus! The most enthusiastic hopes, the most profound humiliation, have found their inspiration there.– Brooks, Phillips (1835-1893), American Episcopal bishop Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity. – Brooks, Phillips (1835-1893),American Episcopal bishop In Jesus I see the picture of the kind of man I know I ought to be. – Brown To become Christlike is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which everyambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain. – Henry Drummond (1851-1897), scientist,evangelist, & author The dying Jesus is the evidence of God’s anger toward sin; but the living Jesus is the proof of God’s loveand forgiveness. – Eifert Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. – St. Francis ofAssisi (1182-1226), Founder of the Franciscan Order I love and venerate the religion of Christ, because Christ came into the world to deliver humanity fromslavery, for which God had not created it. – Garibaldi Jesus understood the individual, and had time for him. – Glover The strange thing about Jesus is that you can never get away from him. – Japanese student

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The most destructive criticism has not been able to dethrone Christ as the incarnation of perfect holiness.The waves of a tossing and restless sea of unbelief break at His feet, and he stands still the supreme model,the inspiration of great souls, the rest of the weary, the fragrance of all Christendom, the one divine flowerin the garden of God. – Johnson Thou hast conquered, Galilean. – Julian the Apostate Today the greatest single deterrent to knowledge of Jesus is his familiarity. Because we think we know him,we pass him by. – Kirkland If Christians had ever been brave enough to make Christ alive, nobody would now be saying that Christianityis dead. – Kirkland Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry. – Luther He did not come to conquer by force of armies and physical weapons but by love planted in the hearts ofindividuals. – Melton To the wisdom of the perfect teacher in Jesus was added the love of the perfect brother. – Murry If Christ comes to rule in the hearts of men, it will be because we take him with us on the tractor, behind thedesk, when we’re making a sale to a customer, or when we’re driving on the road. – Nunn They gave him a manger for a cradle, a carpenter’s bench for a pulpit, thorns for a crown, and a cross fora throne. He took them and made them the very glory of his career. – Orchard No other one thing has ever been such a power for the moral transformation of life as the experience offalling in love with Jesus. – Pratt Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived. His beauty is eternal, and his reign shall never end.Jesus is in every respect unique, and nothing can be compared with him. – Renan Of myself I can only say that I am an unprofitable servant; but I serve a good Master. – Rothe Christ has outlasted the empire that crucified Him nineteen centuries ago. He will outlast the dictators whodefy him now. – Sockman He was himself forsaken that none of his children might ever need to utter his cry of loneliness. – Vincient In darkness there is no choice. It is light that enables us the see the differences between things; and it isChrist that gives us light. – Whitmell

CHRISTIAN In order to see Christianity, one must forget almost all the Christians. – Henri Frédéric Amiel. (1821-1881),Swiss writer of French language If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere. – Henry Ward

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Beecher, (1813-1887) American preacher, editor and orator The Scriptures give four names to Christians-saints, for their holiness; believers, for their faith; brethren,for their love; disciples for their knowledge. – Andrew Fuller The world needs more than policy. It needs healing and practical instruction and an appreciation of otherpeople, which is the essence of applied Christianity. – Hays The Christianity that is shared is the Christianity that is convincing. – Hough The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love. – Jordan Many of us who profess to be Christians are so busy with the mechanics of our religion that we have no timeleft for the spiritual part of it. – Martin A church membership does not make a Christian any more than owning a piano make a musician. – Meador To be like Christ is to be a Christian. – Penn In the ethic of Christianity, it is the relation of the soul to God that is important, not the relation of man tohis fellow man. – Russell Many Christians are like chestnuts-very pleasant nuts, but enclosed in very prickly burrs, which need variousdealings of Nature and her grip of frost before the kernel is disclosed. – Smith A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude andadoration. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither a creed nora ceremonial, but a life vitally connected with a loving Christ. – Strong Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens. – Webster

CHURCH This was posted on a Bronx, New York, church bulletin board: “Do come in-Trespassers will be forgiven.”– Anonymous There is in this world nothing sacred but man, no sanctuary of God but the soul. – Anonymous The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education ofimperfect ones. – Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887) American preacher, editor and orator Unless there are people who are responding to the love of God as revealed in Christ and so are worshipingHim, the Church is not very important. – Blake The living Church, though never neat, keeps God’s world from complete disaster. – Macleod The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world, membership in which is based

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upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership. – Morrison The great sin of the church is to be so interested in serving those within it that it cannot serve the needs ofthose without. – Rasmussen We don’t go to church; we are the church. – Southcott Churches: Soulariums. – Thomajan To some people religious freedom means the choice of churches, which they may stay away from. – Yorktrade Compositor

CLERGYMAN I do not envy a clergyman’s life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life. –Samuel Johnson The defects of a preacher are soon spied. – Luther

COMFORT Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner. – Rutherford

COMMITMENT I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and livewholly to him. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright. – Charles H.Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

COMMON SENSE Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education. – Victor Hugo, (1802-1885) French author ofpoetry, drama, and novels Common sense is in spite of, not because of age. – Lord Thurlow

COMMUNITY No man is an island. – Daonne We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.– Hamerton Society is built upon trust. – South

COMPENSATION The prickly thorn often bears soft roses. – Ovid (43-18 B.C.) Greek poet Merciful Father, I will not complain. I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain. – Miller

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Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy. – Benjamin Franklin,(1706-1790) One of America’s Founding Fathers

CONDUCT A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.– Anonymous The only correct actions are those which require no explanation and no apology. – Auerbach True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to betreated. – Lord Chesterfield A man can never be a true gentleman in manner until he is a true gentleman at heart. – Charles Dickens,(1812-1870) Generally considered England’s greatest novelist Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practices in our social conversations,give greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments. – Kelly Life is not so short but that there is always room for courtesy. – Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)American poet and essayist Even power itself hath not one-half the might of gentleness. – Hunt Good manners are the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewestpeople uneasy is the best bred. – Swift We can not always oblige, but we can always speak obligingly. – Voltaire (1694 - 1778) French author,humanist, rationalist, & satirist

CONFESSION It does not spoil you happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession. –Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

CONFIDENCEBelieve in yourself and you will turn more of yourself into practical use. – Anonymous How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears up the world. – Richter Look at that beautiful butterfly and learn from it to trust in God. One might wonder where it could live intempestuous nights, in the whirlwind, or in the stormy day; but I have noticed it is safe and dry under thebroad leaf while rivers have been flooded and the mountain oaks torn up from their roots. – J. Taylor CONSCIENCE A bad conscience embitters the sweetest comforts; a good one sweetens the bitterest crosses. – Anonymous To enter into the world and there live firmly and fearlessly according to your own conscience, that isChristian greatness. – Anonymous

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A sleeping pill will never take the place of a clear conscience. – Cantor A good conscience is a continual Christmas. – Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) One of America’s FoundingFathers There is always a voice saying the right thing to you somewhere, if you’ll only listen for it. – Hughes Every man, however good has a yet better man within him. When the outer man is unfaithful to his deeperconvictions, the hidden man whispers a protest. The name of this whisper in the soul is conscience. –Humboldt He will easily be content and at peace whose conscience is pure. – Kempis Conscience is a sacred sanctuary where God alone may enter as judge. – Lamennais Conscience is a walkie-talkie set by which God speaks to us. – Metcalf Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body. – Jean Jacques Rousseau,(1712-1778) Swiss-born French author and philosopher Live with men as if God saw you; converse with God as if men heard you. – Seneca (4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Tutorof the Roman Emperor Nero There is no witness so terrible-no accuser so powerful as conscience. – Sophocles (496-405 B.C.) Greekdramatist He was a fool who killed the watchdog because it alarmed him when thieves were breaking into his house.If conscience upbraids you, feel its rebuke. It is your best friend. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) EnglishBaptist preacher Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge. – Stanislaus There is a difference between him who does no misdeeds because of his own conscience and him who iskept from wrongdoing because of the presence of others. – The Talmud

CONSECRATIONThe consecrated, one-talent man or woman has promise of a larger influence than any intellectual genius thathas not met the Master. – Zwemer

CONTENTMENT True contentment is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. – Chesterton Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another. – Condorcet You can within yourself find a mighty, unexplored kingdom in which you can dwell in peace if you will.– Conwell There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed. – Gandhi

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Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness. –William Ewart Gladstone, (1809-1898) British statesmen Blessed is the man who can enjoy the small things, the common beauties, the little day-by-day events;sunshine on the fields, birds on the bough, breakfast, dinner, supper, the daily paper on the porch, a friendpassing by. So many people who go afield for enjoyment leave it behind them at home. – Grayson Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing handwhat is sufficient for his wants. – Horace (65-8 B.C.), Roman poet It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are. – Mackintosh He is well paid that is well satisfied. – William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet You say, “If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.” You make a mistake. If you are not content withwhat you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) EnglishBaptist preacher A man’s contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)English Baptist preacher

CONVERSATION Silence is one great art of conversation. – Hazlitt The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.– Temple

CONVERSION O Lord, convert the world – and begin with me. – A Chinese student’s prayer Conversion is but the first step in the divine life. – As long as we live we should more and more be turningfrom all that is evil, and to all that is good. – Edwards Conversion is separating ourselves from the course and custom of this world, and devoting ourselves to theconduct of the word of God. – Henry Walk by new rules, towards new ends, from new principles. Make a new choice of the way. Choose newpaths to walk in, new leaders to walk after, new companions to walk with. Old things should pass away, andall things become new. The man is what he was not, does what he did not. – Henry

COURAGE Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. – Conte Vittorio Alfieri, 1749-1803, Italian poet

COURTESYTo speak kindly does not hurt the tongue. – French Proverb Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. – Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)

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American poet and essayist

COVETOUSNESS The man who covets is always poor. – Claudian Though the home is a palace, yet to a discontented mind it is a prison. – Henry Those that will not be content with their allotments shall not have the comfort of their achievements. –Henry

CRITICISM It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. – Benjamin Disraeli, (1804-1881) British statesman If we can prove ourselves to God in all we do in religion and do it as before the Lord, we need not value thecensures and reproaches of men. – Henry In judging and censuring our brethren, we meddle with that which does not belong to us: we have workenough to do at home; and, if we must needs be judging, let us exercise our faculty upon our own hearts andways. – Henry

CROSS The cross is <I’ crossed out. – Anonymous The cross is the only ladder high enough to touch Heaven’s threshold. – Boardman The cross is the ladder to heaven. – Draxe In some strange and mystical way, Calvary is in the geography of the infinite, and the crucifixion is in thecalendar of the timeless. – Hughes To remember Jesus is to remember first of all his Cross. – John Knox, (1514-1572) Scottish reformer of theChurch of Scotland

Shall we for a moment boast in that flesh which He condemned by the Cross? – Samuel Ridout (1855-1930)American Bible teacher and editor

No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary. Nowhere does the soul find suchconsolation as on that very spot where misery reigned, where woe triumphed, where agony reached itsclimax. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher Nothing provokes the devil like the cross. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher The Cross of Christ must be either the darkest spot of all in the mystery of existence or a searchlight by theaid of which we may penetrate the surrounding gloom. – Streeter Nothing in my hand I bring, simply to Thy Cross I cling. – Toplady

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crucified unto me, and I unto the world. – Galatians 6:14

When I survey the wondrous crossOn which the Prince of glory died,My richest gain I count but lossAnd pour contempt on all my pride.-Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Independent minister, hymn-writer

DEATH Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, thebutterfly; in man the soul. – Adam Some die without having really lived, while others continue to live, in spite of the fact that they have died.– Anonymous Death and Love are two wings, which bear men from earth to Heaven. – Anonymous Death to the Christian is the funeral of all his sorrows and evils, and the resurrection of all his joys. – JohnHill Aughey (1828-1911), American Presbyterian Clergyman & author The fear of death is worse than death. – Burton To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. – Campbell This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living. – Tryon Edwards Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. – Frohman Those are dead even for this life that hope for no other.– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Germannovelist, poet, & scientist We are but tenants and...shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired. – ThomasJefferson (1743-1826), author, historian, philosopher, & educator We picture death as coming to destroy; let us rather picture Christ as coming to save. We think of death asending; let us rather think of life as beginning and that more abundantly. We think of losing; let us think ofgaining. We think of parting, let us think of meeting. We think of going away; let us think of arriving. Andas the voice of death whispers “You must go from earth,” let us hear the voice of Christ saying, “You arebut coming to Me!” – Macleod We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.-Manilus Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last final awakening. – Scott Depend upon it, there is no pain in dying. The pain is in living. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) EnglishBaptist preacher

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Men have been helped to live by remembering that they must die. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)English Baptist preacher Death cures; it is the best medicine, for they who die are not only almost well, but also healed forever. –Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)English Baptist preacher It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have beendesigned by Providence as an evil to mankind. – Swift God’s finger touched him, and he slept. – Alfred Tennyson, (1809-1892) British poet

DEEDS Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. – Chesterfield Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. – Garibaldi

DEMOCRACY When everybody is somebody, then nobody is anybody. – Anonymous Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. – HarryEmerson Fosdick, (1878 - 1969) American Clergyman Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people. – Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865)Sixteenth President of the United States

DESIRE It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. – Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) Oneof America’s Founding Fathers

DESPAIR Despair is the conclusion of fools. – Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881) British politician With heights of joy in serving my Master I am happily familiar. But into the very depths of despair-such aninward sinking, as I cannot describe-I have likewise sunk. Yet I do know that my Redeemer lives, that thebattle is sure, that the victory is safe. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

DESTINY Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to beachieved. – Bryan Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. – Elliot

DEVIL The devil’s most devilish when respectable. – Browning

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The devil has at least one good quality that he will flee if we resist him. – Though cowardly in him, it issafety for us. – Edwards Speak the truth and shame the Devil. – Rabelais I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tellhim that through God I am more than a match for him. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptistpreacher He can make men dance upon the brink of hell as though they were on the verge of heaven. – Charles H.Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

DEVOTION A man’s religion is his ultimate attempt to enlarge and complete his own personality by finding the supremecontext in which he rightly belongs. – Allport Ten minutes spent in Christ’s society ever day, aye, two minutes, if it were face to face and heart to heart,will make the whole life different. – Henry Drummond (1851-1897), scientist, evangelist, & author It is only in contemplative moments that life is truly vital. – Santayana When God intended to reveal any future events or high notions to His prophets, he then carried them eitherto the deserts or the seashore, that having so separated them from amidst the press of people and business,and the cares of the world, He might settle their mind in a quiet repose, and there make them fit forrevelation. – Walton The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a man without faults, but a man whohas given himself without reserve to God. – Westcott

DIFFICULTY The best way out of a difficulty is through it. – Anonymous The three things most difficult are – to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure.– Chilo Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect toobtain the other. – Metastasio

DISAPPOINTMENT Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air. – Schiller

DISCONTENT Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress in individuals and in nations. – Auerbach

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. – Charles H.Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

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Speak as little as may be of thy neighbor or of anything that concerns him, unless an opportunity offers tosay something good of him. – Scupoli A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake, as by never repeating it. – Bovee

DISPLAY Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom. – Karr

DOUBT Doubters invert the metaphor and insist that they need faith as big as a mountain in order to move a mustardseed. – Anonymous Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away fromdiscouragement. – Culver If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far aspossible, all things. – Descartes The sun, with all those planets moving round it, can ripen the smallest bunch of grapes as if it had nothingelse to do. Why then should I doubt His power? – Galileo Why didn’t someone tell me that I could become a Christian and settle the doubts afterward? – Harper

Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, and cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith. – Alfred Tennyson,(1809-1892) British poet Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. – WilliamShakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet DRINK Water is the only drink for a wise man. – Henry David Thoreau, (1817-1862) American essayist, naturalist,and lecturer

DUTY Happy is the man who has learned to do this one thing: To do the plain duty of the moment quickly andcheerfully, whatever it may be. – Anonymous In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. – Augustine of Hippo (354-430)Christian theologian Duty done is the soul’s fireside. – Browning Our grand business is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies closely at hand. – ThomasCarlyle, (1795-1881) Scottish author Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.– Donne

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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another. – Eliot Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as weunderstand it. – Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865) Sixteenth President of the United States Let men laugh, if they will when you sacrifice desire to duty. You have time and eternity to rejoice in. –Parker Every duty, which we omit, obscures some truth, which we should have known. – John Ruskin, (1819-1900)English critic of the arts social reformer

EARNESTNESS Vigor is contagious; and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges ourfield of action. – Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) American poet and essayist

EATING Thou shouldest eat to live; not live to eat. –Cicero (106-43 B.C.) Roman orator, politician, and philosopher

ECONOMY Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. – Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) One ofAmerica’s Founding Fathers

EDUCATION Education is nothing if it is not the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. – SIMNET The best and most important part of every man’s education is that which he gives himself. – Gibbon Knowledge and timber shouldn’t be used until they are seasoned. – Oliver W. Holmes

It would be better to abandon our over-rapid development of the intellect and to aim rather at training theheart and the affections. – Victor Hugo, (1802-1885) French author of poetry, drama, and novels The educated man is the one who refuses to view the world from the steeple of his own church. – MissionaryTidings Some people never learn anything because they understand everything too soon. – Alexander Pope The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of idea. – Santayana

EGOTISM Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself. – Pascal

EMULATION It’s no shame to follow the better precedent. – Johnson

ENEMY Man is his own worst enemy. –Cicero (106-43 B.C.) Roman orator, politician, and philosopher

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ENTHUSIASMNothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. – Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) American poetand essayist

ENVY As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man. – St. Chrysostoma When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad. – Tacitus

EQUALITY Let’s go hand in hand, not one before another. – William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist andpoet Equal rights for all, special privileges for none. – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), author, historian,philosopher, & educator

ERROR There will be mistakes in divinity while men preach, and errors in government while men govern. – Carleton The cautious seldom err. – Confucius (551-479 B.C.) Chinese philosopher Nature does not require that we be perfect; it requires only that we grow, and we can do this as well froma mistake as from a success. – May To err is human, to forgive divine. – Pope From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. – Sorus

ETERNITY The whole purpose of life in time is to gain merit for life in eternity. – Augustine of Hippo (354-430)Christian theologian The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity. – Browne He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time. – Thomas Carlyle, (1795-1881) Scottish author Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grows meaner and more hostile. – Thomas Carlyle, (1795-1881)Scottish author Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now. –Gilman Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If weare susceptible of attachment, there are beings to gratify the love. If we thirst for life and love eternal, it islikely that there are an eternal life and an eternal love to satisfy that craving. – Robertson Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal. – Ryden

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That only is worth my having which I can have forever. That only is worth my grasping which death cannottear out of my hand. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

EVIL To be free from evil thoughts is God’s best gift. – Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Athenian tragic dramatist All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. – Burke We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birdsthat fly over the seedpod, he has to guard. The sole responsibility in each case is to prevent them fromsettling. – Collins Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content that there is evil, and that there is a wayto escape from it, and with this I begin and end. – John Newton (1725-1807) English evangelical ministerand hymn-writer Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. – Pascal Evil often triumphs, but never conquers. – Roux Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.– John Ruskin, (1819-1900) English critic of the arts social reformer There are times when it would seem as if God fished with a line, and the devil with a net. – Switching Evil is an antagonism with the entire creation. – Zschokke

EXAMPLE If you want your neighbor to see what the Christ spirit will do for him, let him see what it has done for you.– Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887) American preacher, editor and orator None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing. – Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) One ofAmerica’s Founding Fathers One example is worth a thousand arguments. – William Ewart Gladstone, (1809-1898) British statesmen No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt. – Hyde Nobody will know what you mean by saying that God is love unless you act it as well. – Jacks Children have more need of models than of critics. – Joseph Joubert (1754-1824), French philosopher Nothing is so infectious as example. – Kingsley

EXCUSE An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded. – Pope

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Everything comes if a man will only wait. – Benjamin Disraeli, (1804-1881) British statesman Blessed are those that naught expect, For they shall not be disappointed. – Walcot

EXPERIENCE There is many a profitable good lesson to be learned by experience. – Henry We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do by finding outwhat will not do; and probably he who never made. a mistake never made. a discovery. – Samuel Smiles Is there any one so wise as to learn by the experience of others? – Voltaire (1694 - 1778) French author,humanist, rationalist, & satirist

EYES The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people. – German Proverb

FAILURE Failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. – Bovee He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts. – Whately

FAITH Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations. – Addison Without faith, we are as stained glass windows in the dark. – Anonymous There are no miracles to men who do not believe in them. – Anonymous It is not faith and works; it is not faith or works; it is faith that works. – Anonymous For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see? – Augustine of Hippo (354-430) Christiantheologian On the whole, more people are cheated by believing nothing than by believing too much. – Barnum If the way be rough with thorns and stones, may faith provide. a balm to soothe your weary, bleeding feetand fill your soul with calm. – Carruth All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he whodoubts is weak. Strong convictions precede. great actions. – Clarke Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see. – Clarke To me, faith means not worrying. – Dewey All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all that I have not seen.-Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) American poet and essayist

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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at his word. – Evans Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us. – Forsyth It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free. – Harry EmersonFosdick, (1878 - 1969) American Clergyman Faith is an act of rational choice which determines us to act as if certain things were true and in the confidentexpectation that they will prove to be true. – Inge There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out. – Jones Dark as my path may seem to others, I carry a magic light in my heart. Faith, the spiritual strong searchlightillumines the way, and although sinister doubts lurk in the shadow, I walk unafraid toward the EnchantedWood where the foliage is always green, where joy abides, where nightingales nest and sing, and where lifeand death are one in the presence of the Lord. – Keller Browning speaks of “grasping the skirts of God,” but no man ever grasped the skirts of God by knowledgealone. Knowledge may have raised his arm, but faith moved his fingers and closed them in deathless grip.– Lawton A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul. – Dwight L.Moody (1837-1899) American evangelist The truly religious man does everything as if everything depended upon himself, and then leaves everythingas if everything depended on God. – Parker The faith that saves is the total response of the whole self tot he will of God. It is the response of the mindin belief, the heart in trust, the will in conduct. It is to accept the fact that God goes all out for us, and thento be willing to go all out for God. – Redhead Faith can place a candle in the darkest night. – Sangster Faith is like love; it cannot be forced. – Schopenhauer Little faith will bring your soul to heaven; great faith will bring heaven to your soul. – Charles H. Spurgeon(1834-1892) English Baptist preacher Faith, mighty faith the promise sees and rests on that alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And says it shall bedone – Wesley

FALSEHOOD There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coal pit, and twice as foul. – Henry Ward Beecher,(1813-1887) American preacher, editor and orator

FAME It’s better to live forever in the grateful memory of one true heart, than to float for a little hour on the highestcrest of fame. – Albertson

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Do good and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storm of life can never destroy. Write yourname in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of thousands you come in contact with year after year; youwill never be forgotten. No, your name, your deeds will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind as thestars on the bow of the evening. Good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven. – Chalmers No other fame can be compared with that of Jesus. He has a place in the human heart that no one who everlived has in any measure rivaled. No name is pronounced with a tone of such love and veneration. All otherlaurels wither before His. His are ever kept fresh with tears of gratitude. – Channing If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worthwriting. – Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) One of America’s Founding Fathers The truly illustrious are they who do not court the praise of the world, but perform the actions which deserveit. – Tilton

FATE We make our fortunes and we call them fate. – Benjamin Disraeli, (1804-1881) British statesman

FAULT The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. – Thomas Carlyle, (1795-1881) Scottishauthor

FAVOR That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one. – Plautus

FEAR Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. – Aristotle The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. – F.D. Roosevelt Fear actually is related to love, as are all passions. Love is an attraction for an object; fear is flight from it.– Sheen Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. – Van Dyke

FELLOWSHIP Open the door of the heart; let in sympathy sweet for stranger and kin. It will make the halls of the heart sofair, that angels will enter unaware. – Anonymous People need other people as a performer needs an audience. People need to know that other people aredepending upon them, waiting for them, pulling with them. People need people who believe in them, trustthem, and expect much of them. – Evans As I look around me, I seem to find that the one thing which deepens life, which gives it resonance, whichbrings it great joy, is the putting of one’s self outside one’s self into another self or personality. – Overstreet A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out. – Shaw

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Make all, within your society, members of the crew and permit no passengers. – Trueblood The people with whom we travel are much more important than the place to which we travel. – Wright

FORBEARANCEWe anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall becordially tolerant and earnest both at once. – Brooks, Phillips (1835-1893), American Episcopal bishop To bear injuries, or annoying and vexatious events, meekly, patiently, prayerfully, and with self-control, ismore than taking a city. – Simmons It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtainbefore his stains, and to display his perfection; to bury his weaknesses in silence, but to proclaim his virtueson the housetop. – Smith Cultivate forbearance till your heart yields a fine crop of it. Pray for a short memory as to all unkindness.– Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

FORGIVENESS He who forgives ends the quarrel. – African Proverb Every person should have a special cemetery lot in which to bury the faults of friends and loved ones. –Anonymous The best way to get even is to forget. – Anonymous The habit of judging and condemning others is usually a great deal more serious blemish than are the thingswe so glibly point out as flaws or faults. – Anonymous They, who forgive most, shall be most forgiven. – Bailey “I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I cannot forgive.” – Henry WardBeecher, (1813-1887) American preacher, editor and orator Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more. – Bismarck Good, to forget; Best to forgive. – Browning Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive aninjury. – Chapin Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgivingtheir enemies. – Lord Chesterfield They never pardon who commit the wrong. – Dryden His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. – Emerson,

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Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) American poet and essayist The noblest revenge is to forgive. – Fuller He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reachheaven; for every one has need to be forgiven. – Herbert In the sphere of forgiveness, too many hatchets are buried alive. – Hubbard Forgiving the unrepentant is like drawing pictures on the water. – Japanese Proverb A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to passaway in unnecessary pain. – Johnson We pardon in the degree that we love. – La Rochefoucauld He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life. – JohannKaspar Lavater (1741-1801), Swiss theologian, and poet Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one, makes you even with him; forgiving it sets youabove him. – Nylic Review It is only one step from toleration to forgiveness. – Pinero To love is human; it is also human to forgive. – Plautus Good nature and good sense must ever join; to err is human, to forgive, divine. – Plautus A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury; for he has it then in his power to makehimself superior to the other by forgiving it. – Pope We win by tenderness; we conquer by forgiveness. – Robertson The narrow soul knows not the Godlike quality of forgiving. – Rowe There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries. – Simmons Pass smoothly over the perverseness of those you have to do with, and go straightforward. It is abundantlysufficient that you have the testimony of a good conscience toward God. – Wesley It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive. – Winter

FORTUNE Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time. – Livy

FRIENDSHIP No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded ofeach other’s worth. – Anonymous

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A friend is a present you give yourself. – Anonymous They who have loved together have been drawn close; they who have struggled together are forever linked;but they who have suffered together have known the most sacred bond of all. – Anonymous Insomuch as any one pushes you nearer to God, he or she is your friend. – Anonymous The strength and sweetness of friendship depend on sincerity tempered by sympathy. – Anonymous Friendship is the great opportunity to demonstrate our capacity for lofty and ennobling relationships withoutthe motive of selfishness. – Appleby What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Aristotle Life is sweeter, stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend’s existence, whether he be near or far. Ifthe friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he is still there to think of, to wonder about, tohear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love. – Benson Friendship cannot be permanent unless it becomes spiritual. There must be fellowship in the deepest thingsof the soul, community in the highest thoughts, sympathy with the best endeavors. – Black Friends should be chosen by a higher principle of selection than any worldly one. They should be chosenfor character, for goodness, for truth and trustworthiness, because they have sympathy with us in our bestthoughts and holiest aspirations, because they have community of mind in the things of the soul. – Black Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualities that wemost admire. – Bonnard Friendship is in loving rather than in being loved. – Bridges It brings comfort to have companions in whatever happens. – Chrysostoma The whole fruit of friendship is in the love itself, for it is not the advantage, procured through a friend, buthis love itself that gives delight. –Cicero (106-43 B.C.) Roman orator, politician, and philosopher Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. – Delille The only way to have a friend is to be one. – Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) American poet andessayist My friends have come unsought. The great God gave them to me. – Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)American poet and essayist It is possible for two people who have wide differences of preference and opinion, of habits, of teaching,of training, of background and belief to enjoy the company of each other in many ways. Indeed, a diversityof friendships is one of life’s real enrichments. To learn of the goodness of those who are unlike-their worth,their sincerity, their good hearts, their good minds, their good company-is rich and rewarding. It is wonderfulto have a wide range of choice friends who can be counted on, friends who can be enjoyed and loved and

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trusted. Such is the meaning of friendship. – Evans The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. – Home Blessed are they, who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves manythings, but above all, the power of going out of one’s self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving inanother. – Hughes We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there isat last a drop that makes it run over, so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one that makes the heart runover. – Johnson Those are our best friends in whose presence we are able to be our best selves. – Kohler Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. – Fontaine Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you and you will be surprised whata happy life you will live. – Schwab Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. – Seneca (4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Tutor of the Roman EmperorNero Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in continue firm and constant. – Socrates (470-399 B.C.)Greek philosopher It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtainbefore his weaknesses and to display his perfections; to bury his shortcomings in silence but to proclaim hisvirtues on the housetop. – South A friend will be sure to act the part of an advocate before he will assume that of a judge.-South A true friend is the gift of God, and he only who made hearts can unite them. – South By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication, the noblestsufferings, the severest truth, the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds of which brave men andwomen are capable. – Taylor Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls. – Taylor Constantly look for a new friend, a truly first-class person, one who has the courage to criticize, to demandyour best self, a person who has different interests and different beliefs from yours, a friend for whom youcan render a constructive service. Devote energy toward making such friends. Retain them, never let themgo, and continue making new friends until you die. – Terhune In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then recognition ofinterdependence. – Van Dyke

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FUTURE When all else is lost, the future still remains. – Bovee I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. – Albert Einstein (1879-1955) American (German-born)physicist I desire no future that will break the ties of the past. – Eliot The future that we study and plan for begins today. – Fischer Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. – Luther The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. – Seneca (4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Tutor of the RomanEmperor Nero All that we have learned, felt, and thought, all our experience from birth to now; all the love that nourishedus at other times, all the yearnings rooted in our spirits-all these are with us as we move into the unknownway. – Thurman

GENEROSITY Men might be better if we better deemed of them. The worst way to improve the world is to condemn it. –Bailey When a man does a noble act, date him from that. Forget his faults. Let his noble act be the standpoint fromwhich you regard him. – Bellows We should be as generous with a man as we are with a picture, which we are always willing to give thebenefit of the best light. – Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) American poet and essayist He, who is not liberal with what he has, does but deceive himself when he thinks he would be liberal if hehad more. – Tulner

GENIUS A woman must be a genius to create a good husband. – Balzac Genius is only great patience. – Buffon

GIFTS, GIVING It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving. – Braunstein It is not an accident that seventeen of the thirty-six parables of our Lord had to do with property andstewardship. – Dawson Christian giving is God’s divine plan to make us like Himself; it reveals our religion and bares our souls;it is prophetic and has to do with the inner sensitiveness and gives a keener vision to His work and plans.– Denison God has given us two hands-one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for

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hoarding; we are channels made for sharing. – Graham Give what you have. To someone it may be better than you dare to think. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,(1807-1882) American poet and translator Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous. – Maimonides All we can hold in our cold dead hands is what we have given away. – Sanskrit Proverb Giving is the secret of a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a man has of encouragement andsympathy and understanding. – J.D. Rockefeller, Jr. You do not have to be rich to be generous. If he has the spirit of true generosity, a pauper can give like aprince. – Wells

GOD Fear that man who fears not God. – Abdl-el-Kader Man thinks, God directs. – Alcuin If God loved you as much as you love him, where would you be? – Anonymous When God measures a man, he puts the tape around the heart not the head. – Anonymous May we not worry but believe in Thee, our Great Parent. – Bunjiro Come near to God. He is your friend. – Bunjiro God keeps up a continual conversation with every creature. – Claudel God’s love for poor sinners is very wonderful, but God’s patience with ill-natured saints is a deeper mystery.– Henry Drummond (1851-1897), scientist, evangelist, & author God has a thousand ways where I can see not one; when all my means have reached their end then His havejust begun. – Guyot Adore God as if you could see Him; for although you cannot see Him, He can see you. – Hadith (Muslim) Call on God, but row away from the rocks. – Indian Proverb The remarkable thing about the way in which people talk about God, or about their relation to God, is thatit seems to escape them completely that God hears what they are saying. – Soren Kierkegaard, (1813-1855)Danish philosopher and religious thinker It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the greatGod who made him. – Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865) Sixteenth President of the United States God doesn’t always smooth the path, but sometimes he puts springs in the wagon. – Lucas

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I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans. – Macdonald Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little in comparison with eternal realities. – McCheyne Each of us may be sure that if God sends us on stony paths, He will provide us with strong shoes. He willnot send us out on any journey for which he does not equip us well. – Mediggo Message Belief of God is acceptance of the basic principle that the universe makes sense, that there is behind it anultimate purpose. – Miller The world is God’s epistle to mankind-his thoughts are flashing upon us from every direction. – Plato (427?-347 B.C.) Ancient Greek philosopher God could have kept Daniel out of the lion’s den...He could have kept Paul and Silas out of jail-He couldhave kept the three Hebrew children out of the fiery furnace...But God has never promised to keep us outof hard places...What he has promised is to go with us through every hard place, and to bring us throughvictoriously. – Rosell God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home. – Roux When God shuts a door, He opens a window. – John Ruskin, (1819-1900) English critic of the arts socialreformer Our ground of hope is that God does not weary of mankind. – Sockman In the days of my youth I remembered my God and he hath not forgotten my age. – Robert Southey(1774-1843), English poet In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are hisgift to all alike. – Stowe I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help him. I ended up by asking him to do his workthrough me. – Taylor Reach up as far as you can, and God will reach down all the way. – Vincent He who sincerely praises God will soon discover within his soul an inclination to praise goodness in hisfellow man. – Wilson

GOOD-HUMOR Good-humor makes all things tolerable. – Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887) American preacher, editor andorator

GOODNESS Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; andwithout it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. – Francis Bacon, (1561-1626) English statesmanand philosopher of science

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Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. – To be good is the greatthing. – Chapin True goodness springs from a man’s own heart. – Confucius (551-479 b.C.) Chinese philosopher When good men die their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. – Euripides I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody. – Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790)One of America’s Founding Fathers Goodness is love in action, love with its hand to the plow, love with the burden on its back, love followinghis footsteps who went about continually doing good. – Hamilton The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. – Lamb No amount of good deeds can make us good persons. We must be good before we can do good. –Pennington It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good. – Sophocles (496-405 B.C.) Greekdramatist He that is a good man is three quarters of his way toward the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives,or whatsoever he is called. – South The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God. – Stael

GOSPEL The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst. D. MartynLloyd-Jones (1899-1981) – Welsh preacher and writer

We can learn nothing of the gospel except by feeling its truths. There are some sciences that may be learnedby the head, but the science of Christ crucified can only be learned by the heart. – Charles H. Spurgeon(1834-1892) English Baptist preacher My heart has always assured and reassured me that the gospel of Christ must be a Divine reality. – Webster

GRACE Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world; first a dawning; then a light; and at last thesun in his full and excellent brightness. – Adams God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men’s weaknesses. – Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887)American preacher, editor and orator Grace has been defined, the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. – Book of CommonPrayer I have never known the time when I have felt for a moment free from a sense of unworthiness, or free from

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a consciousness of imperfection and of a sinful nature, but since I have come to understand that I amaccepted of God on the ground of Christ’s righteousness and not my own, and therefore my standing is inHim and His righteousness and not my own, I have ceased even to question the fact of my present salvation.– Stebbins

GRATITUDE Some people complain because God put thorns on roses, while others praise Him for putting roses amongthorns. – Anonymous He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it. – Charron A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. – Cicero (106-43 B.C.)Roman orator, politician, and philosopher Gratitude is the heart’s memory. – French Proverb Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done,whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperanceand self control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which theidle never know. – Kingsley A grateful thought toward heaven is of itself a prayer. – Lessing The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart. – Plutarch Gratitude to God should be as habitual as the reception of mercies is constant, as ardent as the number ofthem is great, as devout as the riches of divine grace and goodness is incomprehensible. – Simmons God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in meek and thankful hearts. – Walton

GREATNESS A contemplation of God’s works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exerciseof humility-these only, denominate men great and glorious. – Addison The study of God’s word, for the purpose of discovering God’s will, is the secret discipline which hasformed the greatest characters. – Alexander Greatness consists not in holding some high office; Greatness really consists in doing some great deed withlittle means; in the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life. – Conwell Some must be great. Great offices will have great talents. And God gives to every man the virtue, temper,understanding, taste that lifts him into life and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fall. –William Cowper (1731-1800) English poet and hymn-writer. Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world.– Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) American poet and essayist

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whose spirit is entering into living peace. And the men who have this life in them are the true Lords andkings of the earth. – John Ruskin, (1819-1900) English critic of the arts social reformer

GRIEF There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. –Cicero (106-43 B.C.) Roman orator, politician,and philosopher

HABIT In company, guard your tongue; in solitude, your heart. Our words need watching; but so also do ourthoughts and imaginations, which grow active when alone. – Anonymous Habit if not resisted, soon becomes a necessity. – Anonymous The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. – Johnson

HANDS God looks at pure, not full, hands. – Sorus

HAPPINESS Happiness is neither within us only, or without us; it is the union of ourselves with God. – Pascal It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher Happy is the soul that has something to look backward to with pride, and something to look forward to withhope. – Wilson When we have the right sort of religion, and enough to it, our lives will become lyric and epic; we shall burstinto songs that even the angels will stop to hear. – Zion’s Herald

HATE The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own. – Petit-Senn

HEARING We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less. – Laertius

HEAVEN Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but as the natural effect, of a religious life. – Addison This world is but the vestibule of eternity. Every good thought or deed touches a chord that vibrates inheaven. – Anonymous Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunionsof tomorrow. – Bryan Our heart is in heaven; our home is not here. – Heber It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven. – Henry

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Heaven is a state of service, though not of suffering; it is a state of rest, but not of sloth; it is a praisingdelightful rest. – Henry No man can resolve himself into heaven. – Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899) American evangelist Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. – Moore Heaven, the treasury of everlasting joy. – William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet

The secret is that you and I come equipped with a built-in inclination to expect life to have some kind ofsequel beyond death. – Speakman To get to heaven turn right and keep straight. – Wesleyan Methodist As much of heaven is visible as we have eyes to see. – Winter

HELL It is shocking to reflect that a change in the weather has more effect on some men’s lives than the dreadalternative of heaven or hell. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

HELP To the man who himself strives earnestly, God also lends a helping hand. – Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.),Athenian tragic dramatist Blessed are the happiness makers; blessed are they that remove friction, that make the courses of life smoothand the converse of men gentle. – Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887) American preacher, editor and orator Light is the task when many share the toil. – Homer (10th-9th century B.C.) The earliest Greek writer-TheIliad

HISTORY Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held his breath. – Butterfield There was a Man who dwelt in the East centuries ago and now I cannot look at a sheep or a sparrow, a lilyor a cornfield, a raven or a sunset, a vineyard or a mountain without thinking of Him. – Chesterton The historian is a prophet looking backwards. – Schlegel The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable. – Sockman

HOLINESS It is a mistake to suppose that God does not want us to be holy until death, for that would mean that Hewants us to be unholy until death. God does not want us to be unholy at any time. – Anonymous What Christianity most needs in her antagonism with every form of unbelief, is holy living. – Christlieb

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Real holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, andthe honor of God as its end. – Emmons Holiness does not consist in doing uncommon things, but in doing every thing with purity of heart. –Manning It is a great deal better to live a holy life than to talk about it. Lighthouses do not ring bells and fire cannonto call attention to their shining-they just shine. – Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899) American evangelist The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the might of theSpirit of God. – Pascal Whoso lives the holiest life is fittest far to die. – Preston I believe the holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness that remains in him. – CharlesH. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God builds up His living temple. – Charles H. Spurgeon(1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

HOLY SPIRIT “I am only a wick... It is only when the wick is soaked in oil that it can burn... If people begin to talk aboutthe wick, there is generally something wrong with the burning.” (D. H. Dolman, British evangelist andWriter)

“...authority is given to serve, not to set you apart.” (John Bevere; The Bait of Satan)

“The prayers stand where the fighters fell.” (Rich Mullins; The Just Shall Live)

“When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died, my richest gain I count but loss andpour contempt on all my pride. Forbid it Lord, that I should boast, save in the death of Christ my Lord. Allthe vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to His blood. See from His head, His hands, His feet,sorrow and love flow mingled down. Did e’re such love and sorrow meet or thorns compose so rich acrown? Were the whole realm of nature mine, that were an offering far too small. Love so amazing, sodivine demands my soul, my life, my all.” (Isaac Watts; When I Survey, British evangelist and song writer)

“He who kneels most, stands best.” (D. L. Moody, American pastor, evangelist and Bible teacher)

“You don’t have to advertise a fire.” (Leonard Ravenhill, British evangelist and Bible teacher)

“They say that when You died, You were barely thirty-three...I know You died to make men holy, but Youlive to set them free. You never once looked back. You hung on the cross and gave Your life for me. Youdidn’t take up a rod to rule; You took up a towel and washed my feet. And You are beautiful; You’rebeautiful to me. If I could be a hero, I’d wanna be a hero just like You.” (David Mullen; Hero)

“One of Evan Roberts’ severest trials during the revival was his being the object of men’s worship. A friendof his once told me of finding him lying on the floor crying to the Lord to bring this to naught so that all theglory should go to God alone.” (I.V. Neprash)

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When asked how he drew the crowds: “I set myself on fire and people come to watch me burn” (JohnWesley, British evangelist, founder of Methodism) “Revival comes when you seek God and repent, not when you seek the manifesting and hope God is theresomewhere.” (Pastor Todd Nelson)

“By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has got a fever.”(Watchman Nee, Chinese evangelist and Bible teacher)

“Preach always. If necessary use words.” (St. Francis of Assissi) “If you seek Him because you love Him, and not for your own agenda’s sake to be successful or noticed,you will not go wrong.” (John Arnott; When It All Began, article in Spread the Fire Magazine)

“...they love the altar and delight in the sacrifice, [but] are yet unable to reconcile themselves to thecontinued absence of fire.” (A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God, American evangelist and Bible teacher) “Each of us needs to learn – even if the lesson is painful – that our work doesn’t belong to us.” (DavidWilkerson; Beyond the Cross and the Switchblade, American pastor, evangelist and Bible teacher)

“I did not know my savage thirst until You led me to Your well. I did not know I lived in chains until Youfreed me.” (Randy Stonehill, Fire) “I’m confident to tremble in Your presence once again.” (Out Of The Grey, Come Clean) “I should as soon attempt to raise flowers if there were no atmosphere, or produce fruits if there were neitherlight nor heat, as to regenerate men if I did not believe there was a Holy Ghost.” (Henry W. Beecher,American pastor and evangelist) “When men surrender themselves to the Spirit of God, they will learn more concerning God and Christ andthe Atonement and Immortality in a week, than they would learn in a lifetime, apart from the Spirit.”(Brown) “The word ‘Comforter’ as applied to the Holy Spirit needs to be translated by some vigorous term. Literally,it means ‘with strength.’ Jesus promised His followers that ‘The Strengthener’ would be with them forever.This promise is no lullaby for the faint-hearted. It is a blood transfusion for courageous living.” (Hovey) “The Spirit of God first imparts love; he next inspires hope and then gives liberty; and that is about the lastthing we have in many of our churches.” (D. L. Moody, American pastor, evangelist and Bible teacher)

“It is essential that we as Christians learn to know the Holy Spirit, not as an influence (as some woulddescribe Him), but as a Divine Person. This concept of Him will prepare us for the blessings that He wantsto bring into our lives.” (Theodore Epp, American radio broadcaster and Bible teacher)

“To this day when a political cartoonist desires to depict Peace he uses the only infallible text book availableon types – the A.V. 1611 Bible – he draws a dove with an olive branch in its mouth.” (Dr. Peter S.Ruckman, American pastor, evangelist and Bible teacher)

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“The Holy Spirit Investigates. This investigation is thorough, entering into every detail of the thought andlife of the person concerned, and bringing out awful realities that the person did not know existed.”(Evangelist James Stewart, International Evangelist)

“Suppose a believer boards a plane in Chicago for Los Angeles and finds himself seated next to an unsavedman. In flight the Holy Spirit attempts to witness to the unsaved man through the testimony of the Christian,but he remains silent and fails to witness. At this point, the believer has quenched the Holy Spirit. He hasnot done that which the Spirit of God wanted him to do.

As the flight continues, however, the two men introduce themselves and begin talking, but not aboutspiritual things. In fact, to the shame of the Christian, several off-color stories are passed between the twomen. Now the saved man has gone the second step and grieved the Holy Spirit – he has done that whichthe Holy Spirit did not want him to do.

These two sins, left unchecked, can eventually lead to that “sin unto death” described in 1 Cor.” (H.L.Wilmington, American Bible teacher)

“How wonderful that the child of God has two great intercessors: one on earth (the Spirit indwelling thebeliever), and one in Heaven (Christ seated at the right hand of the Father). (cf. Rom. 8:34; Hebrews 7:25).”(Dr. M.H. Tabb)

“Christian character is not mere moral or legal correctness, but the possession and manifestation of ninegraces: love, joy, peace – character as an inward state; Longsuffering, gentleness, goodness – characterin expression toward man; faith, meekness, temperance – character in expression toward God. (C.I.Scofield, American Bible teacher)

“The characteristics that God wants in our lives are seen in the ninefold fruit of the Spirit. Paul begins withlove because all of the other fruit are really an outgrowth of love.” (Warren Wiersbe, American Bibleteacher)

“...yield yourselves unto God...” (Rom. 6:13) - “Yield means to deliver up, to give up.” (Webster’s NewCollegiate Dictionary)

“The contrast between works and fruit is important. The flesh produces “dead works” (Hebrews 9:14), butthe Spirit produces living fruit. And this fruit has in it the seed for still more fruit (Genesis 1:11). (WarrenWiersbe, American Bible teacher)

“The seed that brings forth the fruit is sown by the constant reading of the Word of God. It is watered withprayer. But the Holy Spirit of God alone gives the increase that produces the fruit.” (Billy Kanoy, Americanpastor, evangelist and Bible teacher)

“Spirituality, then, is Christlikeness, and Christlikeness is the fruit of the Spirit. What better portrait of JesusChrist is there...” (Charles C. Ryrie of Dallas Seminary)

“The Holy Spirit is the least known, least loved and least worshipped member of the Trinity.” (GeorgeWhitefield, British evangelist of the American Great Awakening)

“If you think of the Holy Spirit, as so many do today, as a mere influence or power, then your thought willconstantly be, ‘How can I get hold of the Holy Spirit and use it?’ But if you think of Him in the Biblical way,as a Person of Divine majesty and glory, your thought will be, ‘How can the Holy Spirit get hold of me anduse me?’” (R.A. Torrey, World famous Bible teacher)

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HOME The duties of home are discipline for the ministries of heaven. – Anonymous Home should be a place of mutual responsibility and respect, of encouragement and cooperation andcounsel, of integrity, of willingness to work, of discipline when necessary, with the tempering quality of loveadded to it, with a sense of belonging, and with someone to talk to. – Evans He that doth live at home, and learns to know God and himself, needeth no farther go. – Harvey A palace without affection is a poor hovel, and the meanest hut with love in it is a palace for the soul. –Ingersoll The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and puremen and women is a creator second only to God. – Jackson Happy homes are built of blocks of patience. – Kohn Our home joys are the most delightful earth affords, and the joy of parents in their children is the most holyjoy of humanity. It makes their hearts pure and good, it lifts men up to their Father in heaven. – Pestalozzi The home is a lighthouse that has the lamp of God on the table and the light of Christ in the window, to giveguidance to those who wander in darkness. – Rische The home should be to the children the most attractive place in the world, and the mother’s presence shouldbe the greatest attraction. – White

HONESTY O God, help us not to despise or oppose what we do not understand. – Penn Ay, sir: to be honest as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of a thousand. – William Shakespeare(1564-1616) English dramatist and poet

HONOR When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness. – Ausonius Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straightforward and simpleintegrity in another. – Colton The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be.– Socrates (470-399 B.C.) Greek philosopher

HOPE When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. – Allen For the sick, while there is life there is hope. –Cicero (106-43 B.C.) Roman orator, politician, andphilosopher

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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (l772-l834)British poet May hope ever be a bright part of your life’s equipment. – Crowell Hope, like a gleaming taper’s light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emitsa brighter ray. – Goldsmith The joy and peace of believers arise chiefly from their hopes. What is laid out upon them is but little,compared with what is laid up for them; therefore the more hope they have the more joy and peace theyhave. – Henry Satan would tempt us to despair; but good hope keeps us trusting in God and rejoicing in him. – Henry Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all. – Holmes What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true. Hope iswanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you’re not going to get it-you go right onwanting it. And the remarkable thing about it is that this very act of hoping produces a kind of strength ofits own. – Peale No affliction or temptation, no guilt or power of sin, no wounded spirit nor terrified conscience, shouldinduce us to despair of help and comfort from God. – Scott Hope is the poor man’s bread. – Thales Hope ever urges on, and tells us tomorrow will be better. – Tibullus

HOSPITALITY It is not the quantity of the meat, but the cheerfulness of the guests which makes the feast. – Clarendon

HUMANITY Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us. – Francis Bacon, (1561-1626)English statesman and philosopher of science It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another. – Swift

HUMILITY It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. – Augustine of Hippo(354-430) Christian theologian True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as Godsees us. – Edwards After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser. – Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) One of America’sFounding Fathers Those that are truly desirous to be owned and accepted by God will likewise desire not to be taken notice

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of nor applauded by men. – Henry When thy latter end is greatly increased, remember the smallness of thy beginnings. – Henry Those are best prepared or the greatest mercies that see they are unworthy of the least. – Henry Don’t let us think that we need to be “stars” in order to shine. It was by the ministry of a candle that thewoman recovered her lost piece of silver. – Jowett The proud man counts his newspaper clippings-the humble his blessings. – Sheen Humility is strong-not bold; quiet-not speechless; sure-not arrogant. – Smith True humility is intelligent self-respect that keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves.It makes us mindful of the nobility God meant us to have. Yet it makes us modest by reminding us how farwe have come short of what we can be. – Sockman Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights. – Henry David Thoreau, (1817-1862) American essayist,naturalist, and lecturer

HUMOR Humor is the harmony of the heart. – Douglas Jerrold

HUNGER Hunger is sharper than the sword. – Beaumont and Fletcher Better cross an angry man than a hungry man. – Danish Proverb

HUSBAND All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart. – Anonymous A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. – Balzac An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband. – Tarkington

HYPOCRISY A hypocrite is a fellow who isn’t himself on Sundays. – Anonymous Don’t stay away from church because there are so many hypocrites. There’s always room for one more. –Adams A man who hides behind the hypocrite is smaller than the hypocrite is. – William Edward Biederwolf,(1867-1939) American Bible teacher, Pastor. I saw about a peck of counterfeit dollars once. Did I go to the window and throw away all my good dollars?No! Yet you reject Christianity because there are hypocrites, or counterfeit Christians. – William EdwardBiederwolf, (1867-1939) American Bible teacher, Pastor.

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In a vain religion there is much censuring, reviling, and detracting of others. – Henry When we hear people ready to speak of the faults of others, or to censure them as holding scandalous errors,or to lessen the wisdom and piety of those about them, that they themselves may seem the wiser and better,this is a sign that they have but a vain religion. – Henry Of all the things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst. – Charles H. Spurgeon(1834-1892) English Baptist preacher When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon ithe keeps a very small stock of it within. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge, and at home. Don’t hunt through the Church for ahypocrite. Go home and look in the glass. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less. –William Ashley (Billy) Sunday (1862-1935) US Presbyterian revivalist

IDEALS Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; it knows themas the realities that it shall one day see and know. – Allen He who cherishes a beautiful ideal in his heart, will one day realize it. Cherish your visions; cherish yourideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in you mind, the loveliness that drapesyour purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these,if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built. Allen Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus tohis own soul. – Anonymous The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. – Bagehot Be true to your own highest convictions. – Channing God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing todo some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best. –Robert Collyer The ideals that have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, andtruth. – Albert Einstein (1879-1955) American (German-born) physicist Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. – Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Americanpoet and essayist We aspire by setting up ideals and striving after them. – Harry Emerson Fosdick, (1878 - 1969) AmericanClergyman We must always remember that God has given to every soul the responsibility of deciding what its characterand destiny shall be. – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), author, historian, philosopher, & educator

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To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals-this alone is worth the struggle.We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life. – Osler

IDEAS Sometimes a person’s mind is stretched by a new idea and never does go back to its old dimensions. –Holmes Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor. – LaRochefoucauld

IDLENESS Lost time is never found again. – John Hill Aughey (1828-1911), American Presbyterian Clergyman &author For Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do. – Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Independent minister,hymn-writer Idleness is the holiday of fools. – Chesterfield He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed. – Socrates (470-399B.C.) Greek philosopher

IDOLATRY Those that think one God too little will find two too many, and yet hundreds not sufficient. – Henry Those that forsake the true God wander endlessly after false ones. – Henry An inordinate sorrow for the loss of any worldly good is a sign we made an idol of it. – Henry

IGNORANCE I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. – Cicero (106-43 B.C.) Romanorator, politician, and philosopher Ignorance never settles a question. – Benjamin Disraeli, (1804-1881) British statesman There is nothing more frightening than an active ignorance.– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832),German novelist, poet, & scientist It is with narrow souled people as with narrow necked bottles-the less they have in them the more noise theymake in pouring it out. – Pope The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance. – Shelley

IMAGINATION Imagination is more important than knowledge. – Albert Einstein (1879-1955) American (German-born)physicist

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. – Colton He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitateswhat is good always falls short. – Guicciardini

IMMORTALITY Let us not lament too much the passing of our friends. They are not dead, but simply gone before us alongthe road which all must travel. – Antiphanes Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life! – Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887)American preacher, editor and orator There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.– Browne Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief in the continuity of ourspiritual existence after death. – Braun If the Father deigns to touch with divine power the cold and pulseless heart of the buried acorn and to makeit burst forth from its prison walls, will He leave neglected in the earth the soul of men maDe in the imageof his Creator? – Bryan I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live. – Burns (last words.) A good man never dies. – Callimachus To those who fully admit the immortality of the human soul, the destruction of our world will not appearso dreadful. – Darwin My mind can take neither hold in the present world nor rest in it a moment, but my whole nature rushesonward with irresistible force toward a future and better state of being. – Fichte Those who live in the Lord never see each other for the last time. – German Proverb I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and that its activities will continue through eternity. Itis like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set in night; but it has really gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German novelist, poet, & scientist Those who hope for no other life are dead even in this.– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Germannovelist, poet, & scientist Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end the plainer I heararound me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. – Victor Hugo, (1802-1885) Frenchauthor of poetry, drama, and novels When I go down to the grave I can say, like so many others, I have finished my work; but I cannot say I havefinished my life. My day’s work will begin the next morning. My tomb is not a blind alley. It is athoroughfare. It closes in the twilight to open in the dawn. – Victor Hugo, (1802-1885) French author of

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poetry, drama, and novels It is a great thing to know that if the eternal doors swing wide open the other way for you, you have a Friendon the other side waiting to receive you. – Kelly The seed dies into a new life, and so does man. – Macdonald I came from God, and I’m going back to God, and I won’t have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.– Macdonald The few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine Drama that extends on intoEternity. – Markham To my reason immortality is the only possible solution to the mystery of life. – Martin What no eyes have seen, what no ears have heart-that is the eternal happiness that I expect when I have laidaside my human body. – Marius The universe is a stairway leading nowhere unless man is immortal. – Mullins To me, my son didn’t die-he’s more alive than ever. Each of us has to keep a rendezvous with death...butI believe that life is the childhood of immortality. – Poling I delight in the feeling that I am in eternity, that I can serve God now fully and effectively, that the next pieceof road will come in sight when I am ready to walk in it. – Robinson Thoughtful people cannot escape feeling that they were created for an everlasting purpose. They have wantsand needs this present world cannot satisfy. The are familiar with thirsts for the unseen, infinite, and eternal.They know aspirations, ambitions and dreams that can never be realized in this mundane sphere. Time istoo short for the accomplishment of the soul. – Rogers We are not someday going to be we already are immortal spirits. – Ryden Death is not a journeying into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going not to a strange country,but to our Father’s house, and among our kith and kin. – John Ruskin, (1819-1900) English critic of the artssocial reformer The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, orobliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage. – Sargent Although I want to live and labor as long as God lets me, I consider the moment of my death as the mostprecious of my life. – Schelling This life is only a prelude to eternity. For that which we call death is but a pause, in truth a progress into life.– Seneca (4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Tutor of the Roman Emperor Nero That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity. – Seneca (4 B.C.-A.D.65) Tutor of the Roman Emperor Nero

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The biggest fact about Joseph’s tomb was that it wasn’t a tomb at all-it was a room for a transient. Jesusstopped there a night or two on his way back to glory. – Smith We see in the risen Christ the end for which man was made, and the assurance that the end is within ourreach. – Westcott

IMPATIENCE Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow. – Chapin Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience. – Immanuel Kant, (1724-1804) Germanphilosopher

IMPOSSIBLE The word “impossible” is not in my dictionary. – Napoleon I (Napoleon Bonaparte) (1769-1821) Emperorof the French (1804-1814) Nothing is impossible; there are ways which lead to everything; and if we had sufficient will we shouldalways have sufficient means. – Rochefoucauld Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. – Napoleon I (Napoleon Bonaparte) (1769-1821) Emperor of the French (1804-1814)

IMPROVEMENT The greatest force for making people bigger and better than they are now is the belief in your heart and minethat they have infinite potential for growth. Even when they fail us, we are to continue to carry and expressthe mental image of what they may become. To have someone believe in you, even when you fail, is themost blessed and creative force in the universe. – Dunningham People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after. – Goldsmith To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who Aspires to nothing,which learns nothing, is not worthy of living. – Helps Slumber not in the tents of you fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it! – Mazzini It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed inme better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them. – Wister

INCARNATION The wonder of the incarnation is not that God got himself embodied, but that he got himself expressed-expressed in the wonderful life and character of Christ. – Clarke Only the Word made flesh can give any sort of hope in a world as grim and ugly and hard and sordid as ours.– Hough The Word of God, Jesus Christ, on account of his great love for mankind, became what we are in order tomake us what his is himself. – St. Irenaeus

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The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that He sunk Himself into our flesh, is beyond all humanunderstanding. – Luther

INFLUENCE The good person increases the value of every other person whom he influences in any way. – Anonymous The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself. –Anonymous No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure and good without somebody beinghelped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. – Brooks, Phillips (1835-1893), AmericanEpiscopal bishop No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of humanhappiness. – Burrit The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretlymaking the ground green. – Thomas Carlyle, (1795-1881) Scottish author Example is more forcible than precept. People look at me six days a week to see what I mean on the seventh.– Cecil Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another. – Eliot A candle is a small thing. But one candle can light another. And as it gives its flames to the other, see howits own light increases! Light is the power to dispel darkness. You have this power to move back thedarkness in yourself and in others with the birth of light created when one mind illuminates another, whenone heart kindles another, when one man strengthens another. And its flame also enlarges within you as youpass it on. – The Eternal Light None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing. – Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) One ofAmerica’s Founding Fathers The imitative faculty is very strong in human makeup, and it has its valuable points and its very weak points.It must be watched or it will make monkeys of us all. – Gambrell Let no man imagine that he has no influence. – George You can only make others better by being good yourself. – Haweis Those who set bad examples, though they may repent themselves, yet cannot be sure that those who theyhave drawn into sin by their example will repent. It is often otherwise. – Henry The depth of one’s conviction measures the breadth of his influence. – Hunt We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements and thecharacter of those among whom we live. – Joseph Joubert (1754-1824), French philosopher

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Whenever you hear of a man doing a great thing, you may be sure that behind it somewhere is a greatbackground. It may be a mother’s training, a father’s example, a teacher’s influence, or an intense experienceof his own, but it has to be there or else the great achievement does not come, no matter how favorable theopportunity. – Miles The only way in which one human can properly attempt to influence another is to encourage him to thinkfor himself, instead of endeavoring to instill ready-made opinions into his head. – Stephen We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly. – Switching I am a part of all whom I have met. – Alfred Tennyson, (1809-1892) British poet There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. – Wharton

INGRATITUDEEarth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man does. – Ausonius Ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness. – Richelieu

INJURY The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales. – Aesop Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. – Confucius (551-479 B.C.)Chinese philosopher No man ever did a designed injury to another without doing a greater to himself. – Henry Home There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury is. – Alexander Smith

INJUSTICE He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it is. – Plato (427?-347 B.C.)Ancient Greek philosopher A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. – Seneca (4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Tutor of the Roman Emperor Nero

INSPIRATION At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblestspring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best. – Collyer Every day stop before something beautiful long enough to say, “Isn’t that b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l!” – Palmer Nobody can inspire who does not have deep convictions. They are the results, but also the feeders of thespirit. – Ulich

IRRESOLUTION Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.– Barrow

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Don’t stand shivering upon the bank; plunge in at once and have it over. – Haliburton

JEALOUSY Jealousy, the jaundice of the soul. – Dryden In jealousy there is more self-love than love. – Rochefoucauld O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. – Schiller

JEST Many a true word is spoken in jest. – English Proverb No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be broken. – Fuller The jest that is expected is already destroyed. – Johnson Jesting is frequently an evidence of the poverty of the understanding. – Voltaire (1694 - 1778) Frenchauthor, humanist, rationalist, & satirist

JESUS This is the very essence of true religion-personally living with a personal Savior, personally trusting apersonal Redeemer, personally crying out to a personal Intercessor, and receiving personal answers from aPerson who loves us, and who manifests himself to us. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptistpreacher Jesus is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is,and all that man is as God created him. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

JOY For what are the servants of the Lord but His minstrels who should raise the hearts of men and move themto spiritual joy. – St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226), Founder of the Franciscan Order The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself. – Babcock I have found that there is a tremendous joy in giving. It is a very important part of the joy of living. – Black Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. – William Congreve (1670-1729), English playwright &dramatist Those that make God their Joy may rejoice in hope for he is faithful that has promised. – Henry The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies, and put our mouths out of tastefor those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks. – Henry Where God gives the oil of joy, he gives the garment of praise. – Henry Joy in God is never out of season. – Henry

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It is a comely fashion to be glad; joy is the grace we say to God. – Ingelow It is not in life’s chances but in its choices that happiness comes to the heart of the individual. – Long Joy is the echo of God’s life within us. – Marmion False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happinessrenders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. – Montesquieu The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. – Morris Happiness is not perfected until it is shared. – Porter Any man can again have the joy of his first meeting with God if he will go back over the same road. – Smith The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptistpreacher I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in theRedeemer’s blood. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher If you have no joy in your religion, there’s a leak in your Christianity somewhere. – -William Ashley (Billy)Sunday (1862-1935) US Presbyterian revivalist

JUDGING OTHERS We cannot judge what men are by what they have been formerly what they will do by what they have done;age and experience may make men wiser and better. – Henry

JUDGMENT The more one judges, the less one loves. – Balzac So, I think, God hides some souls away. Sweetly to surprise us, the last day. – Branch You may juggle human laws, you may fool with human courts, but there is a judgment to come, and fromit there is no appeal. – Gifford One man’s word is no man’s word; we should quietly hear both sides.– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German novelist, poet, & scientist Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. – William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet

The nature of all men is so formed that they see and discriminate in the affairs of others, much better thanin their own. – Terence (190-158 B.C.), Roman dramatist Truly at the Day of Judgment we shall not be examined on what we have read, but what we have done; nothow well we have spoken, but how religiously we have lived. – Kempis

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JUSTICE Justice renders to every one his due. – Cicero (106-43 B.C.) Roman orator, politician, and philosopher Extreme justice is extreme injustice. – Cicero (106-43 B.C.) Roman orator, politician, and philosopher Justice is truth in action. – Benjamin Disraeli, (1804-1881) British statesman Pity and forbearance should characterize all acts of justice. – Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) One ofAmerica’s Founding Fathers Justice without wisdom is impossible. – Froude We evaluate our friends with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.– Harris

KINDNESS Every moment is the right one to be kind. – Anonymous Swift kindnesses are best; a long delayed kindness takes the kindness all away. – Anonymous A kind deed often does more good than a large gift. – Anonymous The ministry of kindness is a ministry which may be achieved by all men, rich and poor, learned andilliterate. Brilliance of mind and capacity for deep thinking has rendered great service to humanity, but bythemselves they are unable to dry a tear or mend a broken heart. – Anonymous Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy, like the heaven above. – Carney There is nothing so kingly as kindness. – Cary Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as ifthey were some angel’s song which had lost its way and come on earth. It seems as if they could almost dowhat in reality God alone can do-soften the hard and angry hearts of men. No one was ever corrected by asarcasm-crushed, perhaps, if the sarcasm was clever enough, but drawn nearer to God, never. – Faber There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking. – Faber Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence or learning. – Faber Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German novelist, poet, & scientist Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. – Helps A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. – Joseph Joubert (1754-1824), Frenchphilosopher Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that. – Lacordaire

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Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life. – Maclaren God is merciful to those who are kind. – Moroccan Proverb Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness. – Seneca (4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Tutor ofthe Roman Emperor Nero Kindness gives birth to kindness. – Sophocles (496-405 B.C.) Greek dramatist If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled. – Sorus The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God. –Webster If the sum of our unspoken admiration, love, approval and encouragement could find expression, nine-tenthsof the world’s woes would be healed as if by magic. – Wilson More hearts pine away in secret anguish for unkindness from those who should be their comforters than forany other calamity in life. – Young

KINGDOM OF GOD Wherever God rules over the human heart as King, there is the kingdom of God established. – Harrison The kingdom of God does not exist because of your effort or mine. It exists because God reigns. Our partis to enter this kingdom and bring our life under his sovereign will. – Koo

KNOWLEDGE Strange how much you’ve got to know before you know how little you know. – Anonymous Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it. –Cicero (106-43 B.C.)Roman orator, politician, and philosopher When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you donot know it; this is knowledge. – Confucius (551-479 b.C.) Chinese philosopher To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. – Benjamin Disraeli, (1804-1881) Britishstatesman Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds. – Emerson, Ralph Waldo(1803-1882) American poet and essayist If you have knowledge, let others light their candles by it. – Fuller Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information uponit. – Samuel Johnson All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. – Juvenal

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Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance. – Macaulay If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your ownheart. – Schiller Know thyself. – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) Greek philosopher Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. – Alfred Tennyson, (1809-1892) British poet

LAUGHTER He laughs best who laughs last. – Old English Proverb The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed. – Chamfort The man that loves and laughs must sure do well. – Pope People, who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited. – Thackeray

LEARNING Whoever seeks truth with an earnest mind, no matter when or how, belongs to the school of intellectual men.– Channing Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to showthat you have one. – Chesterfield Teaching that would lay any claim at all to distinction, if not to actual greatness, is the influence ofpersonality upon personality, rather than the mere imparting of a set of facts. – Gaebelein I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yetstrange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. – Gibran Education, in the deepest sense is continuous and lifelong and in essence unfinishable. What we think wealready know is often less helpful than the desire to learn. – Hilton The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudesof mind. – James The end and aim of all education is the development of character. – Parker What every conscientious teacher yearns for is only that his pupil’s mind shall hold within it some ideas thatare clearly his own. – Pusey As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious. – AlbertSchweitzer, (1875-1965) Theologian, philosopher, and medical missionary in Africa There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. –Steinmetz

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The world is in dreadful need of men who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognizeclearly that we are only at the beginning of the voyage, and have to learn an entirely new system ofseamanship. – Van Loon

LIBERTY The spirit of liberty is not a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, andan unwillingness that any one, whether high or low, should be wronged or trampled under foot. – Channing Those are no friends of Christ and his disciples, who make that to be unlawful which God has not made tobe so. – Henry The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time. – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), author,historian, philosopher, & educator Give me liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely according to conscience, above all otherliberties. – John Milton (1608-1674), 17th Century English author No man is free who cannot command himself. – Pythagoras Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. – William Allen WhiteLIFE

LIFEOftentimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die. – Conte Vittorio Alfieri, 1749-1803, Italianpoet Every man’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s fingers. – Andersen With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun. – Anonymous I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I canshow to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this wayagain. – Anonymous Our lives are a manifestation of what we think about God. – Anonymous Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. – Aurelius It matters not how long we live, but how. – Bailey I live for those who love me, For those who know me true; For the heaven so blue above me, And the goodthat I can do. – Banks Life is a long lesson in humility. – Barrie Life is occupied both in perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself. – Beauvoir

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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice ishow. – Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887) American preacher, editor and orator Every human face is a special door to Paradise, which cannot possibly be confused with any other, andthrough which there will never enter but one soul. – Bloy Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, thisearth would be God’s Paradise. – Brooks, Phillips (1835-1893), American Episcopal bishop Life develops from within. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), English poet Life has meaning-to find its meaning is my meat and drink. – Robert Browning (1812-1889), English poet Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities; influenced by all that has preceded, and to influenceall that follows. – Channing I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good. – Donne To give life a meaning one must have a purpose larger than one’s self. – Durant Life is rather a state of embryo-a preparation for life. A man is not completely born until he has passedthrough death. – Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) One of America’s Founding Fathers Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. – Benjamin Franklin,(1706-1790) One of America’s Founding Fathers A useless life is an early death.– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German novelist, poet, &scientist Life is the childhood of our immortality.– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German novelist, poet,& scientist Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. – Isidore of Seville Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. – Johann Kaspar Lavater(1741-1801), Swiss theologian, and poet Someone has said that all living is just learning the meaning of words. That does not mean the long tensyllable words we have to look up in the dictionary. The really great words to master are short ones-work,love, hope, joy, pain, home, child, life, death. – Luccock Make sure the thing you’re living for is worth dying for. – Mayes So live that after the minister has ended his remarks, those present will not think they have attended thewrong funeral. – The Mortarboard Live every day as if it were your last. Do every job as if you were the boss. Drive as if all other vehicles werepolice cars. Treat everybody else as if he were you. – Phoenix Flame

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The purpose of life is not to be happy-but to matter, to be productive to be useful, to have it make somedifference that you lived at all. – Rosten The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) Greek philosopher Our life is scarce the twinkle of a star in God’s eternal day. – Taylor Take care of life; and the Lord will take care of your death. – Whitefield

LIGHT I asked a man what made his life so radiant and bright. He answered: “Looking, looking toward the Light.– Anonymous Walk boldly and wisely in the light thou hast; there is a hand above will help thee on. – Bailey The light that shines the farthest shines brightest at home. – Baxter Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. –Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) American poet and essayist There is not darkness enough in all the world to put out the light of one little candle. – Epitaph Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Germannovelist, poet, & scientist

LITTLE THINGS Who doth small things well will prove to higher trusts most true. – Anonymous There is nothing insignificant. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (l772-l834) British poet Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness and smallobligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort. – Davy Most persons would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. – HenryWadsworth Longfellow, (1807-1882) American poet and translator There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak but one true word today and it shall go on ringingon through the ages. – Pushon He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. – Simmons

LORDSHIP I cannot conceive it possible for anyone truly to receive Christ as Savior and yet not receive him as Lord.A man who is really saved by grace does not need to be told that he is under solemn obligations to serveChrist. The new life within him tells him that. Instead of regarding it as a burden, he gladly surrendershimself-body, soul, and spirit-tot he Lord who has redeemed him, reckoning this to be his reasonable service.– Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

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LORD’S SUPPER Never mind that bread and wine unless you can use them as folks often use their spectacles. What do theyuse them for? To look at? No, no to look through them. So, use the bread and wine as a pair of spectacles.Look through them, and do not be satisfied until you can say, “Yes, yes, I can see the Lamb of God, whichtaketh away the sin of the world.” – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher I think the moments we are nearest to heaven are those we spend at the Lord’s table. – Charles H. Spurgeon(1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

LOSS When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost!– Anonymous We are lost willfully and willingly; lost perversely and utterly; but still lost of our own accord, which is theworst kind of being lost. We are lost to God, who has lost our heart’s love, confidence, and obedience; lostto the church, which we cannot serve; lost to truth, which we will not see; lost to right, whose cause we donot uphold; lost to heaven, into whose sacred precincts we can never come; lost, so lost that unless almightymercy shall intervene, we shall be cast into the pit that is bottomless to sink forever. Lost! Lost! Lost! Bettera whole world on fire than a soul lost! Better every star quenched and the skies a wreck than a single soulto be lost!

LOVE To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever. – Anonymous Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service and from solitude tokinship with all mankind. – Anonymous Love is the fire of life; it either consumes or purifies. – Anonymous To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever. – Anonymous Love is the only service that power cannot command and money cannot buy. – Anonymous Love spends his all, and still hath store. – Bailey Of all earthly music that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart. – HenryWard Beecher, (1813-1887) American preacher, editor and orator We walk among worlds unrealized until we have learned the secret of love. – Black Love isn’t like a reservoir. You’ll never drain it dry. It’s much more like a natural spring. The longer andthe farther it flows, the stronger and the deeper and the clearer it becomes. – Cantor Our affections are our life. We live by them. They supply our warmth. – Channing We are all born for love...It is the principle of existence and its only end. – Benjamin Disraeli, (1804-1881)British statesman

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Instead of allowing yourself to be so unhappy, just let your love grow as God wants it to grow; seekgoodness in others, love more persons more; love them more impersonally, more unselfishly, withoutthought of return. The return, never fear, will take care of itself. – Henry Drummond (1851-1897), scientist,evangelist, & author Love is the purification of the heart from self. It strengthens and ennobles the character, gives a highermotive and worthier aim to every action of life, and makes both man and woman courageous. The powerto love truly and devotedly is the highest gift with which a human being can be endowed. – Endsor It is not a question of how much we know, how clever we are, nor even how good; it all depends upon theheart’s love. External actions are the results of love, the fruit it bears; but the source, the root, is in the deepof the heart. – Fenelon If you would be loved, love and be lovable. – Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) One of America’s FoundingFathers We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Germannovelist, poet, & scientist Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walkedacross it in his barn boots. – Hoosier Farmer If we are to make a mature adjustment to life, we must be able to give and receive love. – Hunter It is a beautiful necessity of our nature to love something. – Jerrold Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved. – Lamb Love is the image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature that beamsfull of goodness. – Luther Love can hope where reason would despair. – Lyttelton In all your thoughts, and in all your acts, in every hope and in every fear, when you sour to the skies andwhen you fall to the ground, always you are holding the other person’s hand. – Milne It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable. – Montagu Human things must be known to be loved; but Divine things must be loved to be known. – Pascal God’s love is not a conditional love; it is an openhearted, generous self-giving which God offers to men.Those who would carefully limit the operation of God’s love...have missed the point. – Phillips Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. – Pinero Love communicates an immense value to our smallest actions. – Saudereau A man will love a dog or a bird sooner than be loveless. Captives have been known to fall in love with rats,and even spiders on the wall have been the objects of their affection. A little flower that could not speak has

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been the prisoner’s beloved friend. We must have something to love. Oh, and what wealth of love Jesusbrings into the heart when he enters it! – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher It is when you get to doubt the love of God that you grow hard and cold. But when you are fired with thelove of a dying Savior who gave himself for you, you feel as if you loved every beggar in the street, and youlong to bring every harlot to Christ’s dear feet. You cannot help it. If Christ baptizes your heart into his love,you will be covered with it and filled with it. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher In math, if you divide an infinite number by any number, no matter how large, you still have an infinitequotient. So Jesus’ love, being infinite, even though it is divided up for every person on earth, is stillinfinitely poured out on each one of us! – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher There is a fleet lying in the river, richly laden, but it cannot come up, because the river is blocked up withice. So I see my Master’s love lying out far down the river, and it would gladly come to my pour soul toenrich me and make me holy and heavenly, but the coldness of my heart, like ice, blocks up the channel, andI get not what I might obtain. Come, heavenly love, and melt the ice. Flow, streams of grace, and dissolveevery barrier. Come, Jesus, come into my heart, and let thy treasures be mine forevermore! – Charles H.Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher If you make doctrine the main thing, you are very likely to grow narrow-minded. If you make your ownexperience the main thing, you will become gloomy and critical of others. If you make ordinances the mainthing, you will be apt to grow merely formal. But you can never make too much of the living Christ Jesus.Remember that all things else are for his sake. Doctrines and ordinances are the planets, but Christ is the sun.Get to love him best of all. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher I cannot bear it that we should love Jesus little. It seems to me horrible. Let us love him to the utmost. Letus ask him to give us larger hearts, and to fire them with the flame that is in his own, that we may love himto the utmost possibilities of affection. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher A man breaks a leg, and the surgeon sets the bone. That is kindness. But suppose the man’s mother shouldset the bone. Oh, how she would do it with lovingkindness! That is how God has dealt with us. Oh, howtenderly! – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher So long as we love, we serve. So long as we are loved by others, I would almost say we are indispensable;and no man is useless while he has a friend. – Stevenson It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Tennyson, (1809-1892) British poet There is no remedy for love but to love more. – Henry David Thoreau, (1817-1862) American essayist,naturalist, and lecturer There is only one place of refuge on this planet for any person-that is in another person’s heart. To love isto make of one’s heart a swinging door. – Thurman You are as prone to love as the sun is to shine; it being the most delightful and natural employment of theSoul of Man: without which you are dark and miserable. – Traherne The Christian faith does not consist in the belief that we are saved, but in the belief that we are loved. –Vinet

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The heart will commonly govern the head; and any strong passion, set the wrong way, will soon infatuateeven the wisest of men; therefore, the first part of wisdom is to watch the affections. – Waterland It is east for them who have never been loved to sneer at love. – Welsh Proverb

LUCK A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. – Garfield A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. – Juvenal

LYING A good memory is needed once we have lied. – Corneille A liar is not believed even though he tells the truth. – Cicero (106-43 B.C.) Roman orator, politician, andphilosopher The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else. –Shaw

MAN We need not worry so much about what a man descends from-it’s what he descends to that shames thehuman race. – Anonymous No one knows the age of the human race, but all agree that it is old enough to know better.-Anonymous Strike from mankind the principle of faith, and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep. –Bulwer Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are, for it shows me what your idealof manhood is, and what kind of man you long to be. – Thomas Carlyle, (1795-1881) Scottish author One can not always be a hero, but one can always be a man.– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832),German novelist, poet, & scientist In these two things the greatness of man consists: to have God so dwelling in us as to impart his characterto us, and to have him so dwelling in us that we recognize his presence, and know that we are his, and heis ours. The one is salvation; the other, the assurance of it. – Robertson Man is more precious in the sight of God than the angels. – Pope Xystus I

MANNERS Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing. – Samuel Smiles Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image.– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832),German novelist, poet, & scientist

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MARTYR Who falls for love of God shall rise a star. – Johnson It is more difficult, and calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. – Mann When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word. –More It is the cause, and not the death that makes the martyr. – Napoleon I (Napoleon Bonaparte) (1769-1821)Emperor of the French (1804-1814)

MEDITATION By meditation I can converse with God, solace myself on the bosom of my Savior, bathe in the rivers ofdivine pleasure, tread the paths of my rest, and view the mansions of eternity. – Anonymous What we are afraid to do before men, we should be afraid to think before God. – Anonymous The way we are going to think tomorrow depends largely on what we are thinking today. – Brown It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self. – Cooper Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortune, of whichall men have some. – Charles Dickens, (1812-1870) Generally considered England’s greatest novelist Keep your mind on the great and splendid things you would like to do and then, as the days go gliding byyou will find yourself unconsciously seizing the opportunities that are required for the fulfillment of yourdesire. Picture in your mind the able, earnest useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold ishourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire. – Hubbard Great truths are portions of the soul of man; great souls are portions of eternity. – Lowell It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, nor the amount of religiousconversations in which you mix, but it is the frequency and earnestness with which you meditate on thesethings till the truth of them become your own and part of your being, that ensures your growth. – Robertson Great thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed and much sought after. Likerose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)English Baptist preacher To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it.Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice. – Charles H. Spurgeon(1834-1892) English Baptist preacher Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts. – Henry David Thoreau, (1817-1862) American essayist, naturalist, and lecturer The most important thought I ever had was that of my individual responsibility toward God. – Webster

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Garner up pleasant thought in your lives; for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives. – Wilkins Press on! For it is godlike to unloose the spirit and forget yourself in thought. – Willis

MEMORY When saving for old age, be sure to put away a few pleasant thoughts. – Anonymous God has given us memories that we may have roses in December. – Barrie To live in hearts we leave behind, is not to die. – Campbell Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. – Cicero (106-43 B.C.) Roman orator, politician, andphilosopher Memory is one of the precious things of life, and if nourished long enough will become a veritablecompanion with us. – Evans The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. – Johnson The true art of memory is the art of attention. – Johnson Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for ourdeepest hopes and fears. – May The memory is a treasurer to whim we must give funds, if we would draw the assistance we need. – Rowe Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and the councilchamber of thought. – St. Basil How sharp the point of this remembrance is! – William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow. – Stevenson

MERCY Mercy imitates God, and disappoints Satan. – Chrysostoma Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule. – William Cowper (1731-1800) English poet and hymn-writer. We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves. – Eliot Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,(1807-1882) American poet and translator Mercy is like the rainbow, which God hath set in the clouds; it never shines after it is night. If we refusemercy here, we shall have justice in eternity. – Taylor Mercy is not for them that sin and fear not, but for them that fear and sin not. – Watson

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MIRACLES God walked down the stairs of heaven with a baby in his arms. – Scherer All our Lord’s miracles were intended to be parables. They were intended to instruct as well as to impress.They are sermons to the eye, just as his spoken discourses were sermons to the ear. – Charles H. Spurgeon(1834-1892) English Baptist preacher There are too many people who expect God to work by miracle what God expects people to work by muscle.– Tyson

MISFORTUNE Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. – Balzac Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to theheavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for thosewe have escaped. – Barr By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. – Colton Misfortunes always come in by a door that has been left open for them. – Czech Proverb

Many years ago, Matthew Henry, a well-known Bible scholar, was once robbed of his wallet. Knowing thatit was his duty to give thanks in everything, he meditated on this incident and recorded in his diary thefollowing: “Let me be thankful, first, because he never robbed me before; second, because although he tookmy purse, he did not take my life; third, because although he took all I possessed, it was not much; andfourth, because it was I who was robbed, not I who robbed.” Matthew Henry (1662-1714) English Non-conformist Bible commentator It is not what happens to you, but the way you take it that counts. – Jasper The wise man sees in the misfortunes of others what he should avoid. – Sorus The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us. – Voltaire (1694 - 1778)French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist

MISSIONS When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in somehome neighborhood. – Adenauer It is the pagan heart that needs the redeeming message of Christ whether the person who has the heart livesin Shanghai or New York. – Decker I feel more and more every day, as my imagination strengthens, that I do not live in this world alone, but ina thousand worlds. – Keats The world has many religions; it has but one gospel. – Owen A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. – Santayana

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If there be any one point in which the Christian church ought to keep its fervor at a white heat, it isconcerning missions. If there be anything about which we cannot tolerate lukewarmness, it is in the matterof sending the gospel to a dying world. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher You will never make a missionary of the person who does no good at home. He that will not serve the Lordin the Sunday school at home will not win children to Christ in China. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)English Baptist preacher Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptistpreacher I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled ifapproached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount. – Truman We are all of us fellow passengers on the same planet, and we are all of us equally responsible for thehappiness and well being of the world in which we happen to live. – Van Loon We are members of a world team. We are partners in a grand adventure. Our thinking must be worldwide.– Willkie

MODERATION Moderation is the keynote of lasting enjoyment. – Ballou To live long, it is necessary to live slowly. – Cicero (106-43 B.C.) Roman orator, politician, andphilosopher

MODESTY A modest man never talks of himself. – Bruyere Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalueshimself is justly undervalued by others. – Hazlitt

MONEY Money is an article which may be used as a universal passport to everywhere except heaven, and as auniversal provider of everything except happiness. – Anonymous Money is a good servant but a dangerous master. – Bouhours The Americans have little faith. They rely on the power of the dollar. – Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)American poet and essayist Money spent on myself may be a millstone about my neck; money spent on others may give me wings likethe angels. – Hitchcock Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have moreof either than they know how to use. – Johnson

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It’s good to have money and the things money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while andmake sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy. – Lorimer When I had money everyone called me brother. – Polish Proverb When money speaks the truth is silent. – Russian Proverb One said to a minister who preached a sermon, after which there was to be a collection, “You should preachto our hearts, and then you would get some money.” The minister replied, “Yes, I think that is very likely,for that is where you keep your money.” – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher Money is an amoral instrument, and like science serves good and evil alike. There’s no such thing as dirtymoney; the stain is only on the hand that holds it as giver or taker. – Sullivan Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. – Henry David Thoreau, (1817-1862) Americanessayist, naturalist, and lecturer Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can. – Wesley

MORALITY The people of our nation and the people of the whole world need to be gripped by the moral imperatives thatgrow out of the nature of God, by a sense of right, by principles of truth, and by ideals of decency. Nothingis more needed by this sinful world than a revival of simple goodness and genuine uprightness. – Allen It is not guided missiles but guided morals that is our great need today. – Ford To give a man a full knowledge of true morality, I would send him to no other book than the NewTestament. – Locke Men are not made religious by performing certain actions that are externally good, but they must first haverighteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. – Luther

MOTHER God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness. – Henry Ward Beecher,(1813-1887) American preacher, editor and orator Men are what their mothers made them. – Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) American poet and essayist One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. – Herbert There is none, in all this cold and hollow world, no fount of deep, strong, deathless love, save that withina mother’s heart. – Herman If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother into the other, the world would kick the beam.– Langdale No man is poor who has had a Godly mother. – Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865) Sixteenth President of theUnited States

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The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you willfind it not; it was fought by the mothers of men. – Miller The mother love is like God’s love; he loves us not because we are lovable, but because it is His nature tolove, and because we are His children. – Riney The bearing and the training of a child are woman’s wisdom. – Alfred Tennyson, (1809-1892) British poet

MURMURING The very word murmur, how simple it is, made up to two infantile sounds-mur mur. No sense in it, no witin it, no thought in it. It is the cry rather of a brute than of a man. Murmur-just a double groan. – Charles H.Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher Ten minutes’ praying is better than a year’s murmuring. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptistpreacher

MUSIC Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of women. – Beethoven Music is well said to be the speech of angels. – Thomas Carlyle, (1795-1881) Scottish author Music is love in search of a word. – Lanier Music is the universal language of mankind. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (1807-1882) American poetand translator Music is the poetry of the air. – Richter Singing is the highest expression of music because it is the most direct expression of the emotions of thesoul. – Rogers Our singing should be such that God hears it with pleasure-singing in which there is not so much art as heart,not so much of musical sound as of spiritual emotion. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptistpreacher When your heart is full of Christ, you will want to sing. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptistpreacher A friend once asked the great composer Haydn why his church music was always so full of gladness. Heanswered: “I cannot make it otherwise. I write according to the thoughts I feel. When I think upon my God,my heart is so full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen; and since God has given me a cheerfulheart, it will be pardoned me that I serve Him with a cheerful spirit.” – Van Dyke

NATURE Art is man’s nature: nature is God’s art. – Bailey Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul in. – Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-

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1887) American preacher, editor and orator Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. – Carver Earth with her thousand voices praises God. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (l772-l834) British poet The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship. – Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)American poet and essayist Nature is a volume of which God is the author. – Harvey There is a serene and settled majesty in woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevatesit, and fills it with noble inclinations. – Irving As a countenance is made beautiful by the soul’s shining through it, so the world is beautiful by the shiningthrough it of God. – Jacobi Study nature as the countenance of God. – Kingsley God makes the glowworm as well as the star; the light in both is divine. – Macdonald Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; my footstool Earth, my canopy the skies. – Pope No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. – Powys Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them. –John Ruskin, (1819-1900) English critic of the arts social reformer In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything. –Santayana One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. – William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist andpoet The best of men are still men at their best. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher I must confess that I have a daily fighting of my better self against the old self, the newborn nature againstthe old nature that will, if it can, still keep its hold upon me. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) EnglishBaptist preacher Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful. – Alfred Tennyson, (1809-1892) British poet A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye, looking into which thebeholder measures the depth of his own nature. – Henry David Thoreau, (1817-1862) American essayist,naturalist, and lecturer Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. – William Wordsworth, (1770-1850) British poet

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NECESSITY Necessity is often the spur to genius. – Balzac It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. – Dante Necessity has no law. – Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) One of America’s Founding Fathers Necessity makes even the timid brave. – Sallust I hold that to need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach divinity. –Socrates (470-399 B.C.) Greek philosopher Necessity knows no law except to conquer. – Sorus Necessity, the mother of invention. – Wycherly

OBEDIENCE Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love. – Aristotle It is vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing,instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found-in loving obedience. – Eliot Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence of sincere and supreme love to him. – Emmons One very common error misleads the opinion of mankind-that authority is pleasant and submission painful.In the general course of human affairs the very reverse of this is nearer the truth. Command is anxiety;obedience is ease. – Paley Let the ground of all religious actions be obedience; examine not why it is commanded, but observe itbecause it is commanded. True obedience neither procrastinates nor questions. – Quarles We are born subjects and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy. –Seneca (4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Tutor of the Roman Emperor Nero

OBSTINACY People first abandon reason, and then become obstinate; and the deeper they are in error the more angry theyare. – Blair Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to the truth, but submission to prejudice.-Locke An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him. – Pope

OMNIPRESENCE God is everywhere. His circumference is nowhere, but his center is everywhere. – Charles H. Spurgeon(1834-1892) English Baptist preacher I heard the story of a man, a blasphemer, profane, an atheist, who was converted singularly by a sinful action

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of his. He had written on a piece of paper, “God is nowhere,” and ordered his child to read it, for he wouldmake him an atheist too. The child spelled it, “God is n-o-w h-e-r-e-God is now here.” It was a truth insteadof a lie, and the arrow pierced the man’s own heart. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptistpreacher

OMNISCIENCE That part of my religion that no man can see should be as perfect as if it were to be observed by all. –Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher Wherever you are in the room, a well-painted portrait will be looking at you. Such is God. Wherever youare, the eye of God will be on you-as much on you as if there was not another person in the whole world.– Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

OPINION Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. – Thomas Carlyle, (1795-1881) Scottish author Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. – Joseph Joubert(1754-1824), French philosopher He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave. – Klopstock The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. – Lowell Do not think of knocking out another person’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would beas rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. – Mann There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universalquality is diversity. – Montaigne

OPPORTUNITY Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them. – Baten You will never “find” time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. – Buxton Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door. – Chamfort The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. – Benjamin Disraeli,(1804-1881) British statesman Great opportunities come to all, but many do not know they have met them. The only preparation to takeadvantage of them, is simple fidelity to what each day brings. – Dunning To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great artof life. – Johnson The opportunity is often lost by deliberating. – Sorus

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An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity. –Anonymous Optimism: A cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing though in hot water up to its nose. –Anonymous

He that is down need fear no fall, he that is low no pride. – John Bunyan (1628-1688) English Non-conformist (Baptist) minister and author of The Pilgrim’s Progress

To look up and not down, to look forward and not back, to look out and not in, and to lend a hand. – Hale Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. – Keller The cynic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900),Irish playwright & poet

OVERCOMING My life is but the weaving between my God and me; I only choose the colors, He weaveth steadily.Sometimes He weaveth sorrow, and I in foolish pride, forget he sees the upper, and I the under side. –Anonymous The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. – Chinese Proverb Each one of us should do something every day that we do not want to do but know we should do, tostrengthen our backbone and put iron in our soul. – Crane Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not somuch by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Circumstances and situationsdo color life, but you have been given the mind to choose what the color shall be. – Miller The ability to be calm, confident, and decisive in crisis is not an inherited characteristic but is the directresult of how well the individual has prepared himself for the battle. – Nixon The spirit of man is stronger than anything that can happen to it. – Scott

PARDON Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness.– Cary As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely. – De Stael

PARENT There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. – Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887)American preacher, editor and orator I pray you so live, that when you stand over your child’s dead body, you may never hear a voice coming upfrom that clay, “Father, your negligence was my destruction. Mother, your prayerlessness was the instrumentof my damnation. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

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O fathers and mother, the ruin of your children or their salvation, will, under God, very much depend on you.– Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

PATIENCE Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. – Anonymous There is not such thing as preaching patience into people unless the sermon is so long they have to practiceit while they hear. – Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887) American preacher, editor and orator There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increaseof knowledge. In that form it changes its name and we call it patience. – Bulwer-Lytton It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simplepatience. – Bushnell Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God’s will. – Collier Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. – Benjamin Disraeli, (1804-1881) British statesman A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. – Dutch Proverb Adopt the secret of nature: her secret is patience. – Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) American poet andessayist He that can have patience can have what he will. – Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) One of America’sFounding Fathers Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. – Jean Jacques Rousseau, (1712-1778) Swiss-born French authorand philosopher The anvil is struck by the hammer, and the anvil never strikes in return. Yet the anvil wears the hammer out.Patience baffles fury and vanquishes malice. The nonresistance principle involves a resistance that isirresistible. PEACE Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. – Anonymous There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace tothe shame of his own soul-to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God. – Chapin Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun; and the two are never far apart. – Colton I could not live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God. – Eliot With peace in his soul a man can face the most terrifying experiences. But without peace in his sol he cannotmanage even as simple a task as writing a letter. – English psychiatrist Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give up anything for it but truth. – Henry

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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources. – Rochefoucauld An effective organization for world peace will be established not through political diplomats around a peacetable, but through Christian teachers in all lands, teaching citizens in Sunday School and public school thesacredness of human life. – Price Peace is always beautiful. – Whitman

PEOPLE Jesus throws down the dividing prejudices of nationality, and teaches universal love, without distinction ofrace, merit or rank. A man’s neighbor is every one that needs help. – Geikie God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them. – Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865)Sixteenth President of the United States

PERSECUTION It is better to incur the world’s hatred by testifying against its wickedness than gain its goodwill by goingdown the stream with it. – Henry The way of this world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. – Howe Wherever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on the persecuted side. –Latimer

PERSEVERANCE There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fastwithers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures. – J.G. Holland You have received Christ; persevere in receiving him. You have come to trust him; keep on trusting him.You hang about his neck as a poor, helpless sinner; remain hanging there. Abide in him. – Charles H.Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

PESSIMIST A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he’ll feel worse when he feels better. –Anonymous A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. – Shaw

PITY Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. – Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887) Americanpreacher, editor and orator To pity distress is human; to relieve it is Godlike. – Mann

PLEASURES God made all pleasures innocent. – Norton We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give. – Petit-Senn

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POSSESSION Man should not consider his outward possessions as his own, but as common to all, so as to share themwithout hesitation when others are in need. – Aquinas The wise man carries his possessions within him. – Bias When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. – Bussy-Rabutin Use everything as if it belongs to God. It does. You are his steward. – Houston Times I am happy in having learned to distinguish between ownership and possession. Books, pictures, and all thebeauty of the world belong to those who love and understand them-not usually to those who possess them.– Kehler What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours. – Plautus

POVERTY The greatest man in history was the poorest. – Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) American poet andessayist The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain. – Goldsmith Poverty is no sin. – Herbert The lack is wealth is easily repaired; but the poverty of the sol is irreparable. – Montaigne Not he who has little, but he who wishes for more, is poor. – Seneca (4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Tutor of the RomanEmperor Nero

POWER The desire of power in excess caused angels to fall. – Francis Bacon, (1561-1626) English statesman andphilosopher of science A man who lives right and is right has more power in his silence than many another has by his words. –Brooks, Phillips (1835-1893), American Episcopal bishop There is more power in the open hand than in the clenched fist. – Hardware News The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. – Hazlitt Patience and gentleness is power. – Hunt All our natural powers can be used mightily by God, but only when we think nothing of them and surrenderourselves to be simply the vehicles of divine power, letting God use us as He wills, content to be evendespised by men if He be glorified. – Knight The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it. – Petit-Senn

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PRAISE The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. – Barrie There is not a person who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance,patience. – Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887) American preacher, editor and orator I praise loudly; I blame softly. – Catherine II (the Great) (1729-1796) Empress of Russia (1762-1796) One of the most essential preparations for eternity is delight in praising God; a higher acquirement, I dothink than even delight and devotedness in prayer. – Chalmers

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a foolmore arrogant. – Feltham Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise. – Greek proverb What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even, than what he condemns, of his character,information, and abilities. – Hare The occupation of heaven is praise. – Masefield A refusal of praise is a desire to praised twice. – Rochefoucauld Praise is the rehearsal of our eternal song. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception. –Steele

PRAYER If you don’t have faith, pray anyway. If you don’t understand or believe the words you’re saying, prayanyway. Prayer can start faith, particularly if you pray aloud. And even the most imperfect prayer is anattempt to reach God. – Cary Grant

If Christians spent as much time praying as they do grumbling, they would soon have nothing to grumbleabout. – Anonymous

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. – Corrie ten Boom

Prayer does not equip us for greater works - prayer is the greater work. – Oswald Chambers

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.– Abraham Lincoln

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

Prayer is not overcoming God’s relectance, it is laying hold of His highest willingness. – R.C. Trench

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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. – Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Lord’s Prayer is not, as some fancy, the easiest, the most natural of all utterances. It may be committedto memory quickly, but it is slowly learned by heart. – John F. D. Maurice

I have found the perfect antidote for fear. Whenever it sticks up its ugly face I clobber it with prayer... – DaleEvans Rogers

Is prayer a priority in your life? He walks with me, and He talks with me, And he tells me I am His own;And the joy we share as we tarry there, None other has ever known. – Miles - To Walk With God, We MustTalk With God.

If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distancemakes no difference. He is praying for me. – Robert Murray McCheyne

More things are wrought by prayer than the world dreams of. Arguments never settle things, but prayerchanges things. Prayer is profitable whenever it is practiced. The sacrifice of the wicked is an abominationto the Lord; but the prayer of the upright is his delight. – Anonymous

Embark upon no enterprise you cannot submit to the test of prayer. – Anonymous

Our business in prayer is, not to prescribe but to subscribe to the wisdom and will of God; to refer our caseto Him, and then leave it with Him. – Anonymous

Northing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies beyond the will of God. – Anonymous

Unanswered yet! Nay, do not say UN-GRANTED; perhaps your part is not yet fully done. The work beganwhen first your prayer was uttered, and God will finish what He has begun. If you keep faith’s incenseburning there, His glory you will see - sometime - somewhere! – Anonymous

Jesus didn’t teach us how to preach, He didn’t teach us how to sing, He taught us how to pray. – Anonymous

Lord, take my hand and lead me upon life’s way; Direct, protect and feed me from day to day. Without yourgrace and favor I go astray; So take my hand, O Savior, and lead the way. – Anonymous

When we focus on Christ, everything else becomes clear. – Anonymous

When the Spirit prompts the asking, When the waiting heart believes, Then we know of each petition:Everyone who asks receives. – Anonymous

Prayer is the place where burdens change shoulders. The load you now carry He’ll take it away. Just getalone and talk with the Master. Burdens change shoulders when you pray! – Song - Prayer

Many a battle is won through surrender in prayer. – Anonymous

Behold the throne of grace, The promise calls us near; There Jesus shows a smiling face, And waits toanswer prayer. Beyond our utmost wants, His love and pow’r can bless; To praying souls He always grants,More than they can express. – Hymn: Behold the Throne of Grace

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No greater help and care is given to others in their need, Than when we bear them up in prayer and for themintercede. – Anonymous

Dear Lord, I ask not for a faith that will move a mountain, but for a faith that will somehow move me. –Anonymous

The value of persistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will finally hear Him. – Anonymous

God may not always answer prayers, but he always answers people. – Anonymous Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of heaven there are no barriers; the only passwordis prayer. – Ballou A prayer, in its simplest definition, is merely a wish turned heavenward. – Brooks, Phillips (1835-1893),American Episcopal bishop When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words than thy words without heart. – John Bunyan(1628-1688) English Non-conformist (Baptist) minister and author I used to pray that God would do this or that. Now I pray that God will make His will known to me. – ChiangKai-shek Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. – Clarke And Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees. – William Cowper (1731-1800) Englishpoet and hymn-writer. No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. – Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Americanpoet and essayist Let us be silent that we may hear the whisper of God. – Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) American poetand essayist Prayer is the soul getting into contact with the God in whom it believes. – Harry Emerson Fosdick, (1878 -1969) American Clergyman God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things. – Harry Emerson Fosdick, (1878 -1969) American Clergyman He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying. – St. Francis of De Sales Work as if you were to live 100 years; pray as if you were to die tomorrow. – Benjamin Franklin,(1706-1790) One of America’s Founding Fathers So a good prayer, though often used, is still fresh and fair in the ears and eyes of Heaven. – Fuller Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night. – Fuller Our prayer and God’s mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends. –

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Hopkins Prayer is the voice of faith. – Horne Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is onits knees. – Victor Hugo, (1802-1885) French author of poetry, drama, and novels To saints their very slumber is a prayer. – St. Jerome Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God. – Keith There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him. – Law We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another. –Law Spread out your petition before God, and then say, “Thy will, not mine be done.” The sweetest lesson I havelearned in God’s school is to let the Lord choose for me. – Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899) Americanevangelist Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness. – More Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a lifeattitude. – Mueller The most important thing in any prayer is not what we say to God, but what God says to us. We are apt topray and then hurry away without giving God a chance to answer. – North Carolina Christian Advocate Prayer is the chief agency and activity whereby men align themselves with God’s purpose. Prayer does notconsist in battering the walls of heaven for personal benefits or the success of our plans. Rather it is thecommitting of ourselves for the carrying out of His purposes. It is a telephone call to headquarters for orders.It is not bending God’s will to ours, but our will to God’s. In prayer, we tap vast reservoirs of spiritual powerwhereby God can find fuller entrance into the hearts of men. – Oldham Sometimes...God answers our prayers in the way our parents do, who reply to the pleas of their children with“Not just now” or “I’ll have to think about that for a little while.” – Pearson Sometimes God delays the answer to our prayer in final form until we have time to build up the strength,accumulate the knowledge, or fashion the character that would make it possible for Him to say “yes” to whatwe ask. – Pearson Nothing is so beautiful as a child going to sleep while he is saying his prayers. – Peguy We must remember that “No” can be an answer to prayer. – Pinson Prayer is the Godward reach of a man’s soul. – Radcliffe Pray unto Him in any way you like. He is sure to hear you, for He can hear even the footfall of an ant. –Ramakrishna (1836-1886) Indian religious seer and mystic

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The deepest wishes of the heart find expression in secret prayer. – Rees Prayer is a means of adding power to the strength we already possess. Sometimes we know what is right,but we lack the will power to do it. – Stock Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. – Socrates (470-399B.C.) Greek philosopher Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man. – Spellman If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say it is in that one word-prayer. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher My own soul’s conviction is that prayer is the grandest power in the entire universe, that it has a moreomnipotent force than electricity, attraction, gravitation, or any other of those other secret forces which menhave called by mane, but which they do not understand. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptistpreacher To me it is a boundless solace that I live in the prayers of thousands. We can do better without the voice thatpreaches than without the heart that prays. The petitions of our bedridden sisters are the wealth of the church.– Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher I would rather be the Master of the Art of Prayer than MA of both Oxford and Cambridge. He who knowshow to pray has his hand on the leverage that moves the universe. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)English Baptist preacher God the Holy Spirit writes our prayers, God the Son presents our prayers and God the Father accepts ourprayers. And with the whole Trinity to help us in it, what cannot prayer perform. – Charles H. Spurgeon(1834-1892) English Baptist preacher All our strength lies in prayer! – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher I have seen enough in my own lifetime to fill a volume concerning the goodness of the Lord in answer tohis children’s prayers. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher Where God leads you to pray, he means you to receive. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptistpreacher The Lord does not play at promising. Jesus did not sport at confirming the word by his blood, and we mustnot make a jest of prayer by going about it in a listless, unexpecting spirit. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher Neglect of private prayer is the locust that devours the strength of the church. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher Prayer is the breath of faith. Prayer meetings are the lungs of the church. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)English Baptist preacher

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To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy thatmen can contract in this life. – Stael If Christ Himself needed to retire from time to time to the mountain-top to pray, lesser men need not beashamed to acknowledge that necessity. – Streeter Prayer is the ascent of the mind to God. – Taylor Prayer is the world in tune. – Vaughn

PREACHING To love to preach is one thing-to love those to whom we preach, quite another. – Cecil The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know what they mean when in it. – Cecil Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life. – Emerson,Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) American poet and essayist There is not in the universe a more ridiculous nor a more contemptible animal than a proud clergyman. –Fielding The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not <What a lovelysermon,’ but, <I will do something!’ – St. Francis De Sales Theological preaching is deservedly unpopular if all it does is settle a lot of problems people never heardof, and ask a lot of questions nobody ever asks...-McCracken Every Christian occupies some kind of pulpit and preaches some kind of sermon every day. – The MethodistStory Genius is not essential to good preaching, but a live man is. – Phelps A Scotch woman said to her minister, “I love to hear you preach. You get so many things out of your textthat aren’t really there.” – Watchman-Examiner Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say. – Richard Whately

PREJUDICE No person is strong enough to carry a cross and a prejudice at the same time. – Ward

PRIDEThe pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell. – Foster The proud hate pride in others. – Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) One of America’s Founding Fathers Pride and grace dwelt never in one place. – Kelly When a proud man thinks best of himself, then God and man think worst of him. – Smith

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There is nothing into which the heart of man so easily falls as pride. And yet there is no vice that is morefrequently, more emphatically, and more eloquently condemned in Scripture. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

PROCRASTINATION By the street of “By and By” one arrives at the house of “Never.” – Miguel Cervantes Saavedra, (1547-1616)Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. – Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) One of America’sFounding Fathers Every day of delay leaves a day more to repent of and a day less to repent in. – Mason Procrastination is the thief of time. It steals away our life. And if we knew the hour of our death, we shouldbe no more prepared for it than we are now. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher Procrastination is the thief of time. – Young

PROFANITY Whenever I hear a man swear, I always pray for him. It is a horrible thing that men should blaspheme andcurse and swear. But I believe that there would be less of these evils if all Christians prayed whenever theyheard an oath, for the devil would see that it would not pay him. For, fool though he is, he has some senseleft. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

PROFIT Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. – Thomas Carlyle, (1795-1881)Scottish author

PROGRESS Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of todaya different woman from her grandmother. – Anthony Look up and not down; look forward and not back; look out and not in; and lend a hand. – Hale Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing forhis work and his life by keeping eyes, mind and heart open to nature, men, books, experience. Such a manfinds ministers to his education on all sides; everything cooperates with his passion for growth. And whathe gathers serves him at unexpected moments in unforeseen ways. – Mabie

PROMISE He who is the slowest in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it. – Jean JacquesRousseau, (1712-1778) Swiss-born French author and philosopher The sacred promises, though in themselves most sure and precious, are of no avail for the comfort andsustenance of the soul unless you grasp them by faith, plead them in prayer, expect them by hope, andreceive them with gratitude. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

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As you read God’s promises over, one after the other, you say to yourselves, “This is my checkbook. I cantake out the promises as it want them, sign them by faith, present them at the great Bank of Grace, and comeaway enriched with present help in time of need.” That is the way to use God’s promises. – Charles H.Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

PROMPTNESS Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, noprocrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. – Chesterfield Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value. – MacDonald The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion. – More

PROPHET, PROPHECY Don’t ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it: and if you prophesy right, nobodywill remember it. – Billings

PROSPERITY Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies. – Vauvenargues

PROVERBS Better late than never. – Anonymous He that is down can fall no lower. – Butler All that glisters is not gold. – Miguel Cervantes Saavedra, (1547-1616) Spanish novelist, playwright, andpoet Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. – Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) One of America’sFounding Fathers Half the world knows not how the other half lives. – Herbert Two heads are better than one. – Heywood That which is everybody’s business is nobody’s business. – Walton

PROVIDENCE We cannot too often think there is a never-sleeping eye, which reads the heart and registers our thoughts.– Francis Bacon, (1561-1626) English statesman and philosopher of science You will find that God’s providence is in favor of those that keep His laws, and against those that breakthem. – Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887) American preacher, editor and orator Providence knows what we need better than we ourselves. – Fontaine On how small an incident the greatest results may hinge! The pivots of history are microscopic. – CharlesH. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

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I firmly believe in Divine Providence. Without belief in Providence I think I should go crazy. Without Godthe world would be a maze without a clue. – Wilson

PURITY Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent. – Augustine of Hippo (354-430) Christian theologian I pray thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within. – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) Greek philosopher Simplicity reaches out after God; purity discovers and enjoys him. – Kempis The body is the soul’s image; therefore keep it pure. – Pope Xystus I

PURPOSE He who would be a mover of the world must not be moved by the world. – Anonymous Achievements ordinarily follow in due course when a person, after planning his work, works his plan. –Bowman The secret of success of constancy of purpose. – Benjamin Disraeli, (1804-1881) British statesman There is no road to success but through a clear, strong purpose. – Munger When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. – Scott More men fail through lack of purpose than through lack of talent. – William Ashley (Billy) Sunday (1862-1935) US Presbyterian revivalist

QUALITY Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. – Juvenal Nothing endures but personal qualities. – Whitman

QUARRELING He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. – Burke Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side. – Rochefoucauld A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. – Seneca (4B.C.-A.D. 65) Tutor of the Roman Emperor Nero Men are always quarreling with God because he will not submit his will to their dictation. – Charles H.Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher In quarreling the truth is always lost. – Sorus

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refreshment. It is a great virtue; it covers folly, keeps secrets, avoids disputes, and prevents sin. – Penn A consistent Christian may not have rapture. He has that which is much better than rapture-calmness. God’sserene and perpetual presence. – Robertson I have often regretted my speech-never my silence. – Sorus Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. – Tupper

RELIGION The man proclaims his religion in his life and shows it in his face; worships God in the nobleness of his life,and shows his reverence in the love of man and animals; reveals it in tolerance, kindness, gentleness andstrength. Our love of mankind is the measure of our love of God; our faith in the eternal goodness, eternalprogress, is the test of our religion. – Anonymous The appearance of religion only on Sunday proves that it is only an appearance. – Adams Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, you won’t move themone step further to religion. – Alcuin Religion-that voice of the deepest human experience. – Matthew Arnold, (1822-1888) English poet andliterary critic Many would like religion as a sort of lightning rod to their houses, to ward off, by and by, the bolts of divinewrath. – Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887) American preacher, editor and orator Americans will listen to religion if and when it claims to have relationship to real life. Let the churchesrecognize that their job is not to nurture the pious nearly so much as it is to rouse, convict of sin, convert,a pagan nation. – Bell When someone tells me that he has never had a moment of probing religious doubt I find myself wonderingwhether he had ever known a moment of vital religious conviction. – Bosley I could not be interested in any man’s religion if his knowledge of God did not bring him more joy, did notbrighten his life, did not make him want to carry this joy into every dark corner of the world. I have nounderstanding of a longfaced Christian. If God is anything, He must be joy. – Brown It is only religion, the great bond of love and duty to God that makes any existence valuable or eventolerable. – Bushnell A man who puts aside his religion because he is going into society, is like one taking off his shoes becausehe is about to walk upon thorns. – Cecil Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. – Chesterton Things sacred should not only be untouched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. – Cicero (106-43B.C.) Roman orator, politician, and philosopher

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Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but-live for it. – Colton Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, needs only to be seen to be admired. – William Cowper (1731-1800)English poet and hymn-writer. Let your religion be seen. Lamps do not talk but they do shine. A lighthouse sounds no drums, it beats nogong; yet, far over the waters, its friendly light is seen by the mariner. – Culver Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident of it. – Benjamin Disraeli, (1804-1881) Britishstatesman Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, our religion will always be sacrificed. –Epictetus Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity. – Faulkes It is right to be religious, but one should shun religiosity. – Figulus Religion is something you do not something you wait for. – Finney Religious contention is the devil’s harvest. – Fontaine Religion, like music, is not in need of defense, but rendition. – Harry Emerson Fosdick, (1878 - 1969)American Clergyman If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? – Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) Oneof America’s Founding Fathers To avoid the risk of losing their religion, many people do not take it with them into their places of business.– Grit Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion. – Harrington Religion reveals the place of man in the scheme of things-and the reason many do not want anything to dowith religion is because they do not want to face what they really are. – Houston Times Religion is not an intelligence test, but a faith. – Howe It is from our lives and not from our words, that our religion must be read. – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826),author, historian, philosopher, & educator A life that will bear the inspection of men and of God, is the only certificate of true religion. – Johnson There is only one true religion, but there may be many forms of belief. – Immanuel Kant, (1724-1804)German philosopher Religion is the individual’s attitude toward God and man as expressed in faith, in worship, in life and inservice. – Kent

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Any religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums thatdamn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them, is a dry-as-dust religion. – King What I want is, not to possess religion but to have a religion that shall possess me. – Kingsley Religious contention is the devil’s harvest. – Fontaine The broad-minded see the truth in different religions; the narrow-minded see only their differences. – Lao-tze All belief that does not render us happier, freer, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, an erroneousand superstitious belief. – Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801), Swiss theologian, and poet The only assurance of our nation’s safety is to lay our foundations in morality and religion. – AbrahamLincoln, (1809-1865) Sixteenth President of the United States Religion without joy is no religion. – Parker Common men talk bagfuls of religion but act not a grain of it, while the wise man speaks little, but his wholelife is a religion acted out. – Ramakrishna (1836-1886) Indian religious seer and mystic We cannot meet needs by repeating creeds. – Religious Telescope Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian anymore than going to a garage makes you an automobile.– William Ashley (Billy) Sunday (1862-1935) US Presbyterian revivalist True religion is the life we live; not the creed we profess. – Wright

REPENTANCE Before God can deliver us from ourselves, we must undeceive ourselves. – Augustine of Hippo (354-430)Christian theologian You cannot repent too soon, because you do not know how soon it may be too late. – Fuller When the soul has laid down its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings. – Guerin Christ and we will never be one until we and our sin are two. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) EnglishBaptist preacher Sin and hell are married unless repentance proclaims the divorce. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)English Baptist preacher You need bring nothing to Jesus. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it hasdiscovered and felt God’s love. – Taylor

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There is no repentance in the grave. – Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Independent minister, hymn-writer

REPUTATION If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself. – Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899)American evangelist When I did well, I heard it never; when I did ill, I heard it ever. – Old English Rhyme The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. – Socrates (470-399 B.C.)Greek philosopher

REST For too much rest itself becomes a pain. – Homer (10th-9th century B.C.) The earliest Greek writer Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. – Ovid (43-18 B.C.) Greek poet

REVENGE The best part of revenge is not to be like him who did the injury. – Antoninus In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior. – Francis Bacon,(1561-1626) English statesman and philosopher of science Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves. – Phaedrus Revenge is an inhuman word. – Seneca (4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Tutor of the Roman Emperor Nero

RICHES In this world, it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. – Henry Ward Beecher,(1813-1887) American preacher, editor and orator No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. Heis rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. – Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887) Americanpreacher, editor and orator A man’s true wealth is the good he does in this world. – Bendixline Wealth is like a viper, which is harmless if a man knows how to take hold of it; but if he does not, it willtwine round his hand and bite him. – St. Clement The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat. – Confucius (551-479 b.C.) Chinese philosopher A man’s true wealth is the good her does in this world. – Mohammed Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. – Swift That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. – Henry David Thoreau, (1817-1862) Americanessayist, naturalist, and lecturer

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RIGHT Be sure you are right, then go ahead. – Crockett Two wrongs can never make a right. – English Proverb Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the others. – Twain

SABBATH Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. – Addison Too many persons try to make Sunday a sponge with which to wipe out sins of the week. – Henry WardBeecher, (1813-1887) American preacher, editor and orator A man’s Sunday self and his weekday self are like two halves of a round trip ticket: not good if detached.– Bristol I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge,(l772-l834) British poet Day of the Lord, as all our days should be! – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (1807-1882) American poet andtranslator Sabbath – The green oasis, the little grassy meadow in the wilderness; where, after the weekday’s journey,the pilgrim halts for refreshment and repose. – Reade “Sunday is our best day for business,” says somebody. Well then, so much more opportunity for you to makea greater sacrifice to prove your love to Jesus. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

SACRIFICE That which we should value in ourselves and in one another is the dignity of God’s image and the great priceat which we were bought. – Anonymous It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store. – Ballou You cannot win without sacrifice. – Buxton Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. – Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) American poet andessayist

SAINTS And Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees. – William Cowper (1731-1800) Englishpoet and hymn-writer. and John Newton (1725-1807) English evangelical minister and hymn-writer God creates out of nothing. Wonderful, you say. Yes, to be sure, but He does what is still more wonderful:He makes saints out of sinners. – Soren Kierkegaard, (1813-1855) Danish philosopher and religious thinker A man can be as truly a saint in a factory as in a monastery, and there is as much need of him in the one asin the other. – McCracken

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Saints are persons who make it easier for others to believe in God. – Soderblom

SALVATION Salvation is free for you because someone else paid. – Anonymous No man has the right to abandon the care of his salvation to another. – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826),author, historian, philosopher, & educator Salvation comes from God alone. – Latin Phrase We are saved by someone doing for us what we cannot do for ourselves. – Lester Salvation is not something that is done for you but something that happens within you. It is not the clearingof a court record, but the transformation of a life attitude. – Palmer The greatest of all miracles is the salvation of a soul. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptistpreacher The most important question concerning any man living is this: Is he a saved soul or not? Is he a child ofGod or an heir of wrath? – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher What we mean by salvation is this-deliverance from the love of sin, rescue from the habit of sin, setting freefrom the desire to sin. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher Human nature’s way of salvation is, “Do, do, do.” But God’s way of salvation is, “Done, done, it is alldone.” You have but to rely by faith on the atonement that Christ accomplished on the cross. – Charles H.Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher A man is never so “fit for believing” as when, in himself, he is most unfit. It is unfitness, not fitness that isreally required. What is fitness for being washed? Filth, and filth alone. What is fitness for receiving alms?Poverty, abject need. What is fitness for receiving pardon? Guilt, and only guilt. If you are guilty, if you areblack, if you are foul, you have all the fitness that is required. So come and in find Jesus Christ all that meetsyour greatest and most urgent need. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

SCANDAL Scandal is what one-half the world takes pleasure in inventing, and the other half in believing. – Chatfield You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him. – Washington

Amazing love! How can it beThat Thou, my God, shouldest die for me? – Charles Wesley (1709-1788) English hymn-writer and preacher

SECURITY When you have accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace; God is awake. – Victor Hugo, (1802-1885) French author of poetry, drama, and novels

Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in his changeless love. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)

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English Baptist preacher

Moment by moment I’m kept in His love,Moment by moment I’ve life from above;Looking to Jesus till glory doth shine,Moment by moment, O Lord, I am Thine. – Major Daniel Webster Whittle (1840-1901) American evangelist and Gospel songwriter

SELF-CONTROL Prove that you can control yourself and you are an educated man; without this, all other education is goodfor nothing. – Anonymous Deliberate much before you say or do anything, for it will not be in your power to recall what is said or done.– Epictetus Those who wish to transform the world must be able to transform themselves. – Heiden It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested. – Lowell

SELFISHNESS The very heart and root of sin is an independent spirit. – We erect the idol self, and not only whish othersto worship, but worship it ourselves. – Cecil Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. – William Ewart Gladstone, (1809-1898) Britishstatesmen The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.– Hunt Usually he is most empty who is most full of himself. – Lawson No one is happy or free how lives only for himself. Joy in living comes from immersion in something onerecognizes to be bigger, better, worthier, more enduring than he himself is. “True happiness and truefreedom come from squandering one’s self for a purpose. – McGeehon The world remains selfish enough, but it will not accept a selfish religion. – Nicoll There is no room for God in him who is full of himself. – Service of the Heart

God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves. – Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899)American evangelist Selfishness is the great unknown sin. No selfish person ever thought himself selfish. – A SouthernChurchman Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy, (1828-1910)Russian novelist, short-story writer, and essayist

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The most difficult thing the good Lord has to deal with in the man of today is his sense of self-sufficiency.He is too prone to think he can get along pretty well without God. – Western Christian Advocate

SELF-LOVE He was like a cock that thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. – Eliot He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. – Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) One of America’sFounding Fathers

SELF-RELIANCE Look well into thyself; there is a source that will always spring up if thou wilt always search there. –Antoninus Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. – Bovee No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another. – Channing I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another that it was possible for me to execute myself.– Montesquieu For they can conquer who believe they can. – Vergil (70-19 B.C.) Roman man of letters and poet

SERMON It takes only fifteen minutes to read the greatest sermon ever preached-and when you have finished it, youwill have read a complete summary of all that Jesus taught. – Allen The sermon has dimensions-height, depth, and breadth. The people who do the listening are sometimespainfully aware of a fourth dimension-length. – Brown That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising thespeaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone. – Burnett The sermon will be better if you listen as a Christian rather than as a critic. – Construction Digest Great sermons lead the people to praise the preacher. Good preaching leads the people to praise the Savior.– Finney The belly hates a long sermon. – Fuller A song will outlive all sermons in the memory. – Giles A good sermon helps people in a couple of ways. Some rise from it greatly strengthened. Others wake fromit refreshed. – Grit The average man’s idea of a good sermon is one that goes over his head-and hits his neighbors. – Barber Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I didseven years ago. – Wesley

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SERVICE Service is the rent we pay for the space we occupy. – Anonymous When a man turns to God desiring to serve Him, God directs his attention to the world and its need. –Brunner Only the hands that give away the flowers of their plucking retain the fragrance thereof. – Chinese Proverb No one is useless in this world that lightens the burden of it for any one else. – Charles Dickens, (1812-1870) Generally considered England’s greatest novelist It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service. – Albert Einstein (1879-1955) American (German-born) physicist The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man. – Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) One ofAmerica’s Founding Fathers The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. – Hazlitt There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. – Holmer When generous acts bloom from unselfish thought the Lord is with us though we know it not. – Larcom The church is a workshop, not a dormitory; and every Christian man and woman is bound to help in thecommon cause. – MacLaren The world cannot always understand one’s profession of faith, but it can understand service. – Maclaren We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life. – Markham O Father, may it never be said of us that having come to an open door, we closed it; having come to a lightedcandle, we quenched it; having heard the voice of a neighbor begging bread, we made denial, speaking ofour own case. – Mc Kenzie The measure of a man is not the number of his servants, but the number of people he serves. – Dwight L.Moody (1837-1899) American evangelist What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remainsand is immortal. – Pine In this theater of man’s life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on. – Pythagoras It is not the possession of extraordinary gifts that makes extraordinary usefulness, but the dedication of whatwe have to the service of God. – Robertson The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which worthilyused, will be a gift to his race forever. – John Ruskin, (1819-1900) English critic of the arts social reformer So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others I would almost say that we are indispensable;

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and no man is useless while he has a friend. – Stevenson God loves to see in me not his servant, but himself, who serves all. – Sir Rabvindranath Tagore,(1861-1941) Indian poet and philosopher Human need in all of its dimensions is the swinging door into the innermost life of another. – Thurman It is a truth that stands out with startling distinctness on the pages of the New Testament that God has nosons who are not servants. – Ward Know well that a hundred holy temples of wood and stone have not the value of one understanding heart.– Zoroastrian Scriptures

SILENCE It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent. – Bruyere Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher. – Latin Proverb Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it. – Lowell Be silent and safe – silence never betrays you. – O’Reilly I regret often that I have spoken, never that I have been silent. – Sorus

SIMPLICITY The greatest truths are the simplest. – Ballou Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought. – Hazlitt A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be that is honestly and naturallyhuman. – Wagner

SIN It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those we intend to commit. –Billings He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil. – Cicero (106-43B.C.) Roman orator, politician, and philosopher The way to keep the heart quiet is to keep ourselves in the love of God and to do nothing to offend him. –Henry It is not alone what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. – Moliere Our outward act is prompted from within, and from the sinner’s mind proceeds the sin. – Prior Is sin so luscious that you will burn in hell for it? – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptistpreacher

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There is no sin for which it is worth your while to be damned. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) EnglishBaptist preacher Sin may open bright as the morning, but it will end dark as night. – Talmage My soul is like a mirror in which the glory of God is reflected, but sin, however insignificant, covers themirror with smoke. – St. Theresa Sin and dandelions are a whole lot alike-they’re a lifetime fight that you never quite win. – White The other fellow’s sins, like the other fellow’s car lights, always seem more glaring than our own. –Wisconsin Dells Events

SLANDER Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you will have dirty hands. – Parker

SOCIETY Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another. – Chamfort For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of thewrong. – George

SOLITUDE We enter the world alone, we leave it alone. – Froude What would a man do if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could neverbetter himself in the cool of solitude. – Hawthorne The person who has not learned to be happy and content while completely alone for an hour a day, or a weekhas missed life’s greatest serenity. – Tate Consider what St. Augustine said, – that he sought God within himself. Settle yourself in solitude, and youwill come upon Him in yourself. – St. Theresa

SORROW Blessed to us is the night, for it reveals the stars. – Anonymous Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow. – Bailey Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely, there God is hewing outthe pillars for His temple. – Brooks, Phillips (1835-1893), American Episcopal bishop Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars;martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful firstseen the gates of heaven. – Chapin The soul would have no rainbow had the eye no tears. – Cheney

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Often the clouds of sorrow reveal the sunshine of His face. – Jasper This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the brightcrystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks. – Keller Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy. – Pollok Sorrows are like thunderclouds-in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. – Richter The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlights of affliction. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)English Baptist preacher There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm. – Vincent

SOUL From the looks-not the lips, is the soul reflected. – Clarke I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone amongcreatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrificeand endurance. – Faulkner The greatest adventures are experienced in the soul of man, not across oceans or deserts. – Runes Were I so tall to reach the pole, or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul: the mind’sthe standard of the man. – Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Independent minister, hymn-writer

SPEECH The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses. – Campistron Speak briefly and to the point. – Cato A vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speech, whetherthey be wise or foolish. – Demosthenes Blessed is the man who having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. – Eliot

STEWARDSHIP The problem with our giving is that we give the widow’s mite, but not with the widow’s spirit. – Anonymous It is not the greatness of the help, or the intrinsic value of the gift, which gives it its worth, but the evidenceit is of love and thoughtfulness. – Black To love is to want to give and above all give oneself. A perfect love is the perfect gift of oneself withoutthought of reward or return. – Stuart

SUBSTITUTION Christ, when the sinner is brought to the bar, appears there himself. There stands the man whose hands are

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pierced; he stands numbered with transgressors. Let the trial proceed. What is the accusation? He stands toanswer it. He points to his side, his hands, his feet, and challenges justice to bring anything against thesinners whom he represents. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher

SUCCESS To have grown wise and kind is real success. – Anonymous To find his place and fill it is success for a man. – Brooks, Phillips (1835-1893), American Episcopal bishop The men who I have seen succeed best in life have always been cheerful and hopeful men, who went abouttheir business with a smile on their faces, and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men,facing rough and smooth alike as it comes. – Kingsley Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it. – Ovid (43-18 B.C.) Greek poet

SUFFERING It requires more courage to suffer than to die. – Napoleon I (Napoleon Bonaparte) (1769-1821) Emperorof the French (1804-1814) Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial. – Ovid (43-18 B.C.) Greek poet I wish you could convince yourself that God is often nearer to us, and more effectually present with us, insickness than in health. – Lawrence

SYMPATHY Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart. – Burke There is sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They speak more eloquentlythan then thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, ofunspeakable love. – Irving Our sympathy is never very deep unless founded on our own feelings. We pity, but do not enter into the griefthat we have never felt. – Landon There are none so tender as those who have been skinned themselves. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)English Baptist preacher

TALENT Concealed talent brings no reputation. – Erasmus Talent without tact is only half talent. – Horace Greeley, (1811-1872), American newspaper editor Our opportunities to do good are our talents. – Mather

TALK In general those who nothing have to say contrive to spend the longest time in doing it. – Lowell Those who have few things to attend to are great babblers; for the less men think, the more they talk. –

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Montesquieu They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think. – Prior

TEACHING He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of daily virtuous living. – Thomas Carlyle,(1795-1881) Scottish author You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. – Galileo A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on coldiron. – Horace Mann The teacher is like the candle that lights others in consuming itself. – Ruffini

TEARS God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. –Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887) American preacher, editor and orator Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry. – Harte Tears are sometimes as weighty as words. – Ovid (43-18 B.C.) Greek poet It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears. – Ovid (43-18 B.C.) Greek poet Tears are the silent language of grief. – Voltaire (1694 - 1778) French author, humanist, rationalist, &satirist

TEMPTATION Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory. – Faber God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers. – Penn No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation, unless he has himself honestly andfirmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it. – John Ruskin, (1819-1900) English critic of thearts social reformer No degree of temptation justifies any degree of sin. – Willis

THOUGHT Great thoughts, like great deeds, need no trumpet. – Bailey Learning without thought is labor lost. – Confucius (551-479 BC.) Chinese philosopher Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. – Hazlitt The mind grows by what it feeds on. – Holland

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He that never thinks never can be wise. – Johnson The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuableof any we have, and therefore should be secured, because they seldom return again. – Locke At learning’s fountain it is sweet to drink, but its’ a nobler privilege to think. – Saxe They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. – Sidney

TIME We have to live but one day at a time, but we are living for eternity in that one day. – Anonymous In time take time while time doth last, for time is no time when time is past. – Anonymous To snatch the passing moment and examine it for signs of eternity is the noblest of occupations. – Halle Time is so precious that it is dealt out to us only in the smallest possible fractions-a tiny moment at a time.– Irish Proverb There is a time to be born, and a time to die, says Solomon, and it is the memento of a truly wise man; butthere is an interval between these two times of infinite importance. – Richmond God created time and gave it to us. It is his fundamental gift, for all other gifts are conditioned upon it. Whyshould we give it so grudgingly to his service? Why should we not lavish time upon the things that Godknows and we know are the vital things? – Rountree An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them. – Seneca (4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Tutor of the Roman Emperor Nero Do not believe that you are standing still; you are not. Your pulses each moment beat the funeral marchesto the tomb. You are chained to the chariot of rolling time. There is no bridling of the steeds or leaping fromthe chariot. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher You cannot kill time without injuring eternity. – Henry David Thoreau, (1817-1862) American essayist,naturalist, and lecturer Time is infinite movement without one moment of rest. – Leo Tolstoy, (1828-1910) Russian novelist,short-story writer, and essayist To the philosopher, time is one of the fundamental quantities. To the average man, time has something todo with dinner. – Van Horn

TONGUE Birds are entangled by their feet and men by their tongues. – Thomas Fuller It is bad to think ill, but it is much worse to speak it, for that implies consent to the evil thought and awillingness to infect others with it. – Henry

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When life becomes all snarled up, offer it to our Lord and let Him untie the knots. – Book of Days forChristians Outward losses drive good people to their prayers but bad people to their curses. – Henry It is hard to take comfort from former smiles under present frowns. – Henry A trial is an experiment or search made upon a man, by some affliction, to prove the value and strength ofhis faith. – Henry God has one Son without sin, but he never had a son without trial. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)English Baptist preacher

TROUBLE Whenever God gives us a cross to bear, it is a prophecy that He will also give us strength. – Anonymous Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. – American Proverb Nations and men are much alike. They seldom appeal to God unless they are getting licked. – Baltimore Sun Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. – Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887)American preacher, editor and orator The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough. – Thomas Carlyle, (1795-1881) Scottish author He that seeks trouble always finds it. – English Proverb It is a pity that our tears on account of our troubles should so blind our eyes that we should not see ourmercies. – Flavel If the sun of God’s countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.– Hall Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing. – Holland If trouble comes, it’ll keep our religion from getting rusty. That’s the great thing about persecution; it keepsyou up to the mark. It’s habit, not hatred, that is the real enemy of the church of God. – Leber The whole trouble is that we won’t let God help us. – Macdonald The true way to soften one’s troubles is to solace those of others. – Maintenon Trouble and perplexity drive us to prayer, and prayer driveth away trouble and perplexity. – Melancthon It is distrust of God, to be troubled about what is to come; impatience against God, to be troubled with whatis present; and anger at God to be troubled for what is past. – Patrick Trouble knocked at the door, but hearing a laugh within hurried away. – Poor Richard, Jr.

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Trifling troubles find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent. – Seneca (4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Tutor of the RomanEmperor Nero There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrowsthat never really happen to them. – Shaw Every time trouble comes, consider that through it the Lord is giving you a needed lesson. – Yogananda

TRUST You may trust the Lord too little, but you can never trust Him too much. – Anonymous Beware of despairing about yourself; you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself. –Augustine of Hippo (354-430) Christian theologian We trust as we love, and where we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust Him much. – Brooks,Phillips (1835-1893), American Episcopal bishop Truth is mighty and will prevail. – Brooks, Phillips (1835-1893), American Episcopal bishop All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. – Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)American poet and essayist Trusting in Him who can go with me and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidentlyhope that all will yet be well. – Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865) Sixteenth President of the United States Trust God where you cannot trace Him. Do not try to penetrate the cloud He brings over you; rather lookto the bow that is on it. The mystery is God’s; the promise is yours. – Macduff To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. – George Mac Donald How calmly we may commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears up the world. – Richter Don’t try to hold God’s hand; let Him hold yours. Let Him do the holding, and you the trusting. – Webb-Peploe

TRUTH Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail, but in conveying a right impression; and there are vagueways of speaking that are truer than strict facts would be. When the Psalmist said, “Rivers of water run downmine eyes, because men keep not thy law,” he did not state the fact, but he stated a truth deeper than fact,and truer. – Alford Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. – Henri Frédéric Amiel.(1821-1881), Swiss writer of French language To hear truth and not accept it does not nullify truth. – Brotherhood Journal Every man seeks for truth, but God only knows who has found it. – Lord Chesterfield

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We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past. – Chaing Kai-shek God has revealed many truths that He has not explained. We will just have to be content to let Him knowsome things we do not and take Him at His word. – Copass He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to won it because of other man’sopinions. – Defoe Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. – Benjamin Disraeli, (1804-1881) British statesman Much of the glory and sublimity of truth is connected with its mystery. To understand everything we mustbe as God. – Edwards Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorablyto know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life. – Galsworthy If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.– Gordon It takes few words to tell the truth. – Chief Joseph (Last Chief of the Nez Perce tribe) Keep one thing forever in view-the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from theopinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God. – Mann Truth lies in character. Christ did not simply speak the truth; he was Truth-Truth through and through, fortruth is a thing not of words but a life and being. – Robertson It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, nor the amount of religiousconversation in which you mix, but it is the frequency and earnestness with which you meditate on thesethings till the truth in them becomes your own and part of your being, that ensures your growth. – Robertson Truth is always the strongest argument. – Sophocles (496-405 B.C.) Greek dramatist Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not everyone that sincerely wishes to be on the side oftruth. – Whately There is no problem in dealing with error if truth is presented intelligently and in love. – White

UNDERSTANDING Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believethat thou mayest understand. – Augustine of Hippo (354-430) Christian theologian Man is always inclined to be intolerant toward the thing, or person, he hasn’t taken time adequately tounderstand. – Brown The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand. – Lombroso

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UNION There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes. – Cicero(106-43 B.C.) Roman orator, politician, and philosopher We must all hang together or assuredly we shall hang separately. – Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) Oneof America’s Founding Fathers

UNSELFISHNESS The man who has lived for himself has the privilege of being his own mourner. – Henry Ward Beecher,(1813-1887) American preacher, editor and orator Reach that which is of God in every one. – Fox Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. – William Ewart Gladstone, (1809-1898) Britishstatesmen Learn the luxury of doing good. – Goldsmith If you want to be miserable, think much about yourself; about what you want, what you like, what respectpeople ought to pay you, and what people think of you. – Kingsley The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures consist in promoting the pleasures of others. –LaBruyere What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remainsand is immortal. – Pike The greatest difficulty with the world is not it inability to produce, but its unwillingness to share. – Smith

VALUE The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. – Bryce We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use wethrow away. – Plutarch A cynic, a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900),Irish playwright & poet

VIRTUE Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man! – Addison One’s outlook is a part of his virtue. – Alcott Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul. – Boileau Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertionof our faculties in doing good. – Butler

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Honor is the reward of virtue. – Cicero (106-43 B.C.) Roman orator, politician, and philosopher Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. – Confucius (551-479 b.C.)Chinese philosopher I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake,though nobody were to see me. – Cooper Virtue is the Beauty of the Soul. – Fuller Virtue is not hereditary. – Thomas Paine, (1737-1809) American essayist and pamphleteer Virtue is the doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlastinghappiness. – Paley The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every day conduct.– Pascal He, who dies for virtue, does not perish. – Plautus Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, andcannot be shaken by a tempest. – Pythagoras A truly virtuous person is like good metal-the more he is fired, the more he is refined; the more he isopposed, the more he is approved. Wrongs may well try him and touch him, but they cannot imprint on himany false stamp. – Richelieu What the world calls virtue, without Christ, is a name and a dream. The foundation of all human excellencemust be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer’s cross and in the power of His resurrection. – Robertson The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. – Sallust

WAITING Wait in prayer. Call on God and spread the case before. Express your unstaggering confidence in him. Waitin faith, for unfaithful, untrusting waiting is but an insult to the Lord. Wait in quiet patience, not murmuringbecause you are under the affliction, but blessing God for it. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) EnglishBaptist preacher

WANTS It is not from nature, but from education and habits that our wants are chiefly derived. – Fielding Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more. – Kempis How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones! – Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801), Swisstheologian, and poet

WEALTH No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He

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is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. – Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887) Americanpreacher, editor and orator The wealth of a man is the number of things that he loves and blesses, and which he is loved and blessedby. – Thomas Carlyle, (1795-1881) Scottish author He that will not permit his wealth to do any good to others while he is living, prevents it from doing goodto himself when he is dead. – Colton Riches either serve or govern the possessor. – Horace (65-8 B.C.), Roman poet Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better. – Johnson Riches exclude only one inconvenience, and that is poverty. – Johnson Riches, like glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.– Montaigne Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fateof material possessions. – Rickenbacker He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. – Socrates (470-399 B.C.)Greek philosopher Money is not required to buy one necessity for the soul. – Henry David Thoreau, (1817-1862) Americanessayist, naturalist, and lecturer

WILL A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not. – Fichte People do not lack strength; they lack will. – Victor Hugo, (1802-1885) French author of poetry, drama, andnovels When your will is God’s will, you will have your will. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptistpreacher

WISDOM Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (l772-l834) British poet Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more. – WilliamCowper (1731-1800) English poet and hymn-writer. Wisdom is only found in truth.– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German novelist, poet, &scientist The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. – Hare

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The first step of wisdom is to know what is false. – Latin Proverb God grant me the serenity to accept things I cannot change, courage to change things I can, and wisdom toknow the difference. – Niebuhr No man is wise enough by himself. – Plautus He who learns the rules of wisdom without conforming to them in his life is like a man who ploughs in hisfield but does not sow. – Saadi Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is knowledge of our own ignorance. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers... – Alfred Tennyson, (1809-1892) British poet True wisdom consists not in seeing what is immediately before our eyes, but in foreseeing what is to come.– Terence (190-158 B.C.), Roman dramatist He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity, is wise for a moment, but a fool forever. –Tillotson

WISH Every wish is like a prayer-with God. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), English poet If a man could have half his wishes he would double his troubles. – Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) Oneof America’s Founding Fathers I wish I knew the good of wishing. – Leigh

WITNESS One taper lights a thousand, yet shines as it has shone; and the humblest light may kindle one brighter thanits own. – Butterworth The great-heartedness of religion craves expression and must be expressed. – Jacks Whatever God gives you to do, do it as well as you can. This is the best possible preparation for what he maywant you to do next. – Macdonald You want to be your Lord’s messenger to your neighbor? To be that your love must instinctively seize onand love what is lovable in your neighbor. – Mackay To be glad instruments of God’s love in this imperfect world is the service to which man is called. – AlbertSchweitzer, (1875-1965) Theologian, philosopher, and medical missionary in Africa No doctrine of the Christian religion is worth preserving which cannot be verified in daily life. – Watson

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WORK Happiness depends chiefly on our cheerful acceptance of routine, on our refusal to assume, as many do, thatdaily work and daily duty are a kind of slavery. – Briggs Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and whichaffords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him. – Burroughs To find one’s work is to find one’s place in the world. – Cabot It is better to undertake a large task and get it half done than to undertake nothing and get it all done. – Craig There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. – Crane Better to wear out than to rust out. – Cumberland I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came bywork. – Thomas Alva Edison, (1847-1931) American inventor It is not doing the thing which we like to do, but liking to do the thing which we have to do, that makes lifeblessed.– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German novelist, poet, & scientist God gives the birds their food, but he does not throw it into their nests. – Greek Proverb Anything that one dies, from cooking a dinner to governing a state, becomes a work of art if motivated bythe passion for excellence and done as well as it can be. A man who does his job in that spirit will be the onewho gets the most satisfaction out of life. – Jacks It is my belief that every man has the divine right to work. – Lundeen If you want to be not only successful, but personally, happily and permanently successful, then do your jobin a way that puts lights in people’s faces. Do that job in such a way that, even when you are out of sight,folks will always know which way you went by the lamps left behind. – Mc Farland Civilization develops only where considerable numbers of men work together for common ends. – Moore Almighty God doesn’t call any man or woman to a trivial or unimportant life work. If you can’t see your jobas being somehow vital and meaningful to mankind, change it or get out of it. – Nelson Many hands make light work. – Patten The moment a man can really do his work, he becomes speechless about it; all words are idle to him; alltheories. Does a bird need to theorize about building its nest, or boast of it when it is built? All good workis essentially done that way-without hesitation; without difficulty; without boasting. – John Ruskin,(1819-1900) English critic of the arts social reformer The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people. – Tolstoi No religion is irrelevant if it helps people to see the hidden glory of the common things they do. – Trueblood

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There are two changeless sources of solid happiness: first, the belief in God, and second, the habit of hardwork toward useful ends. – Willard

WORLD God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have beencomposed in heaven. – Balzac He who best knows the world will love it least. – Balzac This world is God’s workshop for making men in. – Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887) American preacher,editor and orator For the world I count it not an inn, but a hospital, and a place not to live, but to die in. – Browne There are two worlds; the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with ourhearts and imaginations. – Hunt What a glorious world Almighty God has given us! How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we laborto mar His gifts. – Lee Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. There lies theland of song; there lies the poet’s native land. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (1807-1882) American poetand translator The unrest of this weary world is its unvoiced cry after God. – Munger The world is God’s epistle to mankind-his thoughts are flashing upon us from every direction. – Plato (427?-347 B.C.) Ancient Greek philosopher The only new thing that ever enters into this world is a human personality. – Scott I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the worldis because the world has so much influence over the church. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) EnglishBaptist preacher This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. – Walpole The world is my parish. – Wesley

WORRY Anxiety springs from the desire that things should happen as we wish rather than as God wills. – Anonymous The devil would have us continually crossing streams that do not exist. – Anonymous Take plenty of time to count your blessings, but never spend a minute in worry. – Anonymous Worry is a kind of insult to the Lord. It’s like throwing His promises and assurances back into His face and

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saying they’re no good and you don’t trust Him. – Fletcher To worry about tomorrow is to fail of devotion to the tasks of today, and so to spoil both days. – Hyde The more you worry about other people’s welfare, the less you will worry about your own. – Magary Nothing in the affairs of men is worth worrying about. – Plato (427?-347 B.C.) Ancient Greek philosopher Blessed is the man who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy at night. – Riney

WORSHIP He who neglects worship neglects that which separates man from the birds, the animals, the insects, thefishes. – Bradley Man is a religious being; the heart instinctively seeks for a God. – Bryan Worship renews the spirit as sleep renews the body. – Cabot The man who does not habitually worship is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye. – ThomasCarlyle, (1795-1881) Scottish author What greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship. – Thomas Carlyle, (1795-1881)Scottish author It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow. – Calvin Coolidge, (1872-1933) President ofthe United States The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship. – Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)American poet and essayist We must not forget to keep worship at the heart of life. – Hodgkin Worship is the act of rising to a personal, experimental consciousness of the real presence of God whichfloods the soul with joy and bathes the whole inward spirit with refreshing streams of life. – Jones And learn there may be worship without words. – Lowell It takes solitude, under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny. – Rutledge Soul worship is the soul of worship, and if you take away the soul from the worship, you have killed theworship. It becomes dead and barren after that. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptistpreacher My happiest moments are when I am worshiping God, really adoring the Lord Jesus Christ, and havingfellowship with the ever-blessed Spirit. In that worship I forget the cares of everything else. To me it is thenearest approach to what it will be in heaven. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist preacher The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat. – Thompson

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Worship requires only a man and God. – Unity The tongue blessing God without the heart is but a tinkling cymbal; the heart blessing God without thetongue is sweet but still music; both in concert make their harmony which fills and delights heaven andearth. – Venning

O Christ, in Thee my soul hath found,And found in Thee alone,The peace, the joy I sought so long,The bliss till now unknown.

I sighed for rest and happiness,I yearned for them, not Thee;But while I passed my Saviour by,His love laid hold on me.

Now none but Christ can satisfy,None other name for me;There’s love, and life, and lasting joy,Lord Jesus, found in Thee.– Author unknown.

YOUTH Never tell a young person that something cannot be done. God may have been waiting for countless centuriesfor somebody ignorant enough of the impossibility to do that thing. – Anonymous If our boys and girls are not so good as they were when you were a child their age, it may be that they hada much better mother and dad than your child has. – Anonymous Every youth who is ambitious to grow to the full stature of noble manhood must make up his mind at thestart that he has got to be bigger than the things that are trying to down him. If he doesn’t he will go downwith them. – Anonymous In youth we learn; in age we understand. – Ebner-Eschenbach If I had the opportunity to say a final word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don’t thinktoo much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourishyour minds by good reading; discover what your life work is, work in which you can be happiest. Beunafraid in all things where you know you are right. Be unselfish. That’s the first and final commandmentfor those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. – Eliot Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty nevergrows old. – Kafka There is a deep tendency in human nature to become like what we imagine ourselves to be. – Hocking Conscience is the voice of our ideal self, our complete self, our real self, laying its call upon the will. – Jones

Live every day of your life as though you expected to live forever. – Mac Arthur There is a special quality to being young in America. There is a special air of freedom, a special kind ofhopefulness, a deep-down faith that life will turn out good. Every man who remembers how it felt will doall he can to keep that faith alive for those who are young today. – Redmond Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. – Robert Southey(1774-1843), English poet One other thing stirs me when I look back at my youthful days, the fact that so many people gave mesomething or were something to me without knowing it. – Albert Schweitzer, (1875-1965) Theologian,philosopher, and medical missionary in Africa

ZEAL Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one and frost out of the other.– Addison Blind zeal can only do harm. – Lichtwer Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others. – Quesnel Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than thefurious zeal of a Christian. – Whichcote

“Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of

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Dr. Terry Wayne Preslar has pastored First Baptist Church of Mineral Springs, North Carolina for over30 years. It is his second call with two and one half years having been served at Howie Baptist Church ofWaxhaw, North Carolina. Brother Preslar and his wife are happily married with five children, with theyoungest being eighteen years old and eight grandchildren. He is an old fashion Baptist Preacher with firmconvictions and a passion for souls.

The Editor organized Mineral Springs Baptist Mission late in 1975. Since then Pastor Preslar has workedin this calling. He works with the “Preaching Mission” of the church, at the rest-home several times eachmonth and three services each week in the pulpit at First Baptist. Given the occasion he preaches on thestreet and in prisons. He teaches Bible College Classes in Monroe in the Gospel Schools of the Bible inMonroe N.C. and writes Sunday-School material for several classes. He preaches several revival meetings,speaks in mission revivals and Bible conferences and attends a number of campmeetings each year. He canbe contacted for appointments at the below address or phone number. (No church is ever too small – God’speople need a preacher...)

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