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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7ce4bb7 | Spurgeon used his wit to provoke laughter in private and in public. He said in one of his sermons, "If by a laugh I can make men see the folly of an error better than in any other way, they shall laugh." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 303b9f6 | There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else. C. S. Lewis | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 296e78d | If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world." --David Brainerd" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 9a44284 | Lord Foulgrin: "You must not let him see Charis as a place of learning, exploration, duties, travel, companionship, banquets, celebrations, and productive work. A low view of heaven is our ace in the hole." (conspiring to bring Fletcher down after salvation)" | heaven inspiration truth | Randy Alcorn | |
| dc05aba | Foulgrin: "If you can keep Fletcher from saying a definitive no to a temptation, you've won. Whatever is not a no is merely a postponed yes." (advice to the tempter Squaltaint)" | faith inspiration truth | Randy Alcorn | |
| 2bdf14d | To the baby who dies it makes no difference whether those who refused to protect her were proabortion or merely prochoice. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 1d8ccbd | We should remember Christ's words, 'Let nothing be wasted,' when we look in our refrigerators and garbage cans and garages. | christianity stewardship waste | Randy Alcorn | |
| 9518986 | We will look into God's eyes and see what we've always longed to see: the person who made us for his own good pleasure. Seeing God will be like seeing everything else for the first time. Why? Because not only will we see God, he will be the lens through which we see everything else--other people, ourselves, and the events of our earthly lives. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 8017773 | If we realize we're undeserving, suddenly the world comes alive. Instead of whining about everything that goes wrong, we're surprised at God's many kindnesses, and our hearts overflow with thanks. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| b80d396 | When Yesu is everything to you, it is impossible not to speak of him. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 38402d8 | Do we seek happiness because we're sinners or because we're human? Should faith in God be dragged forward by duty or propelled by delight? Must we choose between holiness and happiness? | Randy Alcorn | ||
| af53c2d | An obedient man is free when in prison," Quan said. "A disobedient man is imprisoned when free." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 99957f6 | Sometimes we read Scripture about rejoicing or trusting and think, "Easy to say, but you're not facing what I am." But few people have faced conditions as dire as Habakkuk, with the impending destruction of his nation, family and friends, and way of life. His statement "I will be happy because of the God who delivers me" demonstrates that delighting in God isn't dependent on favorable circumstances. Happiness in God involves an act of will .. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 8b3040c | When God provides more money we often think, This is a blessing. Yes, but it would be just as scriptural to say, "This is a test." Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 9d051a3 | When we fail to acknowledge God as the Source of all good things, we fail to give Him the recognition and glory He deserves. We separate God from joy, which is like trying to separate heat from fire or wetness from rain. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| f31e8e7 | Not the way it's supposed to be." Evil is exactly that--a fundamental and troubling departure from goodness. The Bible uses the word evil to describe anything that violates God's moral will." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| c946bae | Each day every man comes closer to the day of his death. Those who lay up their treasures in Thuros spend each day moving away from them. Those who lay up their treasures in Charis spend each day moving toward them. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| da841f8 | Whatever is given to Christ is immediately touched with immortality. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 9604470 | What we should see in the real Beatitudes is not merely that the words of Jesus exalt good character instead of bad but that good character brings happiness and bad character brings misery. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 9a523c9 | This gift cannot be worked for, earned, or achieved. It's not dependent on our merit or effort but solely on Christ's generous sacrifice on our behalf. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 9ba027e | If you are looking for a religion centered around yourself, Ben, I must agree that Christianity is a poor choice. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 0b35490 | You can't take it with you-- but you can send it on ahead. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 94de2d2 | To address good and evil without gazing upon God is fruitless. Good flows from the life connected to God. Evil flows from the life alienated from God. "Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God" (3 John 11). To embrace good and turn from evil, we must see God as he really is. We must not simply believe in God, but believe what is true about God. Diminishing God not only fails to solve theologica.. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 111dff1 | A steward manages assets for the owner's benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It's his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry out his will. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 60a7119 | God, like a father, doesn't just give advice. He gives himself. He becomes the husband to the grieving widow (Isaiah 54:5). He becomes the comforter to the barren woman (Isaiah 54:1). He becomes the father of the orphaned (Psalm 10:14). He becomes the bridegroom to the single person (Isaiah 62:5). He is the healer to the sick (Exodus 15:26). He is the wonderful counselor to the confused and depressed (Isaiah 9:6). | Randy Alcorn | ||
| e920316 | The circumstances surrounding our lives are no accident: they may be the work of evil, but that evil is held firmly within the mighty hand of our sovereign | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 7eab745 | As you go through life, don't let your feelings--real as they are--invalidate your need to let the truth of God's words guide your thinking. Remember that the path to your heart travels through your mind. Truth matters. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| a578b0a | The only proper foundation for optimism is the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. Any other foundation is sand, not rock. It will not bear the weight of our eternity. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 689eee1 | Now think, my brother, you will be in Heaven very soon. Since last year a great number have gone home: before next year many more will have ascended to glory. Sitting up in those celestial seats, how shall we wish that we had lived below?" --Charles Spurgeon" | Randy Alcorn | ||
| e6185ea | A Barna poll shows that for every American who believes he or she is going to Hell, there are 120 who believe they're going to Heaven.[4] Yet Christ said otherwise: "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it" (Matthew 7:13-14)." | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 2d42343 | Being absolute, and maintained by police force, a Government monopoly need not please its customers. | Rose Wilder Lane | ||
| f53e96b | Tolkien preserved this postcard carefully, and long afterwards he wrote on the paper cover in which he kept it: 'Origin of Gandalf'. | Humphrey Carpenter | ||
| 3036f09 | This love for the memory of the countryside of his youth was later to become a central part of his writing, and it was intimately bound up with his love for the memory of his mother. | Humphrey Carpenter | ||
| 53f714c | If our forefathers make the world awry, must our children be the ones who pay to right it? | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| f8c87e9 | Tolkien reveals that our personalities take on the quality of our acts. Outward behavior manifests inward convictions, whether for good or ill. "The good man out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil man out of his evil treasure produces evil; for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks" (Luke 6:45)." | Ralph C. Wood | ||
| 282d96c | Tolkien understands the odd danger posed by virtue cut off from the Good. Over and again, he demonstrates his fundamental conviction that evil preys upon our virtues far more than our vices. Our very strengths and assets-whether intelligence or bravery, diligence or loyalty or beauty, but especially righteousness-may dispose us either to scorn those who lack such virtues, or else to employ our gifts for our own selfish ends. | Ralph C. Wood | ||
| 29b9672 | has a knee-jerk tendency to avoid extremes as implausible, but 'fantasy' actively embraces them. It magnifies and clarifies the human condition. | John Garth | ||
| 94bd5dd | Tolkien had sent him a poem called "Kortirion Among the Trees". Kortirion represented Warwick in the early stages of Tolkien's mythology, and was the chief town, complete with tower, in a region of elms (Warwickshire) on the Lonely Island (England)." -- | Colin Duriez | ||
| 4575755 | He said it aloud, in a great ringing voice. Yuth-Kaathak ngom'm! Ygar naa Ithorthak! Sh'ayaa Ubb nagarr'nya Ib! Ib-nya gryalak! | Lin Carter | ||
| 53524dd | So long as any large group of persons, anywhere on this earth, believe the ancient superstition that some Authority is responsible for their welfare, they will set up some image of that Authority and try to obey it. And the result will be poverty and war. | Rose Wilder Lane | ||
| 91151c8 | Living is fighting for life, and when anyone does not know this fact, someone else is doing his fighting for him. | Rose Wilder Lane | ||
| 0f33d87 | He criss-crossed the kitchen-garden beyond the asparagus beds: fruit trees and strawberry beds and bean poles and a chicken-wire enclosure where raspberry canes and gooseberry bushes and currant bushes lived sheltered from the attack of birds. Beside the gooseberry wire grew a row of rhubarb. Each clump was covered with the end of an old tub or pot drain-pipe with sacking over the top. Between the loose staves of one of the tubends was some.. | Philippa Pearce | ||
| 4b75563 | 1 am not "up to" anything, Cousin Edgar." | claire-fraser diana-gabaldon jamie-fraser | Philippa Pearce | |
| 147c05a | If you don't get it, you don't get it." ... "If you don't get it, you may yet." | Philippa Pearce |