Author: Christian Channel

The story is told of a church that secured a new preacher, and the word spread around town about how well he preached.  The church members were abuzz about what an improvement he was over their former preacher, and how much more attention they gave to his sermons.  When the town cynic asked what made this new preacher so much better than his predecessor, he was told, “The old preacher told us that we’re all sinners, and that if we didn’t repent, we’d burn in hell forever!”  This cynic then asked, “And what does this new one say?”  The answer was, “That we’re all sinners, and that if we don’t repent, we’ll burn in hell forever!”  When the cynic responded that he didn’t see any difference between the two of them, he was told, “This new preacher says it with tears in his eyes.”
Tony Campolo

Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them.
Luke 4:40
The English Standard Version

The only certainties that don’t break down are those acquired in prayer.
Reinhold Schneider

For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.  But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
Matthew 6:14-15
The New International Version

The Will of God will never take you to where the Grace of God will not protect you.
Unknown

Creation had been given to men as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into men’s souls.  Sun and moon, night and day, rain, the sea, the crops, the flowering tree, all these things were transparent.  They spoke to man not of themselves only but of Him who made them.  Nature was symbolic.  But the progressive degradation of man after the fall led the Gentiles further and further from this truth.  Nature became opaque.
Thomas Merton

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Psalm 40:8
The King James Version

Will God ever ask you to do something you are not able to do?  The answer is yes- all the time!  It must be that way, for God’s glory and kingdom.  If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory.  He wants to reveal Himself to a watching world.
Henry Blackaby

But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
1 John 1:7
The New King James Version

I live the perfect imperfect life.
Paul Lore

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
Phillips Brooks

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.
1 Chronicles 16:34
The New International Version

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of Omnipotence.
J. Edwin Hartill

I have never heard of a sin being committed without knowing full well that I had the seed of it within myself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
Luke 19:10
The English Standard Version

The eyes of knowledge
see a million stars
burning in the midnight sky.
The eyes of faith
see a million miracles.
John Francis Gainey

For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
2 Samuel 22:29
The King James Version

The exits were entrances in disguise.
Unknown

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable?  Quite easily, I should think.  All nonsense questions are unanswerable.  How many hours are there in a mile?  Is yellow square or round?  Probably half the questions we ask- half our great theological and metaphysical problems- are like that.
C. S. Lewis

So Peter opened his mouth, and said” “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.”
Acts 10:34-35
The English Standard Version

It is the case of most sinners to think themselves freest from those sins to which they are most enslaved.
Richard Baxter

Then men will say, “Surely the righteous still are rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth.”
Psalm 58:11
The New International Version

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
Henry Ward Beecher

When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else when you get into the light.
Oswald Chambers

“For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’S; upon them he has set the world.”
1 Samuel 2:8
The New International Version

When we come to the last moment of this lifetime, and we look back across it, the only thing that’s going to matter is “what was the quality of our love?”
Richard Bach