Quotes

"It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God's greatest gifts are given in compensation for what you have been through."
-Witley Phipps

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

-Anne Frank

"I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light" 

-John Keith Falconer

"God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply"

-Hudson Taylor

 

"Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God."

 -William Carey

 

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."
-Nelson Henderson

 

"Someone asked will the heathen who have never heard the Gospel be saved? It is more a question with me whether we — who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not — can be saved." 
-Charles H. Spurgeon

 

"Personal sin reflected upon breeds compassion."
 -John M. Shanahan

 

""You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving."
— Amy Carmichael, long-time missionary to India

 

"When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away."

-R. T. Kendall

 

“You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out

that God hates all the same people you do.”

-Anne Lamott’s priest friend, Tom

 

"How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?"

-Oscar Wilde

 

"God never takes away anything that He doesn’t replace with Himself."

-Jacquelyn K. Heasley

"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."

-Henry David Thoreau

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is every wasted."

-Aesop

"The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity."

-Mike Stachura

 

"'Not called!' did you say?'

'Not heard the call,' I think you should say.'

"Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face — whose mercy you have professed to obey — and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world."    

-William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army

"Our own will is our separation from God."

-William Law

"If God's love is for anybody anywhere, it's for everybody everywhere."

"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."

-Mother Teresa

"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world."

-Mother Teresa

"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again."

-William Penn

"God has not called us to see through each other, but to see each other through."

"Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart."

-Bob Pierce, Founder of WorldVision