What They Said

"We must not be contented however with praying, without exerting ourselves in the use of means for the obtaining of those things we pray for."

"If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day."

"For to me the real cause of the present state of the Church of God on earth is to be found in the Church’s voluntary departure from a belief in the Bible as the fully inspired Word of God, and from stressing and emphasizing real
evangelical truth."

"The Gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news."

“Love begets love. Tis is a flame that communicates itself. They that have much forgiven them, much done for them, much laid out for them, and much laid up for them, will love much.”

"Do not therefore please yourself with thinking, how piously you would act and submit to God in a plague, a famine, or persecution, but be intent upon the perfection of the present day; and be assured, that the best way of showing a true zeal, is to make little things the occasion of great piety."

"The life of doctrine is in application"

"I'm not afraid of failure; I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter."

"He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else."

“Neither contentment nor discontentment arises from the outward condition, but from the inward disposition.”

"We must alter our lives, in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way, and pray another."

"A man's needs are few. The simpler the life, therefore, the better. Indeed, only three things are truly necessary in order to make life happy: the blessing of God, the benefit of books, and the benevolence of friends."

"Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true."

by - Frans Pourbus the Younger

"Success at first doth many times undo men at last."

"Whenever you put happiness before righteousness, you will be doomed to misery. That is the great message of the Bible from beginning to end. They alone are truly happy who are seeking to be righteous."

"Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it."

"There are three parts in truth; first, the inquiry, which is the wooing of it; secondly, the knowledge of it, which is the presence of it; and thirdly, the belief, which is the enjoyment of it."

by - Frans Pourbus the Younger

"Inward religion, without the outward show of it, is like a tree without fruit, useless; and the outward show of religion without inward sincerity, is like a tree without heart, lifeless."

"Let us be resolved never to be ashamed of Christ. Of sin and worldliness we may well be ashamed. Of Christ and his cause we have no right to be ashamed at all. Boldness in Christ's service always beings its own reward.  The boldest Christian is always the happiest person."

"Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God."

"I am not asking whether you know things about Him but do you know God, are you enjoying God, is God the centre of your life, the soul of your being, the source of your greatest joy? He is meant to be."

"Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year; and you will never be forgotten."

"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."

by - Frans Pourbus the Younger

"To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth."