Note: As I continue to come across inspirational quotes, they will continue to be added to the top of this list, so feel free to check back occasionally for new quotes.
“The greatness of a man’s power is in the measure of his surrender.”-William Booth (Founder of the Salvation Army, 1829-1912)
“…the Bible is the foundation of the greatness of Protestant nations. It is to the Bible the United States, as well as Great Britain, owe their liberty, power, prestige and strength. It is the Bible that has ennobled the hearts of your heroes, improved the minds of your poets and orators, and strengthened the arms of your warriors. Yes ! it is because your soldiers have brought with them everywhere, the Bible pressed on their hearts, that they have conquered the enemies of liberty. So long as the United States will be true to the Bible, their glorious banners will fly respected and feared all over the seas, and over all the continents of the world.”–Fifty Years in the Church of Rome by Chiniquy Chiniquy (1886), Pg. 115
“In contemplating, as we propose, Jesuitism as the most subtle device of the Devil to pervert and monopolize man’s religious instinct…we can scarcely select a feature more characteristic and more dangerously delusive than the unreserved devotion of the members of this order to the Romish Church. A devotion in a good cause worthy only of imitation and praise, but in the cause of delusion and falsehood the most fearfully potent…They furnish the most complete specimens of unreserved devotion — self-denial, abnegation of self. They brave every climate, encounter every hardship, submit to every privation — take their lives in their hands and go to the ends of the earth. They spare no pains to subsidize, in order to the carrying out of their one great aim, talent, time, money, position — all things to the cause they have espoused. No sect, claiming the Christian name, has ever furnished an example of such devotion — an example so nearly up to the New Testament mark. In a good cause it is worthy of all imitation. Had it been imitated, no territory on earth would have remained unvisited by the missionary, no district without the church and the school, and no family without the Bible.
With them personal and individual interests, the claims of ease or of selfishness, are all merged in their absorbing devotion to the honor and interests of [Romanism]. It is a joy to them to forsake the endearments of early associations, to cross oceans, to penetrate remote climes, to sacrifice all the nobler ties of human existence, to labor, and eventually die, as solitary exiles in the most dismal recesses of human abode — all for the aggrandizement of the hierarchy.” Most emphatically, yet in the worst sense, they become “all things to all men,” if by any means, right or wrong, they may gain some. They accommodate themselves to all classes of men, to all conditions of life, to all circumstances, wait with all patience, though it may be through years of apparently unsuccessful toil. They have but one idea, one aim, which they pursue with an unswerving perseverance. While we cannot too earnestly deprecate the means and the end sought by such devotion, we can not but admire the devotion itself as worthy the imitation of all who bear the name of Jesus.
Again, they are right in the choice of a name, Jesuits, the devotees, the disciples, the followers of Jesus. Nothing could more appropriately indicate what they should be, and nothing under the circumstances is a more shocking burlesque on the most sacred name. Jesuitism furnishes one of the most notable examples of what devotion to a bad cause can do. It is perhaps in all its features and bearings the most plausible, dangerous and successful feat of Satanic craft. It is the great counterfeit and the great antagonist of a pure Christianity.”-The Footprints of Satan or the Devil in History: The Counterpart of God in History by Hollis Read, 1873, Pgs. 423-425
Discipline
If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things
to govern your soul and your senses, for fear that your passions
and longing may lead you away from the path you should follow.
Chaste be your mind and your body, and both in subjection,
obediently steadfastly seeking the aim set before them;
only through discipline may a man learn to be free.
Action
Daring to do what is right, not what fancy may tell you,
valiantly grasping occasions, not cravenly doubting–
freedom comes only through deeds, not through thoughts taking wing.
Faint not nor fear, but go out to the storm and the action,
trusting in God whose commandment you faithfully follow;
freedom, exultant, will welcome your spirit with joy.
Suffering
A change has come indeed. Your hands, so strong and active,
are bound; in helplessness now you see your action
is ended; you sigh in relief, your cause committing
to stronger hands; so now you may rest contented.
Only for one blissful moment could you draw near to touch freedom;
then, that it might be perfected in glory, you gave it to God.
Death
Come now, thou greatest of feasts on the journey to freedom eternal;
death, cast aside all the burdensome chains, and demolish
the walls of our temporal body, the walls of our souls that are blinded,
so that at last we may see that which here remains hidden.
Freedom, how long we have sought thee in discipline, action, and suffering;
dying, we now may behold thee revealed in the Lord.-Stations on the Road to Freedom by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“There remains an experience of incomparable value. We have for once learnt to see the great events of world history from below, from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled – in short, from the perspective of those who suffer. The important thing is that neither bitterness nor envy should have gnawed at the heart during this time, that we should have come to look with new eyes at matters great and small, sorrow and joy, strength and weakness, that our perception of generosity, humanity, justice and mercy should have become clearer, freer, less corruptible. We have to learn that personal suffering is a more effective key, a more rewarding principle for exploring the world in thought and action than personal good fortune. This perspective from below must not become the partisan possession of those who are eternally dissatisfied; rather, we must do justice to life in all its dimensions from a higher satisfaction, whose foundation is beyond any talk of ‘from below’ or ‘from above’. This is the way in which we may affirm it.”-The View from Below by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“I know that Jesuits never forget nor forsake. But man must not care how and where he dies, provided he dies at the post of honor and duty”-Abraham Lincoln (as relayed in Charles Chiniquy’s, Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, p. 664)
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated”-Thomas Paine, The Crisis
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”-Jim Elliot, Martyred Christian Missionary
“This is the end. For me the beginning of life.”-The last words of Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer before being put to death by the Nazis
“Luther was Haunted by the Holiness of God”-R.C Sproul, taken from youtube “Love God? Sometimes I Hate Him!”
“What I worry about, is, I worry about missing out on opportunities that I have, because I got friends that will never get the chance to execute on opportunities, because they didn’t come home. And so, for me, to squander any moment, any second of my life, is something that definitely haunts me, it haunts me every day and I wont let it happen”-Navy SEAL Jocko Willink, taken from youtube Extreme Leadership and The Power of Self-Discipline with Lewis Howes
“THE BIBLE contains the mind of God, the state of man, the way of salvation, the doom of sinners, and the happiness of believers. Its doctrines are holy, its precepts are binding, its histories are true, and its decisions are immutable. Read it to be wise, believe it to be safe, and practice it to be holy. It contains light to direct you, food to support you, and comfort to cheer you.
It is the traveler’s map, the pilgrim’s staff, the pilot’s compass, the soldier’s sword, and the Christian’s charter. Here paradise is restored, Heaven opened, and the gates of hell disclosed.”-Preface to an old Gideons New Testament, Psalms, & Proverbs Bible that I have
“Judah: I’ve spoken to a number of people already, against violence, against incidents. Most of the men I talk to agree with me.
Messala: Most? Not all?
Judah: [laughs] No, not all.
Messala: Well who does not agree?
Judah: Oh you know, the resentful, the impatient.
Messala: Who are they? … Yes Judah, who are they?
Judah: Would I retain your friendship if I became an informer?
Messala: To tell me name of criminals is hardly informing.
Judah: They’re not criminals Messala, they’re patriots.
Messala: [shouting ]Patriots?
Judah: Yes, like you-
Messala: [shouting] Patriots?
Messala: [returning to friendly calm tone] Judah…Judah, let me explain something to you, something you may not know. The emperor is watching us. At this moment he watches the east. This is my great opportunity Judah, and yours too. If I can bring order into Judaea I can have any post I want. And you’ll rise with me, I promise. And do you know where it can end? Rome! Yes! Perhaps at the side of caesar himself. I mean it, I mean it, it can happen and this is the moment judah, this is the time. The emperor is watching us, judging us, all I need do is serve him. And all you need do is help me. Serve Him.
Judah: you speak as if he were God.
Messala: He is god. The only god. He is power, real power on earth, not…not that [makes gesture to the heavens]. Help me Judah.
Judah: I would do anything for you Messala, except betray my own people.
Messala: Oh in the name of all the gods Judah, what do the lives of a few Jews mean to you?
Judah: If I cannot persuade them, that does not mean I’d help you murder them. Besides, you must understand this Messala, I believe in the past of my people and their future.
Messala: Future? You are a conquered peopled.
Judah: You may conquer the land, you may slaughter the people, but that is not the end, we will rise again.
Messala: You live a dead dream, you live on the myths of the past. The glory of Solomon is gone, do you think it will return. Joshua will not rise again to save you, nor David. There’s only one reality in the world today. Look to the west Judah. Don’t be a fool, look to Rome.
Judah: I’d rather be a fool than a traitor, or a killer-
Messala: I am a soldier.
Judah: Yes who kills, for Rome, and rome is evil.
Messala: I warn you–
Judah: No! I warn you. Rome is an affront to God. Rome is strangling my people, and my country, the whole earth. But not forever. And I tell you, the day Rome falls their will be a shout of freedom such as the world as never heard before.
Messala: Judah. Either you help me, or you oppose me. You have no other choice. You’re either for me, or against me.
Judah: If that is the choice…then I am against you.”-Ben-Hur, 1959
Who am I? They often tell me
I stepped from my cells confinement
Calmly, cheerfully, firmly,
Like a Squire from his country house.
Who am I? They often tell me
I used to speak to my warders
Freely and friendly and clearly,
As thought it were mine to command.
Who am I? They also tell me
I bore the days of misfortune
Equably, smilingly, proudly,
like one accustomed to win.
Am I then really that which other men tell of?
Or am I only what I myself know of myself?
Restless and longing and sick, like a bird in a cage,
Struggling for breath, as though hands were compressing my throat,
Yearning for colors, for flowers, for the voices of birds,
Thirsting for words of kindness, for neighborliness,
Trembling with anger at despotisms and petty humiliation
Tossing in expectations of great events,
Powerlessly trembling for friends at an infinite distance,
Weary and empty at praying, at thinking, at making,
Faint, and ready to say farewell to it all.
Who am I? This or the Other?
Am I one person today and tomorrow another?
Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others,
And before myself a contemptible woebegone weakling?
Or is something within me still like a beaten army
Fleeing in disorder from victory already achieved?
Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine.
Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am thine!-Who Am I? by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Love Cannot Drown Truth”-The Ten Commandments (1956)
“One basic truth can be used as a foundation for a mountain of lies, and if we dig down deep enough in the mountain of lies, and bring out that truth, to set it on top of the mountain of lies; the entire mountain of lies will crumble under the weight of that one truth, and there is nothing more devastating to a structure of lies than the revelation of the truth upon which the structure of lies was built, because the shock waves of the revelation of the truth reverberate, and continue to reverberate thoughout the Earth for generations to follow, awakening even those people who had no desire to be awakened to the truth.”-Delamer Duverus
“The primary call on your life, sir, ma’am…especially if you’re in the ministrty of the Word, the primary calling, the most important thing that God is calling you to do, is spend quality time with Him in the Word and in prayer. “-Michael L. Brown
“There is great danger, yea, many times most danger in the smallest sins. Greater sins do sooner startle the soul, and awaken and rouse up the soul to repentance than lesser sins do. Little sins often slide into the soul and breed and work secretly, and undiscernably in the soul, until they come to be so strong as to trample upon the soul and to cut the throat of the soul. There is often times greatest danger to our bodies in the least disesases that hang upon us, because we are apt to make light of them, and to neglect the timely use of means for removing of them, until they are grown so strong that prove mortal to us.”-Thomas Brooks
“If thou wouldst live with Christ, and walk with Christ, and see Christ, and have fellowship with Christ, take heed of the little foxes that spoil the vines, for our vines have tender grapes [Song. 2:15]”-Charles Spurgeon
“Read everything, listen to everybody, don’t trust anything unless you can prove it with your own research”-William Cooper
“If you’re not walking on the razor blade, you’re really living in a kind of “death” existence. You have to have that danger facing you that if I slip, I’m dead. That’s what makes you live. That’s what gives you life. That’s what gives you purpose. And I sincerely believe that any man or woman, who does not have principles, for which they’re ready and willing to die for at any given moment, that they’re called to do that, is already dead, and are of no use or consequence to themselves or anyone else, and will be unhappy throughout their life, for that very reason, and that very reason alone.”-William Cooper
“Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty”-The Sentinel Library
“Now is the time for God’s people to show themselves true to principle. When the religion of Christ is most held in contempt, when His law is most despised, then should our zeal be the warmest and our courage the most unflinching. To stand in defense of truth and righteousness when the majority forsake us, to fight the battles of the Lord when champions are few, —this will be our test. At this time we must gather warmth from the coldness of others, courage from their cowardice, and loyalty from their treason”-E. G. White
“That book, sir, is the rock on which our Republic rests—the bulwark of our free institutions.”-Andrew Jackson
“there are no torments so terrible, no death so barbarous, that I would not choose rather than deny my Saviour. Your threats cannot cause me to renounce my faith; they but fortify me in it. Should the Marquis de Piannezza cause my wife and daughters to pass through the fire, it can but consume their mortal bodies; their souls I commend to God, trusting that he will have mercy on them, and on mine, should it please him that I fall into the marquis’s hands.”-Gianavello, Pg. 491, History of Protestantism by J.A. Wylie
“I know there is a law in life that blood gets more blood, as dog begets dog, death generates death, as the vulture breeds the vulture, but the voice I heard today on the hill said, “love your enemy, do good to those who despitefully use you”-Ben Hur, 1959
“Let the minds clash, but not the swords”-Martin Luther
“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will have his choice made for him by circumstance”-Hunter S. Thompson
“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”-George Washington
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.-C. S. Lewis
“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives, that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”-Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, 1863
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”
“The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.”-Dwight L. Moody
“Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.”-John Owen
“Human knowledge must be understood to be loved, Divine knowledge must be loved to be understood.”-Blaise Pascal, as relayed by J. Vernon McGee
“Music… will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.”-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Shut out every other consideration and keep yourself before God for this one thing only – My Utmost for His Highest. I am determined to be absolutely and entirely for Him and Him alone.”-Oswald Chambers
“Every war, every battle, is ultimately either won, or lost, on the basics.”-Eric Jon Phelps
“Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?”-Leonard Ravenhill
“I repent of ever having recorded one single song and ever having performed one concert if my music, and more importantly — my life — has not provoked you into godly jealousy, or to sell out more completely to Jesus”-Keith Green
“The hill, though high, I covet to ascend;
The difficulty will not me offend.
For I perceive the way to life lies here.
Come, pluck up, heart; let’s neither faint nor fear.
Better, though difficult, the right way to go,
Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.”-John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
“Two little lines I heard one day,
Traveling along life’s busy way;
Bringing conviction to my heart,
And from my mind would not depart;
Only one life, twill soon be past,
Only what’s done for Christ will last.
Only one life, yes only one,
Soon will its fleeting hours be done;
Then, in ‘that day’ my Lord to meet,
And stand before His Judgement seat;
Only one life,’twill soon be past,
Only what’s done for Christ will last.
Only one life, the still small voice,
Gently pleads for a better choice
Bidding me selfish aims to leave,
And to God’s holy will to cleave;
Only one life, ’twill soon be past,
Only what’s done for Christ will last.
Only one life, a few brief years,
Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears;
Each with its days I must fulfill,
living for self or in His will;
Only one life, ’twill soon be past,
Only what’s done for Christ will last.
When this bright world would tempt me sore,
When Satan would a victory score;
When self would seek to have its way,
Then help me Lord with joy to say;
Only one life, ’twill soon be past,
Only what’s done for Christ will last.
Give me Father, a purpose deep,
In joy or sorrow Thy word to keep;
Faithful and true what e’er the strife,
Pleasing Thee in my daily life;
Only one life, ’twill soon be past,
Only what’s done for Christ will last.
Oh let my love with fervor burn,
And from the world now let me turn;
Living for Thee, and Thee alone,
Bringing Thee pleasure on Thy throne;
Only one life, “twill soon be past,
Only what’s done for Christ will last.
Only one life, yes only one,
Now let me say,”Thy will be done”;
And when at last I’ll hear the call,
I know I’ll say “twas worth it all”;
Only one life,’twill soon be past,
Only what’s done for Christ will last. ”
Only one life, ’twill soon be past,
Only what’s done for Christ will last.
And when I am dying, how happy I’ll be,
If the lamp of my life has been burned out for Thee”-C.T. Studd
“Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones
Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold,
Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old,
When all our fathers worshiped stocks and stones;
Forget not: in thy book record their groans
Who were thy sheep and in their ancient fold
Slain by the bloody Piedmontese that rolled
Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans
The vales redoubled to the hills, and they
To Heaven. Their martyred blood and ashes sow
O’er all th’ Italian fields where still doth sway
The triple tyrant; that from these may grow
A hundredfold, who having learnt thy way
Early may fly the Babylonian woe.”-A poem on the Waldenses (the church in the wilderness of Rev. 12:6), included in Milton’s “Paradise Lost”, at the Behest of Oliver Cromwell
“Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay.”-R. Zaccharias
“Satan dreads nothing but prayer. The church that lost its Christ was full of good works. Activities are multiplied that meditation may be ousted, and organizations are increased that prayer may have no chance. Souls may be lost in good works, as surely as in evil ways. The one concern of the Devil is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray. . . .
“Go back! Back to that upper room; back to your knees; back to searching of heart and habit, thought and life; back to pleading, praying, waiting, till the Spirit of the Lord floods the soul with light, and you are ‘endued with power from on high.’ Then go forth in the power of Pentecost, and the Christ-life shall be lived, and the works of Christ shall be done. You shall open blind eyes, cleanse foul hearts, break men’ s fetters, and save men’s souls. In the power of the indwelling Spirit, miracles become the commonplace of daily living.”-Bounds, Edward M., E. M. Bounds on Prayer (New Kensington: Pennsylvania: Whitaker House, 1997; first published in early 1900s) pp. 218, 587. Above, Bounds quotes Samuel Chadwick.
It is one thing to read the Bible through,
Another thing to read to learn and do.
Some read it with design to learn to read,
But to the subject pay but little heed.
Some read it as their duty once a week,
But no instruction from the Bible seek;
While others read it with but little care,
With no regard to how they read, nor where.
Some read to bring themselves into repute,
By showing others how they can dispute;
While others read because their neighbors do,
To see how long ’twill take to read it through.
Some read it for the wonders that are there,—
How David killed a lion and a bear;
While others read it with uncommon care,
Hoping to find some contradictions there.
Some read as if it did not speak to them,
But to the people at Jerusalem.
One reads with father’s specs upon his head,
And sees the thing just as his father said.
Some read to prove a pre-adopted creed,
Hence understand but little that they read;
For every passage in the book they bend
To make it suit that all-important end.
Some people read, as I have often thought,
To teach the book instead of being taught;
And some there are who read it out of spite.
I fear there are but few who read it right.
But read it prayerfully, and you will see,
Although men contradict, God’s words agree;
For what the early Bible prophets wrote,
We find that Christ and His apostles quote.
So trust no creed that trembles to recall
What has been penned by one and verified by all.”-“How Readest Thou”, Unknown Author
Last eve I paused beside the blacksmith’s door,
And heard the anvil ring the vesper chime;
Then looking in, I saw upon the floor,
Old hammers, worn with beating years of time.
“‘How many anvils have you had,’ said I,
‘To wear and batter all these hammers so?’
‘Just one,’ said he, and then with twinkling eye,
‘The anvil wears the hammers out, you know.’
“And so, I thought, the Anvil of God’s Word
For ages skeptic blows have beat upon;
Yet, though the noise of falling blows was heard,
The Anvil is unharmed, the hammers gone.”
-“The Anvil of God’s Word”, by John Clifford
“We have staked the whole future of American civilization not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments.”-James Madison, Founding Father, America
“No man in the whole world can change the truth. One can only look for the truth, find it and serve it. The truth is in all places.”-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Six things believers should be doing everyday: Pray, Praise, proclaim, read, repent, and submit.”– Paul Nison, Torah Life Ministries
“If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world. But if He gave me His wisdom too, I would leave things as they are.”-J.M.L. Monsabre
“Evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart.”-Thomas Hood
“O Christians, in the Master’s name,
Remember those outcast,
The scattered ones, the Hebrew race, the shadows of the past
Bring Christ to view,
And help the Jew.
Like broken branches are the tribes,
From God’s own living vine,
Yet tendrils may be grafted in
And around the root-stalk twine ;
Bring Christ to view,
And help the Jew.
The Jew and Gentile may be one
In Him to whom we bow,
Tis ours to give the light of tuth,
To teach them Jesus now ;
Bring Christ to view,
And help the Jew.
Think what we owe the Israelites,
Their prophets spake of old
The words of life from Heaven’s throne,
More precious than fine geld ,
Bring Christ to view,
And help the Jew.
The holy city is above,
Jerusalem the fair
And by and by the church of God
Will all be gathered there ;
Bring Christ to view,
And help the Jew.”
-Eliza H. Mortoq
“While Israel, weak and starving, cries to heaven,
They faint, and know not why such grief and woe
Beset their lives, bring leanness to their souls,
Their outstretched hands are empty ! Christian, go!
Give them not crumbs, but share the sacred Loaf.
Haste! give large measure, shaken down and pressed;
Lead them again to God’s own table spread,
Show them the Christ, their glorious heavenly Guest.
That when the Father makes the marriage feast
For His dear Son, around the table vast,
May gather Jews and Gentiles, side by side
No difference then–all one in Christ at last.”
-F.C. Gilbert, from Judaism to Christianity, 1911
“…do not forget the [condition] of the inner man,—I mean of the heart. How diligently the cavalry officer keeps his sabre clean and sharp; every stain he rubs off with the greatest care. Remember you are God’s sword—His instrument—I trust a chosen vessel unto Him to bear His name. In great measure, according to the purity and perfections of the instrument, will be the success. It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.’-Robert Murray McCheyne
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”-Edmund Burke
“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”-Winston Churchill
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”-George Orwell
“Into the blistering
wilderness of Shur,
the man
who walked with kings now walks alone.
Torn from the pinnacle
of royal power,
stripped of all rank
and earthly wealth,
a forsaken man without
a country, without a hope,
his soul in turmoil
like the hot winds
and raging sands
that lash him with the fury
of a taskmaster’s whip.
He is driven forward,
always forward,
by a god unknown,
toward a land unseen…
into the molten wilderness
of sin,
where granite
sentinels stand
as towers of living death
to bar his way.
Each night brings the black
embrace of loneliness.
In the mocking whisper
of the wind,
he hears the echoing
voices of the dark…
Moses!
Moses!
Moses!
His tortured mind wondering
if they call the memory
of past triumphs
or wail foreboding
of disasters yet to come
or whether the desert’s
hot breath
has melted his reason
into madness.
He cannot cool the burning kiss
of thirst upon his lips
nor shade the scorching
fury of the sun.
All about is desolation.
He can neither bless
nor curse
the power that moves him,
for he does not know
from where it comes.
Learning that it can be
more terrible
to live than to die,
he is driven onward
through the burning
crucible of desert,
where holy men and prophets
are cleansed and purged
for god’s great purpose,
until at last,
at the end
of human strength,
beaten into the dust
from which he came,
the metal is ready
for the maker’s hand.”-10 Commandments Film (1956)
“You determine what your education is; the only good education; the only true education, is subversive; it’s rebellious, it’s the only way your going to learn anything, otherwise, you know.. just watch, wheel of fortune, sports, and weather.. otherwise if you want to learn how it really works, you’ve got to rebel, you’ve got be a little subversive, that’s how things change, and that’s how you learn something”-Abby Hoffman
“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.”-Evelyn Beatrice Hall
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”-Martin Niemöller
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Contending for The Faith 
Amen brother good job I’m very proud of you
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Thanks bud, God bless you 🙂
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