Christian Quotes

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CHRISTIAN
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CHRISTIAN QUOTES
Contents
BLESSINGS .................................................................................................................................. 2
CHILDREN ................................................................................................................................... 7
CHRISTMAS ............................................................................................................................... 28
DEATH ........................................................................................................................................ 30
ENCOURAGEMENT .................................................................................................................. 51
FAITH .......................................................................................................................................... 52
FAMILY ...................................................................................................................................... 72
FEAR ........................................................................................................................................... 78
FORGIVENESS........................................................................................................................... 98
FREEDOM................................................................................................................................. 105
FRIENDSHIP............................................................................................................................. 112
GOD’S HOLINESS ................................................................................................................... 117
GRACE ...................................................................................................................................... 120
GRACE AND MERCY.............................................................................................................. 141
HEALING .................................................................................................................................. 142
HOPE ......................................................................................................................................... 144
JOY ............................................................................................................................................ 145
LIFE ........................................................................................................................................... 166
LOVE ......................................................................................................................................... 185
MARRIAGE .............................................................................................................................. 203
PEACE ....................................................................................................................................... 210
PRAISE ...................................................................................................................................... 226
PRAYER .................................................................................................................................... 237
PRIDE ........................................................................................................................................ 257
SALVATION ............................................................................................................................. 265
SIN ............................................................................................................................................. 282
STRENGTH ............................................................................................................................... 294
THANKSGIVING ..................................................................................................................... 314
TRUST ....................................................................................................................................... 317
WORSHIP.................................................................................................................................. 339

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BLESSINGS

BLESSINGS
 “We begin life with the natural, next we come into the spiritual; but then, when we have
truly received the kingdom of God and His righteousness, the natural is added to the
spiritual, and we are able to receive the gifts of His providence and the blessings of life
without becoming centered in them or allowing them to separate us from Him.”
- A.B. Simpson

 “Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings
of His goodness to His people.”
- A.W. Pink

 “How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet
unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?”
- Alan Keyes

 “Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full.
Do not let a bard place here and there in the bed destroy your rest. Seek, as a plain duty,
to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.”
- Alexander MacLaren

 “If you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it,
doing your work heartily, and yet not absorbed by it, remember that the one power
whereby you can so act is, that all shall be consecrated to Christ, and done for His sake.”

 “We have all been encouraged to feel in the guardianship and guidance of that Almighty
Being whose power regulates the destiny of nations, whose blessings have been so
conspicuously dispensed to this rising Republic.”
- James Madison

 “Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge
their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible
with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any
people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue;
and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.”
- Patrick Henry

 “Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely
necessary.”
- Bernard of Clairvaux

 “A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal
blessings, he does so with his own consent.”
- Augustine

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BLESSINGS

 “What can I give back to God for the blessings he's poured out on me? I'll lift high the
cup of salvation - a toast to God!”
- Bono

 “Our faith itself, though it be the bond of our union with Christ through which we receive
all His blessings, is not our saviour. We have but one Saviour; and that one Saviour is
Jesus Christ our Lord. Nothing that we are and nothing that we can do enters in the
slightest measure into the ground of our acceptance with God. Jesus did it all.”
- B.B. Warfield

 “In all states of dilemma or of difficulty, prayer is an available source. The ship of prayer
may sail through all temptations, doubts and fears, straight up to the throne of God; and
though she may be outward bound with only griefs, and groans, and sighs, she shall
return freighted with a wealth of blessings!”
- Charles Spurgeon

 “God bestows His blessings without discrimination. The followers of Jesus are children
of God, and they should manifest the family likeness by doing good to all, even to those
who deserve the opposite.”
- F.F. Bruce

 “There are three requisites to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings: a thankful
reflection, on the goodness of the giver; a deep sense of our own unworthiness; and a
recollection of the uncertainty of our long possessing them. The first will make us
grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate.”
- Hannah More

 “The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the
day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly
blessings!”
- Henry Ward Beecher

 “Life is a journey, not a home; a road, not a city of habitation; and the enjoyments and
blessings we have are but little inns on the roadside of life, where we may be refreshed
for a moment, that we may with new strength press on to the end - to the rest that
remaineth for the people of God.”
- Horatius Bonar

 “Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and
sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the
morrow.”
- Jeremy Taylor

 “The private and personal blessings we enjoy - the blessings of immunity, safeguard,
liberty and integrity - deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.”
- Jeremy Taylor

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 “Faith is the root of all blessings. Believe, and you shall be saved; believe, and you must
needs be satisfied; believe, and you cannot but be comforted and happy.”
- Jeremy Taylor

 “He that hath so many and great causes of joy, and yet is in love with sorrow and
peevishness, deserves to starve in the midst of plenty, and to want comfort, while he is
encircled with blessings.”
- Jeremy Taylor

 “We are brought into God's Kingdom by grace; we are sanctified by grace; we receive
both temporal and spiritual blessings by grace; we are motivated to obedience by grace;
we are called to serve and, finally, we are glorified by grace. The entire Christian life is
lived under the reign of God's grace.”
- Jerry Bridges

 “The process of biblical change, explained in God's Word, begins when you repent of
your sin and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. God has given you everything you need to
make the changes in your life that will please Him and will lead to His blessings. As you
continue to obey God's Word, biblical change toward maturity will occur in your life
until you see Jesus face to face.”
- John C. Broger

 “All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition,
that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.”
- John Calvin

 “However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed
all our wishes and our thoughts.”
- John Calvin

 “Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never
exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the
fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.”
- John Chrysostom

 “The present benefit of spiritual discipline is a fulfilled, God-blessed, fruitful, and useful
life. If you get involved in spiritual gymnastics, the blessings of godliness will carry on
into eternity. Although many people spend far more time exercising their bodies than
their souls, the excellent servant of Jesus Christ realizes that spiritual discipline is a
priority.”
- John MacArthur

 “God promises spectacular blessings to those of you who remain single in Christ, and He
gives you and extraordinary calling for your life. To be single in Christ is, therefore, not a
falling short of God's best, but a path of Christ-exalting, covenant-keeping obedience that
many are called to walk.”
- John Piper

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BLESSINGS

 “When the heart full of God's love can draw on the mind full of God's word, timely
blessings flow from the mouth.”
- John Piper

 Those who go to Heaven ride on a pass and enter into blessings that they never earned,
but all who go to hell pay their own way.
- John R. Rice

 “Infidelity and Faith look both through the same perspective-glass, but at contrary ends.
Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees those objects near
which are afar off, and makes great things little, diminishing the greatest spiritual
blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils. Faith looks at the right end, and
brings the blessings that are far off close to our eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which,
in the distance, lost their greatness.”
- Joseph Hall

 “God's greatest blessings are upon those who show the proper respect for the poor and the
needy.”
- Lester Roloff

 “What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in
the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit,
they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last.”
- Matthew Henry

 “God wants to see prayers that are filled with genuine praise and thanksgiving for what
He has done in the past. He wants our hearts to be filled with awe and gratitude for His
blessings. He wants us to set up memorials in our hearts testifying to the provisions He
has given us.”
- Michael Youssef

 “Being disconnected from the local church, for whatever reason, is a dangerous way to
live. Not only do these "lone rangers" miss out on the blessings of functioning within the
context of the body of Christ, but like lone sheep away from the safety of the flock and
the watchful care of the shepherd, they are vulnerable to predators of every sort. ”
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

 Jesus said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit" - contrary to what we would expect,
brokenness is the pathway to blessing! There are no alternative routes; there are no short-
cuts. The very thing we dread and are tempted to resist is actually the means to God's
greatest blessings in our lives.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

 “Jesus is moved to happiness every time He sees that you appreciate what He has done
for you. Grip His pierced hand and say to Him, "I thank Thee, Saviour, because Thou
has died for me." Thank Him likewise for all the other blessings He has showered upon
you from day to day. It brings joy to Jesus.”
- Ole Hallesby

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BLESSINGS

 “God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow
better by blessings and crosses, and to make sanctified use of all things.”
- Richard Sibbes
 “An angelic life, spent between ascending in prayer to fetch blessings from above, and
descending to scatter them among men.”
- Robert Leighton
 “To love God is the greatest of virtues; to be loved by God is the greatest of blessings.”
- Author Unknown
 “A little child often runs to its mother and exclaims: 'Mother! Mother!' Very often the
child does not want anything in particular, he only wants to be near his mother, to sit
upon her lap, or to follow her about the house, for the sheer pleasure of being near her,
talking to her, hearing her dear voice. Then the child is happy. His happiness does not
consist in asking and receiving all kinds of things from his mother. If that were what he
wanted, he would be impatient and obstinate and therefore unhappy. No, his happiness
lies in feeling his mother's love and care, and in knowing the joy of her mother love." "It
is just the same with the true children of God; they do not trouble themselves so much
about spiritual blessings. They only want to sit at the Lord's feet, to be in living touch
with Him, and when they do that they are supremely content.”
- Sadhu Sundar Singh
 “While I was in Tibet I saw a Buddhist, a monk, who had lived for five or six years in a
cave. When he went into the cave he had good eyesight. But because he stayed so long in
the darkness his eyes grew weaker and weaker, and at last he became quite blind. It is just
the same with us. If we do not use the blessings which we have received from God for
His Glory, we are in danger of losing them forever.”
 “Many favors which God gives us ravel out for want of hemming through our
unthankfulness; for though prayer purchases blessings, giving praise keeps the quiet
possession of them.”
- Thomas Fuller
 “Too many Christians are stuffing themselves with gospel blessings while millions have
never had a taste.”
- Vance Havner
 “Some of your greatest blessings come with patience.”
- Warren Wiersbe

 “Grace is not such a beggarly visitant, as will not pay its own way. When the best of
beings is adored, the best of blessings are enjoyed.”
- William Secker
 “Cherish your enemies; they may be blessings in disguise.”
- Woodrow Kroll

 “Concentrate on counting your blessings and you'll have little time to count anything
else.”
- Woodrow Kroll

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CHILDREN

CHILDREN
 “There is no harm whatever in having money, houses, lands, friends and children if you
do not value these things or ones for themselves.”
- A.B. Simpson

 “God has His spiritual splints that He wants to put upon His children and keep them quiet
and unmoved until they pass the first stage of faith.”
- A.B. Simpson

 “When we have accepted Jesus Christ, we have become akin to the Father; having
become real children of God, we then have the spirit of sonship by which we can come
into His presence and make known our wants in a familiar way.”
- A.C. Dixon

 We must pass by the good, moral man, and seek the outcast. We must pass by those who,
we think, would make the best members of the Church, and go with our invitation to the
very refuse of Society. Sad to say, we must. sometimes pass by our very children while
we go out after others not related to us by fleshly ties.
- A.C. Dixon

 We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and
convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to
train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a
dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than
evolution.
- A.C. Dixon

 An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute
Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if
there were no others.
- A.W. Tozer

 God sometimes doth not mind his children when they cry, that they may hereby take
occasion to remember how oft he hath cried and they have not minded him.
- Abraham Wright

 Children ought to be dealt with, in regard to the duty of accepting Christ, as closely and
seriously as older people... Personal dealing is required; a dealing with them one by one.
- Andrew Bonar

 There is a practical error very common among God's people. All of them profess to
believe that the Holy Spirit may convert souls at any age, and that conversion cannot take
place too soon; while yet they do not look for the conversion of children with the same
lively faith that they manifest in asking and expecting the Holy Spirit to change those
who are of riper years.
- Andrew Bonar

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CHILDREN

 The secret of homemade rule is self rule, first being ourselves what we want our children
to be.
- Andrew Murray

 It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty
Founder was a child Himself.
- Charles Dickens

 Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
- Ludwig von Beethoven

 How we have prayed for a Revival - we did not care whether it was old-fashioned or not -
what we asked for was that it should be such that would cleanse and revive His children
and set them on fire to win others.
- Mary Booth

 Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes
of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
- Augustine

 The so-called innocence of children is more a matter of weakness of limb, than purity of
heart.
- Augustine

 When human reason has exhausted every possibility, the children can go to their Father
and receive all they need. ... For only when you have become utterly dependent upon
prayer and faith, only when all human possibilities have been exhausted, can you begin to
reckon that God will intervene and work His miracles.
- Basilea Schlink

 Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of
character in her children.
- Billy Graham

 If you would have your children turn out well, don't turn your home into a lunch counter
and lodging house.
- Billy Sunday

 Not to walk in the straight and narrow way yourself, is to give the devil the biggest kind
of a chance to get our children.
- Billy Sunday

 Scripture plainly tells us of this mingling of tares and wheat--of mere professors among
true believers. Yet misguided students have frequently applied to the children of God the
warnings and exhortations meant only for the self-deceived or hypocritical.
- C.I. Scofield

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 The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the
lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.
- C.S. Lewis

 Christ wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head. He wants us to be simple, single-
minded, affectionate, and teachable, as good children are; but He also wants every bit of
intelligence we have to be alert at its job, and in first-class fighting trim.
- C.S. Lewis

 The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that
studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches.
- Charles Hodge

 It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord,
they, and the society which they constitute or control, will go to destruction.
Consequently, when a state resolves that religious instruction shall be banished from the
schools and other literary institutions, it virtually resolves on self-destruction.
- Charles Hodge

 I have no faith in that woman who talks of grace and glory abroad, and uses no soap and
water at home. Let the buttons be on the shirts, let the children's socks be mended, let the
roast mutton be done to a turn, let the house be as neat as a new pin, and the home be as
happy as home can be.
- Charles Spurgeon

 We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children
and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet
unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.
- Charles Spurgeon

 Any man who declares children to be born perfect never was a father. Your child without
evil? You without eyes, you mean!
- Charles Spurgeon

 As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it.
- Charles Spurgeon

 God never punishes his children in the sense of avenging justice. He chastens as a father
does his child, but he never punishes his redeemed as a judge does a criminal. It is unjust
to exact punishment from redeemed souls since Christ has been punished in their place.
How shall the Lord punish twice for one offense?
- Charles Spurgeon

 If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of
heartaches when they grow up.
- Charles Spurgeon

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 There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine
Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe troubles, they
believe that Sovereignty hath ordained their afflictions, that Sovereignty overrules them,
and that Sovereignty will sanctify them all.
- Charles Spurgeon

 Those children who are of sufficient years to sin and be saved by faith have to listen to
the gospel and receive it by faith. And they can do this, God the Holy Spirit helping them.
There is no doubt about it, because great numbers have done it. I will not say at what age
children are first capable of receiving the knowledge of Christ, but it is much earlier than
some fancy.
- Charles Spurgeon

 We must keep from sin. If Christ has indeed saved us from sin, we cannot bear the
thought of falling into it. Those who take delight in sin are not the children of God. If you
are a child of God, you hate it with a perfect hatred, and your very soul loathes it.
- Charles Spurgeon

 When a tear is wept by you, think not your Father does not behold; for, "Like as a father
pities his children so the Lord pities them that fear Him." Your sigh is able to move the
heart of Jehovah; your whisper can incline His ear unto you; your prayer can stay His
hands; your faith can move His arm. Oh! think not that God sits on high in an eternal
slumber, taking no account of you.
- Charles Spurgeon

 Who is to have authority in the matter of gracious adoption? The children of wrath?
Surely not; and yet all men are such! No, it stands to reason, to common sense, that none
but the parent can have the discretion to adopt.
- Charles Spurgeon

 You cannot control your children, you say. Then the Lord have mercy on you! It is your
business to do it, and you must do it, or else you will soon find they will control you. No
one knows what judgment will come from God upon those who allow sin in children to
go unrebuked.
- Charles Spurgeon

 You will never make a missionary of the person who does no good at home. He that will
not serve the Lord in the Sunday school at home, will not win children to Christ in China.
- Charles Spurgeon

 The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of
martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions. The regalia of the kings that God
has made, are their troubles, their sorrows, and their griefs. Griefs exalt us, and troubles
lift us.
- Charles Spurgeon

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 Remember that you are not called to produce successful, upwardly mobile, highly
educated, athletically talented machines...Giving your children great opportunities is
good; it is not, however, the goal of parenting. Christlikeness is. Above all, seek to raise
children who look and act a lot like Jesus.
- Chip Ingram

 Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
- Chuck Swindoll

 God owns all; He owns me; He owns my home; He owns my children; He owns my
property. I have called your attention before to the fact that the modern idea of ownership
is pagan. The Christian idea is this: that God is the absolute owner of all things.
- Clovis G. Chappell

 You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in
a legalistic, tight context of external religion, where performance is more important than
reality. Fake your faith. Sneak around and pretend your spirituality . Train your children
to do the same. Embrace a long list of do's and don'ts publicly but hypocritically practice
them privately... yet never own up to the fact that its hypocrisy. Act one way but live
another. And you can count on it - emotional and spiritual damage will occur.
- Chuck Swindoll

 We will never bring in the Kingdom by simply seeking to save an adult generation. We
must give God a chance at the children or the cause of righteousness is going to be
defeated. But if we will save the child, we will surely save the world.

 We know the excitement of getting a present - we love to unwrap it to see what is inside.
So it is with our children they are gifts we unwrap for years as we discover the unique
characters God has made them.
- Cornelius Plantinga

 It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand
religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it
was not capable of understanding His words?
- D.L. Moody

 Earth recedes, heaven opens. I've been through the gates! Don't call me back ... if this is
death, it's sweet. Dwight! Irene! I see the children's faces. [Dwight and Irene were his
dead grandchildren.]
- D.L. Moody

 He that overcometh shall inherit all things. God has no poor children.
- D.L. Moody

 Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for
them.
- D.L. Moody

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 The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when
you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.
- D.L. Moody

 Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and
evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish
misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
- Daniel Webster

 The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

 There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless
efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned,
unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest
and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers
or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.
- E.M. Bounds

 God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and
necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection
exceed our infirmities and evil.
- E.M. Bounds

 A man must talk to God about his children before he talks to his children about God.
- Ed Cole

 Let each of us learn to abide in Christ with the heart open to Him on the one hand, and
open to men, women and children on the other.
- F.B. Meyer

 God bestows His blessings without discrimination. The followers of Jesus are children of
God, and they should manifest the family likeness by doing good to all, even to those
who deserve the opposite.
- F.F. Bruce

 Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In
general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in
themselves.
- Francois Fenelon

 The soul is healed by being with children.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

 Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.
- G.K. Chesterton

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 ...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children
of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the
world. For it is not well for God to be alone.
- G.K. Chesterton

 When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas
time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
- G.K. Chesterton

 God delights to increase the faith of His children. We ought, instead of wanting no trials
before victory, no exercise for patience, to be willing to take them from God's hands as a
means. Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.
- George Mueller

 The reason why congregations have been so dead is because they have dead men
preaching to them. How can dead men beget living children?
- George Whitefield

 When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose he
means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little
child.
- George Whitefield

 Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet
it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus
Christ.
- George Whitefield

 For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the
children of God, if you believe in Jesus.
- George Whitefield

 Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil
more certain than ill temper.
- Hannah More

 He, who counts the very hairs of our heads and suffers not a sparrow to fall without him,
takes note of the minutest matters that can affect the lives of his children, and regulates
them all according to his perfect will, let their origin be what they may.
- Hannah Whitall Smith

 How often we say about our earthly friends, "I really would like to have a good quiet
settled talk with them so that I can really get to know them." And shouldn't we feel the
same about our Heavenly Friend, that we may really get to know Him? These thoughts
have taught me the importance of the children of God taking time to commune daily with
their Father, so that they may get to know His mind and to understand better what His
will is.

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 A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his
children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

 Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as
a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller

 The greatest thing a man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be kind to some of His
other children.
- Henry Drummond

 Whatever rest is provided by Christianity for the children of God, it is certainly never
contemplated that it should supersede personal effort. And any rest which ministers to
indifference is immoral and unreal--it makes parasites and not men.
- Henry Drummond

 Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

 Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch
you in next.

 The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

 The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

 There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels
and seraphs, than with his children, servants and neighbors.

 Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of
little children tends toward the formation of character.
- Hosea Ballou

 If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of
the great family of men due to our father in heaven.
- Hosea Ballou

 Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no
little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much
as any. Leaven them alone and they will soon be great.
- J.C. Ryle

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 Children are very quick observers; very quick in seeing through some kinds of hypocrisy,
very quick in finding out what you really think and feel, very quick in adopting all your
ways and opinions. You will often discover that, as the father is, so is the son.
- J.C. Ryle

 Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the
ear... Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a
much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.
- J.C. Ryle

 Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw
soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts
none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.
- J.C. Ryle

 Parents, determine to make your children obey you, though it may cost you a lot of
trouble, and cost them many tears. Let there be no questioning, and reasoning, and
disputing, and delaying. When you give them a command, let them clearly see that you
expect them to do it.
- J.C. Ryle

 He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of
sorrows.
- Jeremy Taylor

 If you need a remote control for your television set, don't have children; the chances of
your controlling anything else in life are remote.
- Jerry Falwell

 God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows
Satan, nor circumstances, nor any ill-intending person to afflict us unless He uses that
affliction for our good. God never wastes pain. He always causes it to work together for
our ultimate good, the good of conforming us more to the likeness of His Son (see
Romans 8:28-29).
- Jerry Bridges

 You tell your children to clean their room, not because you cannot stand it any longer, or
because you said to. Love teaches them that possessions are gifts from God that should be
gratefully received and taken care of.
- Jerry Falwell

 If you think the sound of your children making noise troubles you, look out when they're
deadly silent because that's when real trouble is brewing.
- Jerry Falwell

 Take heed that the misdeeds for which thou correctest thy children be not learned them
by thee. Many children learn that wickedness of their parents for which they beat and
chastise them.
- John Bunyan

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 As parents, you may confidently rear your children according to God's Word. While
bringing up your children, you are to remember that your children are not your
"possessions" but instead are the Lord's gift to you. You are to exercise faithful
stewardship in their lives.
- John C. Broger

 In addition to teaching your children throughout the day, you must set aside specific,
planned times to worship the Lord and learn His Word together. Conducting family
devotions requires planning and diligence if this godly practice is to develop and be
maintained in your home.
- John C. Broger

 Parents provoke their children to anger by not practicing biblical love, not considering
their children as more important than themselves, and not dying to self to become a
servant of the Lord Jesus Christ.
- John C. Broger

 Children, obey. Why does the apostle use the word obey instead of honor, which has a
greater extent of meaning? It is because obedience is the evidence of that honor which
children owe to their parents, and is therefore more earnestly enforced.
- John Calvin

 Higher than every painter, higher than every sculptor and than all artists do I regard him
who is skilled in the art of forming the soul of children.
- John Chrysostom

 If you neglect to instruct (your children) in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to
instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not teach them to pray, he will to
curse, swear, and lie; if ground be uncultivated, weeds will spring.
- John Flavel

 What! At peace with the Father, and at war with His Children? It cannot be.
- John Flavel

 Children have a heart problem. They are constitutionally sinful. Like their parents, and
like the rest of the Adamic race, they are fallen. What they need most are regenerate
hearts. This is the most fundamental issue in parenting. It's not ultimately about behavior;
it's all about the child's heart.
- John MacArthur

 Discipline is not inconsistent with love. It is lack of discipline, in fact, that is inconsistent
with love. The Lord disciplines His children because He loves them, and we will
discipline our brothers and sisters in the Lord if we truly love Him and truly love them.
- John MacArthur

 Children's conscientiousness in lessons, and fairness in playing games, and command of
temper, may yield as true a proof of sanctification begun, as do the integrity of the adult,
and his firm adherence to principle in matter of merchandise.
- Andrew Bonar

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 God calls all children to be obedient and respectful. Obedience is the act; honor is the
attitude.
- John MacArthur

 If we measure our success as parents solely by what our children become, there is no
inviolable guarantee in Scripture that we will experience absolute success on those
terms...The true measure of success for Christian parents is the parents' own character. To
the degree that we have followed God's design for parenting, we have succeeded as
parents before God.
- John MacArthur

 Sexual expression within a marriage is not an option or an extra. It is certainly not, as it
has sometimes been considered, a necessary evil in which spiritual Christians engage
only to procreate children. It is far more than a physical act. God created it to be the
expression an experience of love on the deepest human level and to be a beautiful and
powerful bond between husband and wife.
- John MacArthur

 The kingdom of God is for the spiritually sick who want to be healed, the spiritually
corrupt who want to be cleansed, the spiritually poor who want to be rich, the spiritually
hungry who want to be fed, the spiritually dead who want to be made alive. It is for
ungodly outcasts who long to become God's own beloved children.
- John MacArthur

 The message for children is short and simple: obedience - in both attitude and action - is
"right". It is "well pleasing to the Lord". It is honoring to the parents. And it is good for
the children - protecting them from a world of evil, prolonging their lives, and bringing
them an abundance of blessing.
- John MacArthur

 There are really two major obstacles all parents face in teaching their children to obey:
not only is the world they live in corrupt, but they themselves are sinful creatures too.
They face a difficult struggle both inside and outside.
- John MacArthur

 ...people mostly pray as if there were no God with them, or as if He did not heed their
prayers. Let us ascribe to the Lord at least the same amount of attention that good parents
show to the requests of their children, at least that provident and attentive love which
good parents have for their children.
- John of Kronstadt

 Your Lord is Love: love Him and in Him all men, as His children in Christ. Your Lord is
a fire: do not let your heart be cold, but burn with faith and love. Your Lord is light: do
not walk in darkness of mind, without reasoning or understanding, or without faith.
- John of Kronstadt

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 God will not turn away from doing you good. He will keep on doing good. He doesn't do
good to His children sometimes and bad to them other times. He keeps on doing good
and He never will stop doing good for ten thousand ages of ages. When things are going
bad that does not mean God has stopped doing good. It means He is shifting things
around to get them in place for more good, if you will go on loving Him.
- John Piper

 God has never done anything that should legitimately cause anger in any of His children.
We are never warranted in getting angry at God. Ever. It happens. And we should admit
it, and tremble, and repent, and turn back to humble trust in His sovereign goodness.
- John Piper

 It is true that God will never forsake His own children. But the proof that we are His
children is that He works in us the vigilance not to forsake Him. God's not forsaking us is
the work He does in us to keep us from forsaking Him (Philippians 2:12-13).
- John Piper

 It isn't sex by itself that makes abortion. It is sex plus covetousness: desiring things that
God does not will for us to have because we are not willing to find our satisfaction in
him. Illicit sex and unencumbered freedom without children: for these we covet, and
abortion is the result.
- John Piper

 The happiest and holiest children in the world are the children whose fathers succeed in
winning both their tender affection and their reverential and loving fear. And they are the
children who will come to understand most easily the mystery of the fatherhood of God.
- John Piper

 So great is my veneration for the Bible, that the earlier my children begin to read it the
more confident will be my hopes that they will prove useful citizens to their country and
respectable members of society.
- John Quincy Adams

 As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and
admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling
of my children.
- John Quincy Adams

 You may be lonely, poor, and cold, neglected by the children, forgotten by your friends,
yet may have the glad Christmas joy in your heart as Paul had, shut up in prison cells at
Rome!
- John R. Rice

 If we, as parents, are not painstakingly investing in the lives of our children, we are doing
them a disservice and pain will be the likely result.
- Jonathan Falwell

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 As no good is done, or spoken, or thought by any man without the assistance of God,
working in and with those that believe in him, so there is no evil done, or spoken, or
thought without the assistance of the devil, who worketh with strong though secret power
in the children of unbelief. All the works of our evil nature are the work of the devil.
- John Wesley

 God only requires of his adult children, that their hearts be truly purified, and that they
offer him continually the wishes and vows that naturally spring from perfect love. For
these desires, being the genuine fruits of love, are the most perfect prayers that can spring
from it. It is scarce conceivable how strait the way is wherein God leads them that follow
him; and how dependent on him we must be, unless we are wanting in our faithfulness to
him.
- John Wesley

 Everyone would have something, such perhaps as we are ashamed to utter. The proud
man would have honor; the covetous man, wealth and abundance; the malicious, revenge
on his enemies; the epicure, pleasure and long life; the barren, children; the wanton,
beauty; each would be humored in his own desire, though in opposition both to God's
will, and his own good.
- Joseph Hall

 We don't think there's something wrong with one-year-old children because they can't
walk perfectly. They fall down frequently, but we pick them up, love them, bandage them
if necessary, and keep working with them. Surely our heavenly Father can do even more
for us than we do for our children.
- Joyce Meyer

 We may have failed to teach our children right from wrong, but we've done a great job of
teaching self-esteem!
- Judge Roy Moore

 What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
- Karl Barth

 Christians must understand the nature of the change that has occurred in our culture. No
longer do the secularists just mock Christians from afar. They are now actively
campaigning to indoctrinate children in an anti-God philosophy--to teach them to be
secularists and atheists.
- Ken Ham

 Imagine if we started raising generations of children who stood uncompromisingly on the
Word of God, knew how to defend the Christian faith, could answer the skeptical
questions of this age, and had a fervor to share the gospel from the authority of God's
Word with whomever they met! This could change the world.
- Ken Ham

 It's essential that we learn how to defend the Bible and the Christian faith for our sake
and our children's. If we don't, the empty and obsolete churches in England will
foreshadow the future in America.
- Ken Ham

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 Children can tell you what Channel 7 says, but not what Matthew 7 says.
- Leonard Ravenhill

 The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call
themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was
I crucified for anyone. How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the
point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?
- Martin Luther

 I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

 The revived begin to get a concern for the members of their own family - husband, wife,
father, mother, children, brother, sister - who do not know that they are outside. They tell
them about it; they feel they must. There is a constraint that is driving them. They talk
about it to people, to friends and to everybody, and they begin to pray for them. Prayer is
always a great feature of every revival, great prayer meetings, intercession hour after
hour. They pray for these people by name and they plead, and they will not let God go, as
it were.
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones

 If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home,
reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest of our daily delights; and our family-worship
the most valuable of our family-comforts... A church in the house will be a good legacy,
nay, it will be a good inheritance, to be left to your children after you.
- Matthew Henry

 The purpose of the Bible is simply to proclaim God's plan to save His children. It asserts
that man is lost and needs to be saved. And it communicates the message that Jesus is the
God in the flesh sent to save His children.
- Max Lucado

 The purpose of the Bible? Salvation. God's highest passion is to get His children home.
His book, the Bible, describes His plan of salvation. The purpose of the Bible is to
proclaim god's plan and passion to save His children.
- Max Lucado

 God is faithful even when his children are not.
- Max Lucado

 Unless we are firmly anchored in the Rock of Ages, unless we trust in the living God,
unless we are vigilant in prayer and fellowship with God, the enemy will be able to
vanquish our children.
- Michael Youssef

 When our children see us clinging to the promises of God, they will grow up trusting in
His goodness. If we fail as adults in praying for and praying with the next generation,
then they will become spiritually unsure.
- Michael Youssef

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 The power of the Holy Spirit is completely opposite to the world's power. The power of
the Holy Spirit gives God's children the ability to serve His purpose for our lives. The
Holy Spirit's power is unlike any other in the world. Only the power of the Holy Spirit
can transform us, relieve our guilt, and heal our souls.
- Michael Youssef

 Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our
duty and privilege as God's children.
- Phillips Brooks

 Men are never manlier than when they are tender with their children - whether holding a
baby in their arms, loving their grade-schooler, or hugging their teenager or adult
children.
- R. Kent Hughes

 Not a few preachers' kids have been catapulted into rebellion because their fathers
squeezed their lives to fit their parishioners' expectations. What a massive sin against
one's children!
- R. Kent Hughes

 Divorce Myths:1. When love has gone out a marriage, it is better to get divorced. 2. It is
better for the children for the unhappy couple to divorce than to raise their children in the
atmosphere of an unhappy marriage. 3. Divorce is the lesser of two evils. 4. You owe it to
yourself. 5. Everyone's entitled to one mistake. 6. God led me to this divorce.
- R.C. Sproul

 Nobody is born into this world a child of the family of God. We are born as children of
wrath. The only way we enter into the family of God is by adoption, and that adoption
occurs when we are united to God's only begotten Son by faith. When by faith we are
united with Christ, we are then adopted into that family of whom Christ is the firstborn.
- R.C. Sproul

 Your children should love the Lord, work hard, and experience the joy of trusting God.
More important than leaving your children an inheritance is leaving them a spiritual
heritage. If you left your children money they didn't need, and if they were thinking
correctly, wouldn't they give it to God anyway? Then why not give it to God yourself,
since He entrusted it to you?
- Randy Alcorn

 Our Heavenly Father always sends His children the things they ask, or better things.
- Richard Cecil

 He has seen but little of life who does not discern everywhere the effect of early
education on men's opinions and habits of thinking. Children bring out of the nursery that
which displays itself throughout their lives.
- Richard Cecil

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 Children do not find it difficult or complicated to talk to their parents, nor do they feel
embarrassed to bring the simplest need to their attention. Neither should we hesitate to
bring the simplest requests confidently to the Father.
- Richard J. Foster

 As men cherish young plants at first and fence them about with hedges to keep them from
hurt, but when they are grown they remove these things and leave them to the wind and
weather, so God sustains His children at first with props of inward comforts, but
afterwards He exposes them to storms and winds because they are better able to bear
them. Therefore let no man think himself the better because he is more free from troubles
than others; it is because God sees him not fit to bear greater.
- Richard Sibbes

 Whatsoever is good for God's children they shall have it; for all is theirs to help them
towards heaven; therefore if poverty be good they shall have it; if disgrace or crosses be
good they shall have them; for all is ours to promote our greatest prosperity.
- Richard Sibbes

 God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the
world, He permits the world to condemn them, that they may not love the world, the
world hates them....
- Richard Sibbes

 God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow
better by blessings and crosses, and to make sanctified use of all things.
- Richard Sibbes

 Threatening our children or employees is evidence of a lack of true authority. The
rewards and penalties should already be clear, and if there is disobedience, discipline
should be administered the first time, not further threatening. If we have to threaten to
compel our children or anyone else that we are in charge of to obey us, then somehow it
has already been established that our "yes" did not really mean "yes," and our "no" did
not really mean "no."
- Rick Joyner

 There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.
- Rick Warren

 The world dares say no more for its device, than "while I live, I hope"; but the children of
God can add by virtue of a living hope, "while I expire, I hope."
- Robert Leighton

 A doctor once told me of a child who could not breathe when it was born. In order to
make it breathe doctor gave it a slight blow. ...he was really doing the kindest thing
possible. As with newborn children the lungs are contracted, so are our spiritual lungs.
But through suffering God strikes us in love. Then our lungs expand and we can breathe
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 A little child often runs to its mother and exclaims: 'Mother! Mother!' Very often the
child does not want anything in particular, he only wants to be near his mother, to sit
upon her lap, or to follow her about the house, for the sheer pleasure of being near her,
talking to her, hearing her dear voice. Then the child is happy. His happiness does not
consist in asking and receiving all kinds of things from his mother. If that were what he
wanted, he would be impatient and obstinate and therefore unhappy. No, his happiness
lies in feeling his mother's love and care, and in knowing the joy of her mother love." "It
is just the same with the true children of God; they do not trouble themselves so much
about spiritual blessings. They only want to sit at the Lord's feet, to be in living touch
with Him, and when they do that they are supremely content.

 In a Tibetan village I noticed a crowd of people standing under a burning tree and looking
up into the branches. I came near and discovered in the branches a bird which was
anxiously flying round a nest full of young ones. The mother bird wanted to save her
little ones, but she could not. When the fire reached the nest the people waited
breathlessly to see what she would do. No one could climb the tree, no one could help
her. Now she could easily have saved her own life by flight, but instead of fleeing she sat
down on the nest, covering the little ones carefully with her wings. The fire seized her
and burnt her to ashes. She showed her love to her little ones by giving her life for them.
If then, this little insignificant creature had such love, how much more must our Heavenly
Father love His children, the Creator love His creatures!

 Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or
wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.
- Samuel Rutherford

 The notion that we are children of God, his own sons and daughters, lies at the heart of all
Christian theology, and is the mainspring of all Christian living.
- Sinclair B. Ferguson

 The providence of God is the way in which He governs everything wisely, first for the
glory of His own Name, and second for the ultimate blessing of His children.

 We may think that severity (as God leads His children) is inconsistent with what we know
of God's gentleness and compassion. But that is because we do not appreciate how
seriously God loves us, and how determined He is that we should have His best, even if it
means pain.

 No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and
our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual
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 A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty; the trouble of civility; the spoil of wealth; the
distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent; the tavern and ale house benefactor; the
beggar's companion; the constable's trouble; his wife's woe; his children's sorrow; his
neighbor's scoff; his own shame. In short he is a tub of swill, a spirit of unrest, a thing
below a beast, and a monster of a man.
- Thomas Adams

 Good counsels observed, are chains to grace, which, neglected, prove halters to strange,
undutiful children.
- Thomas Fuller

 No man who is fit to live need fear to die. To us here, death is the most terrible thing we
know. But when we have tasted its reality it will mean to us birth, deliverance, a new
creation of ourselves. It will be what health is to the sick man; what home is to the exile;
what the loved one given back is to the bereaved. As we draw near to it a solemn
gladness should fill our hearts. It is God's great morning lighting up the sky. Our fears are
the terror of children in the night. The night with its terrors, its darkness, its feverish
dreams, is passing away; and when we awake it will be into the sunlight of God.
- Thomas Fuller

 Disobedient children, if preserved from the gallows, are reserved for the rack, to be
tortured by their own posterity. One complaining, that never father had so undutiful a
child as he had, yes, said his son, with less grace than truth, my grandfather had.
- Thomas Fuller

 A good schoolmaster minces his precepts for children to swallow, hanging clogs on the
nimbleness of his own soul, that his scholars may go along with him.
- Thomas Fuller

 As for those parents who will not use the rod upon their children, I pray God He useth not
their children as a rod for them.
- Thomas Fuller

 Satan doth not tempt God's children because they have sin in them, but because they have
grace in them. Had they no grace, the devil would not disturb them... Though to be
tempted is a trouble, yet to think why you are tempted is a comfort.
- Thomas Watson

 A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
- Author Unknown

 For adult education nothing beats children.
- Author Unknown

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 Were Satan to strike the children of God with great force at one time, they would know
exactly how to resist the enemy since they would immediately recognize his work. He
uses the method of gradualism to wear down the people of God.
- Watchman Nee

 For God no cost is too high. Anything can be sacrificed if only we may please Him. Let
us daily learn to be obedient children.
- Watchman Nee

 Before the self is touched God's children live by very changeable stimulations and
sensations. That is why they exhibit a wavy up-and-down existence.
- Watchman Nee

 Because of their ignorance concerning the spirit's operation, those who honestly desire
deeper experience upon having overcome sin may all too easily be led astray into seeking
so called "spiritual" Bible knowledge with their minds, or a burning sensation of the
Lord's presence in their physical members, or a life and labor emanating from their will
power. They are deceived into overly esteeming their soul experiences and thus fall into
conceiving themselves as ever so spiritual. For this reason God's children must be very
humble before Him and seek to know the teaching of the Bible and the functioning of the
spirit through the Holy Spirit in order that they may walk by the spirit.
- Watchman Nee

 Frequently many children of God turn within themselves, that is, they look into their soul
to determine whether they have peace, grace or spiritual progress. This is most harmful
and is not of faith. It diverts them from gazing upon Christ to looking at themselves.
- Watchman Nee

 Often the children of God cannot rise up to answer the Lord's call to service simply
because, though their physical condition is good, their feelings are low, cold, and
reluctant. Or even when their emotions are quite high, passionate, and willing, they find
themselves unable to serve the Lord because now the body
reacts lazily. The disciples found themselves in precisely that situation in the Garden of
Gethsemane: "the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak" (Matt. 26:41)
- Watchman Nee

 In order for the inner man to be strengthened with power through the Holy Spirit, the
children of God must discharge their responsibility. They need to yield specifically to the
Lord, forsake every doubtful aspect in their life, be willing to obey fully God's will, and
believe through prayer that He will flood their spirit with His power.
- Watchman Nee

 Prayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it
accomplishes far more than does any other form of work. It is also warfare, for it is one
of the weapons in fighting the enemy. However, only prayer in the spirit is genuinely
effectual.
- Watchman Nee

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 Children of God should not make a general confession by acknowledging their
innumerable sins in a vague manner, because such confession does not provide
conscience opportunity to do its perfect work. They ought to allow the Holy Spirit
through their conscience to point out their sins one by one. Christians must accept its
reproach and be willing, according to the mind of the Spirit, to eliminate everything
which is contrary to God.
- Watchman Nee

 Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit - a very common
symptom indeed among God's children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity
inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.
- Watchman Nee

 Only when mind and emotion are subject to the spirit's rule can he disregard or restrain
differences in though and feeling and so be one in the spirit with all children of God.
- Watchman Nee

 How much the work of God has suffered because of our failure to let the Lord be the
Lord of our affections. Many parents cling to their children for themselves and permit the
kingdom of God to incur loss.
- Watchman Nee

 Becoming mature Christians will require the sovereign work of God. Only God can save
and sanctify. Still, God uses men and means. Certainly we as parents must seek to bring
our children to Jesus Christ for salvation. But salvation is not the end of the journey. It is
only the beginning. The destination toward which we are headed with our children is
nothing less than maturity in Christ.
- Wayne Mack

 Controlled anger against sin and genuine love may dwell in the same heart at the same
time and be directed toward the same person. It is legitimate for us to be angry with our
children over genuine disobedience. At the same time, we must not express that anger in
sinful ways (yelling, screaming, nastiness, irritation, etc.) but in loving ways for the good
of our children.
- Wayne Mack

 In my opinion, the idea that we should postpone generous giving (to the church) until our
debts are paid or until we get a raise or until the children are grown up or until we have
bought a house is contrary to Scripture. We may be able to give more then, but we ought
to give generously now.
- Wayne Mack

 God waits for you to communicate with Him. You have instant, direct access to God.
God loves mankind so much, and in a very special sense His children, that He has made
Himself available to you at all times.
- Wesley L. Duewel

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CHILDREN

 While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight; while little children go hungry, as they do
now, I'll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight;
while there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there
remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight-I'll fight to the very end!
- William Booth

 If we would amend the world we should mend ourselves; and teach our children to be,
not what we are, but what they should be.
- William Penn

 Children take more notice of what their parents do, than what they say. Actions speak
louder than words.
- William Tiptaft

 Little children are God's ongoing witness of His kingdom: a perpetual reminder of what it
means to belong to the father. Children are an unspoken sermon in every home for
simplicity, joy, and humility of that which makes the world worth living in. They remind
us what it means to be a real Christian.
- Winkie Pratney

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CHRISTMAS

CHRISTMAS
 The immense step from the Babe at Bethlehem to the living, reigning triumphant Lord
Jesus, returning to earth for His own people - that is the glorious truth proclaimed
throughout Scripture. As the bells ring out the joys of Christmas, may we also be alert for
the final trumpet that will announce His return, when we shall always be with Him.
- Alan Redpath

 It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty
Founder was a child Himself.
- Charles Dickens

 I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
- Charles Dickens

 Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.
- Peter Kreeft

 Who can add to Christmas? The perfect motive is that God so loved the world. The
perfect gift is that He gave His only Son. The only requirement is to believe in Him. The
reward of faith is that you shall have everlasting life.
- Corrie Ten Boom

 He robs anyone on Christmas--he deserves double the sentence.
- Duane Chapman

 When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas
time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
- G.K. Chesterton

 It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the most profound
unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. God became man; Nothing in fiction
is so fantastic as this truth of the incarnation.
- J.I. Packer

 The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope
of peace with God, hope of glory--because at the Father's will Jesus became poor, and
was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.
- J.I. Packer

 If we could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these would be the
words: "God with us." We tend to focus our attention at Christmas on the infancy of
Christ. The greater truth of the holiday is His deity. More astonishing than a baby in the
manger is the truth that this promised baby is the omnipotent Creator of the heavens and
the earth!
- John MacArthur

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CHRISTMAS

 There is no connection between the worship of idols and the use of Christmas trees. We
should not be anxious about baseless arguments against Christmas decorations. Rather,
we should be focused on the Christ of Christmas and giving all diligence to remembering
the real reason for the season.
- John MacArthur

 You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face and tell
him you have received his Christmas gift.
- John R. Rice

 I want no Christmas without a burden for lost souls, a message for sinners, a heart to
bring in the lost sheep so dear to the Shepherd, the sinning souls for whom Christ died.
- John R. Rice

 You may be lonely, poor, and cold, neglected by the children, forgotten by your friends,
yet may have the glad Christmas joy in your heart as Paul had, shut up in prison cells at
Rome!
- John R. Rice

 The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young, The
heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, And its soul full of music breaks the air, When
the song of angels is sung.
- Phillips Brooks

 There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey
understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the
same today.
- Thomas Merton

 Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift
of His Son, and the gift of man to God - when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.
- Vance Havner

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DEATH

DEATH
 We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To
contemplate all things as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies
Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts us above trials, separates us from the world and
conquers fear of death.
- A.B. Simpson

 The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is
bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank
God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give
it to.
- A.B. Simpson

 The Incarnation through the death of Christ makes it possible for God to be "just, and the
justifier of him that believeth in Jesus." If God should be merciful without the satisfaction
of justice, He would cease to be a God of justice and would thus forfeit His throne of
righteousness. In a word, He would cease to be God.
- A.C. Dixon

 Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect
standing before God. That is justification, and it puts us, in God's sight, back in Eden
before sin entered. God looks upon us and treats us as if we had never sinned.
- A.C. Dixon

 Gospellers have much to say about what Christ's death accomplished for those who
believe in Him, but very little is said about what that Death accomplished Godwards. The
fact is that the death of Christ glorified God if never a single sinner had been saved by
virtue of it.
- A.W. Pink

 For not only does sound reason direct us to refuse the guidance of those who do or teach
anything wrong, but it is by all means vital for the lover of truth, regardless of the threat
of death, to choose to do and say what is right even before saving his own life.
- A.W. Tozer

 ...I have now to ask whether you can consent to part with your daughter early next spring,
to see her no more in this world? Whether you can consent to see her departure to a
heathen land, and her subjection to the hardships and sufferings of a missionary life?
Whether you can consent to her exposure to the dangers of the ocean; to the fatal
influence of the southern climate of India; to every kind of want and distress; to
degradation, insult, persecution, and perhaps a violent death? Can you consent to all this,
for the sake of perishing immortal souls; for the sake of Zion and the glory of God? Can
you consent to all this, in hope of soon meeting your daughter in the world of glory, with
a crown of righteousness brightened by the acclamations of praise which shall redound to
her Saviour from heathens saved, through her means, from eternal woe and despair?
- Adoniram Judson

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DEATH

 The greatest harm that can be suffered in the fight against perceived evil and injustice is
not physical death or "occupation." It is the death of the conscience and spirit cut off from
the nourishment of moral law.
- Alan Keyes

 When a denomination begins to consider doctrine divisive, theology troublesome, and
convictions inconvenient, consider that denomination on its way to a well-deserved
death.
- Albert Mohler

 The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about
death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a
grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory.

 The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about
death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a
grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory.

 If life has not made you by God's grace, through faith, holy--think you, will death without
faith do it? The cold waters of that narrow stream are no purifying bath in which you may
wash and be clean. No! no! as you go down into them, you will come up from them.

 If you love your 'Truths' more than you love people, then you are an out-and-out
Pharisee. Nothing less. And you will create condemnation and death in people, rather
than 'conviction' and LIFE.
- Andrew Strom

 There is no surer proof of Christ's divinity than that he is still so hated some two thousand
years after his death.
- Ann Coulter

 Faith is a bridge across the gulf of death.
- Edward Young
- Assorted Authors

 He hideth our unrighteousness with His righteousness, He covereth our disobedience with
his obedience, He shadoweth our death with His death, that the wrath of God cannot find
us.
- Henry Smith

 Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
- John Donne

 Live in Christ, live in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death.
- John Knox

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DEATH

 The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
- Mark Twain

 Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me
liberty, or give me death!
- Patrick Henry

 When men sought to make Him a king He fled; now that they seek to put Him to death
He goes out to meet them.
- Rudolph Stier

 Everything science has taught me - and continues to teach me - strengthens my belief in
the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace.
- Wernher Von Braun

 Death stung himself to death when he stung Christ.
- William Romaine

 We want to reach the kingdom of God, but we don't want to travel by way of death. And
yet there stands Necessity saying: 'This way, please.' Do not hesitate, man, to go this way,
when this is the way that God came to you.
- Augustine

 They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to
die, but into what place death will usher them.
- Augustine

 The Jews looked upon a serpent to be freed from serpents; and we look upon the death of
Christ to be delivered from death.
- Augustine

 As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their
heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
- Blaise Pascal

 Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
- Blaise Pascal

 The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even
death.
- Blaise Pascal

 The point of the death of Christ is that Christ took on the sins of the world, so that what
we put out did not come back to us, and that our sinful nature does not reap the obvious
death. That's the point. It should keep us humbled... It's not our own good works that get
us through the gates of Heaven.
- Bono

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DEATH

 Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste
the horror of death.
- C.S. Lewis

 'When a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the
table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.'
- C.S. Lewis

 Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to
death.
- C.S. Lewis

 It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't
matter." There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has
consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that
birth doesn't matter.
- C.S. Lewis

 Does loving your enemy mean not punishing him? No, for loving myself does not mean
that I ought not subject myself to punishment-even to death. If you had committed a
murder, the right Christian thing to do would be to give yourself up to the police and be
hanged.
- C.S. Lewis

 You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood
becomes a matter of life and death to you.
- C.S. Lewis

 Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; do noble things, not dream them all day
long; and so make life, death, and that vast forever one grand, sweet song.
- Charles Kingsley

 When the time comes for you to die, you need not be afraid, because death cannot
separate you from God's love.
- Charles Spurgeon

 You never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgement hall one word that would let you imagine
that He was sorry that He had undertaken so costly a sacrifice for us. When His hands are
pierced, when He is parched with fever, His tongue dried up like a shard of pottery, when
His whole body is dissolved into the dust of death, you never hear a groan or a shriek that
looks like Jesus is going back on His commitment.
- Charles Spurgeon

 Go forth today, by the help of God's Spirit, vowing and declaring that in life - come
poverty, come wealth, in death - come pain or come what may, you are and ever must be
the Lord's. For this is written on your heart, 'We love Him because He first loved us.'
- Charles Spurgeon

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DEATH

 A sight of His death - if it is a true sight - is the death of all love of sin.
- Charles Spurgeon

 Doubt discovers difficulties which it never solves; it creates hesitancy, despondency,
despair. Its progress is the decay of comfort, the death of peace. "Believe!" is the word
which speaks life into a man, but doubt nails down his coffin.
- Charles Spurgeon

 If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative.
If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you.
- Charles Spurgeon

 He had, when in health, wickedly refused Christ, yet in his death-agony, he had
superstitiously sent for me. Too late, he sighed for the ministry of reconciliation, and
sought to enter in at the closed door, but he was not able. There was no space left him
then for repentance, for he had wasted the opportunities which God had long granted to
him.
- Charles Spurgeon

 I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life
than to be kept faithful to my God till death, still to be a soul winner, still to be a true
herald of the cross, and testify the name of Jesus to the last hour. It is only such who in
the ministry shall be saved.
- Charles Spurgeon

 Keep your eye simply on Him; let His death, His sufferings, His merits, His glories, His
intercession, be fresh upon thy mind; when you wake in the morning look to Him; when
thou lie down at night look to Him. Oh! let not your hopes or fears come between thee
and Jesus; follow hard after Him, and He will never fail you.
- Charles Spurgeon

 That only is worth my having which I can have forever. That only is worth my grasping
which death cannot tear out of my hand.
- Charles Spurgeon

 We say that Christ so died that He infallibly secured the salvation of a multitude that no
man can number, who through Christ's death not only may be saved, but are saved, must
be saved, and cannot by any possibility run the hazard of being anything but saved.
- Charles Spurgeon

 We see his smile of love even when others see nothing but the black hand of Death
smiting our best beloved.
- Charles Spurgeon

 There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the
ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly man as a penal infliction, but to the righteous as a
summons to his Father's palace. To the sinner it is an execution, to the saint an undressing
from his sins and infirmities. Death to the wicked is the King of terrors. Death to the saint
is the end of terrors, the commencement of glory.
- Charles Spurgeon

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DEATH

 In vain I have searched the Bible, looking for examples of early believers whose lives
were marked by rigidity, predictability, inhibition, dullness, and caution. Fortunately,
grim, frowning, joyless saints in Scriptures are conspicuous by their absence. Instead, the
examples I find are of adventurous, risk-taking, enthusiastic, and authentic believers
whose joy was contagious even in times of full trial. Their vision was broad even when
death drew near. Rules were few and changes were welcome. The contrast between then
and now is staggering.
- Chuck Swindoll

 I am so glad God will never allow a man to go comfortably and peacefully to eternal
death. He never allows any man to be lost until He has done His best to save him.

 Jesus is hungry but feeds others; He grows weary but offers others rest; He is the King
Messiah but pays tribute; He is called the devil but casts out demons; He dies the death of
a sinner but comes to save His people from their sins; He is sold for thirty pieces of silver
but gives His life a ransom for many; He will not turn stones to bread for Himself but
gives His own body as bread for people.
- D.A. Carson

 Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!
- D.L. Moody

 Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody of East Northfield, is dead. Don't
you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now; I shall have
gone up higher, that is all, out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortal- a
body that death cannot touch, that sin cannot taint; a body fashioned like unto His
glorious body.
- D.L. Moody

 I find that many Christians are in trouble about the future; they think they will not have
grace enough to die by. It is much more important that we should have grace enough to
live by. It seems to me that death is of very little importance in the meantime. When the
dying hour comes, there will be dying grace; but you do not require dying grace to live
by.
- D.L. Moody

 Earth recedes, heaven opens. I've been through the gates! Don't call me back ... if this is
death, it's sweet. Dwight! Irene! I see the children's faces. [Dwight and Irene were his
dead grandchildren.]
- D.L. Moody

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DEATH

 Take your stand on the Rock of Ages. Let death, let the judgment come: the victory is
Christ's and yours through Him.
- D.L. Moody

 If you are under the power of evil, and you want to get under the power of God, cry to
Him to bring you over to His service; cry to Him to take you into His army. He will hear
you; He will come to you, and, if need be, He will send a legion of angels to help you to
fight your way up to heaven. God will take you by the right hand and lead you through
this wilderness, over death, and take you right into His kingdom.
- D.L. Moody

 Heaven has no place for the erroneous belief that Christ died because we are worth it.
Christ's death in our place had nothing to do with our worth but with the depths of our
sin, the demands made by God's justice, and His eternal glory.
- Dave Hunt

 God's love is his holiness reaching out to sinners; grace is but the price that his love pays
to his holiness; the cross is but its victory over sin and death; and faith is but the way in
which we bring our worship to him who is holy.
- David F. Wells

 At the place of execution, he again said a short prayer and then climbed the steps to the
gallows, brave and composed. His death ensued after a few seconds. In almost fifty years
that I worked as a doctor, I have hardly ever seen a man die so entirely submissive to the
will of God.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

 God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be
closed to death, the heart that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live
before God, and God's heart is set on them and prayers outlive the lives of those who
uttered them; they outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world.
- E.M. Bounds

 All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in
them.... But men's plans ignore the offence of the cross or despise it. Men's plans have no
profound, stern or self-immolating denial in them. Their gain is of the world.
- E.M. Bounds

 The church is not a democracy in which we have chosen God, but a theocracy in which
He has chosen us. The church is the only society in the world that never loses any of its
members, even by death. The church upon its knees would bring heaven upon the earth.
- E.M. Bounds

 George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your
listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole
youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify
God in every stage of my life.
- Elisabeth Elliot

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DEATH

 We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken
and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and
being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for
others.
- Elisabeth Elliot

 Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection, a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can
drag you because you have chosen to sink.
- Elisabeth Elliot

 At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our
representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our
entrance is incontestable.
- Erwin Lutzer

 The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of
his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
- Florence Nightingale

 A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes
place.
- Florence Nightingale

 Jesus defeated satan in Gethsemane on the cross, not by directly confronting the devil,
but by fulfilling the destiny to which He had been called. The greatest battle that was ever
won was accomplished by the apparent death of the victor, without even a word of rebuke
to His adversary!
- Francis Frangipane

 Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer the fear of death.
- Francois Fenelon

 Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no
help to anyone if it bleeds to death.
- Frederick Buechner

 To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any
sense that really matters, even to ourselves, because it is only by journeying for the
world's sake - even when the world bores and sickens and scares you half to death - that
little by little we start to come alive.
- Frederick Buechner

 Sacrifice alone, bare and unrelieved, is ghastly, unnatural, and dead; but self-sacrifice,
illuminated by love, is warmth and life; it is the death of Christ, the life of God, and the
blessedness and only proper life of man.
- Frederick W. Robertson

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DEATH

 Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship
those whom they have tortured to death.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

 The people of God may have to taste a little of the waters of death's dark river, but Christ
went to the very bottom of it, and rose again, and is alive for evermore.
- G.V. Wigram

 How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
- George Macdonald

 By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence I have been protected beyond all human
probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot
under me yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side
of me!
- George Washington

 Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.
- George Whitefield

 Adulation is the death of virtue. Who flatters, is, of all mankind, the lowest, save he who
courts the flattery.
- Hannah More

 There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity,
namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.
- Hannah More

 If the will of God is our will, and if He always has His way, then we always have our way
also, and we reign in a perpetual kingdom. He who sides with God cannot fail to win in
every encounter; and, whether the result shall be joy or sorrow, failure or success, death
or life, we may, under all circumstances, join in the Apostle's shout of victory, "Thanks
be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ!"

 Jesus Christ is not a problem, He is the solution to every problem for life, for death, and
for eternity.
- Harry Ironside

 Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for
me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
- Helen Keller

 It is a distinct fact by itself, which we can hold and examine separately, that on purely
natural principles the soul that is left to itself unwatched, uncultivated, unredeemed, must
fall away into death by its own nature.
- Henry Drummond

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