If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us ten suggestions and not ten commandments. – Zig Ziglar
Character determines how a man interprets God’s will. – Oswald Chambers
Character determines how a man interprets God’s will.
- Oswald Chambers
Private interpretation does not give …
Private interpretation does not give a license for private distortion.
-R.C. Sproul
Anger may be handled wrongly in either one of two ways…
Anger may be handled wrongly in either one of two ways: blowing up and clamming up.
-Jay E. Adams
He that will be angry, and not sin, …
He that will be angry, and not sin, must not be angry but for sin.
-John Trapp
I had rather be a sober heathen than …
I had rather be a sober heathen than a drunken Christian.
-William Gurnall
The alcoholic commits suicide …
The alcoholic commits suicide on the installment plan.
-Vance Havner
Age does not depend upon years, …
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.
-Tryon Edwards
Afflictions tend to wean us from the world …
Afflictions tend to wean us from the world – and to fix our affections on things above.
-John Angell James
The godly have some good in them, …
The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.
-Thomas Watson
Poverty and affliction take away …
Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.
-Richard Sibbes
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of …
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
-CH Spurgeon
Those who dive in the sea of affliction …
Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.
-CH Spurgeon
There is no commentary that opens up the Bible …
There is no commentary that opens up the Bible so much as sickness and sorrow.
-JC Ryle
Grace comes not to take away a man’s affections …
Grace comes not to take away a man’s affections, but to take them up.
-William Fenner
Strong affections for God, rooted in …
Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture – this is the bone and marrow of biblical worship.
-John Piper
People are usually more convinced by …
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
-Blaise Pascal
Adultery is an obvious violation of …
Adultery is an obvious violation of the rights of another. You are stealing what doesn’t belong to you.
-Sam Storms
God hath given man a short time …
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
- Jeremy Taylor
Only half the patients who …
Only half the patients who go into an abortion clinic come out alive.
-Anon
