Quotes

271.  We have fellowship with other Christians because of the Cross of Jesus The Christ, not because of denominations or different gifts of The Spirit.
ernie

270.  Too many Christians envy the sinners their pleasure and the saints their joy because they don't have either one. 
Martin Luther

269.  We the People are the Rightful Masters of both Congress & the Courts, not to Overthrow the Constitution, but Overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln

268.  A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll probably never need one again.
Abraham Lincoln

267.  Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian.  Henry Ford

266.  Those that suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. John V. Lindsey

255.  We reverence God and we hallow God's name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others to him. 
William Barclay

254.  Eternal life does not begin with death: it begins with faith. 
Samuel Shoemaker

253.  Discipline is a privilege because it is an evidence of our sonship. 
Alistair Begg

252.  O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer. 
Joseph Scriven

251.  Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ. 
Charles H. Spurgeon

250.  Coincidence is God's Middle Name.
ernie

249.  A coincidence is an event in which a sovereign God chooses to remain anonymous. 
Unknown

248.  The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge but to change our lives.
D. L. Moody

247.  With Democracy comes mob rule. As a Republic, we are ruled by the Mob!
ernie

246.  He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.
C. S. Lewis

245.  Cowardice asks the question: "Is it safe?" Consensus asks the question: "Is it popular?" Courage asks the question: "Is it right?"
Rod Rogers 

244.  Church revival has less to do with the preaching of God's man and more to do with the preparation of God's people.
ernie

243.  Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
Oswald Chambers

242.  Live in such a way that if someone spoke badly of you, no one would believe it.
Jeff Burchell

241.  Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
Corrie ten Boom

240.  God didn't save you to lose you, but to use you.
Clayton Reeves

239.  Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
Vance Havner

238.  The best way to show someone you love them is to listen to them.
Michael Card

237.  The Bible is meant to be bread for our daily use, not just cake for special occasions.
Unknown

236.  The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
Corrie ten Boom

235.  You will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or John.
C. S. Lewis


234.  When it comes to helping others, some people stop at nothing.
Unknown


233.  More people fail for lack of encouragement than for any other reason.
Unknown

232.  Even if you're one in a million, on a planet of 6.8 billion that means there are nearly 7,000 people just like you.
David McCullough Jr

231.  "You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want."
Zig Ziglar


230.  When you reject God's help because you think you have to be the help, then you are not only not getting help, but you giving others the WRONG help.
ernie

229.  The only time men are ever "good" is when they demonstrate Christ's love to others.
ernie

228.  Worship seals all prayers at the front and at the back. Always pray with praise beginning and praise ending.
David Jeremiah

227.  Mature faith does not live by answers to prayer, but by prayer. 
R. E. O. White

226.  Do not have your concert first and tune your instruments afterward. Begin the day with God.
Hudson Taylor

225.  The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth that God governs in the affairs of men.
Benjamin Franklin

224.  In order for the Vine-Dresser to prune the vines, He must get close enough to touch them.
ernie

223.  Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
Mark Twain

222.  When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. Clarence Darrow 

221.  God promises to keep His people, and He will keep His promises.
C. H. Spurgeon

220.  The nice part of living in a small town is even if you don't know what's going on with your life, someone else does.
Dana Davis Kogod

219.  It's a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Helen Keller

218.  Old age does not exempt us from fulfilling our purposes in life.
Billy Graham

217.  God is responsible for the consequences of your obedience. You are responsible for the consequences of your disobedience. 
Jim Mullins

216.  The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
Oswald Chambers

215.  The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years.
C. S. Lewis

214.  I've said No to God so many times, I don't deserve to hear another Yes from Him. 
Jeff Deaver

213.  A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
G. Gordon Liddy 

212.  Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. 
P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian


211.  Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control.
Joni Eareckson Tada


210.  The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill 

209.  The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
Mark Twain 

 208.  The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. 

Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903) 


207.  There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress.
Mark Twain 


206.  What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995) 


205.  A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
Thomas Jefferson 

204.  We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop 

203.  The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan 


202.  In God, history and prophecy are one and the same.
A. W. Tozer


201.  The Christian message is for those who have done their best--and failed! 
Unknown


200.  Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill


199.  Procrastination is not only the thief of time, it is also the grave of opportunity.
Unknown


198.  Turn your doubts to questions; turn your questions to prayers; turn your prayers to God.
Mark Littleton


197.  There are parts of the Bible which cause me difficulty, but none which cause me doubt.
John Blanchard


196.  Forgiveness does not mean we have to allow ourselves to be mistreated... (It) does mean that we allow God to work in our lives and in the lives of the people against whom we hold bitterness. 
Paul J. Meyer


195.  Repentance is one of the most positive words in any language. It tells us we can change direction. It assures us God will help us improve. 
Robert J. Morgan


194.  Forgiveness is the economy of the heart. A Christian will find it cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
From The Berean Magazine, November 21, 1826


193.  You choose whether to live in the freedom of forgiveness or in the bitterness of bondage.
Elmer Towns


192.  Christian, seek not yet repose; cast thy dreams of ease away; thou art in the midst of foes: watch and pray.
Charlotte Elliott


191.  Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
Anonymous


190.  Recession: When your friend loses their Job.
        Depression: When you lose your Job.
       Recovery: When Obama loses his job!


189.  Worry is an indication that we think God cannot look after us. 
Oswald Chambers


188.  Fear knocked at the door and faith answered. No one was there.
Old English Proverb


187.  Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less. 
C. H. Spurgeon 


186.  The Spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions, and the nearer we get to Him the more intensely missionary we become.
Henry Martyn


185.  Walking by faith means being prepared to trust where we are not permitted to see.
John Blanchard


184.  ‎Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.
Victor Kiam


183.  If our habits or hobbies are so expensive that we can't give God the first ten percent, it might be time to break a habit or scale back on a hobby.
Kevin Harney


182.  A giving Savior should have giving disciples.
J. C. Ryle


181.  Anyone can count the seeds in one apple, but only God can count the apples in one seed.
Unknown


180.  The way you look at your ministry will determine how you fulfill it.
Chuck Missler


179.  I know it's God's will, it still hurts though.
ernie


178.  The fundamental truth in the matter of stewardship is that everything we touch belongs to God. 
John Blanchard

177.  A man is just as rich as his investment in the bank of heaven.
Vance Havner


176.  Under every condition, in every circumstance, for every burden, in every need, through every sorrow, Christ, the source and sustainer of life, is more than sufficient. 
A. L. Faust


175.  Giving is an act of worship, and so every worshipper must be one of God's givers, whether rich or poor. The mites God values as much as the millions.
A. T. Pierson


174.  God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.
Randy Alcorn


173.  Ministry that costs nothing, accomplishes nothing.
John Henry Jowett


172.  Those who give much without sacrifice are reckoned as having given little.
Erwin Lutzer


171.  Another year is dawning, dear Father let it be, on earth or else in Heaven another year for Thee!
Frances Havergal


170.  You will invest your life in something, or you will throw it away on nothing. 
Haddon Robinson


169.  He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.
C. S. Lewis

168.  Truth has no degrees or shades. A half-truth is a whole lie, and a white lie is really black.
John MacArthur

167.  The fundamental truth in the matter of stewardship is that everything we touch belongs to God.
John Blanchard

166.  God is not obligated to protect my foolish actions.  
ernie

165.  Exchange your worries for His peace, and learn to lean on Jehovah-Shalom--"The Lord Who Calms our Fears."
David Jeremiah

164.  Anxiety and prayer are more opposed to each other than fire and water.
J. A. Bengel


163.  The measure of our spirituality is the amount of praise and thanksgiving in our prayer.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones


162.  Rather than "Pay it Forward" we should "Pray it Forward" first.
ernie


161.  The noblest revenge is to forgive.
Thomas Fuller


160.  Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) - a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
Not a quote but to good to pass up.


159.  Men do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself but because it contradicts them.
Author Unknown


158.  Many Christians seem to get their notions of love from the Love Boat instead of the Love Book... Make the Bible your guide.
Jim Binney in The Ministry of Marriage


157.  I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
From Dad


156.  Many Christians expect the world to respect the book they neglect.
Quoted by E.C. McKenzie


155.  People who forward e- mail without deleting the tons of previous recipients should be shot and then tarred and feathered!!!


154.  Psalm 14:1 The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God."  Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.
Francis Schaeffer


153.  When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water. 
Supplied by Susie Wellborn


152.  Whenever I fill out an application, in the part that says, 'In case of emergency, notify:' I put "DOCTOR."
From my Father


151.  I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
Supplied by Susie Wellborn


150.  There is great need for a sarcasm font.
Supplied by Susie Wellborn


149.  You have the ability, with your words, to make a person stronger. Your words are to their soul what a vitamin is to their body.
Max Lucado


148.  There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.
John Wooden


147.  If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly.
Martin Luther


146.  When we stop being enemies of evil, we become the enemies of good.
Ernie


145.  Don't be fooled by Liberals posing as Americans.
Unknown


144.  Our children are driving on the road we have paved for them.  If they are going the wrong way, stop paving the road they are on and start paving in another direction.
Ernie


143.  I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just wanted paychecks.
From my Father


142.  The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
Dwight L. Moody


141.  A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station?!
From my Father


140.  The more wisdom a man has the more desirous he should be to have his weaknesses shown him, because a little folly is a great blemish to him (with a) reputation for wisdom and honor.
Matthew Henry


139.  Faith and obedience are inescapably related. There is no saving faith in God apart from obedience to God, and there can be no godly obedience without godly faith.
John MacArthur

138.  Evening news is where they begin with 'Good Evening,' and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.
PARAPROSDOKIANS From My Father

137.  If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind; but if it meets danger, it turns and faces the wind in order that it may fly higher.
Corrie ten Boom

136.  Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.
Mark Twain (Thanks Susie)


135.  In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. -- Voltaire (Thanks Susie)


134.  If two people agree about everything, one of them is unnecessary.
Ruth Bell Graham


133.  If the possibility of failure were erased, what would you attempt to achieve?
Unknown 


132.  Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. Napoleon Hill 


131.  Knowing what you can do is more important than knowing what you can't do.
Lucille Ball


130.  Scars only remind us where we've been; they don't have to dictate where we're going.
Carmen Malkowski


129.  Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
More From Dad


128.  We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
Unknown (he gets credit for all the good stuff)


127.  If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.
More From Dad


126.  Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
PARAPROSDOKIANS From My Father


125.  The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on my list.
PARAPROSDOKIANS From My Father


124.  Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
PARAPROSDOKIANS From My Father


123.  I have a great need for Christ; I have a great Christ for my need.
Charles Spurgeon


122.  Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
Eustache Deschamps


121.  To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.
Phyllis Theroux


120.  Self-serving needs are not meant to be satisfied; they are meant to be put to death.
Edward T. Welch


119.  Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength.
Ralph W. Sockman, twentieth-century Methodist pastor


118.  Your mate can always measure your love by your actions. She may not see your feelings, understand your words, or even believe them; but there is no disputing the love behind actions.
Jim Binney


117.  It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world.
Og Mandino


116.  I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison


115.  If you know Jesus and His free pardon of sin, then you are drinking from a well that will never run dry!
Stacy Dyer


114.  Great leaders understand that the right attitude will set the right atmosphere, which enables the right response from others.
John Maxwel


113.  A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold Glasow


112.  The really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
G. K. Chesterton


111.  I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.  If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. 
Thomas Jefferson


110.  To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. 
Thomas Jefferson 


109.  The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government . 
Thomas Jefferson 


108.  Special Intrest's (groups) are not in our (America's) best interests.
Ernie


107.  Never want anything too much. Never. It will destroy you.
Glenn Beck


106.  The seeming peace a sinner has is not from the knowledge of his happiness but from the ignorance of his danger.
Thomas Watson, Puritan


105.  My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. 
  Thomas Jefferson 


104.  When asked about the hypocrites that go to church;  I would rather go to church with some of the hypocrites, than go to hell with the rest of them.
Ernie


103.  To live above with saints we love, oh, that will be glory; to live below with saints we know, now that's another story.
An old anonymous rhyme


102.  Let Jesus be first and uppermost in thought and life and let all other things trail on after.
S. H. Hadley



101.  When things look darkest to the world, they look brightest to the Christian. Our King is coming back!
Vance Havner


100.  If you have to much money that you can not bend down and pick up a penny, then you have too much money!?
My Papa


99.  To be ever looking for the Lord's appearing is one of the best helps to a close walk with God.
J. C. Ryle



98.  It is in the closet that the battle is lost or won.
Edward Payson


97.  Gossip is hearing from the jaw bone of an ass rather than the horses mouth.
Ernie


96.  Physical answers don't solve spiritual problems.
Kevin Bair


95.  Personal witnessing is hand-to-hand spiritual conflict; therefore, we must use spiritual weapons.
Lorne Sanny


94.  We spend all of our time trying to save others and no time working out our own Salvation.
Kevin Bair


93.  Better to have and not need than to need and not have.
Frank Baker


93.  The Bible is the Word of God. Period. But in this Word of God, we find those particular sayings that God gives us each day for the battles of life.
David Jeremiah



92.  Our defeat or victory begins with what we think; and if we guard our thoughts, we shall not have much trouble anywhere else along the line.
Vance Havner


91.  The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.  

Albert Einstein


90.  Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel



89.  Little by little, fewer and fewer, make more and more of the decisions.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel


88.  The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
George Muller


87.  To fear and not be afraid--that is the paradox of faith.
A. W. Tozer



86.  The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
Billy Graham



85.  There is no power in the Christian's life if it is not a righteous life.
David Jeremiah



84.  Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way..
Clint Smith

83.  The reason some succeed in battle is because they gain the victory on their knees before the fight begins.
Unknown



82.  The Lord will make a way for you where no foot has been before. That which, like a sea, threatens to drown you, shall be a highway for your escape.
Charles H. Spurgeon



81.  To seek God is to desire happiness; to find Him is that happiness.
Augustine



80.  It isn't the burdens of today that drive men mad. It is the regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. Regret and fear are the twin thieves who rob of us today!
Mel Rolls


79.  We all face adversity in our lives. It's how we react to it that will determine our destiny!
Mel Rolls


78.  The peace-makers are those who are at peace with God and who show that they are truly children of God by striving to use every opportunity open to them to effect reconciliation between others who are at variance.
R. V. G. Tasker



77.  A successful man continues to look for work after he has found a job.
Unknown


76.  The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency.  It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool.  It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.
Unknown from Czech Republic


75.  Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson



74.  There are times when criticism is needed, but in most situations praising will produce far better results over time.
Ron Glosser



73.  Stupid hurts and ignorance costs.
Unknown


72.  Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be grateful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.
John Wooden




D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones


70.  If you can look on sin without sorrow then you have never looked on Christ.
C. H. Spurgeon



69.  Many people say I am a man of integrity.  I hate to disappoint them, but that has far more to do with God stepping in - and far less with me stepping up.
Kevin Bair


68.  Death to a saint is nothing but the taking of a sweet flower out of this wilderness, and planting of it in the garden of paradise.
Thomas Brooks



67.  God and one believer make a majority in any problem or perplexity.
Dr. V. Raymond Edman


66.  God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.
J. Hudson Taylor



65.  God is working out his eternal purpose, not only in spite of human and satanic opposition, but by means of them.
A. W. Pink



64.  A strong man is one who fears God more than his weaknesses.
Kevin Bair


63.  Cheerful patience is a holy art and skill, which a man learns from God.
Thomas Manton



62.  I told myself that cookies burn fat, so I ate a whole box of Double Stuffed Oreo cookies!  I can't wait to tell myself that ice cream burns fat too!  What lies do you tell yourself?
Ernie


61.  I am an idiot, but I am not stupid.
Ernie


60.  The two greatest tactics are Patience and Preparation.
Ernie


59.  Patience is passion tamed.
Lyman Abbott



58.  The devil sometimes goes too far. He drives us straight into the Lord's arms.
Ruth Bell Graham



57.  Love is a choice we make--it is an act of our will as well as our heart.
John MacArthur



56.  You mind God's business and He will mind yours!
Keith Mendenhall


55.  The true measure of God's love is that He loves without measure.
Unknown



54.  Affection is the cement of a relationship.
Willard F. Harley, Jr.



53.  We have been too busy chopping wood to take time out to sharpen the ax.
Vance Havner



52.  Let Go and Let God.
Dewey "Rabbi" Cox


51.  You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies. 
Corrie ten Boom


50.  Whereas the charge leveled at the Victorians was "love without sex," today it is "sex without love."
David Watson


49.  
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

Robert Anderson


48.  Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
C. S. Lewis



47.  Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to his love, and the future to his providence.
Augustine



46.  There's no limit to what a man can achieve, if he doesn't care who gets the credit.
Laing Burns, Jr.



45.  Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be "buttered up" from time to time.
Zig Ziglar


44.  Failure has been identified as the line of least persistence.
Zig Ziglar



43.  If kindness or helpfulness is in any way forced, it becomes insincere...We must constantly examine our own lives to insure that proper actions are produced by proper motives.
James A. Borland



42.  Through repetition anyone can be taught to react to a stimulus, only the highly prepared trained professional can reproduce appropriate responses during stressful situations.  Ernie


41.  If my heart is right with God, every human being is my neighbor.
Oswald Chambers



40.  An empty gun is bad luck!?  Clint Smith


39.  The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.  John Steinbeck


38.  
The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.  -Cicero- 55 BC



37.  God gets me!  Corina spinazzola


36.  Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength.
D. L. Moody



35.  It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill


34.  The reason some people don't recognize opportunity is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.
Unknown


33.  Little is much when God is in it!  David Briggs


32.  It is in the way of truth that real peace is found.
C. H. Spurgeon



31.  God does not want to be number 1 on a list of ten.  He wants to be number 1 on a list of one!  Chuck Missler


30.  If the direct sense makes sense, seek no other sense or you have non-sense?  Chuck Missler


29.  We must never settle for harmony at the expense of holiness, nor for peace at the expense of principle.
John Bradford



28.  I am just trying to help keep honest men honest.  William Testa


27.  If this is "Your Best Life Now", then you are going to Hell!  John MacArthur


26.  Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
E. M. Bounds in Power through Prayer



25.  A lack of Bible study lead to "truth" decay.
Unknown



24.  He who disregards his calling will never keep the straight path in the duties of his work.
John Calvin



23.  Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.   Charles Swindoll


22.  What seemingly is unfair circumstances in your life, may be the foundation of your ministry.  Charles Swindoll


21.  If you are coasting in your faith, life, marriage, health, or job, then you're going downhill.  Ernie 


20.  If I have to be good enough to keep my salvation, then I'm in trouble.  Stacy Dyer 


19.  It is not necessary to blow out your neighbor's light to let your own shine.
M. R. de Haan



18.  
We are suppose to be the salt of the earth, a preservative, not sugar or some other artificial sweetener sugarcoating the truth!  Ernie



17.  The time is short, and we must not only work while it is day; we must bear fruit while it is the season for fruit.
A. J. Gordon



16.  O Father, let Thy watchful eye still look on us in love, that we may praise Thee year by year, with angel hosts above.
From the eighteenth-century hymn, "The Year is Gone, Beyond Recall." Francis Pott, lyrics



15.  A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.  Walter Winchell


14.  The world asks, "What does a man own?" Christ asks, "How does he use it?"
Andrew Murray



13.  That critical spirit of mine when expressed outward toward others is dangerous and can be very unhealthy however, when expressed inward to self examine and self evaluate can produce tremendous results.  Ernie


12.  Why is it that we must be spoon-fed on truth, which most of the time we no longer find palatable, while we gorge ourselves on the fast food of the media?  Ernie


11.  Show me someone who doesn't like training and I will show you an amateur at what ever they do!  Dr George J. Thompson


10.  God's greatest tool that he uses to get our attention, so we can get our focus straight is Tragedy.  Kevin Bair


9.  The depth of Jesus in your life or church is measured by the size of your benevolence.  Ernie


8.  Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy the type of misery I can live with!  Dewey "Rabbi" Cox


7.  I always keep a bag packed.  If Bonnie every tries to leave me I am going with her!  Noah Seabolt


6.  The same thinking that got you into trouble, cannot be the same thinking that gets you out of trouble.  You must grow beyond how you once thought, if you don't, you'll always be in trouble.  Jay Hart


5.  
Every time I said to my Dad; "What if..." he would say: If my Aunt was a man, she would be my Uncle!



4.  Dewey "Rabbi" Cox on Taxes: I have cheated on my taxes for years and now I feel so guilty I can't sleep, so I wrote out a check for $250.00 and mailed it in.  If I still can't sleep I'll write another one.


3.  I love all the people.  I love to see some arrive at church and I love to see some leaving.  Dewey "Rabbi" Cox


2.  Keep your head up, but don't stick your head up.  Clint Smith


1.  Dewey "Rabbi" Cox, after I told him I felt useless: Ernie, you are never totally useless; I can always use you as a bad example!