Friday, July 15, 2016

Misc Quotes for Friday, July 15, 2016

"As men sow in this seed time they shall reap in that harvest." - Ralph Venning, The Sinfulness of Sin
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"Since arriving in Canada I've been accused of thought crimes, threatened with criminal prosecution for speeches I haven't yet given, and denounced on the floor of parliament (which was nice because that one was on my 'bucket list')." - Ann Coulter, Never Trust a Liberal Over 3 (Especially A Republican!)

"We believe in God in 3 persons, blessed Trinity. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. This is the essential truth. There is no gospel without it." - Dr. Martin Lloyd Jones (1899-1981)

"She did not have her own jet for 2 very good reasons: First, she was prudent with her money and didn't believe in such waste. Second, if she ever got sued she didn't want a jury to hear about a jet." - John Grisham

"Warning!...That is how Paul preached the gospel. It always started with a warning. Indeed, all gospel preaching starts like this. The first preacher in the New Testament was John, and he was a man with a warning. He looked at certain people who came to listen to him and said, 'Who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?' (Luke 3:7) 'Repent,' he says, ' and believe the gospel." - Dr. Martin Lloyd Jones (1899-1981)

"This night your soul may be taken from you and you may be in hell tomorrow." - Ralph Venning (1621-1673

"Stop and ask yourselves, 'What am I doing?' You will be dead long before this world will ever be put right. What therefore will happen to you?" - Dr. Martin Lloyd Jones (1899-1981)

"We all need more than God and a best friend. We need a group of supportive relationships. The reason is simple: having more than one person in our lives allows our friends to be human. To be busy. To be unavailable at times. To hurt and have problems of their own. To have time alone. Then, when one person can't be there for us, there's another number to call. Another person who may have something to offer. And we aren't enslaved to the schedule conflicts of one person. This is the beauty behind the Bible's teaching on the church, the body of Christ. We are all a group of lumpy, bumpy, unfinished sinners, who ask for help and give help, who ask again and give again." - Boundaries, by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend

"Whenever you run a clandestine operation, you run two things at the same time: you prepare the team for the hit, and you keep it so small there's nobody to spread it all around. And across the hall is a big staff working on what we call special plans. They're preparing the cover story. The cover story is what they want people to believe and to talk about, and to argue about." - From a 1992 speech by Col. Fletcher Prouty, former chief of special operations, Joint Chief of Staff (as quoted in Deep Truth: The Lives of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein)



How I Found Christ?

 How I Found Christ? by Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)