Someone Once Said …

• How does the branch bear fruit? Not by incessant effort for sunshine and air; not by vain struggles.… It simply abides in the vine, in silent and undisturbed union, and blossoms and fruit appear as of spont...

Someone Once Said …

• How does the branch bear fruit? Not by incessant effort for sunshine and air; not by vain struggles.… It simply abides in the vine, in silent and undisturbed union, and blossoms and fruit appear as of spont...

Someone Once Said …

• Unrestricted abortion is wrong, even if it's a right.
• It has come to the time where the most dangerous place to be in America is not the inner city, where gangs threaten innocent lives, or in an...

Someone Once Said …

• If you drink before you drive, you are putting the quart before the hearse.

Modern Society

Because we live in a very addict-prone culture, we must be more careful about our persona...

Someone Once Said …

• If you drink before you drive, you are putting the quart before the hearse.

Modern Society

Because we live in a very addict-prone culture, we must be more careful about our persona...

Someone Once Said …

• It's attitude, not arteries, that determines the vitality of our maturing years.—J. Oswald Sanders
• The cure for age is interest and enthusiasm and work. Life's evening will take its charac...

Someone Once Said …

• If you drink before you drive, you are putting the quart before the hearse.

Modern Society

Because we live in a very addict-prone culture, we must be more careful about our persona...

Someone Once Said …

• From the desire of being great, good Lord deliver us!—A Moravian Prayer
• I was never of any use until I found out that God did not intend to make me to be a great man.
• Do...

Someone Once Said …

• From the desire of being great, good Lord deliver us!—A Moravian Prayer
• I was never of any use until I found out that God did not intend to make me to be a great man.
• Do...

Someone Once Said …

• I do not know how to explain it; I can not tell how it is, but I believe angels have a great deal to do with the business of this world.—Charles H. Spurgeon
• The angels are near to us.

Someone Once Said …

• He that would be angry and not sin, must be angry at nothing but sin.—Rev. William Secker, seventeenth century British minister
• Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with ...

Someone Once Said …

• A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.—Francis Bacon
• I think only an idiot can be an atheist.—Profe...

Someone Once Said …

• Let us not hold aloof from our church meetings, as some do.—Hebrews 10:25 (Phillips)
• There is something wrong with our Chr...

Someone Once Said …

• The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.—William James
• Think of it this way: Your total environment is a refl...

Someone Once Said …

• No one is so empty as the man who has stopped walking with God and doesn't know it.—Jerry White
• Backsliding starts in such a subtle way that most of us are not aware of it, and many of us ...

Someone Once Said …

• [Baptism] signifies that the old Adam in us is to be drowned by daily sorrow and repentance, and perish with all sins and evil lusts, and that the new man should daily come forth again and rise, who shall...

Someone Once Said …

• The gods we worship write their names on our faces.—Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Oftentimes under silken apparel, there is a threadbare soul.—Thomas Watson
• Wash your face e...

Someone Once Said …

• The gods we worship write their names on our faces.—Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Oftentimes under silken apparel, there is a threadbare soul.—Thomas Watson
• Wash your face e...

Captured by the Word

Origen of Alexandria wrote, “As in the case of the fishes that fall into the net, some are found in one part of the net and some in another part, and each at the part at which it was caught, so in the case of those who...

Someone Once Said …

• There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write “damnation” with your fingers.—Charles Haddon Spurgeon
• If all the neglected Bibles were dusted simultaneously, we would hav...

Captured by the Word

Origen of Alexandria wrote, “As in the case of the fishes that fall into the net, some are found in one part of the net and some in another part, and each at the part at which it was caught, so in the case of those who...

Someone Once Said …

• Like Joseph storing up grain during the years of plenty to be used during the years of famine that lay ahead, may we store up the truths of God's Word in our hearts as much as possible, so that we are prepared for...

Someone Once Said …

• He that carries [bitterness] to bed with him will find the devil creep between the sheets.—Rev. William Secker
• Wouldn't our enemies rub their hands with glee if they knew...

Someone Once Said …

• The Lord Jesus spreads a large table every day.—Rev. William Secker
• The goodness of God is the drive behind all the blessings He daily bestows upon us.—A. W. Tozer

Someone Once Said …

• The Bible is a book of blood … wholly distinct from all other books for just one reason, namely, that it contains blood circulating through every page and in every verse. From Genesis to Revelation we see t...

Someone Once Said …

• The Bible is a book of blood … wholly distinct from all other books for just one reason, namely, that it contains blood circulating through every page and in every verse. From Genesis to Revelation we see t...

Someone Once Said …

• Boredom is the vital problem of the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.—Bertrand Russell
• The best cure of boredom is finding what you enjoy doin...

Someone Once Said …

• I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls for Christ. While I was asleep, I dreamed of these things, and when I awoke, the first thing I thought of was this...

Someone Once Said …

• I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls for Christ. While I was asleep, I dreamed of these things, and when I awoke, the first thing I thought of was this...

Someone Once Said …

• No generation in two thousand years of Church history has produced the task force necessary to reach the world. Is this because God has not called adequate numbers? Or is it because someone is not listening? The t...

Someone Once Said …

• With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack?—A. W. Tozer
• This is the victory that overcomes th...

Someone Once Said …

• One generation cannot do without the others.… The older generation is our link with the past, the younger generation is our link with the future, and we need both.—John Maxwell
• If y...

Someone Once Said …

• One generation cannot do without the others.… The older generation is our link with the past, the younger generation is our link with the future, and we need both.—John Maxwell
• If y...

Someone Once Said …

• God never changes moods or cools off in His affections or loses enthusiasm. His attitude toward sin is now the same as it was when He drove out the sinful man from the eastward garden, and His attitude toward the ...

Someone Once Said …

• It is my firm belief that approximately eighty-five percent of one's adult personality is formed by the time he is six years old. Those first six years, therefore, are obviously the most crucial.

Someone Once Said …

• It is my firm belief that approximately eighty-five percent of one's adult personality is formed by the time he is six years old. Those first six years, therefore, are obviously the most crucial.

Someone Once Said …

• How does the branch bear fruit? Not by incessant effort for sunshine and air; not by vain struggles.… It simply abides in the vine, in silent and undisturbed union, and blossoms and fruit appear as of spont...

Someone Once Said …

• Even in the best of health we should have death always before our eyes. We will not expect to remain on this earth forever, but will have one foot in the air, so to speak.—Martin Luther
• Wh...

Someone Once Said …

• Everything in the universe is good to the degree it conforms to the nature of God and evil as it fails to do so.—A. W. Tozer
• I would suggest, first, that all of you Christians … beg...

Someone Once Said …

• The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.—J. I. Packer
• The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem...

Someone Once Said …

• We leave comfortable homes to ride in comfortable cars to sit in comfortable churches to hear comfortable sermons. What do we know about the reproach of Christ?—Vance Havner
• Too many churc...

Someone Once Said …

• Let us not hold aloof from our church meetings, as some do.—Hebrews 10:25 (Phillips)
• There is something wrong with our Chr...

Someone Once Said …

• In the primitive times, there was so much love among the godly as set the heathen a-wondering, and now there is so little, as may set Christians a-blushing.—Thomas Watson
• If Christ is amon...

Someone Once Said …

• One generation cannot do without the others.… The older generation is our link with the past, the younger generation is our link with the future, and we need both.—John Maxwell
• If y...

Someone Once Said …

• Therefore ought a man to rest wholly upon God, so that he needeth not seek much comfort at the hands of men.—Thomas à Kempis
• Jesus went without comfort so that he could send us the Co...

Someone Once Said …

• Has not our Lord Jesus carried up our flesh into heaven and shall He not return? We know that He shall return.—John Knox
• The Spirit in the heart of the true believer says with earnest desi...

Someone Once Said …

• The world is nothing but a reversed Decalogue, or the Ten Commandments backwards.—Martin Luther, in Table Talk
• One rabbi who survived the [death] camp summed it ...

Someone Once Said …

• The Lord would rather have one person who is 100 percent committed to him than one hundred people who are only 75 percent committed.—Anonymous
• If I had three hundred men who feared nothing...

Someone Once Said …

• If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This principle ...

Someone Once Said …

• If we could only read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Antidot...

Someone Once Said …

• Unconfessed sin is unforgiven sin, and unforgiven sin is the darkest, foulest thing on this sin-cursed earth.—D. L. Moody
• A child of God will confess sin in particular; an unsound Christia...

Someone Once Said …

• Unconfessed sin is unforgiven sin, and unforgiven sin is the darkest, foulest thing on this sin-cursed earth.—D. L. Moody
• A child of God will confess sin in particular; an unsound Christia...

Someone Once Said …

• My conscience is captive to the Word of God. I will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither honest nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other. God help me. Amen.—Martin Luther, befor...

Someone Once Said …

• Discontent keeps a man from enjoying what he doth possess. A drop or two of vinegar will sour a whole glass of wine.—Thomas Watson
• A little sprig of the herb called content put into the po...

Someone Once Said …

• The ark was a great ark, which held all kinds of creatures; and our Christ is a great Refuge, who saves all kinds of sinners.—Charles Spurgeon

Saved by Smoking the Bible

Jaco...

Someone Once Said …

• The ark was a great ark, which held all kinds of creatures; and our Christ is a great Refuge, who saves all kinds of sinners.—Charles Spurgeon

Saved by Smoking the Bible

Jaco...

Someone Once Said …

• The gods we worship write their names on our faces.—Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Oftentimes under silken apparel, there is a threadbare soul.—Thomas Watson
• Wash your face e...

Someone Once Said …

• I am immortal until my work is done.—John Wesley
• You can expect from me everything save fear or recantation. I shall not flee, much less recant. I will go to Worms if there were as many de...

Someone Once Said …

• The heavens declare the glory of God.—David, King of Israel
• The universe is not a chaos but a cosmos.
• This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could on...

Someone Once Said …

• Fault-finding is dreadfully catching: one dog will set a whole kennel howling.—Charles Spurgeon
• When you throw mud at someone, you're the one who is losing ground.—Anonymous

Someone Once Said …

• Only one act of pure love, unsullied by any taint of ulterior motive, has ever been performed in the history of the world, namely the self-giving of God in Christ on the cross for undeserving sinners.—J...

Someone Once Said …

• Only one act of pure love, unsullied by any taint of ulterior motive, has ever been performed in the history of the world, namely the self-giving of God in Christ on the cross for undeserving sinners.—J...

Someone Once Said …

• Maintain at all costs a daily time of Scripture reading and prayer. As I look back, I see that the most formative influence in my life and thought has been my daily contact with Scripture over sixty years.&md...

Someone Once Said …

• Maintain at all costs a daily time of Scripture reading and prayer. As I look back, I see that the most formative influence in my life and thought has been my daily contact with Scripture over sixty years.&md...

Someone Once Said

• A.D.—The Year of our Lord
• You crown the year with Your goodness.—Psalm 65.1
• On the thirty-second day of the thirteenth month / on the eighth day of the week we will find th...

Someone Once Said …

• Why do we have to die? As a kid you get nice little white shoes with white laces and a velvet suit with short pants and a nice collar and you go to college, you meet a nice girl and get married, work a few years a...

Someone Once Said …

• Even in the best of health we should have death always before our eyes. We will not expect to remain on this earth forever, but will have one foot in the air, so to speak.—Martin Luther
• Wh...

Someone Once Said …

• I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.—2 Samuel 12:23
• Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in hea...

Someone Once Said …

• Millions of unseen creatures walk the earth unseen both when we wake and when we sleep.—John Milton, in Paradise Lost
• And though this world with devils filled should threaten to u...

Someone Once Said …

• Today in the United States alone, there are almost 2,000 denominations and associations representing 385,000 churches.—Bruce Shelley
• A true denomination does not … make exclusive cl...

Someone Once Said …

• Depression affects more people in our culture than any other emotional disorder.—Armand Mayo Nicholi II
• Americans, on average, may be more depressed, and at a younger age, than they have e...

Someone Once Said …

• From the desire of being great, good Lord deliver us!—A Moravian Prayer
• I was never of any use until I found out that God did not intend to make me to be a great man.
• Do...

Someone Once Said …

• We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and the emptiness; sometimes a voice answers out of the darkness. But it is the voice of one drowning; and in a moment the silence returns.—Bertran...

Someone Once Said …

• God cares about details. If you comb out some hairs in the morning, the record in Heaven is changed.—John R. Rice
• Once you start ignoring [details], you won't be ready on...

Someone Once Said …

• Maintain at all costs a daily time of Scripture reading and prayer. As I look back, I see that the most formative influence in my life and thought has been my daily contact with Scripture over sixty years.&md...

Someone Once Said …

• Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.—Samuel Johnson
• We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.—Helen Keller
• By per...

Someone Once Said …

• Disappointments: His Appointments.
• Disappointment: God's way of dimming the glamour of the world and deepening our ability to enjoy Him (

Someone Once Said …

• The word “disciple” occurs 269 times in the New Testament. “Christian” is found three times, and was first introduced to refer precisely to the disciples.—Dallas Willard

Someone Once Said …

• The word “disciple” occurs 269 times in the New Testament. “Christian” is found three times, and was first introduced to refer precisely to the disciples.—Dallas Willard

Someone Once Said …

• All discouragement is of the devil. Discouragement is to be resisted just like sin. To give way to the one is just as bad and weakens us as much as to give way to the other.—J. O. Fraser, missionary to ...

Someone Once Said …

• Discouragement is the occupational hazard of the Christian ministry.—John Stott
• Could we but see the smallest fruit, we could rejoice midst the privation and toils which we bear, but, as i...

Someone Once Said …

• There are no winners when a marriage begins to unravel.—James Dobson
• In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grou...

Somebody Once Said …

• Great saints have always been dogmatic.—A. W. Tozer
• There can be no spiritual health without doctrinal knowledge.—J. I. Packer
• We cannot have the benefits of Chri...

Somebody Once Said …

• Great saints have always been dogmatic.—A. W. Tozer
• There can be no spiritual health without doctrinal knowledge.—J. I. Packer
• We cannot have the benefits of Chri...

Someone Once Said …

• Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.—Anonymous
• Every other crime touches God's territory, but unbelief aims a blow at his divinity, impeaches his veracity, denies his goodness, blas...

Someone Once Said …

• When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the captain of the ship sought to turn him back. “You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among suc...

Someone Once Said …

• When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the captain of the ship sought to turn him back. “You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among suc...

Someone Once Said …

• The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the crowning proof of Christianity. If the resurrection did not take place, then Christianity is a false religion. If it did take place, then Christ is God ...

Captured by the Word

Origen of Alexandria wrote, “As in the case of the fishes that fall into the net, some are found in one part of the net and some in another part, and each at the part at which it was caught, so in the case of those who...

Someone Once Said …

• Know all and you will pardon all.—Thomas à Kempis
• If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from his angle a...

Someone Once Said …

• I'm shocked by the hole in America's heart.—Norman Lear, television producer
• Everybody basically has an empty hole inside of them that they try to fill with money, drugs, alcohol, power&md...

Someone Once Said …

• For every critical comment we receive, it takes nine affirming comments to even out the negative effect in our life.—Jim Burns
• Many of our daily conversations are actually mutual counselin...

Someone Once Said …

• To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution, but to do good for evil is Christian perfection.—Rev. William Secker
• Kindness is the ability to treat you...

Someone Once Said …

• To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution, but to do good for evil is Christian perfection.—Rev. William Secker
• Kindness is the ability to treat you...

Someone Once Said …

• Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes.—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• When you're discouraged, it is remarkable how you can change your mood if you act e...

Someone Once Said …

• Envy is rebellion against God's leading in the lives of his children. It's saying that God has no right to bless someone else more than you.—Erwin Lutzer
• [Envy is] one of the most...

Someone Once Said …

• Envy is rebellion against God's leading in the lives of his children. It's saying that God has no right to bless someone else more than you.—Erwin Lutzer
• [Envy is] one of the most...

Someone Once Said …

• We do not have a secret to be hidden but a story to be heralded.—Vance Havner
• Evangelism is one beggar telling another beggar where he found bread.—D. T. Niles
• God...

Someone Once Said …

• We unconsciously imitate what pleases us and approximate to the characters we most admire.—Christian Nestell Bovee (1820–1904), U.S. author and lawyer
• I talk and talk and talk, and I...

Someone Once Said …

• Success is never final; failure is never fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.—Winston Churchill
• I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a b...

Someone Once Said …

• Faith is like muscle which grows stronger and stronger with use, rather than rubber, which weakens when it is stretched.—J. O. Fraser, missionary to China
• Faith is the Samsonian lock of th...

Someone Once Said …

• Faithfulness to principle is only proved by faithfulness in detail.—Frances Ridley Havergal
• My dear Senator, I am not called to be successful, but faithful.—Mother Teresa, to Se...

Someone Once Said …

• Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.—Michael Pritchard
• Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.—Aristotle
• To him who is in fear, ...

Someone Once Said …

• When you fear God, you have nothing else to fear.—Anonymous
• He feared man so little, because he feared God so much.—inscription to Lord Lawrence in Westminster Abbey

Someone Once Said …

• I would rather be chained in a dungeon, wrist to wrist with a Christian, than to live forever with the wicked in the sunshine of happiness.—Charles Haddon Spurgeon
• He who would be good mus...

Someone Once Said …

• One who extremely exaggerates in his opinion of your qualities, so that it may come nearer to your opinion of them.—Oscar Wilde, when asked his definition of a flatterer
• Flattery is like c...

Someone Once Said …

• It is indeed amazing that in as fundamentally irreligious a culture as ours, the sense of guilt should be so widespread and deeply-rooted as it is.—Erich Fromm, psychologist
• When I bring m...

Someone Once Said …

• There is no forgiveness from God unless you freely forgive your brother from your heart. And I wonder if we have been too narrow in thinking that “brother” only applies to someone else. What if YOU are...

Someone Once Said …

• There is no forgiveness from God unless you freely forgive your brother from your heart. And I wonder if we have been too narrow in thinking that “brother” only applies to someone else. What if YOU are...

Someone Once Said …

• Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.—C. S. Lewis
• A Christian will find it cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of an...

Someone Once Said …

• I would rather be chained in a dungeon, wrist to wrist with a Christian, than to live forever with the wicked in the sunshine of happiness.—Charles Haddon Spurgeon
• He who would be good mus...

Someone Once Said …

• I would rather be chained in a dungeon, wrist to wrist with a Christian, than to live forever with the wicked in the sunshine of happiness.—Charles Haddon Spurgeon
• He who would be good mus...