Current Quote
Charles Spurgeon said:
"Discernment is not a matter of simply telling the difference between what is right and wrong,
rather, it is the difference between right and almost right."
WORKER, MALCOLM GRAHAM QUOTE
San Diego Convention in 1962
"Curiosity has brought lots of suffering. Some people are more concerned about satisfying their curiosity than in building up their spirituality. Sometimes, when we go into homes, we find people who are anxious to know more about the truth of God, and they ask questions to build them up.
There are others who ask questions that have no bearing on their spirituality. God knows the motives that prompt us to do everything we do, and there are no secrets with HIM."
A comment about Malcolm Graham: "It was my observation that Malcolm did not tolerate from people, any questions which he did not care to answer.
I heard a woman once ask him, "Malcolm, why is it that whenever I ask you a question, you always answer with a question?"
Malcolm replied, "Do I?"
"The more you reaffirm who you are in Christ, the more your behavior will begin to reflect your true identity!"
(From "Victory Over the Darkness", by Dr. Neil Anderson)
Below are the collective quotes that have been used in
"The Cork Board."
"If God is your Co-pilot - swap seats!"
“The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force” ~~Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(Each Current Quote will be added to the bottom of this page when a new quote replaces it).
Think About It:
"Lord…where we are wrong, make us willing to change, and where we are right, make us easy to live with."
– Peter Marshall
We were called to be witnesses, not lawyers or judges.
Be ye fishers of men. You catch them - He'll clean them.
God Himself does not propose to judge a man until he is dead. So why should you?
Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.
God grades on the cross, not the curve.
God loves everyone, but probably prefers 'fruits of the spirit' over 'religious nuts!'
God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.
The man who keeps busy helping the man below him, won't have time to envy the man above him.
God's way is an invitation, 'NOT' imprisonment!!
Some may proclaim good things that are being done in their religious group, but this good does not dismiss or excuse anything bad. It is wrong- and dangerous- to ignore abuses simply because good may also be found.
Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your door forever.
Yesterday is History - Tomorrow is a Mystery - Today is a Gift - That's Why It's Called, "The Present."
Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up!!
"This world is only a bridge. Cross over it, but do not build your house on it!"
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
"If you plan to build a tall house of virtues, you must first lay deep foundations of humility"
Hypocrisy, The Lie, is the True Sister of Evil,
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. ~Raymond Hull
Man's way leads to a hopeless end! -- God's way leads to an endless hope.
In the sentence of life, the devil may be a comma--but never let him be the period.
The Measure of a Truly Great Man Is The Courtesy With Which He Treats Lesser Men!!!
Lincoln’s words on the Bible:
In regard to this great book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to men. All the good Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are to be found portrayed in it. —Abraham Lincoln
"Many horrible things have been done in the name of Religion.
- Religion is not the answer.
- Religion cannot save you.
I'm here to talk about the peace that comes from having a relationship with God's Son, Jesus Christ." - - Franklin Graham
A good man is not a perfect man; a good man is an honest man, faithful, and unhesitatingly responsive to the voice of God in his life. - - John Fischer
"I must speak the truth when keeping silent protects a lie and aids in deceit.
If I do not, then I too, have joined the conspiracy."
The devil is a cruel enemy. He has one thing in mind....our defeat and he does not care how we are trapped. Many things with an exterior of 'goodness' and 'usefulness' can appeal to a person who has been hurt and wants to find a niche of 'acceptance' and feeling 'safe' ….never realizing that some of these 'safe appearing places' is a box with no doors nor 'door handles' on the inside.... By Sharon Hargreaves
‘Will you walk into my parlor?’ said a spider to a fly; ‘Tis the prettiest little parlor that you ever did spy’”
(Mary Howitt).
If knowledge is power, Clandestine knowledge is power squared, It can be withheld, exchanged, & leveraged.
When you see people in a religious system being secretive - - - - -Watch Out! People don't hide what is appropriate,......................They hide what is inappropriate!
"...the superior power of one person is consciously or unconsciously misused to influence profoundly and draw into his spell, another individual or a whole community." - - - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If we make the claim of being born again, we should keep it in mind that our lifestyle is a tattletale. Ron Graham
"An idol is worshipped every time we humans rely on mere mortals for things that God alone can provide through His providence, and sustaining grace."
We must look at the Word of God as the plumb line by which everything measured. A lie is nothing but a lie against the TRUTH!!!
“There will be false teachers among you.” false teachers can be very effective communicators, they can have a personal magnetism. They use smooth and flattering speech to bring you into their bondage, They present their teaching cleverly, very smoothly.
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes HABITUAL. (Thomas Jefferson)
Any 'religion' which does not worship Christ cannot be called Christian. Christianity worships Christ as God Incarnate: God in the flesh. What the workers have done is create a new form of the Jewish religion with Jesus as a priest, and themselves as his priesthood. No wonder they use the word professing instead of Christian. ~Kathy Lewis
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
~André Gide
When the veil was torn in half on the HOLIES OF HOLIES, Jesus invited each of us straight into the heart of God.
Do not repair the torn veil!!
God's own righteousness is the ground of authentic morality and His revelation of what is right and what is wrong (as Paul reminds us, in nature, in conscience, in the law, in the Scripture, and in Christ) is our only sure guide ~~Albert Mohler
The best mathematical equation I have ever seen: 1 cross + 3 nails = 4-given.
Many folks want to serve God, but only as advisers.
“It is not what I do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through me. God doesn’t want worldly successes. He wants me. He wants my heart in submission to Him. Life is not just a few years to spend on self-indulgence and career advancement. It’s a privilege, a responsibility, a stewardship to be lived according to a much higher calling - God’s calling. This alone gives true meaning to life. ~Elizabeth Dole - 1987
Today’s thoughts are tomorrow’s actions.
Today’s jealousy is tomorrow’s temper tantrum.
Today’s bigotry is tomorrow’s hate crime.
Today’s anger is tomorrow’s abuse.
Today’s lust is tomorrow’s adultery.
Today’s greed is tomorrow’s embezzlement.
Today’s guilt is tomorrow’s fear.
Take Every Thought Captive
By Max Lucado
Live TRUTH instead of PROFESSING it.
~Elbert Hubbard
People who lose sight of their own sin, become obsessed with the sins of others. ~ ~ ~Beth Moore
“Listening to things that are not true is the first step toward ultimate bondage and death. …There are no harmless lies.
We cannot expose ourselves to the word’s false, deceptive way of thinking and come out unscathed. Eve’s first mistake was not eating the fruit; her first mistake was listening to the Serpent.”—Nancy Leigh DeMoss
"The good life - the one that truly satisfies - exists only when we stop wanting a better one. It is the condition of savoring what is rather than longing for what might be. Satisfaction comes when we step off the escalator of desire & say, "This is enough. What I have will do. What I make of it is up to me and my vital union with the living Lord." ~~Chuck Swindoll
"He who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors." ~~Thomas Jefferson
"Of all the devils in the world, I hate a roaring devil LEAST, but a FLATTERING devil is the worst devil that ever a man meets. Beware of the Judas kiss with which the Christ was betrayed and with which you will be betrayed unless you are well upon your guard." ~~1887 Charles Spurgeon
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. ~C. S. Lewis
Objection is sometimes made to the doctrine of total depravity. If men turn away from God in anger, I can understand it. If men turn aside form God in justice, I can understand it. But when they so hate God that they will not even have his salvation, when they refuse pardon through the precious blood of Christ, when they will sooner be damned than reconciled to God, this shows that their heart is desperately wicked. The cross rejected is the clearest proof of the heart depraved. C.H. Spurgeon
"'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the world." William Booth"If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned and unprayed for." Charles SpurgeonI am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God." A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic --on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg -- or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. – C.S. Lewis - - Mere Christianity, Pages 40-41.
We are all in process of becoming. We have already moved from what we were to WHAT we are, and we are now moving toward WHAT we shall be. The perturbing thought is not that we are becoming, but WHAT we are becoming; not that we are moving, but TOWARD WHAT we are moving. Not only are we all in process of becoming; WE ARE BECOMING WHAT WE LOVE. We are to a large degree the sum of our loves and we will of moral necessity grow into the image of WHAT we love most.Our loves changes, molds and transforms us. A.W.Tozer
If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you EVER acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions. ~Author Unknown
Gratitude Quotes:
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.~ ~Anne Bradstreet
"Whatever does not have eternity for its goal is nothing but vanity." ~ ~Frances De Sales
"In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich." ~ ~Deitrich Bonhoeffer
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others" ~ ~Cicero
