Archive for 'Quotes to Consider'
Cheap Grace - Costly Grace - Bonhoeffer
April 4th, 2010. Published under Quotes to Consider. No Comments.
Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves…grace without discipleship. Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again, the gift we must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock… It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life”. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil
April 2nd, 2010. Published under Quotes to Consider. No Comments.
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Faith in Christ - Not called to fight for it but to die for it
March 8th, 2010. Published under Quotes to Consider. No Comments.
“Our President is God’s chosen person to fulfill his will at this time in world history. When given the choice I will stand for conservatism, not liberalism. When given the choice I will follow freedom, not socialism or communism. As for my faith in Christ, I am not called to fight for it but to die for it.”
John Stoudenmire
Future happiness for Americans - Thomas Jefferson Quote
March 6th, 2010. Published under Quotes to Consider. No Comments.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
-Thomas Jefferson
Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers
March 5th, 2010. Published under Quotes to Consider. No Comments.
“Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation, to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” John Jay
If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies
March 5th, 2010. Published under Quotes to Consider. No Comments.
“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 Spurgeon
Voting is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God
March 3rd, 2010. Published under Quotes to Consider. No Comments.
“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual - or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.” Samuel Adams
Augustine on repentence and procrastination
March 3rd, 2010. Published under Quotes to Consider. No Comments.
“God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.” Augustine
Christian Church not a luxurious hostelry
March 3rd, 2010. Published under Quotes to Consider. No Comments.
“We ought to regard the Christian Church, not as a luxurious hostelry where Christian gentlemen may each one dwell at his ease in his own inn, but as a barracks in which soldiers are gathered together to be drilled and trained for war. We should regard the Christian Church, not as an association for mutual admiration and comfort, but as an army with banners, marching to the fray, to achieve victories for Christ, to storm the strongholds of the foe, and to add province after province to the Redeemer’s kingdom.” Charles H. Spurgeon
