Belief...Unbelief?

"The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything." ~ A.W. Tozer

The Purpose of Life...

"The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and to share. When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought to other people's lives than you will from the times you outdid and defeated them. 

~ Rabbi Harold Jushner

The Choice Is Yours

"We are forced to make a choice at many points in our spiritual maturity. My prayer is we will yearn for more of the knowledge of God before we make those choices." ~ A. W. Tozer

Debtors to All Men

"We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of men. We've been "living in Laodicea", lax, loose, lustful, and lazy. Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living." ~ Leonard Ravenhill

Submit...

"The reader may admire the rich imagery of the Bible, its bold figures and impassioned flights of eloquence. He may enjoy its tender musical passages, and revel in its strong honesty and wisdom; but until he has submitted to its full authority over his life, he has secured no good from it." ~ A. W. Tozer

Easter Isn't...

Let’s get it straight that Easter is not just the remembrance of something that happened in the past. It is the good news that the risen Savior is alive and is on the road ahead of us. We will not find him in the tomb of our broken dreams and shattered expectations, in the graveyard of defeats and failures, embalmed in some experience in the past. We will find him out ahead of us on the road that leads to a radically new tomorrow. ~ Jim Harnish

He Still Loves Us

“God, who went to the cross for us, who’s seen us at our worst and still loves us, invites us to give Him our worries.” ~ Randy Alcorn

Easy Decisions

"Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world." ~ Coetzer

Odd Moments

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us.” ~ Umberto Eco

Live Well

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Commitment

"The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issue from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would come his way." ~ William H. Murray

In a Place...

"I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do... where God is indispensable to me." ~ A.W. Tozer

Do's and Don'ts

“Anytime we talk more about dos and don’ts than about Jesus something’s wrong.” 

~ Randy Alcorn

Change Your Heart

Beautiful and Believable

Lord Jesus, you are so kind, compassionate, and forgiving of me. I want the fragrant aroma of the sacrifice you made for me on the cross to permeate all my relationships today. You’re not calling me to change or fix anybody; instead, you’re calling me to live as a broken perfume bottle, through which the aroma of grace will bring your disruptive and gentling presence wherever I am. So let me live today more out of my brokenness than out of my desire for competence and efficiency. May the way I treat people today make the gospel of grace more beautiful and believable. 

~ Scotty Smith

Man is Lost

" Man is lost morally and spiritually. He cannot answer the questions life presents to his intellect because the light of God has gone out of his soul. Apart from Christ we have no true knowledge of God, apart from the in-living Spirit we have no ability to live lives morally pleasing to God. " A. W. Tozer

Progress...

“We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.” 

~ C. S. Lewis

Why We Prosper

"God does not prosper a man's business so that he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that 17,000 unreached people can be reached with the gospel." ~ John Piper

Radical

“I used to say ‘he needs a radical conversion.’ Now I say, ‘a true conversion is radical.'” ~ Linda Samson

Requirement of God's Law

“…even acts of civic kindness done by an unbeliever fail to meet the requirement of God’s law—namely, that all our actions must be done with a view to glorifying God.” ~ Derek Thomas

Moral Separation

"Christians refuse to acknowledge the sharp moral separation that God Himself has set between the church and this present world. The differences can never be reconciled or negotiated. God never promised His people that they would become a popular majority in this world. When we stand up for Jesus, it means that there are some things that we will be against!" ~ A. W. Tozer

Volunteers...

"Volunteers don't necessarily have the time, they have the heart." ~ Elizabeth Andrew

Express Gratitude

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." ~ William Arthur Ward

Together...

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." 

~ Helen Keller

Intimate with God

"A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men." ~ Leonard Ravenhill

Unity...

“Preaching on unity doesn’t unify a church. Preaching Jesus unifies a church.” ~ Steve Dighton

People Fall...

“People fall in private, long before they fall in public.” 
~ J.C. Ryle

Communicate Clearly

"In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand. Communicate clearly. Communicate Simply. ~ John C. Maxwell 

His Grace

“We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God – which is another way of saying that all our seeking will fall short unless God starts and finishes the search. The decisive part of our seeking is not our human ascent to God, but His descent to us. Without God’s descent there is no human ascent. The secret of the quest lies not in our brilliance but in His grace.” ~ Os Guinness (Long Journey Home)

Man's Laws...

"Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral." ~ D. L. Moody

All the Answers

"Men and women who think they have all the answers about this life and the next have been saying brave words for generations. They are big, challenging words, but they come from empty hearts and minds. These individuals are to blind to recognize or acknowledge that God does have a divine plan in which mankind is never permitted to utter the first word or the last." ~ A. W. Tozer

In the Face of Evil

"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

Sharp Moral Separation

"Christians refuse to acknowledge the sharp moral separation that God Himself has set between the church and this present world. The differences can never be reconciled or negotiated. God never promised His people that they would become a popular majority in this world. When we stand up for Jesus, it means that there are some things that we will be against!" ~ A. W. Tozer

An Interest in Revival

"Many people express an interest in revival. There are not so many people deeply concerned about it, and fewer still burdened for it, still fewer heartbroken for it." 

~ Leonard Ravenhill

Find Your Passion

"People can succeed at almost anything for which they have enthusiasm." ~ Charles Schwab

Ordinary People

Ordinary people with commitment can make an extraordinary impact on their world. ~ John C. Maxwell

Rich Imagery of the Bible

"The reader may admire the rich imagery of the Bible, its bold figures and impassioned flights of eloquence. He may enjoy its tender musical passages, and revel in its strong honesty and wisdom; but until he has submitted to its full authority over his life, he has secured no good from it." ~ A. W. Tozer

Biggest Obstacle to Evangelism

“At the end of the day, the biggest obstacle to evangelism is Christians who don’t share the gospel.” ~ Albert Mohler

Confess and Profess

“If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely the little point which the world and the devil are at the moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at any point.” ~ Martin Luther

A Disciple Is...

Truth

"A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority." 

~ A. W. Tozer