The highest honor in the church is not government but service.
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The highest honor in the church is not government but service.
He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.
To Christ we are to be always coming; upon Him always relying; to His precious blood always looking.
Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
He is truly great who is little in his own eyes and makes nothing of the highest
He (Jesus) became what we are that He might make us what He is.
Gratitude develops faith. The surest path out of a slump is marked by the road sign "thank you, God."
The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.
If you have no joy in your religion, there's a leak in your Christianity somewhere.
I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found that I would have to go against the current.
Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. They mourned for Him, they prayed and wrestled and sought for Him day and night, in season and out, and when they found Him, the finding was all the sweeter for the long seeking.
Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.
True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.
Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.
If America is to survive, we must elect more God-centered men and women to public office; individuals who will seek Divine guidance in the affairs of state.
I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou canst eat it all thyself.
He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness.
It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.
Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control.
Only those who see themselves as utterly destitute can fully appreciate the grace of God.
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