Category: Odds & Ends

“We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then our world will know the blessings of peace.” — William E. Gladstone

“Willpower does not change men. Time does not change men. Christ does.” – Henry Drummond

“Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.” — C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis speaking for Jesus:

I don’t want so much of your time, so much of your money, so much of your work: I want you. . . . Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked — the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. I will give you myself.

“Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your independence.” – Oswald Chambers

“There comes a moment when we all must realize that life is short, and in the end the only thing that really counts is not how others see us, but how God sees us.” — Billy Graham

“When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.” — Charles Spurgeon

“Let no man turn aside, even so slightly, from the broad path of honor, on the plausible pretense that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means. Those that cannot, are bad; and may be counted so at once, and left alone.” — Charles Dickens

“There is only one relationship that matters, and that is your personal relationship to a personal redeemer and Lord. Let everything else go, but maintain that at all costs, and God will fulfill his purpose through your life. One individual life may be of priceless value to God’s purpose, and yours may be that life.” – Oswald Chambers

“Come, and see the victories of the cross. Christ’s wounds are your healings, his agonies your repose, his conflicts your conquests, his groans your songs, his pains your ease, his shame your glory, his death your life, his sufferings your salvation.” – Matthew Henry