Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

You will grow by meditating on the Word of God . . . until it becomes a part of your life.

J. Vernon McGee

I . . . strongly object to the tyrannic and unscriptural insolence of anything that calls itself a Church and makes teetotalism a condition of membership. Apart from the more serious objection (that our Lord himself turned water into wine and made wine the medium of the only rite He imposed on all His followers), . . . Don't they realize that Christianity arose in the Mediterranean world where, then as now, wine was as much part of the normal diet as bread?

C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) in Letters of C. S. Lewis "16 March 1955"

Adversity is God's tool to promote growth among His children. To resist this principle is to resist all that God wants to do in your life; it is to say no to spiritual growth.

Charles Stanley

The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.

G. K. Chesterton

It took me a while to understand that the answer to problems was not marketing or program but rather spirituality. If we needed to reach youth, we wouldn't do a pizza feed and a game night, we would get together and pray and fast and ask God what to do. God led some guys to start a homeless teen outreach downtown, and now they feed about one hundred homeless teenagers every week. It is the nuttiest youth group you will ever see, but that is what God said to do. I love that sort of thing because rather than the church serving itself, the church is serving the lost and lonely. It gives me chills when I think about it because it is that beautiful of a thing.

Don Miller

As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded byDecember's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people inour lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worththe same.

Donald E. Westlake

I've learned to hold everything loosely because it hurts when God pries my fingers from it.

Corrie Ten Boom

Jesus taught profound truths in simple ways. Today, we do the opposite. We teach simple truths in profound ways.

Rick Warren

The Lord is our God. He does not bow to our hurried pace, but in silence He waits for us to meet His demands. And once we slow down enough to meet Him, He is pleased to add incredible spiritual depth to our shallow lives.

Charles Swindoll

When your memories are more exciting than your dreams, you've begun to die.

Howard Hendricks

Most of us spend the first six days of the week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

Fred Allen

What could God accomplish through you if He had your undivided attention and loyalty?

Charles Stanley

When I study the Bible, I prepare myself to talk to others. When I read the Bible, God talks to me.

D. L. Moody

If we can get believers to butcher some of their sacred cows, there is no limit to the possibilities for significant change.

Howard G. Hendricks

The central Christian belief is that Christ’s death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.

C. S. Lewis

If churches were places where people felt they could come, warts and all, and be accepted just as they are, we probably wouldn’t have so many wayward saints.

Guy Doud

Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical, or sensible, or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Chuck Colson