Being filled with the fullness of God is like a bottle in the ocean. You take the cork out of the bottle and sink it in the ocean, and you have the bottle completely full of ocean. The bottle is in the ocean, and the ocean is in the bottle. The ocean contains the bottle, but the bottle contains only a little bit of the ocean. So it is with the Christian.

Dr. A. B. Simpson

The biblical fact is that there are no successful churches. There are instead, communities of sinners, gathered before God week after week in towns and villages all over the world. In these communities of sinners, one of the sinners is called pastor and given a designated responsibility in the community. The pastor’s responsibility is to keep the community attentive to God.

Eugene Peterson

The only two things that can satisfy the soul are a person and a story; and even the story must be about a person.

G. K. Chesterton

I find that I have been looking for an experience, instead of Jesus. My soul has been drawn out after the gifts of my Beloved, instead of after my Beloved himslf. But I trusted Him to teach me, and He has taught me that He himself is enough to satisfy my utmost need, and my soul rests in Him.

Hannah Whitall Smith

Unsaved loved ones watch our lives; if we point to Christ, we can win them.

Warren W. Wiersbe

The first service one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love of God begins in listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God's love for us that He not only gives us His Word but lends us His ear. So it is His work that we do for our brother when we learn to listen to him.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.

Winnie the Pooh

There are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and 108 stitches in a baseball. When I heard that, I gave Jesus a chance.

Annie Savoy in Bull Durham

We must not suppose that if we succeeded in making everyone nice we should have saved their souls. A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world.
C.S. Lewis

We are all pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love letters to the world.

Mother Teresa

In order to express their displeasure with the idea that Muslims are violent, thousands of Muslims around the world engaged in rioting, arson, mob savagery, flag-burning, murder and mayhem, among other peaceful acts of nonviolence. Muslims are the only people who make feminists seem laid back.
Ann Coulter

Character is what you are in the dark.

Dwight L. Moody

Fear is horrid, but there's no reason to be ashamed of it. Our Lord was afraid (dreadfully so) in Gethsemane. I always cling to that as a very comforting fact.
C. S. Lewis

Mark it down, things do not "just happen." Ours is not a random, whistle-in-the-dark universe. There is a God-arranged plan for this worldof ours, which includes a specific plan for you. And through every ordinaryday and every extraordinary moment, there is a God who constantly seeks you.

Charles Swindoll

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Mark Twain