Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay before God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

John Calvin

I am beginning to understand that faith is not the way around pain, it is the way through pain. Faith doesn't get rid of the opposition, it invites it over for dinner. Faith doesn't give you the winning point at the last second, it ties the game and sends you into overtime. Faith doesn't give you the solution, it forces you to find it.

Mike Yaconelli

The pastor when facing his congregation on Sunday morning, dare not think of the effect his sermon may have on his job, his salary or his future relation to the church. Let him but worry about tomorrow and he becomes a hireling and no true shepherd of the sheep. No man is a good preacher who is not willing to lay his future on the line every time he expounds the Word. He must let his job and his reputation ride on each and every sermon or he has no right to think that he stands in the prophetic tradition.

A.W. Tozer

Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all—the apathy of human beings

Helen Keller in My Religion

Who is Dan Brown? He is an evangelist proclaiming the message that there is no orthodoxy other than his liberating orthodoxy that says traditional Christianity is heresy. His goal is to liberate Jesus from all those picky ancient creeds.

Terry Mattingly

from "Who is Dan Brown?"

As a mother, my job is to take care of the possible and trust God with the impossible.

Ruth Bell Graham


Mothers must model the tenderness we need. Our world can’t find it anywhere else.

Chuck Swindoll

Sin always takes you further than you want to go, keeps you longer than you want to stay, and costs more than you are willing to pay.

John Maxwell

We are too Christian really to enjoy sinning, and too fond of sinning really to enjoy Christianity. Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

Peter Marshall

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

Redd Foxx

To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge. Because their declaration is tantamount to saying, "I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge".

Ravi Zacharias