The Christian home is a powerful tool in providing sound, biblical doctrine. We, as pastors, must be teaching our church members how to pass down the Word of God to their children in accurate and life-changing ways. The need to assist in maturing men and women of God who know and live out their faith is crucial to the life the church.

Has it not become terrifyingly clear again and again, in everything that we have said here to one another, that we are no longer obedient to the Bible? We are more fond of our own thoughts than of the thoughts of the Bible. We no longer read the Bible seriously, we no longer read it against ourselves, but for ourselves.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

C.S. Lewis

For a long time I wondered why I felt like bowing when people showed their appreciation for the work that I've been privileged to do. What I've come to understand is that we who bow are probably—whether we know it or not—acknowledging the presence of the eternal: we're bowing to the eternal in our neighbor. You see, I believe that appreciation is a holy thing, that when we look for what's best in the person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does. So, in loving and appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.

Fred Rogers

The most powerful time is when we are alone, thinking about what we are to do.

Walt Whitman

Prayer is never wasted.

Richard Foster

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Ronald Reagan