Quotes – September 2015
The three branches of our government as designed in the Constitution no longer exists. The Judicial branch now makes law, the Legislative branch now discusses law, and the Executive branch now ignores law. Mary Haigh
Remember, you are not a tree, that can live and stand alone. You are only a branch. And it is only while you abide in Christ, as the branch in that vine, that you will flourish or even live. Robert Murray M’Cheyne
Worship requires only a man and God. -Anonymous
It is better to undertake a large task and get it half done than to undertake nothing and get it all done. –Craig
If you want to be miserable, think much about yourself; about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, and what people think of you. –Kingsley
How does the world power control the masses? Keep them ignorant. How does the church control the people? Keep them ignorant of the word of God. Michael Haigh
One gem from that ocean (the Bible) is worth all the pebbles from earthly streams. Robert Murray M’Cheyne
Spiritual truth is more essential to a nation than mortar to its cities’ walls. For when the actions of a people are unguided by these truths, it is only a matter of time before the walls themselves collapse. – unknown
There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things. – D.L. Moody
A man is not made the judge of his own sin. Wm. Kelly
The sea ebbs and flows, but the rock (Christ) remains unmoved. Robert Murray M’Cheyne
Before we can serve God, we must walk with God. Michael Haigh
My happiest moments are when I am worshiping God, really adoring the Lord Jesus Christ, and having fellowship with the ever-blessed Spirit. In that worship I forget the cares of everything else. To me it is the nearest approach to what it will be in heaven. -Spurgeon
God gives the birds their food, but he does not throw it into their nests. –Greek Proverb
Look at what He is, and what He has done; not at what you are. -D.L. Moody
You don’t need God’s power to be great, you need God’s power to be little. Michael Haigh
To hear truth and not accept it does not nullify truth. –Brotherhood Journal
The gospel is not an entrance into a place. It is an introduction to a Person, our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Michael Haigh
The egg’s no chick by falling from the hen, Nor man a Christian till he’s born again. –Bunyan
A church membership does not make a Christian any more than owning a piano makes a musician. –Meador
The characteristics of man are imprinted on his descendants. Mary Haigh
I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found that I would have to go against the current. – D.L. Moody
Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright. –Spurgeon
A nation that forgets God, God remembers. Michael Haigh
There cannot be a secret Christian. Grace is like ointment hid in the hand; it betrayeth itself. If you truly feel the sweetness of the cross of Christ, you will be constrained to confess Christ before men. Robert Murray M’Cheyne
The job and main work of the corrupt, apostate church is to come between God and man; not to lead man to God through a personal relationship with God on a one to one basis. Mary Haigh
Walk by new rules, towards new ends, from new principles. Make a new choice of the way. Choose new paths to walk in, new leaders to walk after, new companions to walk with. Old things should pass away, and all things become new. The man is what he was not, does what he did not. –Henry
Jewish history is the miracle of history as it is the history of miracle. A. Saphir
Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. Spoken by the Lord Jesus Christ as recorded in Matthew 10:32, 33
Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. Written by the Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 12:10)