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“To be called to follow Christ is a high honor; higher indeed than any honor men can bestow upon each other.”
― A.W. Tozer, Man: The Dwelling Place of God: What it Means to Have Christ Living in You

“What an ornament to a Church her converts are! These are our jewels! We care nothing for gorgeous architecture or grand music in the worship of God! Our true building is composed of our converts; our best music is their confession of faith. May God give us more of it!”–1892, Sermon 2265”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon Gems

“Vain war with Heaven; and, by success untaught, His proud imaginations thus displayed:—”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“whose eye Views all things at one view? He from Heaven’s height”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Till pride and worse ambition threw me down Warring in Heaven against Heaven’s matchless King:”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires:”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“The West is cutting off its Jewish and Christian roots and destroying the entire root system of its culture,”
― Os Guinness, Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization

“You can judge a culture by what it talks about and what it refuses to talk about, and talk of “spiritual warfare” would be a useful litmus test today.”
― Os Guinness, Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization

“To believe in Jesus is to bow twice and then to obey forever,”
― Os Guinness, Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization

“We are never more completely ourselves than when we make that decision to trust in God.”
― Os Guinness, Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization

“but conformity to the will and the way of Jesus is life and freedom itself—under his authority.”
― Os Guinness, Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization

“It is heaven that rules.”
― Os Guinness, Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization

“In losing God the Western world had lost its soul and its center. It had become “weightless”—groundless, centerless, meaningless, insignificant and immaterial, with an “unbearable lightness of being.”
― Os Guinness, Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization

“When cultures reject God, they cut themselves off from the ultimate ground of reality,”
― Os Guinness, Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization

“The opposite of the weightlessness that leads to a nation’s collapse is revival, a return to the glory and therefore the reality and weightiness of God.”
― Os Guinness, Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization

“they have become notable features of the heart of modern darkness: no givens, no rules and no limits.”
― Os Guinness, Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization

“To flout the will of God openly will therefore be the fast track to social and national failure for Western nations.”
― Os Guinness, Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization

“Unless we are ready to write off as filler more than a quarter of the Bible, we have the obligation and joy to discover what God has laid out for the end times.”
― Amir Tsarfati, The Last Hour: An Israeli Insider Looks at the End Times