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“In mordern war we sow our harbors and coasts thick with hidden mines ready to explode should the enemy venture within our boarders.”
― Grace Livingston Hill, Phoebe Deane

“Experience is often a brutal teacher. Experience eats up you most valuable commodity:time. Learning from experience can eat up years. It can steal an entire stage of life.”
― Andy Stanley, The Principle of the Path: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“He traced her face with one finger again. 'A woman is either a wall or a door, beloved.'' She gave a bleak laugh and looked at him. '' Then I guess i'm a door a thousand mean have walked through.''
''No. You are a wall, a stone wall, four feet thick and a hundred feet high, I can't get over you all by myself, but I keep trying.”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveal him to himself”
― James Allen, As A Man Thinketh

“The truth is noone lies to us more than our own hearts. No one. If our hearts are compasses, they are Jack Sparrow compasses. They dont tell us the thruth; they just tell us want we want.”
― Jon Bloom, Don't Follow Your Heart: God's Ways Are Not Your Ways

“We are not to lean on conclusions we deduce primarily from our perceptions. In this sense, our own understanding simply will not bear the full weight of reality. It was never intended to.”
― Jon Bloom, Don't Follow Your Heart: God's Ways Are Not Your Ways

“Emotions aren't imperatives; they're not your boss. They're indicatives; they're reports. Thats why Paul wrote, " Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions; Roms 6:12”
― Jon Bloom, Don't Follow Your Heart: God's Ways Are Not Your Ways

“In fact, if we do what our hearts tell us to do, we will pervert and impoverish every desire, every beauty, every person, every wonder, every joy. Our hearts want to consume these things for our own self-glory and self-indulgence. No, our hearts will not save us. We need to be saved from our hearts.”
― Jon Bloom, Don't Follow Your Heart: God's Ways Are Not Your Ways

“Prosperity obscures rather than reveals how much fallen humans love God. "Blessings" easily turn into curses as sinners subtly ( or not so subtly) come to love and trust the blessings more than the bless-er.”
― Jon Bloom

“A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?”
― Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“She is protected by the Power of Good, and that is greater than the Power of Evil.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever, and tho' himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his cotemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“Government by kings was first introduced into the world by Heathens, from which the children of Israel copied the custom, It was the most prosperous invention the devil ever set foot for the promotion of idolatry.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“What is the chief aim of man? Man's chief aim is to glorify God and enjoy him forever.
God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.”
― John Piper, Five Points: Towards a Deeper Experience of God’s Grace

“All human 'virtue' is depraved if it is not from a heart of love to the heavenly Father- Even if the behaviour conforms to biblical norms.”
― John Piper, Five Points: Towards a Deeper Experience of God’s Grace

“His propitiating work is meant to gather people from the “whole world.” “I have other sheep that are not of this fold!” (John 10:16)—all over the world.”
― Christian Focus Publications, Five Points

“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him;
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones,
So let it be with Caesar ... The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answered it ...
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest,
(For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all; all honourable men)
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral ...
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man….
He hath brought many captives home to Rome,
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
O judgement! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason…. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“The law was given to reveal what real sin looked like. When God gave the 10 commandments to Moses, his purpose wasn't to show us how we can be perfect and make it into heaven. God knew we could never live up to it. He did it so we can could see how bad we really can be.”
― Andy Stanley, How Good is Good Enough?

“God sees your sin as a debt you can't pay. There is no point in asking you to. To think that being good will somehow makes you square with God would be like Allie promising to clean up her room after being confronted with the damage she did to my car. Cleaning up her room doesn't pay me back. It's a nice gesture, but it doesn't fix my car.”
― Andy Stanley, How Good is Good Enough?

“Until the Lord himself returns and establishes his kingdom on earth, whatever ideology gains popularity in the world will be as hostile to biblical truth as all its predecessors have been.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., Why One Way?

“It is true that God desires all men to be saved (2peter 3-9), but that they have to choose to love him and believe in him. Now God cant force anyone to love him. Forced love is a contradiction in terms.

Love must be free: it is a free choice. So in spite of God's desire, some men do not choose to love him. All who go to hell do so because of their free choice. They may not want to go to hell, But they do will it.
They make the decision to reject God, even though they don’t’ desire punishment.

People don’t go to hell because God sends them; they choose it and God respects their freedom.”
― Norman L. Geisler, When Skeptics Ask: A Handbook on Christian Evidences

“The law of karma has made it so. According to classic Hinduism, if someone were to help those people by easing their suffering, they would be working against the law of karma. People suffer to work off their karmic debt, and if you helped them, then they would have to come back again and suffer even more to work off that debt. Plus, you would be doing something cruel by not letting them suffer, and you would increase your own karma problems. Helping”
― Norman L. Geisler, When Skeptics Ask: A Handbook on Christian Evidences

“one of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Really great moral teachers never do introdue new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity