Michael > Michael's Quotes

“The more you read, the more things you will know.”
― Dr. Seuss

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“Peace if possible. Truth at all costs.”
― Martin Luther

“There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.”
― Joseph Pulitzer

“If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

“The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.”
― John MacArthur

“What you cant forget... God cant remember!”
― John MacArthur

“The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.”
― Abigail Van Buren

“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”
― A.W. Tozer

“Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy

“A pilot without his chart, a scholar without his book, and a soldier without his sword, are alike ridiculous. But, above all these, it is absurd for one to think of being a Christian, without knowledge of the word of God and some skill to use this weapon. - William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour”
― William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour

“The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes”
― Desdirius Erasmus

“Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.”
― Ronald Reagan

“If you think fast food is hittin a deer att 65 miles per hr..

you might be a redneck”
― Jeff Foxworthy

“It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.”
― Brother Yun, The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun

“Salvation by grace—salvation by free grace—salvation not of works, but according to the mercy of God—salvation on such a footing is not more indispensable to the deliverance of our persons from the hand of justice, than it is to the deliverance of our hearts from the chill and the weight of ungodliness. Retain a single shred or fragment of legality with the Gospel, and we raise a topic of distrust between man and God.”
― Thomas Chalmers, The Expulsive Power of a New Affection

“Nothing on the outside compares to Thy presence on my inside.”
― A.W. Tozer, My Daily Pursuit: Devotions for Every Day

“The root of my understanding of the attributes of God is simply that when I come to God, my need will determine which of God’s attributes, at that moment, I need to celebrate. Just as the judgment of God is God’s justice confronting moral iniquity, and then judgment falls, so the mercy of God is God’s goodness confronting human guilt and suffering.”
― A.W. Tozer, My Daily Pursuit: Devotions for Every Day

“When men throw off the Word, then God throws them off, and then Satan takes them by the hand, and leads them into snares at his pleasure. He who thinks himself too good to be ruled by the Word, will be found too bad to be owned by God; and if God does not, or will not own him, Satan will by his stratagems overthrow him.”
― Thomas Watson, Richard Baxter, Jonathan Edwards, John Owen, Thomas Brooks, Gerald Mick, The Digital Puritan - Vol. I, No. 1

“There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.”
― William Law

“There are a lot of good speakers nowadays, but very few good teachers.”
― D.R. Silva, Hyper-Grace: The Dangerous Doctrine of a Happy God

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“It is impossible to be a follower of Christ while denying, disregarding, discrediting, and disbelieving the words of Christ.”
― David Platt, A Compassionate Call to Counter Culture in a World of Poverty, Same-Sex Marriage, Racism, Sex Slavery, Immigration, Abortion, Persecution, Orphans and Pornography

“Are you really saying there's only one way to God?' people immediately ask. Yet even as we ask the question, we reveal the problem. If there were 1,000 ways to God, we would want 1,001. The issue is not how many ways lead to God; the issue is our autonomy before God. We want to make our own way. This is the essence of sin in the first place — trusting our way more than God's way.”
― David Platt, A Compassionate Call to Counter Culture in a World of Poverty, Same-Sex Marriage, Racism, Sex Slavery, Immigration, Abortion, Persecution, Orphans and Pornography

“Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.”
― D.L. Moody

“Rest assured that there is nothing new in theology except that which is false; and that the facts of theology are today what they were eighteen hundred years ago.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, The Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

“But while he wasn’t shy about correcting their erroneous interpretations of Scripture, there is no indication that Jesus ever thought his fellow Jews to have too high a view of Scripture. And if they had been wrong on such an essential matter, he would not have gone along with the flow. He would have corrected their beliefs about the Bible just as he chastised them for other “doctrines of men.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Taking God at His Word: Why the Bible Is Knowable, Necessary, and Enough, and What That Means for You and Me

“The purpose of Holy Scripture is not ultimately to make you smart, or make you relevant, or make you rich, or get you a job, or get you married, or take all your problems away, or tell you where to live. The aim is that you might be wise enough to put your faith in Christ and be saved.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Taking God at His Word: Why the Bible Is Knowable, Necessary, and Enough, and What That Means for You and Me

“If you were fine like an archangel, made thousands of dollars, never failed and never fumbled, you would be a saint, and there would be no place in God’s grace for you. Because you are the kind of person you are and have fits of slipping back a little, the grace of God operates toward you. This is your hope. So I say, be cheerful, be hopeful, dare to rise and say, “I’ll not sit and be gloomy anymore. I will dare to believe that the grace of God, that vast grace of God, is big enough for me.”
― A.W. Tozer, My Daily Pursuit: Devotions for Every Day