Quotable Quotes
In the last few years I've become an avid reader. I am stirred beyond words by some of the authors I've read. I started this list for myself some months ago and thought others might also be stirred by these words.

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"For He willeth that we be occupied in knowing and loving till the time that we shall be fulfilled in heaven....For of all things the beholding and loving of the Maker maketh the soul to seem less in his own sight, and most filleth him with reverent dread and true meekness; with plenty of charity for his fellow Christians."
--Julian of Norwich

"True happiness comes when you squander your life for a great purpose."
--Parkening, Christopher

"There are many today who talk about the love of God, who are total strangers to the God of love."
--A.W. Pink, "The Love of God"

"The willfull disregard or sacrifice of the welfare of others for the welfare of self is an essential quality of the concept SIN."
--Dr. Karl Menninger

"In an atomic age, disagreement is not only unfortunate; it is the end of mankind."
--Winkie Pratney, The Law of Love

""...he [the Christian] is to exhibit simultaneously God's character of holiness and love. Not his holiness without his love: that is only harshness. Not his love without his holness: that is only compromise.""
--Francis Schaeffer, The Mark of the Chrisitan

"So long as humanity insists on its own canon it is our privilege and responsibility to uphold the true one, for ultimately it is His Word that defines both history and faith, and cautions fallen man that truth has a way of appearing stranger than fiction because we have made fiction to suit ourselves."
--Ravi Zacharias, "They Want Their Own Canon"

"Sound Bible exposition is an imperative must in the Church of the Living God. Without it no church can be a New Testament church in any strict meaning of that term. But exposition may be carried on in such a way as to leave the hearers devoid of any true spiritual nourishment whatever. For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth. The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts."
--A.W. Tozer

"Worrying always results in sin. We tend to think that a little anxiety and worry are simply an indication of how wise we really are, yet it is actually a much better indication of just how wicked we are."
--Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

"Dorothy Day?used to say that the task of Christian witness is not to engage in propaganda, but to live one?s life in such a way that one?s life would not make sense if the God in whom you confess were not true. And that for me is the first task. The task is not how do you speak to the postmodern Gen-Xers, or the Baby Boomers, or whoever. The task is, what does it mean to live your life in such a way that when you proclaim Jesus Christ is Lord, your neighbors would say, ?Well, they are an odd lot, those neighbors I have, they are strange. They are different. You would have to understand their God to make sense of their lives.? Now, the truth of the matter is that we blend easily into this culture. We are not odd enough. We don?t look strange enough"
--D. Stephen Long

"We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own."
--Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador

"'Safe?' said Mr. Beaver...'Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. but he's good. He's the King, I tell you.'"
--C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia

"Father, please forgive us for proudly thinking that our interests are more urgent than Your interests, and that our pain is more important than the pain of others. In our clearer moments we realize we have no higher calling than to be "living sacrifices" who think no more and no less of ourselves than you want us to think (Romans 12:1-3)."
--Andrew Murray, Humility

"Only he who can say, 'The Lord is the strength of my life' can say, 'Of whom shall I be afraid?'"
--Alexander MacLaren

"If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded."
--Thomas a Kempis

"One word from the lips of the man who has actually heard the lute play will have more effect than a score of sermons by the man who has only heard that it was played. Acquaintance is always better than hearsay. "
--A.W. Tozer

"And it is one thing, we may add, to hear truth inwardly for one's very self, and quite another thing merely to hear about it...."
--A.W. Tozer

"No man has any right to a way of life less rugged than that of the workers who support him. No preacher has any right to die of old age if hard work will kill him. "
--A.W. Tozer

"I dont play tennis, I dont play poker. I dont play baseball, I dont play drums. I dont play soccer, I dont play chess... I dont play church... I live it... Yet isnt it ironic how [we] treat church like these? [We]play church because it is another "part" of [our lives]... [We] play church, [we] play God... [We] play God [we] are lukewarm... "Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it." ~James 4:17~ (NLT)"
--Jared Allen, student from LA Tech

"Missions exists because worship doesn't. The ultimate issue addressed by missions is that God's glory is dishonored among the people of the world. This is the ultimate problem of the world. This is the ultimate outrage. The glory of God is not honored. The holiness of Godis not reverenced. The greatness of God is not admired. The power of God is not praised. The truth of God is not sought. The wisdom of God is not esteemed. The beauty of God is not treasured. The goodness of God is not savored. The faithfulness of God is not trusted. The commandments of God are not obeyed. The justice of God is not respected. The wrath of God is not feared. The grace of God is not cherished. The presence of God is not prized. The person of God is not loved. The infinte, all-glorious Creator of the universe, by whom and for whom all things exist - who holds ever person's life in being at every moment - is disregarded, disbelieved, and dishonored among the peoples of the world. That is the ultimate reason for missions."
--John Piper

"Applying the illustrations, Paul says that it is not the mere sound of speaking that is important, but whether the sounds can be understood by the hearers."
--Expositor's Commentary

"My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. They were scattered over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them."
--Ez. 34:6

"Experience is not self-interpreting."
--Earl Creps

"You do not have a soul; you are a soul, you have a body."
--C.S. Lewis

"If you dare to do the ridiculous, God will dare to do the impossible."
--Scott Martin

"People say I can preach, but I am scared to know if I can speek. "
--Roufus, a kid commenting on Earl Creps' xanga site

"Every person should see to it that he is fully cleansed from all sin, entirely surrendered to the whole will of God and filled with the Holy Spirit. Then he will not be known as what he does, but as what he is. He will be a man of God first and anything else second."
--A.W. Tozer

"The young man who rushes too eagerly into the pulpit at first glance seems to be unusually spiritual, but he may in fact only be revealing his lack of understanding of the sacred nature of the ministry. "
--A.W. Tozer

"... truth does not offer itself as convenient and user-friendly; nor does it come to us from someone else's mind ready-made with "no-assembly-required"-- a sermon, a lecture, a seminar, or a tip transferred from one mind to another as if on a computer disk. Knowing always entails more than knowing will ever know, so the deepest knowing only comes in doing. The task of living the truth requires that we stake on it our very existence."
--Os Guiness

"Prayer in its most basic form is the surging of the human spirit in its weakness, grasping at the Spirit of God in His strength."
--Ravi Zacharias

"Morality as a badge of attainment breeds the deadliest state of mind - a delusion of absolute autonomy."
--Ravi Zacharias

"Those who define truth by the calendar run afoul of Him who created time."
--Ravi Zacharias

"Time isn't just a fleeting thing. It never moves forward without engraving its mark upon the heart."
--Ravi Zacharias

"The flying hamster of doom is raining coconuts on your pathetic city."
--Bumper Sticker

"How can time argue with eternity?"
--Ravi Zacharias

"Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity."
--A.W. Tozer

"Dear sir, In response to your question, 'What is wrong with the world today?'... I am. Yours Truly, GK Chesterton"
--G.K. Chesterton