Sunday, November 16, 2008

More Great Quotes

"Someone asked 'Will the heathen who have never heard the
Gospel be saved?' It is more a question with me whether we --
who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not --
can be saved." - Charles Spurgeon

"A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false
because spoken magnificently." - Saint Augustine

"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that
will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."
- Saint Augustine

"Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the
soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other
virtue except in mere appearance." - Saint Augustine

"He loves God too little, who loves ANYTHING (together with Him),
which He loves not for His sake." - St. Augustine

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship
Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word,
'darkness' on the walls of his cell."- C.S. Lewis

"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most
for the present world were precisely those who thought most of
the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the
other world that they have become so ineffective in this." - C.S. Lewis

"The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft
underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without
signposts." - C.S. Lewis

"There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind."
- C.S. Lewis

"God doesn't call the equipped; He equips the called." - Anonymous

"The Devil is not afraid of the Bible that has dust on it." - Anonymous

"If men can get to heaven by being good then the death of Christ
is the worst waste in human history." - Dr. Toussaint

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