Archive of Quotes Listed by Topic
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Questions
"When somebody says, 'That's a good question,' you can be sure that it's a lot better than the answer you're going to get."
-- E.C. McKenzie --
Quitters
"Evangelicals for most of their history have had a curious emphasis on the brakes rather than on the steering wheel. They are forever quitting this or that.....Christians are not to be so much quitters as starters. They do not endear themselves to God because of all they lay aside at conversion. Rather, it is what they take up that catches heaven's esteem...Spiritual growth occurs by ever starting, starting, starting every day some creative new thing that will sponsor a creative, never boring walk with Christ."
Calvin Miller, Into the Depths of God, 25
Quotations
"A Witty Saying proves nothing." 
--Voltaire--
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." 
--Winston Churchill--
"I really didn't say everything I said." 
-- Yogi Berra --
Reading
"I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark."
-- Steven Wright --
Reflection
"The unexamined life is not worth living." 
Socrates
If you must live an unexamined life, please don't inflict it on others."
Parker Palmer
Relationships: Key to impacting lives
"You impress at a distance, but you impact a life up close. The closer the relationship the greater the impact."
Howard Hendricks
Relevance
"Is the church speaking a foreign language or the language of the times?"
Ron Martoia, Morph!, 17
"We need to jump on the creativity bandwagon and better wrap our message. In reality we live in a cross-cultural context. The message of Jesus, though ever relevant, continues to be communicated in forms primarily conceived in and targeted at our modern world. Outmoded music, architecture, delivery style of linear talking head, nonparticipatory format, and dense and obscure language all contribute to the message being rather obtuse to those in this new native world of postmodernity. In missiological terms, we may be clear on the message, but we haven't understood our target culture well enough to translate the message faithfully."
Ron Martoia, Morph!
Repentance
"Holy practice is the most decisive evidence of the reality of our repentance."
-- Jonathan Edwards --
Rest
"Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee." St. Augustine
Revival
"Unless another Great Awakening sweeps them, the evangelical churches may find themselves groveling on the sidelines of modern history. 
--Carl F. H. Henry--
Rewards (Eternal)
"Eternity will right the wrongs of time."
-- C.H. Spurgeon --
Rights
"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."
-- G.K. Chesterton, England, 120 --
Risk
"No noble thing can be done without risks."
-- Montaigne --
"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks."
-- Herodotus --
"Risk, as we have seen, is indispensable to any significant life, nowhere more clearly than in the life of the spirit. The goal of faith is not to create a set of immutable rationalized, precisely defined and defendable beliefs to preserve forever. It is to recover a relationship with God."
-- Dan Taylor, The Myth of Certainty 123-124. --

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