Archive of Quotes Listed by Topic
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Sacred Cows
"Sacred cows make the best hamburger."
-- Mark Twain --
Sacrifice
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." 
--Jim Elliot--
Salt and Light
 

"We (the church) have created a phenomenal subculture with our own media, entertainment, educational system, and political hierarchy so that we have the sense that we're doing a lot. But what we've really done is create a ghetto that is easily dismissed by the rest of society."  Bob Briner, Roaring Lambs

"It is my contention that the church is almost a nonentity when it comes to shaping culture." Bob Briner, Roaring Lambs

"I'm afraid many in the world view us as a flock of lambs grazing in the safe pastures surrounding our churches that have been designed to blend right in with the neighborhood landscape. We're good neighbors. We look like everyone else. And except for Sunday morning, we follow the same patterns of behavior as those who have little or no interest in religion." Bob Briner, Roaring Lambs

"The number one way, then for Christians to be the salt Christ commands them to be is to teach His relevance, to demonstrate His relevance, to live His relevance, in every area of life." Bob Briner, Roaring Lambs, 
Sanctification
"In regeneration we pass out of death into life, but in sanctification we pass out of the self-life into the Christ-life." 
-- A.B. Simpson -- 
"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."
--Calvin Miller, Out of the Depths, 25--
Security
"...the security that we often seek is not necessary to living life to the fullest. Sometimes it can actually become the greatest deterrent to seizing our divine moments."
Edwin McManus, Seizing Your Divine Moment, 63
Seeing God
"We look for visions from heaven, for earthquakes and thunders of God's power...and we never dream that all this time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.  If we do the duty that lies nearest, we shall see Him."
-- Oswald Chambers, My Utmost, Feb. 7 --
Self
"The kingdom of self is heavily defended territory.  Post-Eden Adams and Eves are willing to pray their respects to God, but they don't want him invading their turf.  Most sin, far from being a mere lapse of morals or a weak will, is an energetically and expensively erected defense against God. 
--Eugene Peterson-- (The Contemplative Pastor, 31-32)
Self Denial
"Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; every thing is lost by failure to obey God's call." 
-- H.P. Liddon --
Selfishness
"Usually he is most empty who is most full of himself." 
-- A. G. Lawson --
"Too many of our statements about the crisis in the American church center on the superficial arena of style and neglect to go to the core issue of self. At the core of so much of the resistance the church is experiencing is the preservation of selfishness and self-centeredness. It is one thing to have a preference; it is another to demand that one's preferences be honored above the needs of those without Christ."
Erwin McManus, An Unstoppable Force, 31.
Signs (that make no sense)
"No entry except for access."
seen in London

"Parking for Drive Through Customers Only."
A fast food restaurant (seen by Herb Caen, San Francisco Chronicle)
Simple
"Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler." 
--Albert Einstein--
Simplicity
"Men rush toward complexity; but they yearn toward simplicity." 
G.K. Chesterton, Robert Louis Stevenson, 160
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." -- Hans Hoffman
"The greatest truths are the simplest -- and so are the great men."
-- Augustus Hare --
Sin
"Sin, in the final analysis, is rebellion against the sovereign Creator, Ruler, and Judge of the universe.  It resists the rightful prerogative of a sovereign Ruler to command obedience from His subjects.  It says to an absolutely holy and righteous God that His moral laws, which are a reflection of His own nature, are not worthy of our wholehearted obedience."
-- Jerry Bridges, Transforming Grace , 30. --
"If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be."
-- William Bridge -- 
Statistics
"These are not my figures I'm quoting.  They're from someone who knows what he's talking about." 
-- an unnamed congressman during a debate on the floor of congress.
Status Quo
"'Status Quo' is latin for 'the mess we're in'" (Ronald Reagan)
Stealing
"A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself." --Henry Morgan--
Stereotypes
"Nothing fits in a pigeon hole but a pigeon." --Bill Cosby--
Strength in Weakness
"God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength."
-- Francois Fenelon --
Success
"The price of greatness is responsibility" --Winston Churchill
"The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success." --anon.--
Suffering
"All the paths of the Lord are loving and faithful" Psalm 25:10
"I have pondered this verse lately, and have found that it feeds my spirit.  All does not mean "all--except the paths I am walking in now," or "nearly all--except this especially difficult and painful path."  All must mean all. So, your path with its unexplained sorrow or turmoil, and mine with its sharp flints and briers--and both our paths, with their unexplained perplexity, their sheer mystery--they are His paths, on which he will show himself loving and faithful.  Nothing else; nothing less." 
-- Amy Carmichael, You Are My Hiding Place, 98.
"Suffering is the badge of true discipleship." 
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer --
"We should not be surprised that a lifelong journey with God might bring us suffering and hardship. If the cross teaches us anything, it teaches us that sometimes God comes through after we've been killed."
Edwin McManus, Seizing Your Divine Moment, 65.
Surprise
"As workers for God we have to learn to make room for God -- to give God "elbow room."  We calculate and estimate and say that this and that will happen, and we forget to make room for God to come in as he chooses."
"Keep your life so constant in its contact with God that His surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left.  Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as He likes."
-- Oswald Chambers, My Utmost, Jan. 25. --
Suspicion
"Suspicion often creates what it suspects." 
-- C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, 164. --


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