Four great quotes…hard to pick just one.

In my younger pugnacious years WSC was my hereo. I’ll add one from him-as best I can remember it;

“Concensus is the worst possible way to make decisions…except for all the other ways.”

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“I don’t preach things. I preach Christ.”
Alex W. Ness

“We are paralyzed in a poverty of hope because, first, we underestimate the value of what God has given us to transform lives. Second, we underestimate the value of a single life. And third, we underestimate God’s determination to rescue us from a trivial existence if we will just free up our hands and our hearts from unworthy distractions and apply them to matters that make a difference in someone else’s life.” -Gary Haugen, president of Intern. Justice Mission

I loved all of the quotes, especially NT Wright.

Favorite CS Lewis quotes:

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

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.

I’ll say the N.T. Wright quote. Hard to run from it.

One of my favorite quotes is by Edmund Burke.

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing”

I grew up with hanging on the wall in my dad’s office at the house. It has stuck w/me ever since.

I like the N.T. Wright quote just because I think it best describes the “Church” today. We truly need to find our Lord and do away with American Jesus.

Here’s a very short quote by one of our forefathers and the more I read about him the more I think he had a wonderful walk with the Lord.

“Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.” -Benjamin Franklin

Here’s a very long quote that came out of a short article I wrote.

“Our forefathers fled to America in search of refuge from a religion that operated by a required inclusion of all, via forceful means through corrupt government and vigilante enforcement. We in America now flee from a religion that is based on something far more devious and evil that operates via coercive tactics promising worldly gain and happiness in exchange for our money and souls. Relinquishing control of our lives to buy blessings from God and to follow false teachers is far worse than participating in a religion because of feared reprisal. The first ends in bankruptcy of spirit and bank accounts; the latter ends in a rebellion against man-made religion and a desire for spiritual freedom.”

Still,
while Church
believers
stand divided,
We who starve
thirst
and ache,
We unemployed
unused
unworthy,
stand in pain
united,
stand you as One
Condemned!

‘Our lack of real Christianity is clearly evident to those who want to see!

From Walking the Walk by Gery Skelton

“The world outside isn’t looking for a new definition of Christianity, it’s waiting for a new demonstration of it.” — Leonard Ravenhill

Reminds me of the verse the Lord keeps impressing on me — “They will know you are my disciples by your love for one another.”

Kindness greases new friendships and glues the old ones.