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Memorial Day Quote
"Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored."
Daniel Webster

You are not the Message.
You are the Messenger.
Tell the Message.
often repeated

Watch your thoughts ; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Unknown

Assurance, Eternity, Faith
Man's way leads to a hopeless end.
God's way leads to an endless hope.
Unknown

"I used to believe ..."
The phrase that every single scientist who ever lived has uttered is: "I used to believe ..."  They say this to prove their advanced and advancing knowledge.  But their statement betrays their knowledge.  Whatever they insist on today as being truth, is simply a refinement or editing of what they used to believe the day before.  So, tomorrow they will have a new truth that they will insist is the last word on the subject.
They all speak with the most definite authority, but all have a change in belief at one point in time or another.  Notice the word "belief", not facts.  Facts do not change.
G. Steven Andres

Concession, Conciliation
If the whole idea of politics is to compromise so we can have other help us get what we want, then why are we upset with politicians?  The whole idea of politics is to compromise.
G. Steven Andres

Communalism - Liberalism - Communism
"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."
Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of England

Babel's Fallen!
Babylon, Confusion, Conspired Error

Clear - Accord - Harmony - Conformity
Clarity must precede agreement.
Clarification from both sides assists understanding.
Understanding is on the path to tolerance.
Tolerance lives next door to agreement.
G. Steven Andres

O! For a Perfect Trust

"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee."
Isaiah 26:3

O! for the peace of a perfect trust,
   My loving God, in Thee;
Unwavering faith that never doubts
   Thou choosiest best for me.

Best, though my plans be all upset;
   Best though my way be rough;
Best, though my earthly store be scant;
   In Thee I have enough.

Best, though my health and strength be gone;
   Though weary days be mine;
Shut out from much that others have;
   Not my will, Lord, but Thine.

And e'en though disappointments come,
   They, too, are best for me
To wean me from this changing world
   And lead me nearer Thee.

O! for the peace of a perfect trust,
   That looks away from all;
That sees Thy hand in everything,
  In great events and small.

That hears Thy voice — a Father's voice —
  Directing for the best —
O! for the peace of a perfect trust,
   A heart with Thee at rest.
      —Author unknown

What Jesus Is To Me
He is my Shield from every dart;
He is my Balm for every smart;
He is my Sharer of each load;
He is my companion on the road.

He is my Door into the fold;
He is my Anchor that will hold;
He is my Shepherd of the sheep;
He is my Guardian of my sleep.

He is my Friend with Whom I talk;
He is the Way by which I walk;
He is my Light to show the way;
He is my Strength for every day.

He is my Source of my delight;
He is my Song to cheer the night;
He is the Thought that fills my mind;
He is the Best of All I find.
Anonymous

Cooperation, Really Counts
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr

Reverence, Value, Admiration - Insistance
Respect is earned by your life
Not by demanding it
Sign on wall, Jackson Jr High School, San Antonio, TX

Hopeful or Hopeless
Sees the Invisible
Feels the Intangible
Achieves the Impossible
Unknown

Measurement
The measure of a life
Is its service for Christ.
Adapted from the motto of
Sam Houston State University

Beer Joint, Gin Joint, Wine Shop
The proverbial roadside "Dive" is not an underwater resort, although many go there to drown their troubles.
G. Steven Andres

Watchmen, Watchman, Censure, Reprimand, Jesus
Be on the Look-out for sin and sinners,
but keep your heart with God.
Michael, the Archangel, dutifully told the Devil,
"The Lord rebuke thee."
G. Steven Andres

Will it really all be over soon?
"The End is Near,"
Should be considered Optimistic.
G. Steven Andres

Hard Work, Worth
Value is derived from the effort provided.
Since beauty is natural, no value added to the owner.
Since talent comes with birth, no room for the holder to boast.
Skill and expertise add worth to the possessor, because they come out of the owner's hard work and character.
G. Steven Andres

Speak-up
Uncorrected Error
    becomes
Perceived Truth
G. Steven Andres

Have you noticed?
Most liberals quote the Lord's Prayer as it appears in the King James, but read from versions which leave out the last line: "For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen"
G. Steven Andres

We heard recently
A woman who blesses with "holy water" the bed of contrary men is called for frequently by people most would perceive as normal.
G. Steven Andres

Watch and Act
Observe the need
Take the lead
Unknown

Has your church change your community
or has your community changed your church?
G. Steven Andres

Jesus Changed the Known World in 300 years
by changing one person at a time.
Unknown

What is your perspective?
The Saviour is over the situation.
The situation is over the Saviour.
Unknown

Why Is It?
From the great Gales of Ireland
Are the men that God made mad
For all their wars are merry
And all their songs are sad
GK Chesterton

A Beautiful Life
(Public Domain)

Each day I’ll do a golden deed,
By helping those who are in need;
My life on earth is but a span,
And so I’ll do the best I can.

To be a child of God each day,
My light must shine along the way;
I’ll sing His praise while ages roll,
And strive to help some troubled soul.

The only life that will endure,
Is one that’s kind and good and pure;
And so for God I’ll take my stand,
Each day I’ll lend a helping hand.

I’ll help someone in time of need,
And journey on with rapid speed;
I’ll help the sick and poor and weak,
And words of kindness to them speak.

While going down life’s weary road,
I’ll try to lift some trav’ler’s load;
I’ll try to turn the night to day,
Make flowers bloom along the way.

• Refrain:
  Life’s evening sun is sinking low,
  A few more days, and I must go
  To meet the deeds that I have done,
  Where there will be no setting sun.

• by William Golden, 1918
  Public Domain

An Irishman is a man who?

May not believe there is a God,
but is darn sure of the infallibility of the Pope

Won't eat meat on Friday,
but will drink a pint for breakfast

Has great respect for the truth
but saves it for emergencies

Gets more Irish
the further he gets from Ireland

Believes in civil rights,
but not in his neighborhood

Believes to forgive is divine,
therefore doesn't exercise it himself

Scorns money,
but worships those who have it

Considers any Irishman who achieves success
to be a traitor

by an Irishman

A Silver Lining in Old Age
I've sure gotten old!  
I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, new knees, fought prostate cancer, diabetes, half blind and I can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine.
I take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts.
I have bouts with dementia.
I have poor circulation.
I hardly feel my hands and feet anymore.
I can't remember if I'm 85 or 92.
I have lost all my friends.
BUT, thank God,
I still have my driver's license.

Internet

Joy, Foolishness
If ignorance is bliss, there should be a lot more people happy.
Unknown

Walking with God, Communion
The most difficult thing for man to do is hold hands.  Of course we are speaking of God's hand.
G. Steven Andres

Aging Symptoms
I am not sure what is wrong with me.  But there are 2 things that I am sure of:
1. My memory is not as sharp as it used to be.
2. My memory is not as sharp as it used to be.
Internet

Servants, Sentence
To forget we are under God, is to discover we are under judgment.
G. Steven Andres

Bible Study, Word of God, Sunday School, Scripture Teaching
"If our posterity neglects religious instruction, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity."
Daniel Webster

Detective Work
There is something going on in my life and I have been doing some snooping.  As I grow older, I have noticed that more and more items in my shopping cart, seem to have as part of their advertisement, "... for fast relief."
Internet

The Lord First, Proper Vision
"Our end in leaving our native country is not to gain riches and honor, but singly this: to live wholly to the glory of God."
James Oglethorpe, on the founding of the state of Georgia

Trust, Faith, Sold-out, Inventiveness, Revelation
"God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His."
George Washington Carver

Revelation
God is behind everything.  This is why He is so hard to be seen by most people.
G. Steven Andres

Pride, Humility, Humble, Proud
"Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Following God, Citizenship
"Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.
James Madison

Calling Good Evil and Evil Good
We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.
We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.  
We have killed our unborn and called it choice.
We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.  
We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem.  
We have abused power and called it politics.
We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.  
We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression.  
We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.  
Attributed to Evangelist Billy Graham

Adoration
(Public Domain)
Daniel O. Teasley, 1911

Philosophy for Life
Work like you are earning the last dollar available.
Love like you can never be hurt.
Live like tonight will be your last.
Sing like you do when no one is listening.
Share as if your father owns Wall Street.
Dream as if it will come true.
Witness like you believe hell is hot, hideous and horribly eternal.
G. Steven Andres

May God Give You ...

For every storm, a rainbow
For every tear, a smile
For every care, a promise
And a blessing for every trial

For every problem life sends
A faithful friend to share
For every sigh, a sweet song
And an answer for every prayer
Unknown

God's Service?
Serving God is not an advisory position.
Unknown

If there is really a God, where is He?
Of course He is found ...
* at your wit's end
* just on the other side of the brick wall you are about to hit
* at the end of your rope
Steve Andres

What is all that noise?
You may have heard the axiom: Opportunity only knocks once.  Not sure about that, but it is certain, if someone knocks so much your hinges rattle, it is Temptation.
Unknown

Are you sure he is a member of our church?
Changing churches may be all right, unless you are mostly absent from the new one, too.
Unknown

"Faith without works is dead"
Sitting on the premises is not standing on the promises.
Unknown

Comparison
We are called to be witnesses, not lawyers or judges.
Unknown

The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
The People

Soul Winning
Fishing for men is simply baiting the hook.  God does the catching and cleaning.
Steve Andres

Happenstance?
Coincidence is declared when God chooses not to reveal Himself in the matter.
Unknown

Meeting the Requirements
God is only looking for the qualified to use in His work.  Fortunately, the worst of the saved qualifies.
Steve Andres

Declaration of Independence, excerpt
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Thomas Jefferson

The 10 Commandments
See the list as quoted from the Bible.
God

Followers?
Everyone loves God, but most cannot stand His fan club.
Unknown

What is the Bible about?
The Bible is a commentary on God doing the impossible.
Unknown

Raising Children
In parenting,
*You don't get what you want
*You do get what you are
A Parent

Discernment
Don't listen to their lips.
But look at their lives.
Unknown

Bumpy Ride?
God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.
Unknown

Who is in charge?
If God is your co-Pilot, swap seats.
Unknown

Misbehavior Encouraged by Others
* When Others Enable Improper Demeanor
* When Others Empower Malicious Actions
* When Others Minimize Bad Manners
* When Others Allow Errors in Truth
G. Steven Andres

Putting Revelation to Work
Divine Inspiration
Without Divine Presentation
Is a Divine Waste of Time
Unknown

Reaping What You Sow
What you weave in Time
You will wear in Eternity
Billboard

Heretical Doctrine
Do not make small
What God makes tall
G. Steven Andres

The World Needs Men
* Who cannot be bought
* Whose word is their bond
* Who are willing to take a chance
* Who will not lose their identity in a crowd
* Who are honest in the least as well as the great
* Who will make no compromise with wrong
* Who are larger than their vocations
* Who put character above wealth
* Whose ambitions have nothing to do with desires
* Who are true to their friends
* Who defend the weaker
* Who are not afraid to stand for the truth
* Who know how to say, no
Lord, make me this kind of a man
Unknown

Political Philosophies Explained
* Feudalism: You have 2 cows, the lord takes some of the milk.
* Pure Socialism: You have 2 cows.  The government takes them and puts them in a barn with the cows of others.  The government gives you some of the milk.
* Bureaucratic Socialism: You have 2 cows.  The government takes them and puts them in a barn with the cows of others.  They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers.  You care for the chickens taken from the chicken farmers.  You receive milk and eggs according to regulations.
* Fascism:  You have 2 cows.  The government takes both and hires you to care for them and sells you the milk.
* Russian Communism:  You have 2 cows.  You care for them, but the government takes the milk.
* Dictatorship:  You have 2 cows.  The government takes both and shoots you.
* Representative Democracy:  You have 2 cows.  Your neighbors vote on a person to tell you what to do with the milk.
* British Democracy:  You have 2 cows.  You feed them sheep's brains and they go mad and the government doesn't do anything.
* Bureaucracy:  You have 2 cows.  At first, the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them.  Then it pays you not to milk them.  Then it takes both cows and shoots one, milks the other, but pours out the milk.  Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.
* Capitalism:  You have 2 cows.  You sell one and buy a bull.
* Totalitarianism:  You have 2 cows.  The government takes them and denies they ever existed.  Bans milk.
* Environmentalism:  You have 2 cows.  The government bans you from milking them or killing them or using the fertilizer.
* Surrealism:  You have 2 giraffes.  The government requires you to take accordion lessons and forbids the sale of your 2 cows.
* Counterculturism:  Wow, dude, there's like ... these 2 cows, man.  This is like, wild, where milk comes from.
* Hong Kong Capitalism:  You have 2 cows.  You sell 3 of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law, then execute a debt equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all 4 cows back, with tax deduction for keeping 5 cows.  The milk rights of 6 cows are transferred via a Panamanian intermediary to a Cayman Islands company secretly owned by the majority stock holder, who sells the rights to all 7 cows' milk back to the listed company.  They now have all 8 cows with an option for one more.

You May Be A Redneck If . . .
* You think the Stock Market has a fence around it.
* Your coffee table is an old cable spool.
* Your mother has "ammo" on her Christmas list.
* You burn your front yard, rather than mow it.
* Fewer than half your cars run.
* You have been kicked out of the zoo for heckling the monkeys.
* Your dog and your wallet are both on a chain.
* You think tooth paste is for gluing teeth back together.

Liberty, Oppression, Appreciative
If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?"
Jesse Helms, US Senator from North Carolina, died July 4th

Thankfulness, Robbery
On the very night that Matthew Henry was robbed, he prayed this prayer ...
"I thank Thee,
FIRST, because I was never robbed before;
SECOND, because although they took my money,
they did not take my life;
THIRD, because although they took my all, it was not much;
FOURTH, because it was I who was robbed and not I who was doing the robbing.
Matthew Henry

The Fields are white unto Harvest
If all the lost people of the world were to line up single file ...
The line would reach around the world 30 times. 
The line would grow at the rate of 20 miles per day.
If you should attempt to drive 50 miles per hour, 10 hours per day, it would take you 4 years and 40 days to get to the end of that line. But, by the time you reached the end of that line, it would have gotten 30,000 miles longer.
The need of the lost is to be saved, the way they are multiplying, we had better get busy.
Unknown

Learning to use good judgment, Pearls, Swine
Always judge others to help
Never judge others to condemn
Do not forget to judge yourself, first.
Matthew 7:1 and following
G. Steven Andres

Following
Follow the Lord, never follow your heart
Follow love, never follow like
Follow clear thinking, never follow fear
Follow the truth,
* never follow opinion
* never follow the crowd
* never follow appearances
* never follow fashion
Follow forbearance, never follow vengeance
Follow consistency, never follow whim
Follow decisiveness, never follow procrastination
G. Steven Andres

Genius
Someone recently studied the lives of 20 Geniuses and found three Common Denominators
1.  As children, they had loving interaction with adults in learning situations.
2.  They were basically isolated from other children outside the family.
3.  They were encouraged to use their imagination in terms of creative problem solving.

Top 10 signs that you may not be reading your Bible.
10)  The preacher announces the Book of Galatians and you check the table of contents
9)  You think Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had a hit song in the 60's
8)  You open your Bible and a WWII savings bond falls out
7)  Your favorite Bible character is Hercules
6)  A small family of woodchucks knows where you Bible is and you don't
5)  You become frustrated because Charlton Heston is not in the Concordance
4)  You have often wondered how the priests could carry Noah's Ark
3)  You think the minor prophets worked in a quarry
2)  You fell for it when the preacher asked everyone to to turn to 1st Condominiums
1)  The kids keep asking too many questions about your usual bedtime story: "Jonah the Shepherd Boy and His Ark of Many Colors."

Blame, Fault, Adam, Eve
It was not the apple on the tree that caused all the problems, it was the pair on the ground.
Unknown

Adversity Teaches
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
English Proverb

Commending, Congratulatory, Fault
I like to praise and reward loudly, but blame quietly.
Catherine II

Personal Failure
When others do not perform to our standards, it is not weakness on their part.
Unknown

Counter Arrangements
Man proposes, but God disposes.
Thomas a` Kempis
1420, in his work, "Imitation of Christ", Book. I, Chapter 19

Out of Control
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas a` Kempis
1420, in his work, "Imitation of Christ", Book. I, Chapter 16.

Pride vs Humility
It is possible for men to become to big for God, but men can never become to little.
Unknown

Printing Press
God suffers in the multitude of souls whom His word can not reach. Religious truth is imprisoned in a small number of manuscript books which confine instead of spread the public treasure.  Let us break the seal which seals up holy things and give wings to Truth in order that she may win every soul that comes into the world by her word no longer written at great expense by hands easily palsied, but multiplied like the wind by an untiring machine.
Johannes Gutenberg, Johannes
Alphonse De Lamartine, "Memories of Celebrated Characters", p. 277.

Welcoming another Day
In the typical custom of the age, each day a young sailor would announce the day by singing out:
Blessed be the light of day
And the Holy Cross, we say;
and the Lord of Veritie  (Verification, Truth)
And the Holy Trinity.
Blessed be th' immortal soul
And the Lord who keeps it whole,
Blessed be the light of day
And He who sends the night away.
Columbus, Christopher
John Eidsmoe, "Columbus & Cortez, Conquerors for Christ" (Green Forest, AR: New Leaf Press, 1992), p. 107.

Character, Discipline, Standing
The person who has moved the world is a person the world has not moved.
Unknown

Swearing Truth with the Written Name
The Criss-Cross or Christ's-Cross was a form of written oath before God, used when signing one's name on a document; and in the event a person could not write, was used in place of their sign (signature).
"Criss-Cross"  Victoria Neufeldt, editor, Webster's New World Dictionary of American English (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, Third College Edition, 1988), p. 328.

Victory, Flop, Crash
The cost of failure is enough to pay for success.
G. Steven Andres

Dedication to Labor and Accomplishment
Lord, grant that I may always desire to do more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo de Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, the great artist and sculpturer.  
Perry Tanksley, "To Love is to Give" (Jackson, Mississippi: Allgood Books, Box 1329; Parthenon Press, 201 8th Ave., South, Nashville, Tennessee, 1972), p. 19.

Read and Heed
The Bible was written for men with a head upon their shoulders.
Luther, Martin
William Neil, Ph.D., D.D., "Concise Dictionary of Religious Quotations" (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1974). p. 9, No. 14.

Thankfulness
If you do not have enough to be thankful for, consider some things you don't have.
Unknown

Red Tape, Filibuster, Compromise
"I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had ren them though the U. S. Congress."
President Ronald Reagan

The Ministry of Jesus Christ
Every aspect has meaning for man:
in his life, an example
in his death, a sacrifice
in his resurrection, a conqueror
in his ascension, a king
in his intercession, a high priest  (edited for clarity by gsa)
Luther, Martin
Tryon Edwards, D.D., "The New Dictionary of Thoughts  - A Cyclopedia of Quotations" (Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1852; revised and enlarged by C.H. Catrevas, Ralph Emerson Browns and Jonathan Edwards [descendent, along with Tryon, of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), president of Princeton], 1891; The Standard Book Company, 1955, 1963), p. 88.

Written in Nature
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection not in books alone, but in every leaf in the springtime.
Luther, Martin
"Bless Your Heart" (series II) (Eden Prairie, MN: Heartland Samplers, Inc., 1990), 4.8.

Medicine and Miracles
I treated him, God cured him.
Ambroise Pare'
French Surgeon, was:

Faith in the Resurrection
In his Bible, found in the Gatehouse at Westminster after his death, Sir Walter Raleigh left this version of one of his earlier poems:
Even such is time, that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust;
Who in the dark and silent grave,
When we have wandered all our ways,
Shuts up the story of our days.
And from which earth, and grave, and dust,
The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.
Raleigh, Sir Walter
1618, in a poem left in his Bible which was found in the Gatehouse at Westminster after his execution.
John Bartlett, "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 173.

God's or Man's Books
There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.
Sir Frances Bacon

Get Busy
The only spectators allowed in life are angels.
G. Steven Andres

What Will You Leave?
In 1626, Sir Francis Bacon wrote in his Last Will and Testament :
I bequeath my soul to God ... My body to be buried obscurely. For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next age.
Sir Francis Bacon
John Bartlett, "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 181.

Working with a Vision
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. 
A great player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky

Education Changes the Owner
One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains it's original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Truth
It is better to be divided by truth than united by error.
Unknown

Truth
It is better to speak the truth that hurts, that hurts then heals, than a lie that comforts then kills.
Unknown

Truth
It is better to be hated for telling the truth, than loved for telling a lie.
Unknown

Truth
It is better to hear tough or rough truth than tender or polished lies.
Unknown

Truth
It is better to stand alone for the truth than stand with a crowd in a lie.
Unknown

Experience is Better than Hearsay
It is not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bull ring.
Spanish Proverb

Risk and Reward
If you play it safe, you don't get to play.
G. Steven Andres

Venture and Adventure
Take a chance or take nothing.
G. Steven Andres

Conscientious
If responsibility is removed, so is completion.
G. Steven Andres

Power
To mention your authority, is to begin to lose it.
G. Steven Andres

Taking a Chance
If you don't risk anything you risk even more.
Erika Jong

Speed Increases Hazard
If everything seems under control you're just not going fast enough.
Mario Andretti, race car driver

Christian Founders
It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on the religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  For this very reason people of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."
Patrick Henry

Becoming what you hate
You cannot hold a man down, without staying down with him.
Booker T. Washington

Companions
Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

Spirituality
Love of eloquence for eloquence sake
Is entertainment.
Unknown

Tolerant
Tolerance of evil
Is not a virtue.
Unknown

Perseverance
His hand clave unto the sword.
2 Sam 23:10

Resistance
We have not resisted unto blood
Heb 12:4

Prospectives 
Opportunity is passage through the door Christ opens!
Unknown

Positive and Negative
It is not enough for a gardener to love flowers, he must also hate weeds.
Unknown

You already said that!
Would it be redundant to say, "My Congressman is a Fool"
G. Steven Andres

Response
"We should react the same, whether we win or lose, just be certain that both reactions are as if you won."
G. Steven Andres

Truth Vs Lies
Truth is related in simple terms.
Lies have need of many adjectives.
G. Steven Andres

Identifying Mark
Today's conversations are filled with talk of Branding Oneself.
But no one's Brand is proclaimed for what they are going to do.
G. Steven Andres

Missions
“The light that shines fartherest, shines brightest nearest home.”
Fred Donnelson

Don't Quit, Don't Stop, Don't Pause
“Anywhere, provided it be forward – farther still farther into the night”
David Livingstone

Witnessing, Evangelism
“Soul Winning: everything, the only thing, the right thing”
Fred Donnelson

Church Business
“The right arm of every church should be missions”
Fred Donnelson

Unity, Missions
“Think what we can do together to reach the world for Christ”
Carl Boonstra

Missions
“Why wait for a call when you have a command”
Bob Hughes

Missions
“Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once?”
Oswald J. Smith

Sacrifice
“God had only one Son and He made Him a missionary”
David Livingstone

Heavenly Goal
“Nothing earthly will make me give up in despair”
David Livingstone

Anticipation, Challenge
“Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God”
William Carey

Spiritual Warfare
“Battles are won by teaching soldiers how to die, not how to avoid dying”
Marshal Foch

Objects hold no power
“To a Christian there is no difference between the secular and the sacred; all ground is holy ground, and every bush is a burning bush”
Bob Jones, Sr.

Command, Obligation, Surrender
“I must go.  If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him”
C.T. Studd

Obey
“Delayed obedience is disobedience and disobedience is sin”
Don Hillis

Command, Obligation
“You must go, or send a substitute”
Oswald J. Smith

Purpose
“The mission of the church is missions”
Oswald J. Smith

Soul Winning
“The church that does not evangelize will fossilize”
Oswald J. Smith

Potentiality, Guarantee, Assurance
“The prospects are as bright as the promises of God”
Adiniron Judson

Sacrifice, Effort
“Now let me burn out for God”
Henry Martyn

Liberality, Soul Winning, Witnessing, Evangelism
“The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon be evangelical”
Alexander Duff

Witnessing, Soul Winning, Evangelism
“My only business is to keep just one more person out of hell”
John Wesley

Evangelism, Witnessing, Soul Winning
“You have only one business on earth – to save souls”
John Wesley

No Regrets, Sacrifice
“I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.”
David Brainerd

Deserving Praise and Honor
“No sacrifice is too great for the King of kings and Lord of lords”
Jack Baskin

Sacrifice
“If I had a thousand lives I would give them all for China”
Hudson Taylor

Keep Going, Don't Quit
“Let a thousand fall but don’t give up Africa”
Melville Cox

Soul Winning, Evangelism, Witnessing
“This generation must reach this generation”
John R. Mott

Missions, Responsibility
“Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go”
A.   B. Simpson

Self-Centeredness
“World missions is God’s therapy for the sin of selfishness within the local church”
Clifford Clark

Sacrifice
“Oh for a thousand lives to be spent in the service of Christ”
George Whitefield

Sacrifice
“Lord, bring honor to thy Son at my expense, whatever the cost, and send me the bill.  It is my reasonable service – He paid mine”
Carl Baugh

Prayer, Leading
“Don’t pray for an easier life – pray that God use you and take you through the one you have”
Unknown

Missions, Leadership
“Every church should have two pastors, one for the many at home, one for the millions abroad”
Unknown

Label
On Sears hairdryer: "Do not use while sleeping".
Unknown

Label
On a bag of Fritos: "You could be a winner! No purchase necessary. Details inside".
Unknown

Label
On a bar of Dial soap: "Directions: Use like regular soap."
Unknown

Label
On Swanson frozen dinners: "Serving suggestions: Defrost."
Unknown

Label
On Tesco's Tiramisu dessert (printed on bottom of box): "Do not turn upside down."
Unknown

Label
On Marks & Spencer Bread Pudding: "Product will be hot after heating".
Unknown

Label
On packaging for a Rowenta iron: :"Do not iron clothes on body."
Unknown

Label
On Boot's Children's Cough Medicine: "Do not drive a car or operate machinery after taking this medication."
Unknown

Label
On Nytol Sleep Aid: "Warning: May cause drowsiness"
Unknown

Label
On most brands of Christmas lights: "For indoor or outdoor use only."
Unknown

Label
On a Japanese food processor: "Not to be used for the other use”
Unknown

Label
On Sainsbury's peanuts: "Warning: Contains nuts”
Unknown

Label
On an American Airlines packet of nuts: "Instructions: open packet, eat nuts." (Step 3: Fly Delta)
Unknown

Label
On a child's Superman costume: "Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly."
Unknown

Change
If you are what you were then you ain’t.
Unknown

Be sure your sin will find you out
What is it about sin that forces itself to reveal itself?
G. Steven Andres 

Being Sure, Knowing the Heart
Continued Conviction is a sign of conversion,  but, conversion is not a sign of continued conviction.
G. Steven Andres

Finding Your Way 
Clear the Conscience to Clear the Path
G. Steven Andres

Concerned 
Keep a burden for yourself and those you lead.
G. Steven Andres

Do Your Own Study Work
Be fresh in your preaching and you will never be boring.
G. Steven Andres

Spiritual Guidance
Let the Lord lead in the course of things. 
Once He has led, never waver from the course until He changes it.
G. Steven Andres

True Spirituality
Separation is not a measure of Spirituality.  Spirituality allows for separation.
G. Steven Andres

Draw, Appeal
Spiritual Christians attract spiritual Christians.  Christ is the attraction and the connection.
G. Steven Andres

Goes Without Saying
Spiritual leaders must be spiritual. 
Duhhh
G. Steven Andres

Wisdom, Smart Bargain
The cost to follow Christ is cheap, but it is everything you have or want.
G. Steven Andres

Imperative, Critical
There must be an urgency in preaching, about the urgency of the topic.
G. Steven Andres

Witnessing, Evangelism
The time and place of soul winning is not chosen.  It is always urgent and appropriate.
G. Steven Andres

Worldliness
There are great world-killers, but they have skinny sheep.
Wayne Van Gelderen, Sr.

Idols, Icons, Statues
Spiritual Idolatry is
* preaching your own convictions
* wishing God were different
* doing right for the approval of others.
G. Steven Andres

Opportunity 
To the Israelites, Goliath is “too big to hit”; but to little David he is “too big to miss.”

Opportunity 
About the only thing that comes to him who waits is whiskers.

Opportunity 
The trouble with an opportunity is that is more recognizable going than it is coming.

Opportunity 
You never get a second chance to make a good first impression.

Pessimism
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Opportunity 
Whatever your lot in life, why don’t you try to build something on it?

Opportunity 
Some people fail to recognize opportunity because it so often comes to them in overalls and looks like work.

Preaching, Bored, Stirring, Inspirational
No sermon is dull that cuts the heart.

Preaching
Every sermon should have a train of thought, but it should also have a terminus.

Preaching
If you preach what is new, it won’t be true.  If you preach what is true, it won’t be new.
Spurgeon

Preaching 
When a preacher cannot get fire into his sermon, he should put his heart on fire.

Preaching 
Don’t be squeamish in the pulpit-like one who said, “Jonah was three days and three nights in-ahem-the society of the fish.”
Spurgeon

Preaching
When preaching:
* to be heard is good
* to be understood is better
* to inspire is best
G. Steven Andres

Preaching
I always like to act according to Cobbett’s rule: “I speak not only so that I can be understood, but so that I cannot be misunderstood.”
Spurgeon

Preaching 
To be an effective preacher,
* be scriptural
* be sincere
* be simple
* be short
* be seated.
C.W.H.

Preaching 
If you can smile while you skin them and make them smile while they are being skinned, they will follow you to the tannery to get the hide.
Sam Jones

Preaching 
The best ingredient in most sermons is shortening.
Unknown

Preaching 
The preacher needs
* the head of a scholar
* the heart of a child
* the hide of a rhinoceros
Unknown

Preaching 
A preacher who was in the habit of writing his sermons out carefully found himself at church one Sunday morning without his manuscript. “As I have forgotten my notes,” he began his sermon, “I will have to rely on the Lord for guidance. Tonight I shall come better prepared.
Unknown

Preaching 
Put a giraffe in the pulpit and the lambs will starve to death.
Unknown

Preaching 
There are some men who preach so well when in the pulpit, that it is a shame they should ever come out of it; and when they are out of it, they live so silly that it is a shame they should ever enter it again.
Charles Wesley

Preaching 
One man remarked to his pastor, “Every sermon you preach is better than the next one.”
Re-read this.
Unknown

Preaching
Someone suggested, “If you don’t strike oil in thirty minutes, stop boring.”
Unknown

Preaching 
A Christian minister once said, “I was never of any use until I found out that God did not intend me to be a ‘great man.’”
Unknown

Preaching 
When liberty was offered to John Bunyan, then in prison, on condition of abstaining from preaching, he consistently replied, “If you let me out today, I shall preach again tomorrow.”

Preaching 
The young unknown preacher, speaking for his first time in a big conference, said, “I feel like a ‘Who’s he?’ in a group of ‘Who’s Who?’”
Unknown

Preaching 
Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write a better sermon now than I did seven years ago.
John Wesley.

Preaching 
There is a hatred which is downright charity; that is the hatred of erroneous doctrine.  There is an intolerance which is downright praiseworthy; that is the intolerance of false doctrine in the pulpit.
Bishop J.C. Ryle.

Preaching 
Someone reminded me that all my sermons have happy endings and then explained, “Everybody is happy when you finish.”
C.W.H.

Preaching 
Billy Sunday used to say, “Put the cookies on the lower shelf so everybody can reach them.”

Preaching 
One Sunday morning a lady said to the pastor, “I did not like your sermon this morning,” to which he replied, “Neither did the Devil. Classify yourself and come back next Sunday.”

Preaching 
No sermon is ever quite a success which leaves men satisfied with themselves.
Unknown

Preaching 
The preacher’s opening remark was, “I feel like the lightning bug who backed into the fan.  I’m delighted to be here!”
Unknown

Preaching 
One preacher said, “I am bad to exaggerate.  As a matter of fact, I have cried a bucket of tears over it!”
Unknown

Preaching 
Dr. James Gray, when asked, “Where did you get that sermon?” replied, “I admit I milked twenty-one cows, but I made my own butter.”
Unknown

Preaching 
When a man shoots above the heads of the congregation, it doesn’t prove he has superior ammunition; it only proves he has a bad aim.
Unknown

Preaching 
Wesley, when once asked how he got the crowds, replied, “I set myself on fire, and people come to see me burn.”

Endurance 
Patience is accepting a difficult situation without giving God a deadline to remove it.
Bill Gothard

Persistence
Patience is the ability to put up with what you want to put down.

Staying power 
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. 
Abraham Lincoln

Patience 
The ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Doggedness 
Yard by yard is mighty hard, but inch by inch is a cinch.

Expectations 
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he will never be disappointed. 
Pope

Pessimism 
It seems that people always play up the bad side of things.  Have you ever seen a sign reading “NICE DOG.”

Negativity 
The pessimist says, “If I don’t try, I can’t fail.”  The optimist says, “If I don’t try, I can’t win.”

Cynicism  
“I hear you have a good crop of potatoes this year, Mrs. Higgins.  That must cheer your heart,” said the neighbor.  “Aye, they’re good enough, but where’s the bad’uns to feed the pigs?”

Gloom 
A pessimist is one who blows out the candle to see how dark it is.

Bright Side, Optimism 
I like the optimist who fell out the window of the 20th story floor and was heard to say as he passed the 2nd floor, “Safe so far!”

Negativity 
A pessimist is one who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a casket.

Pessimism
Definition of a pessimist:  A man who has swallowed an egg; afraid to move for fear it will break; afraid to sit still for fear the thing will hatch.

Confidence 
The bald-headed optimist went into the drug store and asked for some hair restorer.  When he started to leave, he said, “Oh, and by the way, I’ll take two combs, also.”

Pessimism 
A pessimist is someone whose daydreams are nightmares.

Pessimism 
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society.  The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist invents the parachute.

Optimism 
The spirit of optimism is the spirit that makes the tea kettle sing even when it is up to its neck in hot water!

Pessimism 
The worst pest in the world is a pessimist. 
C.W.H.

Optimism 
Somebody said, “An optimist is the fellow who takes the cold water thrown on his ideas, heats it with enthusiasm, makes steam and pushes ahead.”

Pessimism 
Pessimism:  Looking at the world through woe-colored glasses.

Pessimism 
One lady who complained about everything said, “I always feel bad even when I feel good because I know I’ll feel bad again after while.”

Prayer 
A wise prayer: 
“Lord, fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff
and nudge me when I’ve said enough. 
Amen.”

Prayer 
When Jesus prayed in public, His prayers were always short.  But when He prayed alone, His prayers were longer.  On one occasion He continued all night to God in prayer. 
C.W.H.

Prayer 
Take no rest from prayer, and give him no rest. 
Spurgeon

Prayer 
If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have. 
Moody

Prayer 
God may be out of sight, but He is certainly not out of reach:  He is only a prayer away. 
C.W.H.

Prayer 
Anchor yourself to the throne of God, then shorten the rope.

Prayer 
The best place to pray for potatoes is on the end of a hoe handle. 
Bud Robinson

Prayer 
One man, praying, said, “Lord, I haven’t prayed in forty years; and if You’ll answer my prayer this time, I won’t bother You again for another forty years.”

Prayer 
When we work, we get what we can do; but when we pray, we get what God can do.

Prayer 
“I was not looking at the little in hand, but at the fullness of God,” said Mueller when his needs were great and the supply small.

Prayer 
Pray for a poor memory when people seem unkind.

Prayer 
Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure. 
D.L. Moody

Prayer 
Pray I the key to open the day and the bolt to shut in the night. 
Bishop Taylor

Prayer 
The possibilities of prayer exceed our ability to ask or even think (Eph. 3:20). 
C.W.H.

Prayer 
Groanings that cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused. 
Spurgeon

Prayer 
True prayer should be a way of life, not just a case of emergency.

Prayer 
I am sometimes startled at the power of a feeble prayer to win a speedy answer. 
Spurgeon

Prayer 
Some folks are like the little boy who, when asked by his pastor if he prayed every day, replied, "No, not every day.  Some days I don’t want anything.”

Prayer 
Pray a definite prayer for a definite thing, meet definite conditions, exercise definite faith, and God will give a definite answer.

Prayer 
Prayer is something more than asking God to run errands for us.

Prayer 
If prayer will help me out of trouble, it will surely help me to keep out of trouble.

Prayer 
When we pray for rain, we must be willing to put up with some mud.

Prayer 
If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies; yet the distance makes no difference—He is praying for me. 
McCheyne.

Prayer 
To pray bout something and not make ourselves available is hypocrisy.

Prayer 
Prayer is no substitute for duty.

Prayer 
Prayer is measured by depth, not length!

Prayer 
Nothing is discussed more and practiced less than prayer.

Works
A Christian does good deeds, but just doing good deeds does not make a man a Christian. 
Bob Jones, Sr

Grace
God is in the cleansing business, not the whitewashing business.

Certainty
Absolute dependence on what God has done equals salvation; absolute dependence on what God has said equals assurance. 
C.W.H.

Works
The religions of the world say, “do and live.”  The religion of the Bible says, “live and do.” 
Bob Jones, Sr

Religion
Religion is the best armor a man can have, but it is the worst cloak. 
John Bunyan

Free Will
Although god created man without man’s help, He will not save man without man’s consent.

Priority 
We don’t go to Heaven head first but heart first. 
Tom Malone, Sr.

Grace
It is just as easy to climb to Heaven from a molehill as it is from the top of Mount Everest.  You can do neither. 
C.W.H.

Salvation
You don’t spell salvation “D-O.”  You spell it “D-O-N-E.” 
C.W.H.

Repentance
Deathbed repentance is burning the candle of life in the service of the Devil, then blowing the smoke into the face of God. 
Billy Sunday

Salvation
Better never to have been born at all, than never to have been born again.

Salvation
Most anybody can put a new suit of clothes on a man, but only God can put a new man in a suit of clothes.

Salvation
Justification is something that cannot be reversed and followed by damnation.

Procrastination
If we put off repentance another day, we have a day more to repent of, and a day less to repent in. 
Mason

Grace
Trying to earn salvation by our goodness is like putting a drop of perfume in an ocean of filth. 
C.W.H.

Faith
I don’t know I’m saved because I feel good; I know I’m saved because the Bible says so; and I feel good because I know I’m saved. Bob Jones, Sr.

Soul Winning
Salvation may come in quietly, but few people can keep quiet about it. 
C.W.H.

Certainty
The salvation that Jesus Christ purchased for a lost world is wonderful in its magnitude.  It is as deep as fallen humanity, as broad as the compassion of God, as high as Heaven, and as everlasting as the eternal Rock of Ages. 
Uncle Bud Robinson

Salvation
You have not been high-born until you have been born from on High. 
Bob Jones, Sr.

Procrastination
Many who expect to be saved in the eleventh hour die at ten-thirty.

Asking and Receiving
Christ knocks at my door here, and I knock at His door over there.  If I open to Him here, He will open to me over there.  Isn’t that fair? 
Uncle Bud Robinson

Fools, Foolishness
Under the Constitution of the United States every man has the right to make a fool of himself as he sees fit.

Repentance
Many people believe that admitting a fault means they no longer have to correct it.

Attitude
Don’t go around with a chip on your shoulder—people might think it came off your head.

Selfishness, Lazy
When we expect more of others than we expect of ourselves, we are in a state of carnality.

Your Father the Devil, Your Father in Heaven?
What you are is not nearly as important as whose you are.

Pride
Self always wants to be crowned, but God says you must be crucified.

Remembrances, Thankfulness
He who forgets his friend is ungrateful to him, but he who forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself. 
Bunyan

Repentance
Confessing your sins is no substitute for forsaking them.

Pride
“No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.”
Charles Simmons

Pride
When a man won’t listen to his conscience, it’s usually because he doesn’t want advice from a total stranger.

Pride
The Greeks said, “Know thyself.”  The Romans said, “Control thyself.”  Christ said, “Deny thyself.”

Pride
Who has deceived thee so oft as thyself? 
Benjamin Franklin

Pride
If a hypocrite is between you and Heaven, then he’s closer to Heaven than you are.

Pride
Big shots are small shots who keep on shooting.

Pride
Many people are suffering from self-inflicted wounds.

Pride
I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself. 
D.L. Moody

Repentance
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. 
Leo Tolstoy

Pride
I always like to hear a man talk about himself, because then I never hear anything but good. 
Will Rogers

Appropriate
One man complained, “I am the kind of person who, if it were raining soup, I would be standing there with a fork.”

Pride
He who falls in love with himself is not apt to have much competition.

Pride
It is all right to talk with yourself, but you are in trouble when you start asking questions.

Pride
I like to talk to myself for two reasons.  First, I like to hear intelligent people talk; and second, I like to talk to intelligent people. 
John R. Rice

Pride
Some people think they are big shots just because they explode with a loud noise!

Optimism
No man who thinks in terms of catching mice will ever catch lions.

Pride
Give some people an inch, and they think they are rulers.

Pride
We are all dangerous fold without God’s controlling hand. 
William Ward Ayer

Grace
The will of God will never lead us where the grace of God is inadequate to keep us.

Character
“You can never do more than your duty,” said Robert E. Lee,  “and you should never wish to do less.”

Character
Service can never become slavery to one who loves. 
J.L. Massee

Ministry
If God has called you, do not spend time looking over your shoulder to see who is following.

Character
It is more important to be than to do.  You can do without being but you can’t be without doing. 
C.W.H.

Character
Serve for the good you can do, not for the praise you get.

Character
The higher you rise in the likeness of Jesus, the lower you will stoop in your service for others.

Character
Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.

Character
The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Opportunity
Slight not what’s near while aiming at what’s far.

Importance
The most important light in the house is not the chandelier in the parlor.  It’s that little back hall light that keeps you from breaking your neck when you go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. 
Bob Jones, Sr.

Character
The best ability is availability. 
C.W.H.

Character
Have your tools ready; God will find you work. 
Gospel Message

Faith
Reward for Christian service is based on faithfulness to opportunity given. 
C.W.H.

Pride
He who serves God for money will serve the Devil for higher wages.

Character
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as it had nothing else in the universe to do. 
Galileo

Opportunity
The measure of your responsibilities is a measure of your opportunities. 
Bob Jones, Sr.

Character
The real tragedy of life is not in being limited to one talent, but in the failure to use the one talent.

Pride
What a big difference there is between giving advice and lending a hand!

Character
A good rule to follow:  give God the first part of every day, the first day of every week, and the first part of your income. 
C.W.H.

Character
God never puts any man in a place too small to grown in.

Character 
Our Lord was a willing Saviour, and He uses only willing servants. 
C.W.H.

Power of God
God doesn’t call the fit; he fits the called.

Place Value Correctly
When the good takes the place of the best, even the good becomes bad.

Ready 
We need the eagerness to serve like that of a hunting dog awaiting a chase.

Acting Out Sin
Temptation is not a sin.  It only becomes a sin when it is yielded to.  Even our Lord was tempted. 
C.W.H.

God Limits Himself
Stay away from the precipice!  You can’t alter the inevitable!  If you lean too far out of the window, they’ll call the coroner!  If you eat salt herring, even the grace of God won’t keep you from being thirsty!  Eat raw onions, and even the grace of God won’t give you the sweet breath of a baby!  Some things are INEVITABLE.

Profound
You can find the world’s shortest sermon on a thousand traffic signs:  KEEP RIGHT. 
Amarillo News

God Limits Himself
God will lower the gate of warning, sound the bell, flash the red light, but He won’t keep you from crossing the tracts.

Transfer of Power
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

God Changes the Heart
Sin is a heart disease than can only be permanently remedied by the Great Physician.

Order
The lust of the flesh is a consuming desire to do.  The lust of the eyes is a compelling urge to have.  The pride of life is a constant thrust to be.

Common Sense
When in doubt play safe.
Bob Jones, Sr.

Relationship
Christ died for sin; the believer dies to sin; the unbeliever dies in sin. 
D.L. Moody

Incurable
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the world.
W.E. Gladstone

Priorities
A ship is safe in the ocean as long as the ocean is not in the ship.  And a Christian is safe in the world so long as the world is not in the Christian.

Blame
It wasn’t the apple on the tree that caused all the trouble; it was the pair on the ground.

Resist
By yielding to temptation, one may lose in a moment what it took him a lifetime to gain.

Acknowledgement, Results
A prisoner mending his trousers was asked, “Are you sewing”, “No,” he replied, “I’m reaping.”

Results 
Whosoever sows to the flesh must pluck the thistles of his own sowing.  He will be thrashed, scratched and bruised by the thorns of his own misdeeds.

Without Honor
Sin in a Christian’s life makes a coward of him.

Singlemindedness
Christ cannot reign in the parlor of our hearts while we entertain the Devil in the cellar of our thoughts.

Temptations
One of the worst things about sin for the Christian is that it weakens our moral and spiritual resistance.
C.W.H.

Payday, Results
Sin: a moment of gratification; an eternity of remorse.

Resist
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. 
Franklin

Sowing and Reaping
Wild oats need no fertilizer.

Clear Conscience
A gash in the conscience may disfigure a soul forever.
Spurgeon

Priorities
Bad things in life are enjoyed first and paid for later, but good things in life are paid for first, then later enjoyed.

Priorities
Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

Determination
No one can honestly or hopefully be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it. 
Ruskin

Sin Stains
You cannot think dirty, you cannot talk dirty, you  cannot act dirty-and be clean!

Resistance
Temptations, when first we meet them, are as a lion that roared upon Samson, but if we overcome them, the next time we see them, we shall find a nest of honey within.
John Bunyan

Appropriate
The time is never right to do a wrong thing.

Sin is Never Discounted
One thing to be sure of – there will be no reduction in the wages of sin.

Backslidding
To explain why you backslide does not justify it.

Narrow, Straight Path
Some people have yet to learn that they cannot travel in the wrong direction and reach the right destination.

Sin will expose itself
The Devil always gets out a few extra copies when a saint goes wrong.

Exposed
If we cover our sin, God will uncover it; if we uncover it to God, He will cover it with His blood.

Try Your Best
It is a sin to do less than your best.
Bob Jones, Sr.

Trap
Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
Dryden.

Numbness
The further a man goes in lust  and iniquity, the more dead he becomes to purity and holiness.  He loses the power to appreciate the beauties of virtue or to be disgusted with abominations of vice. 
Spurgeon

Immodesty
Where modesty is absent, virtue has no means of protection.

Forgiveness, Forsake
Sin must be dealt with in one of two ways – punishment or pardon.

Responsibility
Do not blame God for the harvest when you do the sowing.

Thankfulness, Robbery
On the very night that Matthew Henry was robbed, he prayed this prayer ...
"I thank Thee,
FIRST, because I was never robbed before;
SECOND, because although they took my money,
they did not take my life;
THIRD, because although they took my all, it was not much;
FOURTH, because it was I who was robbed and not I who was doing the robbing.

The Fields are white unto Harvest
If all the lost people of the world were to line up single file ...
The line would reach around the world 30 times. 
The line would grow at the rate of 20 miles per day.
If you should attempt to drive 50 miles per hour, 10 hours per day, it would take you 4 years and 40 days to get to the end of that line. But, by the time you reached the end of that line, it would have gotten 30,000 miles longer.
The need of the lost is to be saved, the way they are multiplying, we had better get busy.
Unknown

Learning to use good judgment
Always judge others to help
Never judge others to condemn
Do not forget to judge yourself, first.
G. Steven Andres

Following
Follow the Lord, never follow your heart
Follow love, never follow like
Follow clear thinking, never follow fear
Follow the truth,
* never follow opinion
* never follow the crowd
* never follow appearances
* never follow fashion
Follow forbearance, never follow vengeance
Follow consistency, never follow whim
Follow decisiveness, never follow uncertainty
G. Steven Andres

Genius
Someone recently studied the lives of 20 Geniuses and found three Common Denominators
1.  As children, they had loving interaction with adults in learning situations.
2.  They were basically isolated from other children outside the family.
3.  They were encouraged to use their imagination in terms of creative problem solving.

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