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a[0] ="God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.<br /><br /> - Dwight L. Moody";

a[1] ="Loving others is an important part of loving God.<br /><br /> - June Townzen";

a[2] ="In the Lord there is mercy, but in the world there is none, for nature and life move on as if unaware of good or evil, of human sorrow or human pain.<br /><br /> - A.W. Tozer";

a[3] ="If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?<br /><br /> - Linda Ellerbee";

a[4] ="The fact is that we are not today producing saints. We are making converts to an effete type of Christianity that bears little resemblance to that of the New Testament. The average so-called Bible Christian in our times is but a wretched parody of true sainthood. Yet we put millions of dollars behind such movements to perpetuate this degenerate form of religion and attack the man who dares to challenge the wisdom of it. Clearly we must begin to produce better Christians.<br /><br /> - A. W. Tozer";

a[5] ="An unexamined life is not worth living.<br /><br /> - Socrates";

a[6] ="Mainly, from the past I gain perspective that what I feel and believe right now will not always be what I feel and believe - which drives me to sink roots deeper, into layers of subsoil unaffected by El Nino or other vagaries of climate.<br /><br /> - Philip Yancey";

a[7] ="Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick has made an impressive distinction between enforceable and unenforceable obligations. The former are regulated by the codes of society and the vigorous implementation of law-enforcement agencies. Breaking those obligations, spelled out on thousands of pages in law books, has filled numerous prisons. But unenforceable obligations are beyond the reach of the laws of society. They concern inner attitudes, genuine person-to-person relations, and expressions of compassion which law books cannot regulate and jails cannot rectify. Such obligations are met by one's commitment to an inner law, written on the heart. Man-made laws assure justice, but a higher law produces love. No code of conduct ever persuaded a father to love his children or a husband to show affection to his wife. The law court may force him to provide bread for the family, but it cannot make him provide the bread of love. A good father is obedient to the unenforceable. The good Samaritan represents the conscience of mankind because he was also obedient to that which could not be enforced. No law in the world could have produced such unalloyed compassion, such genuine love, such thorough altruism.<br /><br /> - Martin Luther King, Jr.";

a[8] ="Jesus' disciples came to him, and said, \"Lord, teach us to pray.\" It is not recorded that he taught them how to preach. I have often said that I would rather know how to to pray like Daniel than to preach like Gabriel. If you get love into your soul, so that the grace of God may come down in answer to prayer, there will be no trouble about reaching the people. It is not by eloquent sermons that perishing souls are going to be reached; we need the power of God in order that the blessing may come down.<br /><br /> - D. L. Moody";

a[9] ="Satan dreads nothing but prayer. His one concern is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.<br /><br /> - Samuel Chadwick";

a[10] ="If humility speaks of itself, it is gone.<br /><br /> - D. L. Moody";

a[11] ="Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable – if anything is excellent or praiseworthy – think about such things.<br /><br /> - <i>Philippians 4:8</i>";

a[12] ="This is what the Lord Almighty says: \"Give careful thought to your ways.\"<br /><br /> - <i>Haggai 1:7</i>";

a[13] ="Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.<br /><br /> - Charles H. Spurgeon";

a[14] ="In the corporate world, every major company formulates a mission statement. That, in turn, is invoked when measuring achievements and failures. If a company does not know why it exists, then it will never know if it is failing or succeeding. How indicting, then, it is to all of us who will labor for hours to establish a mission statement for a company to sell toothpicks or tombstones but never pause long enough to write one out for our individual lives.<br /><br /> - Ravi Zacharias";

a[15] ="The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.<br /><br /> - D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones";

a[16] ="Our lives are lived in a succession of present moments, and the trick is to slow down the pace at which one moment is succeeded by another. 'Be still and know that I am God,' says Psalm 46 ... Having never stopped to live the present moment, we one day run out of present moments and discover we have not lived at all.<br /><br /> - Richard John Neuhaus";

a[17] ="And Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees.<br /><br /> - William Cowper";

a[18] ="\"[By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation] to whom it will not be injurious to read a dozen quire of newspapers daily, to be constantly called to the telephone...[and] to live half their time in a railway carriage or in a flying machine...\"<br /><br /> - Author Max Nordau, 1895";

a[19] ="Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1-1/2 tons.<br /><br /> - Popular Mechanics, 1949";

a[20] ="Faith is increased by exercise, by being put to use. It is nourished by painful trials.<br /><br /> - E. M. Bounds";

a[21] ="The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.<br /><br /> - Frodo Baggins";

a[22] ="We have not yet met our Waterloo, Watson, but this is our Marengo, for it begins in defeat and ends in victory.<br /><br /> - Sherlock Holmes";

a[23] ="If I didst what thou desirest, I should repent after it, as the man repented who killed his parrot.<br /><br /> - from Stories from the Thousand and One Nights.";

a[24] ="\"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,\" was his mildly cadaverous reply.<br /><br /> - Bartleby the Scrivener";

a[25] ="I can't stand walking into that room and feeling like I just walked into an ice cube!<br /><br /> - Mom";

a[26] ="Oh, these English! If this was an American craft, we should blow up, perhaps, but we should at all events go faster.<br /><br /> - Passepartout in Jules Verne's \"Around the World in Eighty Days\"";

a[27] ="By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.<br /><br /> - Elisabeth Elliot";

a[28] ="There are three kinds of people in the world this afternoon - those who are afraid, those who don't know enough to be afraid, and those who know their Bibles.<br /><br /> - Leonard Ravenhill";

a[29] ="Quite simply, being human is hazardous to health.<br /><br /> - Philip Yancey";

a[30] ="Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning that we can comprehend.<br /><br /> - Dennis Covinton";

a[31] ="Stop acting like you're not human!<br /><br /> - Joyce Meyer";

a[32] ="Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.<br /><br /> - Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina";

a[33] ="A friend in Washington D.C. is someone who stabs you in the chest.<br /><br /> - Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense";

a[34] ="More powerful than all powers is being. To be is more powerful than even to do. Action may be hypocrisy, but being is the thing itself and the parent of action.<br /><br /> - George MacDonald";

a[35] ="It is easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.<br /><br /> - Sherlock Holmes";

a[36] ="We apologize for the error in last week's paper in which we stated that Mr. Arnold Dogbody was a defective in the police force. We meant, of course, that Mr. Dogbody is a detective in the police farce.<br /><br /> - Correction Notice in the Ely Standard, a British newspaper";

a[37] ="During class my skydiving instructor would take time to answer any stupid \"First Timer\" questions. One guy asked: \"If our chute doesn't open, and the reserve doesn't open, how long do we have til we hit the ground?\" Our jump master looked at him and in perfect deadpan answered: \"The rest of your life.\"<br /><br /> - Unknown";

a[38] ="Thus, the failure of the Court in Roe v. Wade to have examined into the actual purpose and intent of the legislature in framing the fourteenth amendment and the thirtheenth amendment to which it was so closely related and supplementary thereof when it was considering the meaning to be assigned to the concept of \"person\" was a failure to be faithful to the law or to respect the legislature which framed it.  Careful research of the history of these two amendments will demonstrate to any impartial investigator that there is overwhelming evidience supporting the proposition that the principal, acutal purpose of their framers was to prevent any court, and especially the Supreme Court of the United States, because of its earlier performance in the Dred Scott case, or any other institution of government, whether legislative or executive, from ever again defining the concept of person so as to exclude any class of human being from the protection of the Constitution and the safeguards it established for the fundamental rights of human beings, including slaves, peons, Indians, aliens, women, the poor, the aged, criminals, the mentally ill or retarded, and children, including the unborn from the time of their conception.<br /><br /> - Professor Joseph P. Witherspoon";

a[39] ="Truth without love is arrogance; love without truth is sentimentality.<br /><br /> - Douglas Groothuis";

a[40] ="Did it ever occur to you that nothing ever occurs to God?<br /><br /> - Mark Lowry";

a[41] ="If [the little kids are] running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and <i>catch</i> them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.<br /><br /> - Holden Caulfield";

a[42] ="When you pay $2.98 for a dream, you want it to last at least a week.<br /><br /> - Beaver of <i>Leave it to Beaver</i>";

a[43] ="There is one sure and infallible guide to truth, and therefore, one, and only one corrective for error, and that is the Word of God.<br /><br /> - G. Campbell Morgan";

a[44] ="The best evidence of our having the truth is our walking in the truth.<br /><br /> - Matthew Henry";

a[45] ="It was a great day last night.<br /><br /> - Pastor Emory";

a[46] ="Have you ever seen a green lemon?  What color was it?<br /><br /> - Dad";

a[47] ="Dogs are allergic to poison, you know.<br /><br /> - Mom";

a[48] ="Never must the Church tire of reminding men that they have a moral responsibility to be intelligent.<br /><br /> - Martin Luther King, Jr.";

a[49] ="Learn to do good;<br />Seek justice,<br />Reprove the ruthless,<br />Defend the orphan,<br />Plead for the widow.<br /><br /> - Isaiah 1:17";

a[50] ="Our life should be a walking \"thank you letter\" to God for His immeasurable love toward us.<br /><br /> - Marvin Williams";

a[51] ="Reading gives us breadth, but study gives us depth.<br /><br /> - Jerry Bridges";

a[52] ="The search for God begins at the point of need.<br /><br /> - Catherine Marshall";

a[53] ="The difference between Bible reading and Bible study is simply a pencil and a piece of paper.<br /><br /> - Donald Whitney";

a[54] ="The reason we come away so cold from reading the Word is, because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation.<br /><br /> - Thomas Watson";

a[55] ="Our age has been sadly deficient in what may be termed spiritual greatness.  At the root of this is the modern disease of shallowness.  We are all too impatient to meditate on the faith we profess. ... It is not the busy skimming over religious books or the careless hastening through religious duties which makes for a strong Christian faith.  Rather, it is unhurried meditation on gospel truths and the exposing of our minds to these truths that yields the fruit of sanctified character.<br /><br /> - Maurice Roberts";

a[56] ="The Word of God is \"the sword of the Spirit,\" but the Holy Spirit cannot give you a weapon you have not stored in the armory of your mind.  Imagine yourself in the middle of a decision and needing guidance, or struggling with a difficult temptation and needing victory.  The Holy Spirit rushes to your mental arsenal, flings open the door, but all He finds is a John 3:16, a Genesis 1:1, and a Great Commission.  Those are great swords, but they're not made for every battle.<br /><br /> - Donald Whitney";

a[57] ="Reading a book about prayer, listening to lectures and talking about it is very good, but it won't teach you to pray.  You get nothing without exercise, without practice.  I might listen for a year to a professor of music playing the most beautiful music, but that won't teach me to play an instrument.<br /><br /> - Andrew Murray";

a[58] ="We should all have the passion for reading God’s Word of the man in this story.  Evangelist Robert L. Sumner, in his book <i>The Wonder of the Word of God</i>, tells of a man in Kansas City who was severely injured in an explosion.  His face was badly disfigured, and he lost his eyesight as well as both his hands.  He had just become a Christian when the accident happened, and one of his greatest disappointments was that he could no longer read the Bible.  Then he heard about a lady in England who read braille with her lips.  Hoping to do the same, he sent for some books of the Bible in braille.  But he discovered that the nerve endings in his lips had been too badly damaged to distinguish the characters.  One day, as he brought one of the braille pages to his lips, his tongue happened to touch a few of the raised characters and he could feel them.  Like a flash he thought, \"I can read the Bible with my tongue.\"  At the time Robert Sumner wrote his book, the man had read through the entire Bible four times.  If he can do that, can you discipline yourself to read the Bible?<br /><br /> - Donald Whitney";

a[59] ="It is possible to encounter a torrential amount of God's truth, but without absorption you will be little better for the experience.<br /><br /> - Donald Whitney";

a[60] ="There are many good resources for learning how to pray, but the best way to learn how to pray is to pray.<br /><br /> - Donald Whitney";

a[61] ="The \"deeper life\" is deeper only because the average Christian life is so shallow.<br /><br /> - A. W. Tozer";

a[62] ="False ideas are the greatest obstacles to the reception of the gospel. We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and yet succeed only in winning a straggler here and there, if we permit the whole collective thought of the nation to be controlled by ideas which prevent Christianity from being regarded as anything more than a harmless delusion. Under such circumstances, what God desires us to do is to destroy the obstacle at its root.<br /><br /> - J. Gresham Machen";

a[63] ="If we lose this intellectual war, then our evangelism will be immeasurably more difficult in the next generation.<br /><br /> - William Lane Craig";

a[64] ="We must never allow academic respectability to become an idol leading us to compromise our biblical integrity.<br /><br /> - William Lane Craig";

a[65] ="Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.<br /><br /> - Lewis Sperry Chafer";

a[66] ="When led of the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to be silent as to speak.<br /><br /> - Lewis Sperry Chafer";

a[67] ="Salvation is the work of God for man; it is not the work of man for God.<br /><br /> - Lewis Sperry Chafer";

a[68] ="Anything that dims my vision for Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps me in my prayer life, or makes Christian work difficult, is wrong for me; and I must, as a Christian turn away from it.<br /><br /> - J. Wilbur Chapman";

a[69] ="If you think you can walk in holiness without keeping up perpetual fellowship with Christ, you have made a great mistake. If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus.<br /><br /> - Charles Haddon Spurgeon";

a[70] ="Beloved, let the fact of what our Lord suffered for you grip you, and you will never again be the same.<br /><br /> - Oliver B. Greene";

a[71] ="No one ever lost out by excessive devotion to Christ.<br /><br /> - Henry Allan Ironside";

a[72] ="Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.<br /><br /> - Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina";

a[73] ="Our walk counts far more than our talk, always!<br /><br /> - George Müller";

a[74] ="Is life to be defined by what I pursue, or must my pursuit be defined by what life was meant to be?<br /><br /> - Ravi Zacharias";

a[75] ="We have not yet met our Waterloo, Watson, but this is our Marengo, for it begins in defeat and ends in victory.<br /><br /> - Sherlock Holmes";

a[76] ="No matter how spiritual the song you are singing, no matter how poetic the prayer you are praying, if it isn't sincere then it isn't worship, it's hypocrisy.<br /><br /> - Donald Whitney";

a[77] ="Public worship will not excuse us from private worship.<br /><br /> - Matthew Henry";

a[78] ="If you will not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him one day a week.<br /><br /> - A. W. Tozer";

a[79] ="It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.<br /><br /> - President Calvin Coolidge";

a[80] ="Going through a routine is not the same as rightly practicing Spiritual Discipline.  Reading the Bible every day doesn't automatically make me more Godly any more than reading the business section of the Chicago Tribune every day makes me a businessman. ... Talk to a mature Christian who has a meaningful devotional life.  The development of any discipline, from hitting a golf ball to playing the piano, often requires outside help from those with more experience.  So don't be surprised that you need help in the development of the Discipline that leads to Christlikeness, and don't be afraid to ask for it.<br /><br /> - Donald Whitney";

a[81] ="Of all the dispositions and teachings of thinkers and ethicists, the one doctrine that I have no sufficient counter for is Jesus on that Cross.<br /><br /> - Mahatma Gandhi";

a[82] ="I was a teenager in Delhi on the verge of suicide. I had no hope; I had no meaning. I had no promise for the future, for my life. I was lying in a hospital bed when a man walked in and wanted to speak to me. My mother told him that he couldn't speak to me—I was in intensive care, I was dying. He gave me a little New Testament and asked my mother to read it to me. Her English wasn't very good, but in that King James language, he turned to the fourteenth chapter of John and read it to her and asked her to read it to me. And there as I laid dying, I heard the words of Jesus saying, I am the way, I am the truth, I am the life, no one comes unto the Father except through me.\" I prayed a simple prayer and I said, \"Jesus, I really don't know much about you, but if you are the way, you are the truth, and you are the life, enter into my life and change not only what I do, please change what I want to do.\" I need to tell you that not a few hours before my suicide attempt my father looked me in the eye and said to me, \"You're going to make nothing of your life; you're an embarrassment to me.\" My dad was a highly placed government officer having served under Prime Minister Nehru, and then under a personal friend of Gandhi. He was powerful and he saw my life heading nowhere, and said those words that I know he himself regretted later. So I asked myself, \"Why live?\" No hope, no meaning, no truth, until I heard the words of Jesus, \"I am the way, the truth, the life, no one comes unto the Father except through me.\" Ladies and gentlemen, in the simplicity and the complexity of that room, I invited Jesus Christ into my life. He changed not only what I did; He changed what I wanted to do. He changed my heart to the profoundest depths of human experience. Why do I see Him as the way, the truth, the life? Listen carefully. There are four questions in life—origin, meaning, morality, and destiny. When you look at the person of Christ, you’ll find all of those answered.<br /><br /> - Ravi Zacharias";

a[83] ="For several decades we psychologists looked upon the whole matter of sin and moral accountability as a great incubus and acclaimed our liberation from it as epoch making. But at length we have discovered that to be free in this sense, that is, to have the excuse of being sick rather than sinful, is to court the danger of also becoming lost. This danger is, I believe, betokened by the widespread interest in existentialism, which we are presently witnessing. In becoming amoral, ethically neutral and free, we have cut the very roots of our being, lost our deepest sense of selfhood and identity, and with neurotics, themselves, we find ourselves asking, \"Who am I, what is my deepest destiny, what does living mean?\"<br /><br /> - Hobart Mowrer, an atheistic thinker, one time president of the American Psychological Association, one time professor at Harvard, and instructor at Yale, with a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins";

a[84] ="You are of intrinsic worth not because any society has given it to you, but because it is given to you by God Himself. That is intrinsic value.<br /><br /> - Ravi Zacharias";

a[85] ="The great power of sin is that it blinds us so that we do not recognize its true character.  Even the Christian finds an excuse, thinking that he can never be perfect, and that daily sin is a necessity.  He is so accustomed to the idea of sinning that he has lost the ability to grieve over it.  But there can be no real progress in grace apart from an increased consciousness of the sin and guilt of every transgression against God.<br /><br /> - Andrew Murray";

a[86] ="If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ.  Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady in all the battle front besides is but flight and disgrace if you flinch at this point.<br /><br /> - Martin Luther";

a[87] ="The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.<br /><br /> - Martin Luther King Jr.";

a[88] ="Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.<br /><br /> - John Adams (1798)";

a[89] ="If the family trends of recent decades are extended into the future, the result will be not only growing uncertainty within marriage, but the gradual elimination of marriage in favor of casual liaisons oriented to adult expressiveness and self-fulfillment.  The problem with this scenario is that children will be harmed, adults will probably be no happier, and the social order could collapse.<br /><br /> - David Popenoe";

a[90] ="It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.<br /><br /> - Aristotle";

a[91] ="The way to deal with vain philosophies, wherever they may be found, is to have good philosophy, not to abandon the art of critical thinking all together.<br /><br /> - Gregory Koukl";

a[92] ="It is this staying power that makes and marks a man.  Not climbing ladders.  Not grabbing for the gusto.  Not frenzied movement.  Certainly not leaving our wives.  Not abandoning our families.  Not disappearing into passivity.  Today's real men are a vanishing breed, and it's killing our culture.<br /><br /> - Stu Weber";

a[93] ="A man's greatest strength is in his capacity to stay by the stuff.  To make and keep his promises.  A man's word connects.  A man's word stays.<br /><br /> - Stu Weber";

a[94] ="The cross demands our entire life.<br /><br /> - Andrew Murray";

a[95] ="There are many who place their hope of salvation in the redemption of the cross who understand little about the fellowship of the cross.  These rely on what the cross purchased for them -- the forgiveness of sins and peace with God -- but seek to survive for long periods of time without fellowship with the Lord.  This is a tragedy.<br /><br /> - Andrew Murray";

a[96] ="Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.<br /><br /> - Charles Dickens";

a[97] ="We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in number, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.  But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these things were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.  Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.<br /><br /> - Abraham Lincoln";

a[98] ="Your brother and I are trying to have a silent conversation.<br /><br /> - Mom";

a[99] ="If we are not to marry nonbelievers, then it follows that we are not to fall in love with them, and if we are not to fall in love with them, then it follows that we are not to <i>tempt</i> ourselves to fall in love with them.<br /><br /> - Professor J. Budziszewski";

a[100] ="We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives!<br /><br /> - James Hudson Taylor";

a[101] ="If lips and life do not agree, the testimony will not amount to much.<br /><br /> - H. A. Ironside";

a[102] ="It is not only that sin consists in doing evil, but in not doing the good that we know.<br /><br /> - H. A. Ironside";

a[103] ="Before an individual can be saved, he must first learn that he cannot save himself.<br /><br /> - Martinz R. DeHaan, M.D.";

a[104] ="The secret of peace within, and power without, is to be always and only occupied with Christ.<br /><br /> - E. Schuyler English";

a[105] ="I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him. I ended up by asking Him to do His work through me.<br /><br /> - James Hudson Taylor";

a[106] ="My memory is nearly gone; but I remember two things; That I am a great sinner, and that Christ is a great Saviour.<br /><br /> - John Newton";

a[107] ="Love to Christ is proved by doing the things which He commands, and not merely saying, \"Lord, Lord.\"<br /><br /> - Charles Henry Mackintosh";

a[108] ="Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it.<br /><br /> - D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones";

a[109] ="Expect great things from God. Attempt great things for God.<br /><br /> - William Carey";

a[110] ="Depend on it! God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.<br /><br /> - James Hudson Taylor";

a[111] ="There is a living God. He has spoken in the Bible. He means what He has says and will do all He has promised.<br /><br /> - James Hudson Taylor";

a[112] ="When I came to see that Jesus Christ had died for me, it didn't seem hard to give up all for Him. It seemed just common, ordinary honesty.<br /><br /> - C. T. Studd";

a[113] ="I never made a sacrifice. We ought not to talk of 'sacrifice' when we remember the great sacrifice which He made who left His Father's throne on high to give Himself up for us.<br /><br /> - David Livingstone";

a[114] ="The vigour of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.<br /><br /> - George Müller";

a[115] ="If a man write little, he need have a great memory.<br /><br /> - Francis Bacon";

a[116] ="Everyone has a philosophy of life, a worldview, no matter what form it may take.  Our problem is not to get rid of philosophy, but to find the right philosophy, and, having found it, to present it to others with a conviction that grows out of the assurance that one has found the truth.<br /><br /> - Dr. Warren Young";

a[117] ="It is the task of the Christian leader to understand the ideologies of his day so that he may be able to meet their challenge.  The task is a never-ending one, for, although the Christian's worldview does not change, the world about him does.  Thus the task of showing the relevance of the Christian realistic philosophy to a world in process is one which requires eternal vigilance.  To such a task, to such an ideal, the Christian leader must dedicate himself.<br /><br /> - Dr. Warren Young";

a[118] ="The task of Christian leadership is to confront modern man with the Christian world life view as the revealed conceptuality for understanding reality and experience, and to recall reason once again from the vagabondage of irrationalism and the arrogance of autonomy to the service of true faith.<br /><br /> - Carl F. H. Henry";

a[119] ="Can one be a Christian without being a disciple?<br /><br /> - Søren Kierkegaard";

a[120] ="As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.<br /><br /> - Thomas Traherne";

a[121] ="The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.<br /><br /> - Frederick Buechner";

a[122] ="If you can get me a young person who can divine the patterns of imagery in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, it would take me just a half hour to teach that person how to break down a balance sheet. Teach kids the humanities, and give them a broad liberal education, and I'll teach them business skills. I hate schools that have been co-opted by business. I'd rather you taught people to think, because the limiting factor in executive development these days is people who can't do lateral thinking. Instead, they have a vocational skill or a technical skill, and it runs out of gas very, very early. The ones who will end up in the top 20 jobs in the organization worldwide are people who can stand back and examine the context in which business operates and can connect the dots in creative ways and transform the business congruent with some of those directions. <br /><br /> - Matthew W. Barrett, Chief Executive Officer, Barclays";

a[123] ="It is really important to read Scripture in light of Scripture.  And much of what we read in the New Testament has an Old Testament reference, and we are often times at odds with what the Bible is really teaching because we have little understanding of what the Old Testament is teaching.<br /><br /> - Hank Hanegraaff";

a[124] ="And I honor the man who is willing to sink<br />Half his present repute for the freedom to think,<br />And when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak,<br />Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.<br /><br /> - James Russell Lowell";

a[125] ="It is the best of times; it is the worst of times, for those who seek God. Religious options have never been more plentiful; religious confusion has never been more prevalent.<br /><br /> - Rev. Dr. Mark D. Roberts";

a[126] ="The life of faith is not a game of finders keepers, but finders seekers. True finders don't sit on what they already have, but continue to seek more. Once we have found God, our search continues as we grow in our knowledge and love of God.<br /><br /> - Rev. Dr. Mark D. Roberts";

a[127] ="The road to unhappiness and low self-esteem is paved with the victories of immediate gratification.<br /><br /> - Dr. Laura Schlessinger";

a[128] ="A man with a definite belief always appears bizarre, because he does not change with the world; he has climbed into a fixed star, and the earth whizzes below him like a zoetrope.<br /><br /> - G. K. Chesterton";

a[129] ="Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.<br /><br /> - G. K. Chesterton";

a[130] ="You'll never amount to anything and you'll never accomplish anything of significance unless you learn to habitually do the things you don't like to do.<br /><br /> - J. P. Moreland";

a[131] ="Kids have fun. They do whatever they want unless they're forced differently. Adults choose to do the tough things. The hard things. The right things for the right reasons, even when they don't like it. And to those that can do that most consistently and most effectively those are the people that leave a mark.<br /><br /> - Greg Koukl";

a[132] ="It is not the number of sermons we hear, it is not the number of books we read, but it is how much time we spend in thinking about the sermons we hear and the books we read that transforms character.<br /><br /> - John R. Mott";

a[133] ="A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another.<br /><br /> - Jesus";

a[134] ="He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.<br /><br /> - Jim Elliot";

a[135] ="A Christian home should be a place of peace, and there can be no peace where there is no self-denial.<br /><br /> - Elisabeth Elliot";

a[136] ="We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.<br /><br /> - Aristotle";

a[137] ="Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.<br /><br /> - William James";

a[138] ="Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.<br /><br /> - St. Augustine";

a[139] ="It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.<br /><br /> - Benjamin Franklin";

a[140] ="The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.<br /><br /> - Fyodor Dostoevsky";

a[141] ="It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.<br /><br /> - Charles Colton";

a[142] ="The will that yields the first time with some reluctance does so the second time with less hesitation, and the third time with none at all, until presently the habit is adopted.<br /><br /> - Henry Giles";

a[143] ="As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.<br /><br /> - Henry David Thoreau";

a[144] ="Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes the man himself.<br /><br /> - Evenus";

a[145] ="How use doth breed a habit in a man!<br /><br /> - William Shakespeare";

a[146] ="Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.<br /><br /> - Mortimer Caplan";

a[147] ="Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.<br /><br /> - Sydney Smith";

a[148] ="Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.<br /><br /> - George Washington";

a[149] ="Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.<br /><br /> - Marcus Aurelius";

a[150] ="A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.<br /><br /> - Richard Whately";

a[151] ="The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.<br /><br /> - Winston Churchill";

a[152] ="People full of shadows may also be full of a light that causes them.<br /><br /> - Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.";

a[153] ="A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.<br /><br /> - Oscar Wilde";

a[154] ="Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read.  One does not love breathing.<br /><br /> - Jean Louise \"Scout\" Finch";

a[155] ="God is the God of human history, and he is at work continuously, mysteriously, accomplishing his eternal purposes in us, through us, for us, and in spite of us.<br /><br /> - Elisabeth Elliot";

a[156] ="Wherever you are, be all there.<br /><br /> - Jim Elliot";

a[157] ="When it comes time to die, make sure that all you have to do is die.<br /><br /> - Jim Elliot";

a[158] ="For all of a sudden when I saw those lights, I said to myself, Ivy, this is your life, this is your real life, and you are living it.  Your life is not going to start later.  This is it, it is now.  It's funny how a person can be so busy that they forget this is it.  This is my life.<br /><br /> - Lee Smith";

a[159] ="I wanted a perfect ending.  Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.  Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.  Delicious ambiguity.<br /><br /> - Gilda Radner";

a[160] ="It may be as difficult to be a missionary to your neighbor as it is to be a missionary overseas.<br /><br /> - David McQueen";

a[161] ="I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.<br /><br /> - Prince Rasselas in <i>The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia</i> by Samuel Johnson";

a[162] ="If you're not in the ministry before you go in the ministry, you won't be in the ministry when you get in the ministry.<br /><br /> - Charlie 'Tremendous' Jones";

a[163] ="Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.<br /><br /> - Martin Luther King Jr.";

a[164] ="The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.<br /><br /> - Samuel Butler";

a[165] ="People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.<br /><br /> - Soren Kierkegaard";

a[166] ="The church is the only institution on the face of the earth that exists, not for the sake of its members but for the sake of those who are not yet its members.<br /><br /> - William Temple";

a[167] ="What is largely missing in American life today is a sense of context—of saying or doing anything that is expected or even intended to live beyond the moment.  There is no culture more obsessed with immediacy than our culture.  That is what in journalism the trivial displaces the momentous, because we tend to measure the importance of events by how recently they happened.  We have become so obsessed with facts that we have lost all touch with truth.<br /><br /> - Ted Koppel";

a[168] ="There is no wound too deep that Christ cannot heal.<br /><br /> - Michael Johnson, missionary";

a[169] ="\"Speaking the truth in love\" is not the best rendering of this expression, for the Greek verb makes no reference to our speech.  Literally, it means \"truthing (aletheuontes) in love,\" and includes the notions of \"maintaining,\" \"living,\" and \"doing\" the truth.<br /><br /> - John Stott";

a[170] ="Both a clear comprehension of the importance of truth and a clear practice of it, even when it is costly to do so, is imperative if our witness and our evangelism are to be significant in our own generation and in the flow of history.<br /><br /> - Francis Schaeffer";

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