My Current Favorite Quotes

Proverbs 25:11 (NKJV)
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

Here are a few of my current favorite quotes. Enjoy!

Quotes from some of my favorite books: (If you pick up one of my books, you are sure to find some of these quotes underlined heavily! 🙂)

“Only when we have become completely oblivious of self are we ready to bear the cross for His [Christ’s] sake. If in the end we know only Him, if we have ceased to notice the pain of our own cross, we are indeed looking only unto Him.” –Dietrich Bonhoeffer (The Cost of Discipleship)

“We pay no attention to our own lives or the new image which we bear, for then we should at once have forfeited it, since it is only to serve as a mirror for the image of Christ on whom our gaze is fixed. The disciple looks solely at his Master.” –Dietrich Bonhoeffer (The Cost of Discipleship)

“A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within.” –J.C. Ryle, Holiness

“And no man can grow in holiness except he abides in Christ. Christ is the great root from which every believer must draw his strength to go forward.” –J.C. Ryle, Holiness

“Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God’s wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.”–Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

“For, in the first place, no man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts toward the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that the endowments which we possess cannot possibly be from ourselves; no, that our very being is nothing else than subsistence in God alone. In the second place, those blessings which unceasingly distill to us from heaven, are like streams conducting us to the fountain.”
-John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion

Random quotes I came across (therefore, I do not neccessarily endorse the author/publication; but the quote is good):

“NOT TO SPEAK IS TO SPEAK. NOT TO ACT IS TO ACT.” –Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.”–John Piper

“When we think too lightly of sin, we think too lightly of the Savior.” –C.H. Spurgeon

“That cannot be politically right which is morally wrong.”–Abigail Adams

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” –George Santayana

“I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.” –Corrie ten Boom

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” –Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Our motto must continue to be perseverance. And ultimately I trust the Almighty will crown our efforts with success.” –William Wilberforce

“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the world in which we live.” –Pope John Paul II

“The Lord’s mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.”–Charles Spurgeon

“Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.” –Mother Teresa