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"We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God." - Dwight L. Moody

Christianity is not a formula, but the Person of Jesus Himself. Never think that Christianity is a matter of adjusting behavior, but rather, of letting Christ live through us in His strength and power. --Malcolm Smith

Men have mystified and philosophized the Gospel of Jesus but it is as simple as it can be. The secret of Christianity is in being. It is in being a possessor of the nature of Jesus Christ. –John G. Lake

Today Jesus Christ is being dispatched as the Figurehead of a Religion, a mere example. He is that, but he is infinitely more; He is salvation itself, He is the Gospel of God. --Oswald Chambers

"Darkness cannot put out the Light. It can only make God brighter." –  Author unknown

The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it. --Leonard Ravenhill

Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony --John R. W. Stott

You'll never be able to speak against sin if you're entertained by it. --John Muncee

When prodigals return great things are done. --A.A. Dowty

"I believe in the sun even if it isn't shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when He is silent."

"You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God."

The life Christ lived qualified Him for the death He died—and the death He died qualifies us for the life we live. --Unknown

The oftener we are mown down by you, the more in number we grow. The blood of Christians is seed. (Tertullian, Apology 50, c. A.D. 200)

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Winston Churchill

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Samuel Johnson

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.
Robert Rainy

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
Indira Gandhi

When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.
John Foxe

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
George Eliot

“Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can” John Wesley

“When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.”

“When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.”

“When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me

“Church isn’t where you meet. Church isn’t a building. Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Lets not go to Church, lets be the church” – Bridget Williard

“Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is unless he knew where his believers are” – Martin Luther

“The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New testament normal, it would seem to people abnormal” – Vance Havner

“For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another” (Rom 12:4-5)

“As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences” – Joseph Stowell

“A Church started by hired workers will soon be stopped by hirelings” – Bola Olu-Jordan

 “The "show business," which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from Our Lord's conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we have to do exceptional things for God; we have not. We have to be exceptional in ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, surrounded by sordid sinners. That is not learned in five minutes.”  ― Oswald Chambers