Quotes for the Week

Quotes for the Week

The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.  AW Tozer

 Too many church services start at eleven o'clock sharp and end at twelve o'clock dull.  Vance Havner

I AM WHAT I AM BY THE GRACE OF GOD.

In his old age, when he could no longer see to read, John Newton heard someone recite this text, "By the grace of God—I am what I am."

He remained silent a short time and then, as if speaking to himself, he said: "I am not what I ought to be—ah, how imperfect and deficient! I am not what I wish to be—I would abhor that which is evil, and cleave to that which is good. I am not what I hope to be—soon, soon I shall put off mortality, and with mortality all sin and imperfection! Though I am not what I ought to be, what I wish to be, and what I hope to be—yet I can truly say, I am not what I once was—a slave to sin and Satan! I can heartily join with the apostle and acknowledge, "By the grace of God—I am what I am!"

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.  Abraham Lincoln

"Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today." Abraham Lincoln

There are two ways of exerting our strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.  Booker T. Washington

The glory of God always comes at the sacrifice of self. AW Tozer

John Newton  b.1725.  d.1807.
Originally a slaver, he had a dramatic mid-ocean change of heart that led him to turn his slave ship around and take the people back to their homeland. He became a Presbyterian minister and preached against the slave-trade, inspiring William Wilberforce who brought about the abolition of slavery in Britain and its colonies. He is most famous for having authored the words to the hymn "Amazing Grace".
As he neared the end of his life, he exclaimed, "I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon."

"There is no university for a Christian, like that of sorrow and trial" CH Spurgeon

"Come to me O blessed trial, I need you. For you always draw me to the arms of the Saviour." George Whitfield