“I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.” — Martin Luther
“I will keep the ground that God has given me and perhaps in his grace, he will ignite me again. But ignite me or not, in his grace, in his power, I will hold the ground.” — John Knox
“Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.” — Elias Boudinot
“Drag and Drop for Windows users: DRAG your peecee off your desk, and DROP it in the trash.” — some forum member’s tagline
“People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.” — Edmund Burke
“When she married you, she gave you her life to spend. Are you spending your life wisely?” — Dan Horn
“One proud, surly, lordly word, one needless contention, one covetous action, may cut the throat of many a sermon. Take heed to yourselves, lest your example contradict your doctrine.” — Richard Baxter
“[N]ot one particle remains to man as a ground of boasting. The whole is of God.” — John Calvin (Institutes 2.3.6)
“Even if you are on the right track, but just sit there, you will still get run over.” — Will Rogers
“Paul’s life was a prophetic book for Jews to read and see how to be saved, so our lives should be an easy to read book for the lost on how they can easily be saved.” — Ken Ham
“Luther once said, ‘The devil hates goose quills,’ and, doubtless, he has good reason, for ready writers, by the Holy Spirit’s blessing, have done his kingdom much damage.” — C. H. Spurgeon
“Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.” — Paxton Hood
“The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they simply make the best of everything they have.” — Unknown
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." — Edmund Burke
“We should never do what we cannot pray God to bless.” — James Smith
“True education is not giving in the answer, it’s in showing them how to find it.” — Kelly Crawford
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.” — St. Augustine
“Self-righteousness is being more aware of and irritated by the sins of others than you are conscious of and grieved by your own.” — Paul Tripp
“The very familiarity of blessings sometimes makes us insensible to their value."— J. C. Ryle
"When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles. When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devil shouts for joy." — Corrie ten Boom
“Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your own living room by people you wouldn’t have in your house.” — David Frost
“I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.” — Groucho Marx
“Heaven is eternity in the presence of God through a Mediator. Hell is eternity in the presence of God with no Mediator.” — Tony Reinke
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” — Sir Richard Steele
“You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.” — C. S. Lewis
“I began my education at a very early age—in fact, right after I left college.” — Winston Churchill
“A ship in the harbor is safe—but that is not what ships are built for.” — John Shedd
“Some people get an education without going to college; the rest get it after they get out.” — Mark Twain
“People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.” — Thomas Sowell
“[T]he ministry of Satan is employed to instigate the reprobate, whenever the Lord, in the course of his providence, has any purpose to accomplish in them...” — John Calvin (Institutes 2.4.5)
“What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.” — J. C. Ryle
“The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.” — La Rochefoucauld
“The measure of a great teacher isn’t what he or she knows; it’s what the students know.” — John C. Maxwell
“If you don’t fear God, you’ll fear everything.” — Dan Horn
“Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.” — Martin Luther
“People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.” — J. C. Ryle
“Question everything but Scripture.” — Geoff Botkin
“My dear friend, when grief presses you to the dust, worship there.” — C. H. Spurgeon
“I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.” — Jackie Mason
“Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.” — George Washington
“Thanks, modest girls. Appreciated by a male whose time studying the ground is proportional to each degree of rising temperature.” — Unknown
“TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they’ll have with twenty-six. Open your child’s imagination. Open a book.” — Unknown
“The cold water of persecution is often thrown on the church’s face to fetch her to herself when she is in a swoon of indolence or pride.” — C. H. Spurgeon
“Non-Christian investigators of nature are as successful as they are because they work with stolen capital.” — Cornelius Van Til
“Man does not need to know exhaustively in order to know truly and certainly.” — Cornelius Van Til
“A lot of men have a wishbone where they ought to have a backbone.” — Unknown
“I’m not lost.” — Frank Churchill
“Dreams don’t work unless you do.” — John C. Maxwell
— March 4th, 2012 —
In my review of It’s (Not That) Complicated a few weeks ago, I joked that I couldn’t post too much of the book or I might find myself in legal trouble somewhat quickly; therefore, I posted a few quotes and linked to a lengthy excerpt on the Botkins’ blog. Well, Anna Sofia and Elizabeth have posted another lengthy excerpt on their blog, free for all to view!
There are plenty of people who have technically kissed recreational dating goodbye, but are still looking for romantic flings outside of marriage. They want the fun of being in boyfriend-girlfriend relationships without purpose or commitment. Enter flirtship, the popular new alternative to dating and courtship. It’s like dating, only you don’t go out – you use email, chat, or phone, or just pair off whenever you’re in the same vicinity. Either way, you’re definitely – though not officially – well, apparently, anyway – boyfriend and girlfriend.
Click here to read the rest. You too, fellow guys.