• “Heaven is eternity in the presence of God through a Mediator. Hell is eternity in the presence of God with no Mediator.” — Tony Reinke

• “Question everything but Scripture.” — Geoff Botkin

• “Drag and Drop for Windows users: DRAG your peecee off your desk, and DROP it in the trash.” — some forum member’s tagline

• “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” — John C. Maxwell

• “Man does not need to know exhaustively in order to know truly and certainly.” — Cornelius Van Til

• “When she married you, she gave you her life to spend. Are you spending your life wisely?” — Dan Horn

• “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
 — Edmund Burke

• “I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.” — Jackie Mason

• “The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.” — La Rochefoucauld

• “The very familiarity of blessings sometimes makes us insensible to their value."— J. C. Ryle

• “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

• “I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.” 
— Martin Luther

• “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

• “If you don’t fear God, you’ll fear everything.” — Dan Horn

• “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

• “The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.” — St. Augustine

• “[N]ot one particle remains to man as a ground of boasting. The whole is of God.” — John Calvin (Institutes 2.3.6)

• “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 happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they simply make the best of everything they have.” — Unknown

• “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

• “I’m not lost.” — Frank Churchill

• “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

• “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

• “What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.” — J. C. Ryle

• “[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)

• “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

• “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

• “People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.” — Edmund Burke

• “I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.” — Groucho Marx

• “Even if you are on the right track, but just sit there, you will still get run over.” — Will Rogers

• “We should never do what we cannot pray God to bless.” — James Smith

• “A lot of men have a wishbone where they ought to have a backbone.” — Unknown

• “I began my education at a very early age—in fact, right after I left college.” — Winston Churchill

• “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

• “My dear friend, when grief presses you to the dust, worship there.” — C. H. Spurgeon

• "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

• “People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.” — Thomas Sowell

• “A ship in the harbor is safe—but that is not what ships are built for.” — John Shedd

• “Non-Christian investigators of nature are as successful as they are because they work with stolen capital.” — Cornelius Van Til

• “True education is not giving in the answer, it’s in showing them how to find it.” — Kelly Crawford

• “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

• “Some people get an education without going to college; the rest get it after they get out.” — Mark Twain

• “The measure of a great teacher isn’t what he or she knows; it’s what the students know.” — John C. Maxwell

• “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

• “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

• “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

— March 17th, 2012 —

“I Will Praise Him, Still,” by Fernando Ortega

When the morning falls on the farthest hill,
I will sing His name, I will praise Him still.
When dark trials come and my heart is filled
With the weight of doubt, I will praise Him still.
 
For the Lord our God, He is strong to save
From the arms of death, from the deepest grave.
And He gave us life in His perfect will,
And by His good grace, I will praise Him still.

 
This song, written by Fernando Ortega, is one of my very favorite modern hymns. Yes, it’s simple; yes it’s short. But then again, so were some of the psalms.

Posted on March 17th, 2012 by Kyle Shepherd | Tags: ,Hymns, music, poetry |

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