A few of our favorite quotes...

(our Koinonia group)

"By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet."

Thomas Merton
 

"More and more we are finding that mythology in general...very often has some historic base. And the interesting thing is that one myth which occurs over and over again in many parts of the world is that somewhere a long time ago supernatural beings had sexual intercourse with natural women and produced a special breed of people."

Francis Schaeffer
 

"We want something else which can hardly be put into words -- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it."

C.S. Lewis
 

"Who's the most intelligent, creative, witty, and joyful human being in the universe?
Jesus Christ.
Whose laughter will be loudest and most contagious on the New Earth?
 Jesus Christ's."

Randy Alcorn

"Thou has loved righteousness and hated iniquity: therefore God, even thy God, hath
anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows."

Hebrews 1:9

"About the time of the end, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition."

Sir Isaac Newton
 

"Your soul has a curious shape because it is a hollow made to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours of the divine substance, or a key to unlock one of the doors in the
house with many mansions."

C.S. Lewis
 

"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going,
because you might  not get there."

Yogi Berra
 

"Don't live for the dot - live for the line. From the dot -- our present life on earth -- extends a line that goes on forever, which is eternity in Heaven."

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Randy Alcorn
 

"If you get good at making excuses, that's all you'll ever be good for."

Jon Courson
 

"Don't want to learn something I've got to unlearn."

Bo Dylan
 

"Its what we learn after we know it all that counts."

John Wooden
 

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got."

Anon
 

"Just be doin' your best, and pray that it's blessed...He'll take care of the rest."

Keith Green
 

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

Albert Einstein
 

"Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can."

John Wesley
 

"How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."

Anne Frank
 

"Tithing isn't God's way of raising money, it's his way of raising children."

Jon Courson
 

"When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer."
 
Corrie Ten Boom
 

“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
 

"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going into a garage
makes you a car"

Anonymous
 

"Time is God's way of keeping everything from happening at once, and space is God's way of keeping everything from being in the same place."

Anonymous
 

"Miracles are God's way of remaining anonymous."

Anonymous
 

"Unforgiveness is like drinking poison, then waiting for your enemy to die."

Anonymous
(Seems he wrote a lot of stuff...)
 

"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -- on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg -- or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."

C. S. Lewis
Mere Christianity, pages 40-41.
 

“Divorce? Never. Murder? Maybe”

Ruth Graham (in reply to a reporter who asked her if she ever thought of divorcing Billy)
 

“Someday you will read in the papers that D. L. Moody of East Northfield is dead.  Don’t you believe a word of it!  At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now; I shall have gone up higher, that is all, out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortal – a body that death cannot touch, that sin cannot taint; a body fashioned like unto His glorious body. I was born of the flesh in 1837.  I was born of the Spirit in 1856.  That which is born of the flesh may die.  That which is born of the Spirit will live forever."

D. L. Moody
 

“I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense successful rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked from the inside.”

C. S. Lewis
 

"I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me."
 
Lewis Carroll
 

Jon Courson
 

"God does not play dice."

Albert Einstein
 

     "If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there."

John Newton
 

"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."

St. Augustine, tongue in cheek
 

   “There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus”

Blaise Pascal
 

"Experience is the best teacher, but it doesn't have to be your experience."

Jon Courson
 

Dave Hunt

     "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."

 
Jim Elliot
 

     "It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly temped to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics."

C.S. Lewis
 

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
 

"I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me."

Dave Barry
 

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

Woody Allen
 

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

Mark Twain
 

"There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries."

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3
 

"Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born."

Ronald Reagan
 

"'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."

Abraham Lincoln
 

     "God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him."

Jim Elliot
 

     "There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations -- these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit -- immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously -- no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner--no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment."

C.S. Lewis
 

“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”

Lewis Carroll
 

     "If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this."

C. S. Lewis
 

     "We has found the enemy, and they is us."

Pogo
 

Jon Courson
 

     "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."

C. S. Lewis
 

     "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

Sir Isaac Newton
 

      "If we take the imagery of the Scripture seriously, if we believe that God will
one day give us the Morning Star and cause us to put on the splendour of the
sun, then we may surmise that both the ancient myths and the modern poetry, so
false as history, may be very near the truth as prophecy. At present we are on the
outside of the world, and the wrong side of the door. We disern the freshness
and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle
with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling
with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we will get
in."

C.S. Lewis "The Weight of Glory"
 

Jon Courson
 

"I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.''

Saint Augustine
 

     "We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive."

C. S. Lewis
 

"Never, never, never give up."
 
Winston Churchill
 

"I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man."

Dwight L. Moody
 

"Usually a person has more faith in their fear than faith in their future." 

Doug Firebaugh
 

God hasn’t called me to be successful.  He’s called me to be faithful.   

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

‘We aren’t sinners because we sin; we sin because we are sinners.’ 

Jon Courson
 

 “The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.”

Blaise Pascal
 

"God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, "I love you."

Billy Graham
 

“My father convinced me that nothing was useful which was not honest.”    

Benjamin Franklin
 

"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.”

Chuck Swindoll
 

‘One of the easiest books in all the bible to understand is the book of Revelation; I really believe that to be true, because it’s the only book that comes with its own divine outline.”    

Jon Courson