Inspirational Quotes O to Z
Obedience
"God is God. Because He is God, He is worthy of my trust
and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will, a will that is
unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what He is up to." [Elisabeth Elliot]
"All true
knowledge of God is born out of obedience." [John Calvin]
"To obey God in some things and not in others shows an unsound heart. Childlike
obedience moves toward every command of God, as the needle points where the
loadstone draws." [Thomas Watson]
"Obedience to God is the most infallible
evidence of sincere and supreme love to him." [Emmons]
Opportunity
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." [Thomas A. Edison]
Outward Appearances
"The appearance of religion on Sunday proves it is only an appearance." (Adams)
"Jesus is more concerned with who you are than what you do because He knows who
you are determines what you do." (R. Robert Flatt - commentary on Matthew 5:8)
Patience
We have so much patience with
ourselves, why not borrow some of that and use it on others. [Mrs. Charles. E. Cowman]
Patriotism
"Whatever it is that makes men good Christians makes them
good citizens." [Daniel Webster]
"Righteousness exalteth a nation." [Solomon - Proverbs 14:34]
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord." [David -
Psalms 33:12]
Perseverance
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races
one after another." [W. Elliott]
"In golf as in life it's the follow-through that makes the difference." [Anonymous]
"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed,
not by strength, but perseverance." [Samuel Johnson]
"Consecrated perseverance conquers" [Mrs. Charles E. Cowman]
"Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance." [Johnson]
Political Correctness/Public Opinion
"Public opinion does not
decide whether things are good or bad." (Cornelius Tacitus c. 55-120 A. D.)
"I have always defined political
correctness as an elevation of sensitivity over truth." (Bill Mahre)
"Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if
everyone is for it." (W. Penn)
Prayer
"In praying for His enemies not only did
Christ set before us a perfect example of how we should treat those who wrong us
an hate us, but He also taught us never to regard any as
beyond the reach of prayer." (Arthur W. Pink)
"God answers my prayers by giving me what I
need but it is not always what I want." (Robert Flatt)
"There is no one anywhere as
available to everyone everywhere as is God." (Eugenia Price)
"Too many people say, 'Hear, Lord, for thy servant speaketh.' Samuel said. 'Speak Lord for thy servant heareth.'" (Pettingill)
"Sin will
keep prayer away or else prayer will keep sin away." (Unknown)
"Prayer will make a man give over sinning, or sinning will make a man give over
praying." [Mr. Dod who is quoted in 1853 publication of Russell's Seven Sermons]
"When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words than thy words be without heart." [Bunyan]
"You and I were taught prayers when we were children, and now we need to be
taught how to pray. Prayer is much more than words from the lips; prayer is the
expression of the desires of the heart." [Warren W. Wiersbe]
“Praying that does not result in right thinking and right living is a farce. We
have missed the whole office of prayer if it fails to purge our character and
correct conduct. We have failed entirely to understand the virtue of prayer, if
it does not bring about the revolutionizing of life. In the very nature of
tings, we must either quit praying or quit our bad conduct.” [E. M. Bounds]
Problems
"We must learn to live with them [problems] until such time as God delivers us from them...Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting." (A. W. Tozer)
Religions
"All religions are not the same. All
religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all
religions are the same. At the heart of every religion is an
uncompromising commitment to a particular way of defining who God is or is not
and accordingly, of defining life's purpose." (Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among
Other Gods, p.7)
Right and Wrong
"Right is right, even if everyone is against it;
and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it." [William Penn]
Righteousness
"To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing
burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless
problems that are never resolved." [Dallas Willard]
Satan
Sacrifice
"On Mount Moriah it was not Isaac God wanted. It was Abraham." (Roy Gustafson)
Selfishness
"Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race." (William Gladstone)
"'You
deserve a break today.' 'Have it your way.' 'Reach out for all the gusto you
can.' What do these phrases have in common? The obvious answer: They're lines
from familiar commercials. The not-so-obvious answer: They emphasize benefits
for you, the consumer...Marketers know that to sell a product, you must answer
the consumer's primary questions: What's in it for me?" [Doug Erlandson]
Sin
"Sin will take you further than you ever intended to stray. Sin will keep you
longer than you ever intended to stay. Sin will cost you more than you ever
intended to pay." [Anonymous]
"Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic; he is a skeptic because he is a sinner." (Vance Havner)
Slothfulness
"The moment slothfulness begins, that
moment dangers stand thick among us." (Puritan writer)
Success
"Success is never final; failure is seldom
fatal. It is courage that counts." (Winston Churchill)
Suffering
"We must never mistake the process for the result...there is suffering; but this
is only the process. God isn't going to stop with the process; He wants to
produce the final result. Suffering leads to glory; shame leads to honor;
weakness leads to power. This is God's way of doing things." (Warren W.
Wiersbe)
"We are always in the forge, or on the anvil; by trials
God is shaping us for higher things." [Henry Ward Beecher]
"We need to pay attention to what we are learning about
God in the darkness because the darkness is where our relationship with Him is
tested. The darkness is where we learn the truth that God will be faithful."
[Jan Dravecky]
"God uses suffering to divert our attention from the present to the future and
from the brevity of time to the vastness of eternity."
"Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering.
Be patient with the process." [Rick Warren]
Tact
"Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while
two friends argue - all the while knowing that both are wrong." [The Church
Mouse]
Temperance
"Temperance is moderation in the things that are good
and total abstinence from things that are foul." [Frances E. Willard]
Temperance is reason's girdle, and passion's bride, the strength of the soul,
and the foundation of virtue." [Jeremy Taylor]
Temptation
"Temptation gains power by persistent
solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious" (John Owen)
"Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express
neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their
deliverance." (John Owen)
"Temptation gains power where it is complicated with many considerations.' (John
Owen)
"Temptation
is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin." (Fulton J. Sheen)
"Temptations discover what you are." (Thomas À Kempis)
"The intention of God is that the Christian should face the same problems as everyone else, but with this great difference, he has God within him to help him through." (James H. Jauncey)
Thoughts
"A man's life is what his thoughts make
him." (Marcus Aurelius)
Trials
"When God wants to make a man, he puts him into some storm." (Lettie Cowman)
"Adversity is the dust Heaven polishes its jewels with."
(Unknown)
"When life
becomes all snarled up, offer it to our Lord and let Him untie the knots."
(Book of Days for Christians)
"Outward losses drive good people to their prayers but bad people to their curses." (Henry)
"It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there." (John Bunyan)
Truth
"No matter what the postmodern world
concludes about God and truth, reality is that God is still God, and He is still
trying to reconcile men unto Himself." (Dr. Sam Horn)
"Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it; ignorance may deride it; malice
may distort it; but there it is." (Winston Churchill)
"It is truth that passes into action that produces righteousness." (Richard
Bennett)
"To hear the truth and not
accept it does not nullify truth." (Brotherhood Journal)
"Truth is not ultimately a matter of pride or humility, it is a matter of fact."
(Unknown)
"Always tell the truth. Then you don't have to worry about what you said last."
(Robert Cook)
"Your teeth may be false, but always let your tongue be true." [unknown]
"Beware of a half truth; you may bet hold of the wrong half." [unknown]
"Truth fears nothing but concealment." [unknown}
Unbelief
"Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is the parent
of sin; and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master sin." [Charles H.
Spurgeon]
Values
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his souls?" (Mark 8 :36, 37)
"People who have no values have no value." (Burton Hills)
"He is no fool who gives up that which he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." (Jim Elliot)
Virtue
"Virtue is the doing of good to mankind in the obedience
tot he will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." [William Paley]
"Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body." [Francios de La
Rochefoucauld]
Vision
"Vision must be followed by venture. It is not enough to stare at the steps - we must step up the stairs." (Vance Havner)
Wealth
"No man can serve two
masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will
hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."
(Jesus in Matthew 6:24)
"The poorest man is he whose only wealth is
money." (unknown)
Will of God
"You can't do the will of God if you don't know the Word
of God." [Jack Wyrtzen]
Wisdom
"Wisdom is, and starts with, the humility to accept the fact that you don't
have all the right answers, and the courage to learn to ask the right
questions." [Anonymous]
Worship
"It is only when men begin
to worship that they begin to grow." (Coolidge)
"One
thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in
the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD,
and to enquire in his temple." (Psalm 27:4)
"Religious externals may have meaning for
the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may
actually become snares, deceiving them into a false and perilous sense of
security."
(A. W. Tozer)
08/27/2012
Edited