“God works, and therefore we work; God is with-us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.”— Charles Spurgeon, amazon.com
“The preacher's work is to throw sinners down in utter helplessness, that they may be compelled to look up to Him who alone can help them.”— Charles Spurgeon, amazon.com
“The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers.”— Charles Spurgeon, amazon.com
“Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.”— Charles Spurgeon, amazon.com
“I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.”— Baron de Montesquieu, amazon.com
“Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?”— Baron de Montesquieu, amazon.com
“King of England…Hand over to the Maiden who is sent here by God the King of Heaven, the keys to all the towns which you have taken and violated in France. She has come here in the name of God to support the Royal family. She is quite prepared to make peace, if you are willing to do right, so long as…”— Joan of Arc, archive.joan-of-arc.org
“Christianity…is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread to our Europe, where some fanatics espoused it, where some intriguers pretended to be convinced by it and where some imbeciles…”— Frederick the Great, amazon.com
“Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God.”— Frederick the Great, en.wikiquote.org
“I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people.”— Frederick the Great, en.wikiquote.org
“Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your f…”— Alan Watts, en.wikiquote.org
“We can never have a full-blooded, mature church or a strong Christianity until we have mature Christians. To be mature, we must know doctrine.”— Arthur H. Stainback, ministrymagazine.org
“Jesus wants me to tell you again…how much is the love He has for each one of you—beyond all what you can imagine…. Not only He loves you, even more—He longs for you. He misses you when you don’t come close. He thirsts for you. He loves you always, even when you don’t feel worthy….”— Mother Teresa, amazon.com
“When I see someone sad: I always think, she is refusing something to Jesus.”— Mother Teresa, amazon.com
“Why must we give ourselves fully to God? Because God has given Himself to us. If God who owes nothing to us is ready to impart to us no less than Himself, shall we answer with just a fraction of ourselves? To give ourselves fully to God is a means of receiving God Himself. I for God and God for me.…”— Mother Teresa, amazon.com
“Now I really rejoice when something does not go as I wish—because I see that He wants our trust—that is why in the loss let us praise God as if we have got everything.”— Mother Teresa, amazon.com
“In our Christian walk there are disruptive moments. Such are bumps in the road which can be avoided but not all times do we succeed in avoiding them because they are there for a reason. As long as you are moving chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. Just…”— Stephen Kyeyune, amazon.com
“Our faith is born on Easter morning: Jesus is alive! This experience is at the heart of the Christian message.”— Pope Francis, twitter.com
“Thank you, God, who as someone just told me, never said it would be easy, but did promise me that it would work.”— Anne Lamott, facebook.com