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Let no one grieve at his poverty,
for the universal kingdom has been revealed.
Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again;
for forgiveness has risen from the grave.
Let no one fear death, for the Death of our Savior has set us free.
He has destroyed it by enduring it.

"The spirit of Christmas needs to be superseded by the Spirit of Christ. The spirit of Christmas is annual; the Spirit of Christ is eternal. The spirit of Christmas is sentimental; the Spirit of Christ is supernatural. The spirit of Christmas is a human product; the Spirit of Christ is a divine person. That makes all the difference in the world." ~ Pastor Stuart Briscoe

"The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable." ~ Ralph W. Sockman, pastor and national radio host in the early 20th century

"No matter what you are going through this Christmas, try celebrating the real thing. It will make a difference." ~ Rick Warren, The Purpose of Christmas (Howard, 2008)

American shoppers plan to spend 58 percent more on Christmas in 2010 than last year. Yet, when compared with inflation, planned spending in 2010 is still below average spending in 1990. (Source: American Research Group)

"All you need is a willing heart and God can use you in Bible translation." (Marshall Schultz)

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." (Jim Elliott)

"To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing." (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)

When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages." To that, Calvert replied, "We died before we came here."

"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees." (Jason Kidd) 

"Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all." (James Hudson)

"Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion." (Unknown)

"Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?" (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) "If you want to pray better, you must pray more." (Mother Teresa)

"There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God." (Brother Lawrence)

"Our judgment tells us we ought to pray - to pray whether we feel like it or not - and not allow our feelings to determine our habits of prayer. In such circumstances, we ought to pray for the desire to pray; for such a desire is God-given and heaven-born." (E.M. Bounds)

"God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede."  (Oswald Chambers)

"If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray." (Frederick Franson)

"We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God within him, which is nourished not by food but by prayer...Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished." (Oswald Chambers)

"The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men...Men of prayer." (E. M. Bounds)

"We waste most of our time trying to get God to do something He has already done--or praying for God to do something He told us to do." (Jacquelyn K. Heasley)

"Those who do not believe do not pray. This is a good functional definition of faith. Faith prays, unbelief does not." (John A. Hardon)

"Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need." (E.M. Bounds)

"Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving Christian." (Andrew Murray)

"The Third Petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own." (Aldous Huxley)

"We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another." (William Law)

"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?" (Corrie Ten Boom)

"Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer." (François Fénelon)

"There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off their guns anywhere. Possibly somebody would be killed, but the majority of the enemy would be missed." (Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

"The climax of God's happiness is the delight He takes in the echoes of His excellence in the praises of His people." (John Piper)

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling 'darkness' on the wall of his cell..." (C.S. Lewis)

"An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may." (William Hazlitt)

"God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. God has set a double fence before the tongue, the teeth and the lips, to teach us to be wary that we offend not with our tongue." (Thomas Watson)

"There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself." (D.L. Moody)

"Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason---I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other---my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen." (Martin Luther)

"Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth." (Thomas Brooks)

"Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself." (Augustine)

 "A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent." (Augustine)

"Do you seek any further reward beyond that of having pleased God? In truth, you know not how great a good it is to please Him." (John Chrystostom)

"What can be lighter than a burden which takes our burdens away, and a yoke which bears up the bearer himself?" (St. Bernard)

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else." (Charles DIckens)

"Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificied on the altar of conformity and popularity." (Charles Spurgeon)

"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you." (C.S. Lewis)

"I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite clear they are not that sort of thing....Christ bent down and scribbled in the dust with His finger. Nothing comes of this. No one has based any doctrine on it. And the act of inventing little irrelevant details to make an imaginary scene more convincing is purely a modern art." (C.S. Lewis)

"The gospel alone is sufficient to rule the lives of Christians everywhere...any additional rules made to govern men's conduct added nothing to the perfection already found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ." (John Wycliffe)

"The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian." (A.W. Tozer)

"If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper. I make it a practice to read the Bible through once every year." (Daniel Webster)

"Many people wish the Bible to overawe them, as Sinai did the Israelites...who worshiped it one day and danced around a calf the next." (Henry Ward)

"If thou sin, the word of God is thy adversary. It is the adversary of thy will till it become the author of thy salvation." (Augustine)

"A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil." (Jerome)