Great Throughts Treasury

"In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centering on the living Christ. Then the church moved to Greece, where it became a philosophy. Then it moved to Rome, where it became an institution. Next it moved to Europe, where it became a culture, and, finally, it moved to America, where it became an enterprise."

"And long after the history of all the big things that make the front pages are forgotten, what God has done through you and a few people will be history."

" The program of our church is everything all the members are doing between Sundays. The church keeps house, goes to school, teaches, practices law, medicine and dentistry, runs business and industry, farms, works on construction jobs, researches in many fields, sits on school boards, city councils, county councils, state legislatures and congress. Between Sundays the church is involved in everything productive and constructive that is happening in our community... And what of the church work which is done in and for the church organization? Its purpose is to equip each member to do the work for the church Monday through Saturday. All the programs within the church are for the purpose of enabling the church to do the work of ministry between Sundays when she is invisible as a congregation."

"There is nothing you can do to make God love you more. There is nothing you can do to make God love you less. His love is unconditional, impartial, everlasting, infinite, perfect!"

"I like to remind them to be spouses and parents when they go home."

"Jesus Christ said more about money than about any other single thing because, when it comes to a man's real nature, money is of first importance. Money is an exact index to a man's true character. All through Scripture there is an intimate correlation between the development of a man's character and how he handles his money. "

"Christianity is either relevant all the time or useless anytime. It is not just a phase of life; it is life itself. "

"Men who fear God face life fearlessly. Men who do not fear God end up fearing everything."

"The Godless would deny and destroy human rights .... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned."

"Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing."

"Abortion... interferes with God's plan--a plan He willed before He created the universe. Abortion is in violation of God-given life."

"Atheism has no room for human rights."

"Christianity began in Palestine as a relationship, moved to Greece and became an idea, went to Rome and became an institution, then came to (North) America and became an enterprise! "