Great Throughts Treasury

"We have an idea that we Americans are God's chosen people, that God loves us more than any other people, and that we are God's blessed. I tell you that God doesn't love us any more than He does the Russians."

"We have been proud and thought we were better than any other race, any other people. Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to stumble into hell because of our pride."

"We have to have armies! We have to have military power! We have to have police forces, whether it's police in a great city or police in an international scale to keep those madmen from taking over the world and robbing the world of its liberties"

"We know we ought to know more about the Bible?but perhaps you?re like many Christians: It?s so overwhelming you?ve never really gotten into it. The first step is to realize what it is: God?s love letter to you. From one end to the other it tells of God?s love for us?a love so great that He sent His Son into the world to redeem us. You wouldn?t ignore a letter from someone who loved you; don?t ignore God?s love letter either."

"We in America should be grateful to God for the blessing he has given us."

"We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing."

"We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully."

"We say to our children, Act like grown-ups, but Jesus said to the grown-ups, ?Be like children.?"

"When God forgives us and purifies us of our sin, He also forgets it. Forgiveness results in God dropping the charges against us."

"We're all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner."

"We've always needed God from the very beginning of this nation but today we need Him especially. We're facing a new kind of enemy. We're involved in a new kind of warfare and we need the help of the Spirit of God. The Bible's words are our hope. . . ."

"When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace."

"What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul."

"When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened."

"What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all?how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died?more than that, who was raised to life?is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."

"When I look back over the schedule I kept thirty or forty years ago, I am staggered by all the things we did and the engagements we kept. Sometimes we flitted from one part of the country to another, even from one continent to another, in the course of only a few days. Were all those engagements necessary? Was I as discerning as I might have been about which ones to take and which to turn down? I doubt it. Every day I was absent from my family is gone forever. Although much of that travel was necessary, some of it was not."

"When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out."

"When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems."

"When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood."

"When I reached about 80, my physical world turned upside down,"

"When we come to the end of ourselves, we come to the beginning of God."

"When Scripture talks about the heart, it?s not talking about that life-sustaining muscle. It?s talking about our entire inner being. The heart is the seat of our emotions, the seat of decisive action, and the seat of belief (as well as doubt)."

"While nobody likes a watchdog, and for that reason many investigation committees are unpopular, I thank God for men who, in the face of public denouncement and ridicule, go loyally on in their work of exposing the pinks, the lavenders and the reds who have sought refuge beneath the wings of the American eagle and from that vantage point try in every subtle, undercover way to bring comfort, aid and help to the greatest enemy we have ever known -- communism."

"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost."

"While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites."

"While our world is shaking and crumbling, we need to realize that one thing will never change, and that is God. He is the same today as he was ten million years ago, and will be the same ten million years from today."

"When we preach or teach the Scriptures, we open the door for the Holy Spirit to do His work. God has not promised to bless oratory or clever preaching. He has promised to bless His Word."

"Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything."

"With a twinkle in his eyes, my friend says that his favorite prayer is, Lord, give me patience?and give it to me right now!"

"Without question, the regrets are greatly outnumbered by the delights. The mistakes we did make were not fatal, and we both thank the Lord for that. And that bolsters our faith that He will do the same for the generations coming after us."

"World events are moving very rapidly now. I pick up the Bible in one hand, and I pick up the newspaper in the other. And I read almost the same words in the newspaper as I read in the Bible. It's being fulfilled every day round about us."

"Women need a reason for having sex, men just need a place."

"World travel and getting to know clergy of all denominations has helped mold me into an ecumenical being. We're separated by theology and, in some instances, culture and race, but all that means nothing to me anymore."

"You cannot serve god and mammon. You have to make a choice."

"You could almost have identical twins standing side-by-side, one accepting and one rejecting. This is a mystery that I don?t understand; it?s part of the sovereignty of God. But I do know that when we faithfully proclaim the Gospel, his word will not return void. It accomplishes what God wants it to."

"You can?t change your past but you can change you destiny."

"You have to decide to servant the gods of materialism all around us or the true and the living God."

"You know, when Jesus dealt with people with moral problems, like dear Walter had, he always dealt tenderly... I just hope if you have any contact with him, you'll give him my love and understanding."

"You choose sin. You practice sin."

"You not only choose between two ways of life but you choose between two masters."

"Your greatest contribution to God?s Kingdom work?and to defeating the Enemy?s efforts against this Kingdom?is to keep up your daily devotions; live a clean, honest, humble, Spirit-filled life; trust God to guard and protect you morally, physically, and spiritually."

"You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole."

"Your faith and hope are in god."