Quotes that have impacted your life for Christ

"Either the Bible will keep you from the Devil or the Devil will keep you from the Bible"

 

"Find a need and Fill it."

 

When you go through the pearly gates you will witness 3 miracles.
The first miracle is that you won't meet certain people whose place in Heaven you were certain of.
The second miracle is that you will meet people that you were certain of not to be in Heaven.
The third and largest miracle is that YOU got into Heaven.

 

"Emptiness and willingness."--Lee Roberson.

"You can't win everyone, but you can always win someone to Christ."--John R. Rice.

"It pays to serve Jesus."--Charles A. Himes, my father, who died with little money and few physical possessions, but a legacy of 60 years of preaching the Gospel, several churches planted and several others pastored, many who thanked him for telling them about Christ, and a son who thanks God for him.

 

I didn't realise it then, but Dr Roberson's constant message of "Die to self" has had a tremendous impact.

 

Dad's saying: "Can't never could do anything."

Hyles came along and said something similar: "I can is what makes a great man."

 

Amen. He had pithy sayings with great impact.

 

"Your walk talks and your talk talks but your walk talks louder than your talk talks."

 

Here is one I got from my father. "Right is right if nobody is doing it and wrong is wrong if everybody is doing it." Someone told me one time that Ben Franklin said that...but if he did he must have heard it from my Dad!

 

Dr. Bob Swift is now pastor of FBC, Mayfield, KY. Several years ago he was interim pastor of my church. Here is one of his memorable comments:


"We don't know how big a God we have until He is all we have."

 

I used this in another thread. Heard by others from more than one source, but said by R. Charles Blair to me:

"Did it ever occur to you that nothing ever occurs to God?"

 

I once heard Dr. Wayne Dehoney, then pastor of Walnut Street Baptist Church in Louisville and a past President of the SBC say:

"It's not how high you can jump when you shout, 'Hallelujah!"; it's how straight you can walk when your feet hit the ground."

Another from someone, don't remember who-

"You're the best Christian somebody knows!"

Ed

 

"You're the only Bible some people read!"


Think about that one?!

 

Here are a few that have impacted me....

"What you are is so important that if God is not satisfied with what you are, then He cannot accept what you do." Dr. Stephen F. Olford on Rom. 12:1

"God reveals his will by setting a torch to your soul."
Max Lucado, Grace For The Moment, 2000

"God always saves the best for those who leave the choice to Him." Bradley Price

 

Vernon Lee, pastor of Open Door Baptist in Enid, Oklahoma:
"Some people are doctrinally as straight as a rifle barrel, and just as hollow."

 

The pastor of the church where I grew up (Curtis Hutson) quoted this poem so often that most of us in the congregation memorized it. It is by Martin Luther.

Feelings come and feelings go,
And feelings are deceiving;
My warrant is the Word of God--
Naught else is worth believing.

Tho all my heart should feel condemned
For want of some sweet token,
There is one greater than my heart
Whose word cannot be broken.

I'll trust in God's unchanging word
Till soul and body sever,
For tho all things shall pass away,
His Word abides forever!

 

Ed Sutton said:

I heard a variation of Dr. Dehoney's quip: I don't care how high you jump, and how long you stay up there as long as you're speakin' English when you come down."

 

God conquered my heart and lifted my feet from the mire...Calvin