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Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many Christians wear medals but carry no scars.


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Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.

Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.



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At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.



The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.

The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.



Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.

Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.



It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.

It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.



A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.

A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.



If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.

If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.



Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.

Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.



The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.

The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.



Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.

Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.





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