Jonathan Trentham > Jonathan's Quotes

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
― Corrie ten Boom

“God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.”
― Hudson Taylor

“Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.”
― John Newton, Amazing Grace

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”
― Jim Elliot

“This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus.”
― John Newton

“We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.”
― Ravi Zacharias

“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.”
― Oswald Chambers

“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrims Progress

“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
― C.S. Lewis

“We do not segment our lives, giving some time to God, some to our business or schooling, while keeping parts to ourselves. The idea is to live all of our lives in the presence of God, under the authority of God, and for the honor and glory of God. That is what the Christian life is all about.”
― R.C. Sproul

“If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.”
― Augustine

“Only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“Here, then, is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy. ”
― R. C. Sproul

“But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.”
― francis chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.”
― Max Lucado, He Still Moves Stones: Everyone Needs a Miracle

“There are three stages to every great work of God; first it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.”
― Hudson Taylor

“We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him — not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything — to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation.”
― Mother Teresa, In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers

“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him”
― John Piper

“God never takes away something from your life without replacing it with something better.”
― Billy Graham

“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”
― William Arthur Ward

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn't really matter.”
― D.L. Moody

“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.”
― Thomas Edison

“A vision without execution is an hallucination.”
― Jeffrey E. Garten, The Mind Of The CEO: The World's Business Leaders Talk About Leadership, Responsibility The Future Of The Corporation, And What Keeps Them Up At Night

“Being faithful in the smallest things is the way to gain, maintain, and demonstrate the strength needed to accomplish something great.”
― Alex Harris

“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut”
― Albert Einstein

“We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry