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  • #1
    Charles C. Ryrie
    “The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.”
    Charles C. Ryrie

  • #2
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #3
    C.S. Lewis
    “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #4
    C.S. Lewis
    “He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #5
    C.S. Lewis
    “You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.”
    C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

  • #6
    C.S. Lewis
    “Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

  • #7
    Bear Grylls
    “A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.”
    Bear Grylls

  • #8
    Bear Grylls
    “Above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don’t have a price tag.”
    Bear Grylls

  • #9
    Erwin W. Lutzer
    “Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and bea hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave towealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to havedone nothing and succeeded at it.”
    Erwin Lutzer

  • #10
    Erwin W. Lutzer
    “Every time we love, we increase our capacity to be hurt.”
    Erwin W. Lutzer, Jesus, Lover of a Woman's Soul

  • #11
    Brian Welch
    “The most important lesson that we're supposed to be learning right now is how completely lost we are without God. If we don't learn this lesson, then our lives are going to have zero meaning. (Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality)”
    Brian "Head" Welch

  • #12
    Matthew Quick
    “If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.”
    Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

  • #13
    Brian Welch
    “Religion is when people try to act good because they're afraid to go to hell. A relationship with Jesus Christ is for people like me who have already been to hell.”
    Brian "Head" Welch

  • #14
    Charlotte M. Mason
    “There is no education but self-education.”
    Charlotte Mason

  • #15
    Tullian Tchividjian
    “To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism”
    Tullian Tchividjian, Jesus + Nothing = Everything

  • #16
    Tullian Tchividjian
    “God's capacity to forgive is greater than our capacity to sin; while our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. It's a message revealing the radical contrast between the sinful heart of mankind and the gracious heart of mankind's Creator.”
    Tullian Tchividjian, Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels

  • #17
    Tullian Tchividjian
    “The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.”
    Tullian Tchividjian

  • #18
    Tullian Tchividjian
    “Since Genesis 3 we have been addicted to setting our sights on something, someone, smaller than Jesus.”
    Tullian Tchividjian

  • #19
    Tullian Tchividjian
    “We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone stirs up more of such behavior. People get worse, not better, when you lay down the law. To be sure, the Spirit does use both God's law and God's gospel in our sanctification. But the law and the gospel do very different things.”
    Tullian Tchividjian

  • #20
    Tullian Tchividjian
    “most people live their life as if their justification depends on their sanctification: if I do and become all that I must do and become, God will love me and accept me.”
    Tullian Tchividjian

  • #21
    Ravi Zacharias
    “We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.”
    Ravi Zacharias

  • #22
    Ravi Zacharias
    “There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.”
    Ravi Zacharias

  • #23
    Ravi Zacharias
    “I thank the Lord that, even though things were so wrong in my life here, I finally was brought to the realization of what all those struggles were about. There are some wonderful things from your painful past, things with a beauty you may not have realized at the time.”
    Ravi Zacharias, Walking from East to West: God in the Shadows

  • #24
    Ravi Zacharias
    “Yes, if truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.”
    Ravi Zacharias

  • #25
    Ravi Zacharias
    “Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.”
    Ravi Zacharias, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah

  • #26
    Ravi Zacharias
    “I came to Him because I did not know which way to turn. I remained with Him because there is no other way I wish to turn. I came to Him longing for something I did not have. I remain with Him because I have something I will not trade. I came to Him as a stranger. I remain with Him in the most intimate of friendships. I came to Him unsure about the future. I remain with Him certain about my destiny. I came amid the thunderous cries of a culture that has 330 million deities. I remain with Him knowing that truth cannot be all-inclusive.”
    Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

  • #27
    Ravi Zacharias
    “To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, “I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge”
    Ravi Zacharias

  • #28
    Ravi Zacharias
    “I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question.
    Tell me," I said.
    You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones.”
    Ravi Zacharias

  • #29
    Ravi Zacharias
    “Truth by definition excludes.”
    Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

  • #30
    Frederick Buechner
    “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
    Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Seeker's ABC



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