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Salvation may come quietly, but we must not remain quiet about it.

Jesus took our place that we might have His peace; He took our sin that we might have His salvation.

Where one goes hereafter depends on what he does after here.

The new birth is not optional—it’s imperative.

Jesus came to save the lost, the last, and the least.

Of all the thousands of deceptive substitutes, a substitute for salvation is the worst.

One must be a wide-awake Christian before he can fall asleep in Jesus.

If you keep rejecting the “come” of salvation, you will have to accept the “depart” of damnation.

There are none so good that they can save themselves—none so bad that God cannot save them.

The sinner has only two options—be pardoned or be punished.

When God pardons sin, He purges the record, erases the remembrance, and empowers the recipient.

When God saves us, our sins are forgiven and forgotten forever.

Salvation causes us to step out of sin’s slavery into security with Christ.

Justification means man’s guilt gone and Christ’s goodness given.

We can be so caught up in the theology of the coming of Christ that we forget the fact of His coming.

Jesus Who died as our substitute now lives as our Advocate.

How tragic that people pay a high price for being lost when salvation is free.

Empty cross—empty tomb—full salvation!

Calvary is never to be forgotten, and never to be repeated.

God makes us miserable through conviction to make us happy through confession.

Reformation is turning over a new leaf; regeneration is receiving a new life.

Honest restitution is a mark of honest repentance.

Better not to have been born at all than never to have been born again.

A man can go to hell in his own way, but only go to heaven God’s way—through Christ.

It is dangerous and fatal presumption to say “tomorrow” when God says “Today.”

God votes for us; Satan votes against us—we cast the deciding vote.

The church is a hospital for sinners—not a club for Christians.

Eternal life is the only life insurance you can collect after death.

Nature forms us; sin deforms us; school informs us; but only Christ can transform us.

He who is born of God should increasingly resemble his Father.

Some people have tons of religion but not one ounce of salvation.

Service can put a new coat on a man—but salvation puts a new man in the coat.

A true fear of hell has sent many souls to heaven.

Some expect to repent of their sin at the eleventh hour but die at 10:30.

Some people take up religion as an insurance against hell, then are not willing to pay the premiums.

Man is saved by believing Christ—he is lost by believing the devil.

Salvation is by atonement—not by attainment.

The thief on the cross had just one chance and accepted it.

Salvation is so simple that people overlook it; so free they do not believe it.

Christ came not to save only the “down and out,” but also the “up and out.”

Where will you be and what will you be doing ten years from today if you keep on doing what you are doing now?

Conversion is going into business with God.

Calvary is God’s bank for a sick world.

There is a difference between religion and salvation. Religion is man trying to do something for God—salvation is God doing something for man.

Man may whitewash himself, but only God can wash him white.

Life is a one-way street; we are not coming back.

Conversion to Christ makes useful saints our of useless sinners.

Calvary knows how far man will go into sin and how far God will go for man’s salvation.

God has promised forgiveness for your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow for your procrastination.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

Salvation is not to be analyzed but realized.

Are you on the rocks or on the Rock?

Good works are not the means of salvation but the result.

There is a time to be born and a time to die. Where we spend eternity depends on the interval between these times.

It is never too early to decide for Christ, but the time will come when it will be too late.

An insurance agent has this slogan on his letterhead: “We insure everything except eternity.”

We may travel the sea of life without Christ, but what about the landing?

Millions will miss the second coming of Christ because they fail to accept Him and His first coming.

The head may seek God, but it is the heart that finds Him.

No one ever got lost on the straight and narrow road.

Some day you must bow your knee to Christ—why not now?

The Christian will find satisfaction just where he found salvation.

It is impossible to drive in the wrong direction and arrive at the right destination.

Pictures of doom: Knowledge without wisdom; a ship without a port; and a man without Christ.

No reformation can ever take the place of regeneration.

Life with Christ is an endless hope; without Him, life is a hopeless end.

Salvation is not something we achieve but something we receive.

Heaven and hell are in opposite directions, and no man can go both ways at the same time.

Law condemns the best man; grace saves the worst man.

A person who is almost persuaded is still completely lost.

Salvation depends upon Christ’s work for us, while rewards depend upon our works for Christ.

There is a way to stay out of hell, but no way to get out of hell.

In salvation, it’s Who you know that counts.

We are saved by Christ’s mediation, not by our merits.

No one is too good—nor too bad—to be a candidate for salvation.

God’s grace makes new creatures out of the best and worst sinners.

Salvation changes our heritage from a living death to a deathless life.

Many who are well prepared for a rainy day are not prepared for eternity.

If you make an excuse for sin, your sin will never be excused.

We are saved by God’s mercy, not by our merit—by Christ’s dying, not by our doing.

You cannot repent too soon because you don’t know how soon it may be too late.

If you refuse Christ because you feel you are not good enough, you are settling for less than God made you to be.

To say, “I’m not good enough to be a Christian,” is a bit like saying, “I’m not healthy enough to go to the hospital.”

God saves us, not for what we are, but for what He can make us.

Plan as if Christ’s return were years away, but be ready as if it were today.

The old nature knows no law, the new nature needs no law.

What we do with Christ now determines what God will do for us later.

Salvation produces a change within that breaks the chains of sin.

Every Christian carries a key that can open the door of salvation to others.

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Revival is the life of Jesus poured into human hands.

The closer we come to God, the more we realize our distance.

Revival means removal.

Every generation needs a regeneration.

A recipe for revival: Draw a circle and get inside, then pray God will send revival within the circle.

We don’t need the sand that Jesus walked on; we need the Jesus Who walked on the sand.

It is the duty of the pastor not only to comfort the distressed but to distress the comfortable.

Some churches are so dead they don’t need revival—they need resurrection.

When Christians are on fire, believers are warmed and sinners are attracted to the light.

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Plan as if Christ’s return is years away, but live as if He is coming today.

Beware of the danger of allowing your rights to subordinate your responsibilities.

We have no right to complain about mistakes made by people who are doing the work we should be doing.

No job is boring if we can see God’s purpose in it.

Not once has God said, “Don’t call me; I’ll call you.”

We are immortal until our work is done.

Most of us get what we deserve, but only the successful will admit it.

Privilege and responsibility are two sides of the same coin.

It takes more time to hide one’s talent than it does to use it for God.

The Bread of Life is never served dining-room style; it’s on the cafeteria plan—you must help yourself.

A feeling of responsibility for others is the first step toward unselfishness and maturity.

The higher you go, the more dependent you become on others.

A Christian must carry something heavier on his shoulder than a chip.

Burying one’s talent is a grave mistake.

So many get into the deadly trap of measuring their achievements by what others haven’t done.

Three things to think of—from where you came, where you are going, and to whom you must give account.

Freedom is not a question of doing as we like but doing as we ought.

Jesus teaches that a man’s attitude toward the kingdom of God is revealed by his attitude toward his property.

Our sorrows are usually the result of letting our wishes replace our duty.

When duty calls, many are not home.

If God writes opportunity on one side of the door, He writes responsibility on the other.

One way to keep your feet on the ground is to put responsibility on your shoulder.

Great trials are often necessary to prepare us for great responsibilities.

We believe in a thing when we are prepared to act as if it were true.

People may forget how fast you did the job but never how well you did it.

God holds us responsible, not for what we have, but for what we could have; not for what we are, but for what we might be.

If you are dissatisfied with your lot, perhaps you haven’t taken care of it.

Things begin to look right when you stop doing wrong.

People who shirk responsibility may really be shunning success.

God often entrusts us with a little to see what we could do with our lot.

A teacher is a person charged with the responsibility of keeping a room full of live wires grounded.

I owe all my success in life to always having been a quarter hour ahead of all my appointments and responsibilities.

Being first is not as important as being right.

As Christians, our responsibility is to be faithful.

The law gives us first duty and then privilege.

Responsibility is my response to his ability.

As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence.

Many people stand for their rights but fall down on their responsibilities.

You should do your duty as you see it.

A lot of people go beyond the call of duty to get even farther away.

Are you willing to risk your reputation to fill your responsibility?

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

It does not do you any good to sit up and take notice if you just keep sitting.

Many a person has convictions for which he wants someone else to supply courage.

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t.

Having to suffer the consequences of our acts tends to develop responsibility.

A genius is a man who never puts on his thinking cap without taking off his jacket.

God’s part we cannot do—our part God will not do.

There’s one thing the Christian gives and still must keep—his word.

For every benefit you receive, responsibility is owed.

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Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.

A company is known by the people it employs.

The most destructive acid in the world is found in our sour disposition.

No one raises his reputation by lowering others.

You cannot build reputation on what you are going to do.

Glass, china, and reputation are equally cracked and never well mended.

It is easier to acquire a good reputation than to lose a bad one.

Reputation is never completely secured—it is being continually earned.

Your hometown is where they can’t figure out how you did so well.

When we live for the approval of God, we need not to be disturbed by the opinion of others.

Some get reputation and keep it; others permit reputation to keep them.

Reputation is seeming; character is being.

Reputation is manufactured; character is grown.

Reputation is what you need to get a job; character is what you need to keep one.

Reputation is what men think you are; character is what God knows you are.

Reputation is what you have when you come to town; character is what you have when you leave.

The only reputation that matters is your reputation in heaven.

An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.

The best way to gain a good reputation is to be what you desire to appear.

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Repentance means not only a heart broken for sin but from sin.

Many people in mending their ways use very thin threads.

Repentance is not only saying, “I’m sorry.” It is also saying, “I’m through.”

Some so-called penitential crying is only hypocritical lying.

To be good, you must first look and see that you are bad.

Money will never buy repentance.

He who delays his repentance pawns his soul to the devil.

To grieve over sin is one thing; to repent is another.

Late repentance is seldom true but true repentance is never late.

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Religion should have no place in your life unless it has first place.

A religion not worth exporting is not worth keeping at home.

The man whose religion costs him nothing pays for what he gets.

The person who argues most about religion usually has the least of it.

Some people make a cloak out of the smallest piece of religion.

We talk a great deal about religion in this country, but we need to stop long enough to let our feet catch up with our mouths.

The religion in your heart should be visible in your life.

Some people’s religion is like the Easter hat—they use it just once a year.

Some people never get religion in their hands and feet.

A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing.

It is a sad religion that is never strong except when its owner is sick.

Most people have some sort of religion, at least they know which church they’re staying away from.

Religion is a cloak worn by some people who will be warm enough in the next world without one.

God wants man to have religion more than in his soul; He wants him to have it in his shoes.

Religion is behavior—not just belief.

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God’s Provision: Christ’s sacrifice was exactly what God desired and we required.

Far greater than man’s first trip to the moon is Christ’s second coming to earth.

Grace is God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense.

Lord, I don’t know how you are going to solve my problems, but I know You have something in mind and I thank you for it.

A man ought to be afraid to run his own life the minute he knows there is a God.

Christ died to save us; He now lives to keep us.

The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.

True freedom is not in choosing your own way, but in yielding to God’s way.

Tarry at a promise until God meets you there.

God performs what He promises and completes what He commands.

Be careful not to presume upon God’s care.

The caterpillar call it the end of the world; God calls it a butterfly.

To be filled with God, one must be emptied of self.

God owes us nothing but gives us everything.

Little things become great things when done in God’s power.

We may face situations beyond our reserves but never beyond God’s resources.

God invites us to burden Him with what burdens us.

Nothing is too big for my God to accomplish, and nothing is too little for Him to use in accomplishing it.

The ground at the cross is level—all may come.

God gives us vinegar with a teaspoon and honey with a soup ladle.

God always gives us what we ask—or something better.

You may be a number the computers can trace, but Christ knows your need, your name, and your face.

The triune God reveals Himself to us not to confuse but to convict, to cleanse, and to comfort.

God has not promised to give us answers—just grace.

God’s answers are always wise than our prayers.

Man’s limited potential underscores God’s limitless power.

God gives strength in proportion to the strain.

When adversity is ready to strike, God is ready to strengthen.

What’s behind us and what’s ahead of us mean little when you stop to think what’s within.

God never alters the robe of righteousness to fit the man, but the man to fit the robe.

It is not the sense of His presence but the fact of His presence.

God’s throne is mercy—not marble.

Many a life that seems marred by accident is only in process of being made by Providence.

Thinking we have some power of our own prevents our taking all power from Christ.

It’s not the load that breaks you down; it’s the fact that you carry it alone.

God never uses an answering machine; He takes each call personally.

God takes heed to our every need.

God’s promises are always greater than our problems.

The finger that points the way is part of the hand that supplies the need.

Think less of the power of things over you and more of the power of Christ in you.

When you sit at the table of the Lord and taste His heavenly food, the devil’s cooking doesn’t taste good.

God doesn’t take anything from His people without giving something better in return.

Those who bear the cross may also be sheltered by it.

There is no need to nervously pace the deck of the ship of life when the Great Pilot is at the wheel.

God will never let anything come to you that He and you cannot handle together.

God sends us the storms to prove that He is the only shelter.

He who knows the way of the Lord can find it in the dark.

God’s wrath comes by measure; His mercy without measure.

God never sends a burden to weigh us down without offering His arm to life us up.

The time God allows us is always enough for the work He allots us.

The more clearly we see the sovereignty of God, the less perplexed we are by the calamities of man.

God is with us in darkness just as surely as He is with us in the light.

God will take care of what you go through; you take care of how you go through it.

The God Who knows our load limit graciously limits our load.

The divine shoulder is always under my load.

Divine sources are never exhausted.

God does not always change circumstances, but He may often change us.

Christ’s pardon brings the soul to heaven; Christ’s presence brings heaven to the soul.

God uses unique methods to perform mighty miracles.

Man’s poverty is no strain on God’s provision.

One may face situations beyond their reserves but never beyond God’s resources.

The only limits to God’s grace are the limits we put on it.

If God sends us on stony paths, He provides strong shoes.

Those God calls He qualifies—those He qualifies He uses.

Those God appoints He anoints.

God has no problems—He has only solutions.

God is in the business of turning all our losses into gains.

Clouds in our lives are sent many times to bring showers of blessing.

God’s resources are always equal to His requirements.

You cannot break God’s promises by leaning on them.

You have all the inner strength you will ever need to handle everything you will ever face.

God’s friendship prevails when human friendship fails.

God will not allow any problem to come to you that cannot be a learning, a turning, or an earning experience.

God always gives us the right time and grace to do what He asks us to do.

A providence that provides for sparrows will certainly protect the saints.

God’s promises are always greater than our needs.

God buries His workman, but carries on His work.

Christianity is not a way out—it’s a way through.

God’s promises are life preservers that keep the soul from sinking in the sea of trouble.

God provides resting places as well as working places.

Justice is the activity of God’s holiness.

God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.

We cannot earn by our merit what Christ has secured for us by His grace.

If one allows God to guide, He will provide.

The Christian finds safety, not in the absence of danger, but in the presence of God.

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Profanity is the use of strong words by weak people.

Swearing is a lazy man’s way of trying to be emphatic.

Profanity is an outward sign of stupidity.

Profanity is evidence of the lack of sufficient vocabulary and brains.

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Very few people are fast enough to keep up with all their good intentions.

On the bypass of by and by, man arrived at the conclusion of never.

Promises are like snowballs—they are easy to make but hard to keep.

Never put off until tomorrow what you feel like doing today—tomorrow it may be against the doctor’s order.

Always put off until tomorrow what you should not do at all.

One reason for doing the right things today is tomorrow.

Since our task is difficult, we dare not relax; since our opportunities are brief, we dare not delay.

Sometimes it’s better to put off until tomorrow what you are likely to louse up today.

Procrastination is the devil’s chloroform.

Never put off until tomorrow what you should have done yesterday.

Tomorrow is the road that often leads to the house of despair.

The lazier the man, the more he plans for tomorrow.

There will always be enough for today without taking on yesterday.

Do your work today as if there were no tomorrow.

He who neglects the present moment may throw away all he has.

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the year.

One of these days is too often none of these days.

You plan to make good some day—why not make good today?

The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.

The devil doesn’t care how much we do, as long as we don’t do it today.

If you put off until tomorrow what can be done today, someone may invent a machine to do it for you.

A little neglect may breed mischief.

A procrastinator suffers from hardening of the oughteries.

One of the devil’s most successful wiles is “Wait just a little while.”

Procrastination never landed one soul in heaven, but it has doomed many to an eternal hell.

It’s never too early to accept Christ, but at any moment it could be too late.

Hard work is often the piling up of the easy things you neglected to do.

Join the TNT Club—Today Not Tomorrow.

He who hesitates is last.

Putting off tough jobs makes them harder.

Live as though every day were you last—and someday you will be right.

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It’s possible to do the right thing for the wrong reasons.

It’s never right to do wrong, and it’s never wrong to do right.

Every day every Christian must choose among progression, discretion, and retrogression.

The person with small principles draws small interest.

When it comes to a solid principle, it’s better to be a hardtop than a convertible.

Better to have poisoned blood than to have poisoned principles.

A man is never better than his principles.

A person without principles in one area will doubtless have principles in another.

One may be better than his reputation but never better than his principles.

When a person sells principles for popularity, he is soon bankrupt.

It is impossible to travel in the wrong direction and reach the right destination.

Be square if you want a circle of friends.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

Many a rich bird feathers his nest by foul means.

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