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QUOTES
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PASTOR BRAD BAILEY AND HIS BROTHER PASTOR CHAD BAILEY
HAVE COLLECTED NUMEROUS QUOTES AND SAYINGS
BY OTHER PREACHERS AND FRIENDS OVER THE YEARS.
THEY WOULD LIKE TO SHARE THEM WITH YOU
HERE AND HOPE YOU ENJOY THEM.
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ANGER
"No person is able to bear the weight of yesterday's resentment and tomorrow's problems."
- Dr. Ronnie Simpson
"Anyone can become angry, but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way – this is not easy."
– Aristotle
DISCOURAGEMENT
"Before any great achievement, some measure of the same depression is usual . . . Such was my experience when I first became a pastor in London. My success appalled me; and the thought of the career which it seemed to open up, so far from elating me, cast me into the lowest depth, out of which I uttered my miserere and found no room for gloria in excelsis. Who was I that I should continue to lead such a great multitude? I would betake me to my village obscurity, or immigrate to America, and find a solitary nest in the backwoods, where I might be sufficient for the things that would be demanded of me. It was just then the curtain was rising on my lifework . . . This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry."
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
GENUINENESS
The story of Dr. Will H. Houghton is a testament to genuine Christian living. He pastored the Calvary Baptist Church in New York City and later became the president of Chicago's Moody Bible Institute till his death in 1946.
When Dr. Houghton became the pastor of the Baptist Tabernacle in Atlanta, GA a curious man in the city hired a private detective to follow Dr. Houghton and report on his conduct. After several weeks the detective reported to the man
that Dr. Houghton's lifestyle matched his preaching. As a result, the man became a Christian.
GOVERNMENT
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have."
- Thomas Jefferson
INACTIVITY
"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows that it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun comes up you had better be running."
- African Parable
LEADERSHIP
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt
LORDSHIP
"It is the folly of our day that we think we can have none of His kingship in this life, yet have some claim to part of His kingdom in the next. But for those who reject the rule of the Lord Jesus now, there is only the fearful expectation of the fury of the wrath of God, the judge of heaven and earth."
- Thomas Vincent (1634-1678)
LOVE
"True love is always under control. Christ commands, 'Love your enemies'. You can't sit around whomping up a good feeling for your enemies. It doesn't come that way. But if you give an enemy something to eat or give him something to drink, soon something begins to happen to your feelings. When you invest yourself in another, you begin to feel differently toward him. Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
- Jay E. Adams, The Christian Counselor's Manual
OPPOSITION
"Success in God's work always solicits opposition of some kind from God's enemies. And the greater the success in God's service, the greater will be the opposition from God's enemies; for opposition from God's enemies comes in proportion to our performance for God. The more we do for God, the more we will experience opposition from the enemies of God. The more dedicated we are in God's work, the more we will be harassed by the enemies of God's work. If you are not experiencing much opposition, you are probably not doing much for God."
- John G. Butler, Nehemiah the Wall Builder, Bible Biography Series # 17
PERSEVERANCE
"It is always too soon to quit."
- Dr. V. Raymond Edman, late president of Wheaton College (Illinois)
"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
PRAYER
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance; it is laying hold of His willingness."
- Richard Trench (1807-1866)
Too often our prayers are vague and general. 'Lord bless the missionaries!' How much better it would be if we would prayer for specific needs. By doing so, we would know when God answered and we could praise Him for it."
- Dr. Warren Wiersbe, Be Complete
"It has well been said that the purpose of prayer is not to get man's will done in heaven, but to get God's will done on earth. Prayer is not telling God what to do or what to give. Prayer is asking God for that which He wants to do and give, according to His will."
- Dr. Warren Wiersbe, Be Complete
"You can do more than pray after you’ve prayed, but you can’t do more than pray until you have prayed."
– John Bunyan
PREACHING
"Paul did not ask for the prison doors to be opened, but that doors of ministry might be opened (I Cor. 16:9, Acts 14:27). It was more important to Paul that he be a faithful minister than a free man."
- Dr. Warren Wiersbe, Be Complete
When John Bunyan was arrested for preaching illegally he was told that he would be released from prison if he would stop preaching. He replied, "If I am out of prison today I will preach the Gospel again tomorrow, by the help of God."
PREPAREDNESS
"There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing."
– Norwegian Proverb
RESPONSIBILITY
"As always, victory finds a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan."
– Count Galeazzo Ciano, diary, Sept. 9, 1942
TABERNACLE
"The only building ever constructed upon this earth which was perfect from its very beginning and outset in every detail, and never again needed attention, addition or alteration, was the tabernacle in the wilderness . . . It is probably the most comprehensive, detailed revelation of Jesus the Son of God, and the plan of salvation in the entire Old Testament."
– Dr. M.R. DeHaan, M.D.
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