| Quotation 1 : | MORTAL BATTLE
"When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your fa" |
| Abraham Kuyper |
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| Quotation 2 : | MORTAL BATTLE
"...I have now to ask whether you can consent to part with your daughter early next spring, to see her no more in this world? Whether you can consent to see her departure to a heathen land, and her subjection to the hardships and sufferings of a missionary" |
| Adoniram Judson |
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| Quotation 3 : | MORTAL BATTLE
"Return to the battle again, no longer trusting in the false and insufficient human resources which so foolishly we had taken into the battle, but now trusting in the limitless resources of our risen Lord." |
| Alan Redpath |
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| Quotation 4 : | MORTAL BATTLE
"Any battle for victory, power, and deliverance - from ourselves and from sin - which is not based constantly upon the gazing and the beholding of the Lord Jesus, with the heart and life lifted up to Him, is doomed to failure." |
| Alan Redpath |
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| Quotation 5 : | MORTAL BATTLE
"Who has ever told the evils and the curses and the crimes of war? Who can describe the horrors of the carnage of battle? Who can portray the fiendish passions which reign there! If there is anything in which earth, more than any other, resembles hell, it" |
| Albert Barnes |
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| Quotation 6 : | MORTAL BATTLE
"Thank God for the battle verses in the Bible. We go into the unknown every day of our lives, and especially every Monday morning, for the week is sure to be a battlefield, outwardly and inwardly in the unseen life of the spirit, which is often by far the" |
| Amy Carmichael |
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| Quotation 7 : | MORTAL BATTLE
"Christianity fuels everything I write. Being a Christian means that I am called upon to do battle against lies, injustice, cruelty, hypocrisy--you know, all the virtues in the church of liberalism. As St. Paul said, if Christ is not risen from the dead, t" |
| Ann Coulter |
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| Quotation 8 : | MORTAL BATTLE
"Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the text of the new life sermon; the girding on of the armor for battle; the pilgrim's preparation for his journey. It must be supplemented by action or it amounts to nothing." |
| Austin Phelps |
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| Quotation 9 : | MORTAL BATTLE
"If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!" |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| Quotation 10 : | MORTAL BATTLE
"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 11 : | MORTAL BATTLE
"Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 12 : | MORTAL BATTLE
"I question whether the defenses of the gospel are not sheer impertinences. The gospel does not need defending. If Jesus Christ is not alive and cannot fight His own battles, then Christianity is in a bad state. But He is alive, and we have only to preach" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 13 : | MORTAL BATTLE
"Never fear dying, beloved. Dying is the last, but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about. Fear living - that is a hard battle to fight, a stern discipline to endure, a rough voyage to undergo." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 14 : | MORTAL BATTLE
"Our sorrows are all, like ourselves, mortal. There are no immortal sorrows for immortal souls. They come, but blessed be God, they also go. Like birds of the air, they fly over our heads. But they cannot make their abode in our souls. We suffer today, but" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 15 : | MORTAL BATTLE
"Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 16 : | MORTAL BATTLE
"The Gospel does not need defending. If Jesus Christ is not alive and cannot fight His own battles, then Christianity is in a bad state. But He is alive and we have only to preach His gospel in all its simplicity, and the power that goes with it will be ev" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 17 : | MORTAL BATTLE
"As the saints of God meet together Jesus still manifests Himself. And seeing Him, there comes to us a new joy and peace, a new sense of the purpose and worthfulness of life. Seeing Him there comes to us a new power for battle and for conquest." |
| Clovis G. Chappell |
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| Quotation 18 : | MORTAL BATTLE
"As you step into the battle for truth, God will supply all you need, and your faith will grow ever stronger in Him. The church needs more "Davids"--men and women ready to be used in defense of the truth against the "giants" of unbelief." |
| Dave Hunt |
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| Quotation 19 : | MORTAL BATTLE
"To me, it has been a source of great comfort and strength in the day of battle, just to remember that the secret of steadfastness, and indeed, of victory, is the recognition that "the Lord is at hand."" |
| Duncan Campbell |
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| Quotation 20 : | MORTAL BATTLE
"Jesus defeated satan in Gethsemane on the cross, not by directly confronting the devil, but by fulfilling the destiny to which He had been called. The greatest battle that was ever won was accomplished by the apparent death of the victor, without even a w" |
| Francis Frangipane |
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| Quotation 21 : | MORTAL BATTLE
"Just because the current giant you are facing looks like one you defeated in the past, don't buy the lie that you never really won the first battle! By the strength of God's grace, you trusted the Almighty and conquered your Goliath. The first giant is de" |
| Francis Frangipane |
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| Quotation 22 : | MORTAL BATTLE
"Too many Christians become bitter and angry in the conflict. If we descend into hatefulness, we have already lost the battle. We must cooperate with God in turning what was meant for evil into a greater good within us. This is why we bless those who would" |
| Francis Frangipane |
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| Quotation 23 : | MORTAL FORMS
"Evil is easy, and has infinite forms." |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| Quotation 24 : | MORTAL FORMS
"There was good reason for the silence of the Holy Spirit as to how, when, in what form Christ ordained the apostles, the reason being to show the indifferency of all forms of words." |
| John Wycliffe |
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| Quotation 25 : | MORTAL FORMS
"Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love and humility." |
| Brother Lawrence |
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| Quotation 26 : | MORTAL FORMS
"Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting." |
| Francis Schaeffer |
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| Quotation 27 : | MORTAL FORMS
"The first step in peopling these worlds with the appropriate living forms is virtually miracle. Nor in one case is there less of mystery in the act than in the other. The second birth is scarcely less perplexing to the theologian than the first to the emb" |
| Henry Drummond |
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| Quotation 28 : | MORTAL FORMS
"If we neglect almost any of the domestic animals, they will rapidly revert to wild and worthless forms. Now, the same thing exactly would happen in the case of you or me. Why should man be an exception to any of the laws of nature?" |
| Henry Drummond |
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| Quotation 29 : | MORTAL FORMS
"The one who judges according to the word and law of the Lord, and forms his judgments by the rule of charity, always begins with subjecting himself to examination, and preserves a proper medium and order in his judgments." |
| John Calvin |
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| Quotation 30 : | MORTAL FORMS
"What Jesus forbids is self-righteous, officious, hasty, unmerciful, prejudiced, and unwarranted condemnation based on human standards and human reasoning... [He condemns] the judgment of motives, which no mere human being can know of another, and to judgm" |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 31 : | MORTAL FORMS
"So you can see what is happening in the New Testament. Worship is being significantly deinstitutionalized, delocalized, de-externalized. The whole thrust is being taken off of ceremony and seasons and places and forms and is being shifted to what is happe" |
| John Piper |
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| Quotation 32 : | MORTAL FORMS
"The words of St. Paul, 'No man can call Jesus Lord, but by the Holy Ghost,' show us the necessity of eyeing God in our good works, and even in our minutest thoughts; knowing that none are pleasing to him, but those which he forms in us and with us. From h" |
| John Wesley |
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| Quotation 33 : | MORTAL FORMS
"This King lives independently of all other life forms. He is the origin of all other life forms. His life is non-derivative. He does not live because of who anyone or anything else is or who or what anyone or anything else does. He simply is, irrespective" |
| Sam Storms |
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| Quotation 34 : | MORTAL FORMS
"To be risen with Christ means not only that one has a choice and that one may live by a higher law - the law of grace and love - but that one must do so. The first obligation of the Christian is to maintain their freedom from all superstitions, all blind" |
| Thomas Merton |
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| Quotation 35 : | MORTAL FORMS
"Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature; it comes into the world crying. Praying is not a lesson got by forms and rules of art, but flowing from princ" |
| William Gurnall |
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| Quotation 36 : | MORTALITY
"If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very go" |
| Ernest Hemingway |
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| Quotation 37 : | MORTALITY
"We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye." |
| Pablo Neruda |
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| Quotation 38 : | MORTALITY
"Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures." |
| Kami Garcia |
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| Quotation 39 : | MORTALITY
"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt." |
| Susan Sontag |
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| Quotation 40 : | MORTALITY
"It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 41 : | MORTALITY
"Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters." |
| Rick Riordan |
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| Quotation 42 : | MORTALITY
"He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore." |
| Sigmund Freud |
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| Quotation 43 : | MORTALITY
"The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made o" |
| R.J. Palacio |
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| Quotation 44 : | MORTALITY
"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window." |
| Stephen King |
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| Quotation 45 : | MORTALITY
"Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow." |
| Barbara Kingsolver |
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| Quotation 46 : | MORTALITY
"May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality... First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love." |
| Thomas S. Monson |
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| Quotation 47 : | MORTALITY
"Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die." |
| Markus Zusak |
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| Quotation 48 : | MORTALITY
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!" |
| William Shakespeare |
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| Quotation 49 : | MORTALITY
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
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| Quotation 50 : | MORTALITY
"Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time." |
| Neil Gaiman |
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| Quotation 51 : | MORTALITY
"God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality." |
| Harry Emerson Fosdick |
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| Quotation 52 : | MORTALITY
"To smell a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul." |
| Thomas Fuller |
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