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“And you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.” – Apostle John – John 8:32 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. – Blaise Pascal
What’s done to children they will do to society. – Dr. Karl Menninger
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me most are the one I DO understand. – Mark Twain
The Church says the earth is flat, but I know it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon. – Ferdinand Magellan
“I am a historian; I am not a believer, but I must confess that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably at the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.” – H. G. Wells – THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY
We make a living by what we get—we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill
“This means everlasting life, their coming to know you, the only true God, and the one you sent, Jesus Christ.”– Apostle John – JesusChrist (His final prayer the night before he died) – John 17:3 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike Christ. – Mohandas Gandhi
Of all religions, the Christian should, of course, inspire the most tolerance, but until now, Christians have been the most intolerant of all men. – Voltaire
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creation of our genious? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love, and at this hour millions of men would die for Him. – Napoleon
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. – Helen Keller
One of the biggest problems of modern-day Christianity is that it has adopted a belief system ABOUT Jesus rather than adopting the religion OF Jesus. By accepting the mystical Trinity, they have elevated Jesus ABOVE the father that he depended on and prayed to, corrupting what he taught in the Sermon on the Mount into a philosophy of unpersuasive dogma that has no relevance to our personal relationship to God. – GaryPulliam
Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care. – Theodore Roosevelt
The ‘Faithful and Discreet Slave’ Jesus referred to is engaged in a massive search and rescue mission. It is an enormous task, and what they are asking each individual is, “Are you going to help me now?” - Jehovah’s Witnesses
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“I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are my disciples, that you have love among yourselves.” – Jesus Christ by Apostle John – John 13:34, 35 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by his effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life that ever lived on this planet. – Kenneth Latourette (Historian)
It takes two to speak truth; one to speak and one to listen. – Henry David Thoreau
There is no harm in repeating a good thing. – Plato
“A new form of religious community appeared for the first time in history: not a nation celebrating its patriotic cult, but a voluntary group, in which social, racial and national distinctions were transcended: men and women coming together as individuals, before their God.” – Paul Johnson (English journalist on history and religion) – A HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY
Help me to do good, be good and stay good. – My son Toby’s goodnight prayer at 4 years old (Gary Pulliam)
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends with them? – Abraham Lincoln
If God didn’t exist, it would be necessary to invent Him. – Voltaire
I desire to go to Hell, not to Heaven. In Hell I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, but in Heaven are only beggars, hermits, monks and apostles. – Niccolo Machiavelli
The profound moral and spiritual intuitions of the Bible, which form a unique revelation of God to man through the channels of human experience, are just as true today as they were two or three thousand years ago. – William Albright (Archaeologist)
The tyrant dies and his rule is over. The martyr dies and his rule begins. - Soren Kierkegaard
In every culture with a written history, there has always been a hope for the future, spurred on by the preservation of family and the search for God. – Gary Pulliam
“We do not wish to abolish teaching and to make every man his own master, but if the curates will not teach the gospel, the layman must have the Scripture, and read it for himself, taking God for his teacher.” - William Tyndale
If we have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. – Isaac Newton
“And He will certainly render judgment among the nations and set matters straight respecting many peoples. And they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, and neither will they learn war anymore.” – the Prophet Isaiah – Isa. 2:4 – the HOLY SCRIPTURES – (On the United Nations Plaza in New York)
There is no exercise better than reaching down and lifting people up. – John Andrews Holmes
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“Go in through the narrow gate because broad is the gate and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are those going through it; whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are finding it.” – Jesus Christ – Matt. 7:13,14 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
For a small reward a man will hurry away on a long journey, while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step. – Thomas a’ Kempis
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy is when men are afraid of the light. – Socrates
Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable. – Immanuel Kant
There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves. – Margaret Thatcher
When two friends get angry with each other, whoever takes the initiative first and offers to forgive, generally gets the first blessing. – Gary Pulliam
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. – Lao Tzu
“Am I in heaven?” asked Denise Lockie after her plane crash-landed on the frozen Hudson River. “No, and I’m no angel,” – Mark Hood, as he urged her to get moving quickly toward the exit.
“The more the Witnesses were persecuted, the more they presented a real ideological challenge. The time-honored methods of persecution, torture, imprisonment and ridicule were not resulting in the conversion of the Witnesses to the Nazi position and were, in fact, back-firing against their instigators. The Nazis panicked in the face of this unpredictable response.” — Speaking of Jehovah’s Witnesses refusal to swear allegiance to Hitler) - NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS: A PERSPECTIVE FOR UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY
The greatest question of our time is not communism verses individualism, not Europe verses America, not even East verses West, it is whether men can live without God.” – Will Durant (Historian)
The worst thing that can happen to a person is not to die young. The worst thing is to live a long active life, only to be separated eternally from God. – Someone very wise
Loving your enemies may be a lot to ask, but how about treating your friends a little better. – E. W. Howe
I’ve learned that I can always pray for someone when I don’t have the strength to help him in some other way. – Andy Rooney
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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“Above all things have intense love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.” – Apostle Peter – 1 Peter 4:8 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems we have. – Ronald Reagan
I have been all things unholy. If God works through me, he can work through anyone. – Francis of Assisi
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
Instead of building fancy shrines, why don’t these wealthy evangelists build temporary shelters for the homeless and job training centers for the unemployed? – Gary Pulliam
Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians, you are not like him. – Mohandas Gandhi
“If the prelates (appointed clergy) set aside the commandments of God and enjoin their own man-made commands, what they do and command is of no avail.” – Wessel Gansfort (Dutch religious scholar) – published around 1520 - 1522
Arthur Williams regularly witnessed to customers in the small grocery store he owned in Donnybrook, Australia in the years after World War 1. He displayed Bible literature prominently in the window. The window also displayed a sign that offered 100 pounds to anyone who could prove the Trinity—an unscriptural doctrine that Arthur firmly rejected. No one ever collected the money! – A Legacy That Has Lasted Seven Generations – A personal viewpoint - June, 2015
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. – Thomas Aquinas
Modern day church systems have very little to do with the teachings of Jesus Christ. A thousand years ago the Roman Catholic Church had nothing to do with the teachings of Christ. It ruled supreme over kings and illiterate nations. However, in the first century Christianity was identified by the basic, simple, even primitive teachings of Jesus Christ, a belief system based on love, brotherhood, peace, and faith in the Kingdom of God. What a contrast today from its original form. They were not only willing to live for their beliefs—they were willing to die for them! – From a personal essay (Gary Pulliam)
I perceive how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue. – William Tyndale
“Studious boy, you will live to see the day when the teachings of quarrelsome theologians will be rejected by all true Christian scholars.” – Wessel Gansfort (Dutch religious reform scholar) – The 1400’s – A HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY
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“What? Was it from you that the word of God came forth, or was it only as far as YOU that it reached?” – Apostle Paul – 1 Cor. 14:36 –The HOLY SCRIPTURES
‘They’ told us the churches are ‘old fashioned’ and they should modernize, liberalize, rationalize and compromise. And those that compromised most are shrinking the fastest. It appears that ‘they’ gave us some awfully bad advice. They did. – Paul Harvey
Please help our brothers who are being persecuted in Russia. Thank you, Jehovah for putting our sins behind you and help me to do good, be good and stay good. – Zach Meier’s good night prayer at 9 years old.
