sermonindex MEMBER quotes

sermonindex Feb 11, 2007

Greetings all...

As I was sitting at my computer, listening to a sermon and doing some research, I was hit with a thought...quotes! We see many great quotes on this website and I was wondering about our own from our own experiences.

Once and awhile, I say things that sound original and are things that I would like to write down, because I would like to use or say it again some time, however, I always forget.

I know that anything good I say or think is not from me...at all. The Holy Spirit is my only source for any quotable sayings. I am hoping that this thread could be used by members or visitors, to write down something that may be 'quotable'.

They can be of any topic regarding Christianity. This thread may die off and fall into the depths of the other not so popular posts, but I know if we keep a pen and paper near us, we will be able to contribute something sometime. They can be words of wisdom, encouragement, humor, or anything, just as long it is from YOU.

God Bless those that stretch...
BrianMira

P.S. We are subject to correction or adjustments to our quotes, so that we can help one another with the words and message we are trying to share.
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sermonindex Feb 11, 2007

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This will be my first attempt...the idea might be good, but I am trying to work out the wording and punctuation...please help...

"I would like to be, as in the past, able to open the Way of the truth like John the Baptist, as in the future, able to prove the Way of the truth like Paul of Tarsus, but in the present, able to show the Way of Jesus Christ."

:-? I am not sure exactly... something like that

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CJaKfOrEsT Feb 11, 2007

I shared this with a guy that I was witnessing to at our Open Air meeting in Melbourne, after he patronisingly said that I'd almost convinced him to "buy" what I was "selling".

"I'm not so much a salesman selling God, as a purchasing officer who is visiting a slave market, representing and interested party, who would like to buy your life from a master who wants you dead."

sermonindex Feb 11, 2007

I like it...one question...

... representing and interested party...

is 'and' supposed to be 'an'?

You got the idea though!!! This is the purpose of this thread!

sermonindex Feb 11, 2007

"Dear Jesus,

Please, crush me into nothing and rebuild me into something."

Sincerely,
me

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hmmhmm Feb 11, 2007

everything has been said before and probably better to :-)by someone else somewhere in history

but here is mine

" when looking at the world around me, I believe this generation should be the one generation that through out history is the generation of gods children who spends most time on their knees "

sermonindex Feb 11, 2007

Never posted on SI, and probably not the first time someone thought these up... but they did originate in my mind...

"The gate to heaven is two feet high. The only way in is on hands and knees..."

"Revival is like unto corn kernals in a popcorn maker. Men watch the kernals as angels watch believers - in anxious, childlike, joyful anticipation. Ever so slowly the oil heats up until, after three minutes or so, 'pop!'. Then, after forty-five seconds, 'pop! Pop!'. After ten more seconds in the heat, all the corn is popping away and the wonderful fragrance of fresh, hot popcorn fills the house... woe be unto that kernal that refuses to pop!!! He is good-for-nothing and is tossed in the trash."

sermonindex Feb 11, 2007

"Jesus will make me a fisher of men, but I hope and pray it is in the deep, vast ocean-church of God, with possibilities and probabilities, rather than the shallow, bounded pond-church of the world, with impossibilities and improbabilities."

:-(

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rowdy2 Feb 11, 2007

I am thankful I am building on the Rock, and not sand that is sinking beneath my feet of flesh. I thank God for our Rock and it is in His name I pray. Eddie

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Goldminer Feb 11, 2007

Love is a person. He doesn't give us love as a possesion, but is love in us as we abide in him. Peace, joy and forgiveness is a person as well.

When we ask Him for more love we are really asking for His attributes to be manifest through us.

So if we wonder why we don't have more love it is because we are not connected to the source.

sermonindex Feb 11, 2007

Before I post my quote, let me say this sounds just a little like self-promotion, and that is not what I'm writing this for.....

Also, I'd like to suggest this thread is kept alive by ~~[i]~~others[/i] who pick up on something posted in a thread, which they would like to bring to the attention of the wider audience.

OK, I said this a ~~[i]~~long, long[/i] time ago, and because of the 'amen' it received from a much more mature Christian than myself, it has become a bit of a watchword to me, to be willing to expose my thinking to the true Light, and to be ready to see things as God sees them - to the point of letting what He shows me, change my future actions.

(The only) true perspective is leant by the Holy Ghost.

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rookie Feb 11, 2007

Our path creates the evidence of what we hope for.

In Christ
Jeff

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tinluke Feb 11, 2007

Here are some that I use often;

"Stop trying... start dying"

"If we truly are in Christ, we are not 'works in progress' but are changing from image to image and glory to glory. Some days it may seem like a little bit of image and glory, but it's still there."

When talking about the need to forgive others who have wronged us, I usually say something like this;

"We need to give up our right to have justice served on our behalf. If we are going to live for Christ, we have no rights. This is what it means to lay down our lives."

In HIM,

Tina

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theopenlife Feb 11, 2007

Hello, all... I pulled these from my blog. May God bless someone by one of these.

"We don't need a feeling, we need a filling!"

"Every action of the believer should be a reaction to Christ's supremacy."

"Next to Satan and Sin, the most dubious word in existence is Self."

"If it cannot be done for Christ we cannot do it."

"Faith is the muscle to atrophy fastest; God makes sure to keep it exercised."

"Unbelievers read the scriptures and see commandments. Belivers read God's Word and see prophecies God will fulfill. 'Love the Lord your God', becomes, 'I will make you love Me with all your heart'."

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Branded4him Feb 11, 2007

sin is unbelief in mans mind and soul that he cannot be satisfied with God alone.

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Spitfire Feb 12, 2007

My alltime favorite:
"If it was easy, everybody would be doing it."

sermonindex Feb 12, 2007

REMINDER...

This thread is for quotes that seemingly came from your own brain... not favorites...

Spitfire, I am not sure if this is your own or not. It sounds somewhat familiar and since you said it was your 'alltime favorite', I do not think you are that proud of yourself to blow your own horn...

No offense to anyone, I just want to make this clear.

God Bless and keep the quotes coming.They are great... 8-)
BrianMira

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roman Feb 12, 2007

"A life to be lived for God & to be consumed by God"

"Jesus is not an add-on in our life but the main thing in our life."

-roman

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murdog Feb 12, 2007

"It is high time men stopped accepting Christ
and Christ started accepting men."

"The Church has failed miserably when it is sensitive to the seeker and does not address their sin. Instead of with sound preaching making the seeker sensitive to the one who seeks."

Explanation of the first quote - This is an indictment on easybelievism(Sinner's Prayer) about the accepting of Christ which churns out "believers" who have not repented and will not be accepted by Christ on the final day.

The second one is speaking to the fact that churches are so afraid of offending someone with the gospel and its requirements that they end up offending God by not making people broken before the Lord with their watered down messages that does not convict of sin. The man attending these churches does not realize he has become twice a son of hell.

Murray

sermonindex Feb 13, 2007

Some interesting quotes already. Are they copyright? ;-)

Someone who was into metaphysical things was challenging me, and asked, "Do you think God changes?"

No doubt she was thinking of a "god" that might change in the sense of "evolving" into an even higher state of Being, or something like that.

I was praying what to answer, because to say "no" would give the impression of an unfeeling, unbending stone-like God, but to say yes would feed her false notions.

The answer just popped out:
~~[i]~~~~[b]~~God changes only within the limits of who He is"[/b][/i]