Quotes of the Week

For a Christian, death is not extinguishing the light. It is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. - Skipper Smith

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, as sin will entice a man to cease from prayer. - John Bunyan

Serve where you are with all your heart. You can serve God anywhere. Do the job before you well and other opportunities may blossom because of it. - George Beverly Shea

Someone said long ago, that God supplies birds with their food, but He does not put it in their mouths. - George Beverly Shea

Polish and improve whatever God has given you until it becomes worthy of Him. - George Beverly Shea

The voice of the people is not necessarily the voice of God. It may be the voice of the devil. There are no shortcuts to glory. The ways of the world are not the ways of God. - Herschel H. Hobbs

The Twelve [apostles] are not the best of pupils, as even we are not. But they have the best of teachers. And He is their hope - and ours.  - Herschel H. Hobbs

G. Campbell Morgan notes that the beginning of sin is to forsake God. And the end of sin is to be God-forsaken. So in that mysterious moment [on the cross] Jesus plumbed the very depths of sin for us. He was God-forsaken -for us. He suffered all the agonies of hell-for us. It was only for a moment as men reckon time. But it was the infinite suffering of the infinite God for the infinite guilt of men.  - Herschel H. Hobbs