QUOTES OF THE WEEK!

In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. - Robert Frost

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. - Anna Quinlen

[the following quotes courtesy of Doug Kutilek-]

The Scriptures represent the atonement as having been made for all men, and as sufficient for the salvation of all. Not the atonement therefore is limited, but the application of the atonement through the work of the Holy Spirit. . . .The atonement is unlimited,--the whole human race might be saved through it; the application of the atonement is limited,--only those who repent and believe are actually saved by it. - Augustus Hopkins Strong

Marrow from Vance Havner

“A young woman in Vienna visiting the place where Beethoven’s piano was on display had the audacity to sit down and play some rock-and-roll music on that rare instrument. The old caretaker remarked that Paderewski had once visited that spot. When the teenage tourist asked what he had played, the old custodian replied, ‘Nothing. He felt unworthy to play Beethoven’s piano.’ “
Vance Havner
Playing Marbles with Diamonds (Baker, 1985)
p. 16

“Church members generally are as ignorant of the Bible as are Americans of the Constitution.”
p. 24

“We sing, ‘Savior, more than life to me,’ ‘Jesus is all the world to me,’ ‘Thou from hence my all shalt be,’ ‘Now Thee alone I seek; give what is best.’ But we are usually at least partially unconscious when we sing in church. If we took stock of what we were singing, we might not be able to make it honestly through the first verse!”
pp. 30, 31;

“I am tired of all the talk about what we must sacrifice to follow Jesus Christ. Look at what we get!”
p. 33

“We are witnessing today the almost complete sellout of the professing church to this pagan world. That this is to be expected in the last days of this age as we draw near Babylon and the Antichrist does not excuse such a sellout, however; what is most appalling is that most major churchmen do not seem alarmed. One hears no note of protest, and religious leaders climb on every bandwagon without knowing which way the parade is headed.”
p. 57

“Everybody expects the preacher to be ready to preach but who thinks of the congregation’s responsibility to be ready to listen?”
p. 59

“Sociologist Arnold Toynbee pondered long why a nation as literate as Germany could be deceived by a maniac like Hitler. He concluded that there must be a vein of original sin in human nature everywhere, that civilization is a thin cake of custom overlying a molten mass of wickedness that is always boiling up for an opportunity to burst out.”
p. 76

“[E]xcuses . . . are only skins of reasons stuffed with lies.”
p. 82

“Fraternizing with apostates is a peril common to Jeroboam’s day and our own.”
p. 84

“What does [‘My God! My God! Why have you abandoned me?’ Psalm 22:1] mean? When Luther studied this passage he sat motionless for hours and rose at last to say, ‘God forsaken of God! Who can understand it?’ “
p. 95