Beware Of Who Is Watching Over Your Church

damn with faint praise - Alexander Pope

God, please save me from your followers! - Unknown

The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards. - JRR Tolkien

Of all the bad men, religious bad men are the worst. - C S Lewis

He that searches for praise will often find contempt. - Norman MacDonald

Not truth, but faith it is that keeps the world alive. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set afire. - George Matthew Adams

God, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper. - R Buckminster Fuller

I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain. - Jacques Cartier

Faith is not just something you have, it's something you do. - Barack Obama

Praise adds nothing to beauty - makes it neither better nor worse. - Marcus Aurelius

In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past. - Mark Batterson

If you have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential. - Tim Keller

Man - a creature created at the end of a work week when God was tired. - Mark Twain

Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die. - Joe Hill

The kingdom of God always appears upside down to the human perspective. - David Jeremiah

God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one. - Max Lucado

If God had intended us to fly he would have made it easier to get to the airport. - Jonathan Winters

Once you have been reconciled to God, you have no problem being reconciled to others. - Fred Luter

I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality. - Bob Hope

The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. - Blaise Pascal

If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you. - Mark Batterson

Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters. - Marianne Williamson

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. - C S Lewis

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. - Zig Ziglar

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. - H Jackson Brown, Jr.

I am one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother. - Martin Sheen

If God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him. - C S Lewis

Tolerance is the worst roar of all, including tolerance for homosexuals, feminists, and religions that don't follow Christ. - Josh McDowell

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny. - Joseph Addison

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. - John Keats

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith. - Aung San Suu Kyi

A calling is simply God's shaping of your burden and beckoning you to your service to him in the place and pursuit of his choosing. - Ravi Zacharias

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do. - Bruce Barton

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law. - Cecil B. DeMille

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man. - Andres Segovia

Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. - Unknown

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency. - Jonathan Sacks

The tragedy of disbelieving God is not that a person ends up believing in nothing. Alas, it is much worse - a person may end up believing in anything. - G K Chesterton