When It's All Said and Done

Some of the most insightful words are spoken by those closest to death.  I'm not being morbid, I'm making an observation.  When you're looking back over your life, you'll be in the wisest state of mind ever possible this side of eternity.  I am most touched by the following quotes given by men who were not saved, because it appears that as they are dying, the truth is finally dawning on them.  However, there are many quotes below by men who were saved and those are especially encouraging.  Live your life with a view toward eternity!


I think I'll sleep now. -George Washington Carver


I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown, where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the world. Remember! -Charles I, King of England


I have tried so hard to do right. -Grover Cleveland


It's very beautiful over there. -Thomas Jefferson


This is absurd! This is absurd! -Sigmund Freud
Note: He is also reported to have said “The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.”


 I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -Nathan Hale


Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees. -Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson


Solely by the merits of Jesus Christ, Our Saviour. -Johannes Kepler


The taste of death is upon my lips…I feel something, that is not of this earth. -Mozart


Take me home. I was born in the South and I wish to die and be buried in the South. -Booker T. Washington


I am ready. -Woodrow Wilson


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Four Types of “Fruity” Christians

Are you sometimes a banana-skinned Christian, easily bruised, allowing the things others say and do to easily offend you? Or maybe you’re sometimes like another type of fruit...
I’ve learned that when I start to let my emotions get the best of me, it’s evidence of my lack of how near I have drawn myself to God.“Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you...” James 4:8

1.) Thin skinned / soft fruit - such as - Grapes, Kiwi, Peaches, Plums.

These fruits are usually expensive because they take so much special care. They can be damaged so easily. Their skin is thin and it doesn’t protect the soft fruit from damage, it's only enough to keep the fruit from getting dirty.

*These Christians are high-maintenance people and they are offended often and easily. You have to watch what you say around them because they are so sensitive, it's like walking on egg shells. They are the type of Christian who struggles with being faithful to church because they are somewhere else nursing another emotional injury waiting for someone to “pet” on them.


2.) Thin skinned / hard fruit - such as - Apples.

The appearance of this fruit can be deceiving because this fruit often rots from the inside out. It also bruises easily.

*This Christian has become emotionally hard in order to protect themselves. But all the while, they are rotting away on the inside from all the bitterness they are harboring. They are not joyful Christians, their pleasure is in the calamities of others.


3.) Thick skinned / soft fruit - such as - Bananas, Oranges, Grapefruits.

The skin of these fruits seem to be able to hold up to normal bumping around, but it’s not until you open them up that you find the fruit inside has been bruised.

*These Christians are easily crossed or offended but will usually keep quiet until they find their moment to lash out, and, like their fruit counterpart, they can be very acidic with others - hurting others because they have been hurt. They also like to gossip.


4.) Tough skinned / soft fruit - such as - Passion Fruit.

The skin of this fruit is almost like a shell protecting the delicate fruit inside. This fruit does not have to be handled cautiously, it can take some stress while the inside fruit is still soft, almost liquidity, and delicious.

*This is the type of Christian we need to be. Strong enough on the outside to take the offenses of this world, while still tender enough on the inside to have compassion for others.

A reflection of our quiet-time with God is revealed through how we deal with offences.
“Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.” Psalms 119:165.
“My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.” - Proverbs 3:1, 2.

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A Compilation Of Remarks About Prayer For Every Pastor's Use

If you are like me, then you are always on the lookout for great axioms on prayer. From time to time I will come across some kernels of truth about this essential practice that seems to springboard my Christian walk. It is my hope that this list of 34 remarks on prayer will be of some use to you in your walk with God and as a leader in your local church.

34 Remarks On The Subject Of Prayer

#1 - The preacher’s best work is done on his knees.

#2 - If God did not intend to hear us, he would not bid us pray.

#3 - God does nothing but by prayer.

#4 - The right man, praying the right kind of prayer, will get the right kind of answer.

#5 - You don’t have to be talented to pray.

#6 - What is wrong with me is wrong with my prayer life.

#7 - Prayer is the key that opens and shuts heaven. (James 5:17-18)

#8 - The object of prayer is to move the arm of God.

#9 - The object of prayer is to get the ear of God.

#10 - The object of prayer is to get the answer.

#11 - Prayer is to the soul what breathing is to the body.

#12 - Until you pray, you can do nothing but pray.

#13 - We should pray specifically, seriously, and steadfastly.

#14 - Unbelief says, I see something in the hand of God, and I cannot get it.

#15 - Don’t treat prayer like a spare tire.

#16 - Very little of eternal importance is done apart from prayer.

#17 - Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies beyond the will of God.

#18 - The quickest way to get a church on its feet is to get it on its knees.

#19 - "What a man is, he is on his knees before God, and nothing more." - Robert Murray McCheyne

#20 - What comes from God in a promise should be sent back to Him in a prayer. (Revelation 22:20)

#21 - You can’t get a $10,000 answer to a 10-cent prayer.

#22 - Where I cannot go on my feet, I can go on my knees.

#23 - I am praying that God will make me:
   
     1. A victorious man
     2. A Spirit-filled man
     3. A man of prayer
     4. A man of the Word
     5. A surrendered man
     6. A man of one purpose
        - Oswald J. Smith

#24 - Five ingredients in prayer:
   
     1. Praise
     2. Thanks
     3. Confession
     4. Intercession
     5. Petition

#25 - The measure of your spiritual life is your prayer life.

#26 - I want God to hear me when I pray and men to hear me when I preach.

#27 - If you cannot go to God with a broken heart go to Him for one.

#28 - You are not going to reach the masses by great sermons. We must “move the arm that moves the world.” To do that, we must be clear and right before God. - D. L. Moody

#29 - A church is only as powerful as it is prayerful.

#30 - “Prayer pulls the rope, and the great bell rings above in the ear of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly; others give but an occasional pluck at the rope; but he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continually with all his might.” - C. H. Spurgeon

#31 - The ministry of Christ reflected His prayer life.

#32 - Our ministry reflects our prayer life.

#33 - "Communion is the line that joins us to the battery of God’s power." - M. R. DeHaan

#34 - "He who would preach powerfully must pray effectively." - Dr. Oswald J. Smith

These remarks have been taken from the book A Manual For Young Pastors (And Older Ones Too) by Dr. Jim Phillips. Dr. Phillips has graciously given permission for The Working Pastor to use his material. Any quotes from here need to be given to Dr. Phillips. For those who would like a copy of this book simply contact Brother Phillips: Dr. Jim Phillips - 13 Darby Hill Lane Taylors, SC 29687 or call: 864-609-9431 The book is $17.00 and $3.00 S&H.

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"Spiritual leadership requires spirit filled people. Other qualities are important, to be spirit filled is indispensable." J. Oswald Sanders

"It is much better to be drawn by the joys of heaven, than driven by the sorrows of earth." - C. H. Mackintosh

"No, I distinctly remember forgetting that." - Clara Barton (when asked about a past slight)

"The measure of maturity is not age, but the acceptance of responsibility." - Cary Schmidt

"The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His Word." - Bob Jones, Sr.

"Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do." - Hudson Taylor

"We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first." - Oswald J. Smith

"'Run, John, run,' the law demands, but gives me neither feet nor hands.
Better news the Gospel brings, It bids me fly and gives me wings." - John Bunyan

"Time is given us to use in view of eternity." - H.A. Ironside

"A revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God." - Charles Finney

"Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself." - C.H. Spurgeon

"More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent." - Billy Sunday

"Anything that dims my vision for Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps me in my prayer life, or makes Christian work difficult, is wrong for me; and I must, as a Christian turn away from it." - J. Wilbur Chapman

It is not only that sin consists in doing evil, but in not doing the good that we know. - H.A. Ironside

"Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth." - Matthew Henry

God does test us, but they are open Book tests!

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A Quote for 2011

"Pray that this year thou mayst be holy, humble, zealous, and patient; have closer communion with Christ, and enter oftener into the banqueting-house of his love. Pray that thou mayst be an example and a blessing unto others, and that thou mayst live more to the glory of thy Master.

The motto for this year must be, 'Continue in prayer.'" - C.H. Spurgeon

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"The Bible is either absolute, or it's obsolete." - Leonard Ravenhill

"Faith will take you where you've never been before." - Lester Roloff

"Pray often; for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan." - John Bunyan

"Trouble is usually produced by those who are not producing anything else." - Hudson Taylor

"To train a boy in the way he should go you must go that way yourself." - Billy Sunday

“I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.” - Hudson Taylor

"Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me." - D.L. Moody

"We have twenty-five cents - and all the promises of God!" - Hudson Taylor

"I would rather sail and hit a rock than sit and rot in dry dock." - Lester Roloff

"The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand." - Billy Sunday

"God judges what we give by what we keep." - George Muller

"There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God" - F.W. Baber

God gives and forgives, man gets and forgets!

"Your talk talks and your walk walks but your walk talks louder than your talk walks." - Kenny Chapman

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17 Amazing Quotes

Helping One Another

1. "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else."  -Charles Dickens

Contentment

2.  "All our discontents about what we want appear to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have."  -Daniel Defoe

3.  "All our discontents about what we want appear to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have."  -Martin Luther

4.  "The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right."  -Unknown

Things

5.  "I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ." -David Livingstone

6.  "I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess."  -Martin Luther

Sold Out for Christ

7.  "My dear Jesus, my Savior, is so deeply written in my heart, that I feel confident, that if my heart were to be cut open and chopped to pieces, the name of Jesus would be found written on every piece."  -St. Ignatius of Antioch

8.  "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."  -Jim Elliot

Encouragement

9.  "It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent."  -Jeremy Taylor

Forgiveness

10.  "He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which he himself must pass."  -George Herbert

Friends

11.  "A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and the worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back."  -Charles Kingsley

Complete in Christ

12.  "None but God can satisfy the longing of the immortal soul; as the heart was made for Him, He only can fill it."  -Richard Trench

Hard Times

13.  "You are never to complain of your birth, your training, your employments, your hardships; never to fancy that you could be something if only you had a different lot and sphere assigned you. God understands His own plan, and He knows what you want a great deal better than you do. The very things that you most deprecate, as fatal limitations or obstructions, are probably what you most want. What you call hindrances, obstacles, discouragements, are probably God's opportunities. Bring down your soul, or rather, bring it up to receive God's will and do His work, in your lot, in your sphere, under your cloud of obscurity, against your temptations, and then you shall find that your condition is never opposed to your good, but really consistent with it."  -Horace Bushnell

Relationship with God

14.  "He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day."  -John Bunyan

Pride

15.  "You can have no greater sign of confirmed pride than when you think you are humble enough."  -William Law

The Tongue

16.  "One of the first things which a physician says to his patient is, 'Let me see your tongue.' A spiritual advisor might often do the same."  -Nehemiah Adams

17.  "When I want to speak let me think first. Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? If not, let it be left unsaid."  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

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Finding God does not mean building a house in a land of no storms, but building a house that no storm can destroy.

"Those who go to Heaven ride on a pass and enter into blessings that they never earned, but all who go to hell pay their own way." - John R. Rice

"I'd rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach!" - John Henry Jowett

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And looks to God alone;
Laughs at impossibilities,
And cries, 'It shall be done.'" - Charles Wesley

Every ♥ with✝is a missionary; every ♥ without✝is a mission field.

You can dress to be chaste or dress to be chased; but only one honors God.

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"'Your money, or your life.' We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does." - Mignon McLaughlin

"Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy." - D.L. Moody

"Those who give up liberty for security, shall enjoy neither liberty nor security." - Benjamin Franklin

You're free to make choices, but you're not free from the choices you make.

"To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge. To find the will of God is the greatest discovery. To do the will of God is the greatest achievement." - George W. Truett

"Lord, grant that the fire of my heart may melt the lead of my feet!"

"Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future." - Ulysses S. Grant

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." - C.H. Spurgeon

"Religious matters are to be separated from the jurisdiction of the state, not because they are beneath the interests of the state but, quite to the contrary, because they are too high and holy and thus are beyond the competence of the state." - Isaac Backus, 1773

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

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"If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord." - H.A. Ironside

"There is no other alternative. It must be Christ or hell, and to reject the one is to choose the other." - H.A. Ironside

We do our best and God does the rest.

"The best determiner of the will of God is the Word of God!" - J.T. Roberts

"Behind every tragedy of human character is a long process of wicked thinking." -Bob Jones, Sr.

Forgive us Lord, for so often we seek the things in your hand rather than the things of your heart.

"God does not waste suffering; if he ploughs it is because He purposes a crop." -J. Oswald Sanders

Lord Jesus, I can't; You never said I could. Lord Jesus, You can; and always said You would!

"You can do more than pray, after you have prayed; but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed." - John Bunyan

"Next to the wonder of seeing my Saviour will be, I think, the wonder that I made so little use of the power of prayer." - D.L. Moody

"Patience is love stretched out." - Marty Dunn

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"Those that take the pathway of reason around the mountain of trials will never find the omnipotent resources of God waiting to provide them the victory they need to experience before their lives will ever be enabled to bring God glory and bear eternal fruit." - Lance Ketchum

Psalm 131 "It is one of the shortest Psalms to read, but one of the longest to learn." - C.H. Spurgeon

"Why do you need a voice when there is a verse? Why do you need a calling when it's a command?" - Richard Famador

"My body I commit to the dust, relying on the merits of Jesus Christ for the pardon of my sins." - Samuel Adams

"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." - George Washington

I don’t have enough FAITH to believe in evolution!

Don't pray for a light load, pray for a strong back.

Stop trying to figure God out, and start trying to figure Him in!

We are saved by faith alone, but saving faith is never alone.

"It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom." - H. Greeley

"You are as much serving God in looking after your own children, and training them up in God's fear, and minding the house, and making your household a church for God, as you would be if you had been called to lead an army to battle for the Lord of hosts." - C.H. Spurgeon

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"Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands." - C.T. Studd

"'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help." - William Booth

"My human best filled with the Holy Spirit." - Bruce D. Cummons

"On whatever subjects I may be called to preach, I feel it to be a duty which I dare not neglect to be continually going back to the doctrine of the cross - the fundamental truth of justification by faith which is in Christ Jesus." C.H. Spurgeon

"Unless we go back to the Cross we cannot go forward in the Christian Life." - Warren W. Wiersbe

"Faith will lead you where you cannot walk. Reason has never been a mountain climber." - E.W. Kenyon

"When you fear God, you fear nothing else. When you don’t fear God, you fear everything else." - Oswald Chambers

"It is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart." - John Bunyan

"The ministry is people work, not paper work." - Paul Chappell

"The Bible does not contain the Word of God; It is the Word of God." - Lee Roberson

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"I'm not looking for the undertaker, I'm looking for the uppertaker" - Raymond Barber

If the prodigal son had been given a bath, a biscuit and a bed, he never would have gone home!

"Sow a thought, reap an act. Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny." - E.D. Boardman

"The monument I want after I am dead is a monument with two legs going around the world; a saved sinner telling about the salvation of Jesus Christ." - D.L. Moody

Men don't become "too bad" for Christ to save, they think they are already "too good".

The human spirit fails unless the Holy Spirit fills.

"Putting God first in your life makes you God's responsibility!" - Claude Bond

Workers aren't complainers, and complainers are not workers.

We are each given raw materials with which to build a stumbling block or a stepping stone.

If you think Meek is Weak, try being Meek for a Week.

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When you open your Bible, God opens His mouth.

Live simply so others may simply live.

"Hypocrites in the church? Yes. See that you make the number one less." - Billy Sunday

"If God sends us on stony paths, He provides strong shoes." - Corrie ten Boom

The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.

Sometimes God calms the storm; sometimes He lets the storm rage and calms the child.

"Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything." - Oswald Chambers

"Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all." - D.L. Moody

"The world is full of suffering. It is also full of the overcoming of it. We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world." - Helen Keller

"Everybody is my teacher." - Jack Hyles

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"The prospects are as bright as the promises of God". - Adoniram Judson

Are you a Christian on your terms, or on God's terms?

"I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion." - A.W. Tozer

Sin is a clenched fist and its object is the face of God.

If you add to the truth, you subtract from it.

Without GOD, our week would be: Sinday, Mournday, Tearsday, Wasteday, Thirstday, Fightday & Shatteredday.

"If you wake up in the morning and don’t meet the devil face on, it just means you’re going in the same direction." - R.G. Lee

"Peace is not the absence of trouble, but the presence of God." - J. Oswald Sanders

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Death is the sinner's penalty but the saint's promotion.

Happy is the one who walks so close to God that he leaves no room for the devil to slip between.

How can we be strangers, if we both follow Christ?

"When God puts a tear in your eye, it's because He wants a rainbow in your heart." - Kenny Chapman

The "elect" are whosoever will, and the non-elect are whosoever won't!

"Are you a member of the Church of the Frozen Chosen?" - Jimmy Reyes

"At the heart of every problem is a problem of the heart." - Warren Wiersbe

"You'll know the will of God if you study the Word of God." - Mike Twardy

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Live so that anyone speaking evil of you will immediately be branded a liar.

"The best way to handle authority is to submit to it. Simply submit, don't fight the authorities in your life." - Marty Dunn

Justification for the believer can be defined as "just as if I'd never sinned".

Use the faith you already have.

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot

"To know the will of God is our greatest knowledge, to do the will of God is our greatest challenge." - George Truett

"A Bible that is falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t." - C.H. Spurgeon

"Love that does nothing is not love." - Jim Quidley

"Fault-finding is dreadfully catching; one dog will set a whole kennel howling." - C.H. Spurgeon

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Partial disobedience is total disobedience.

Has it ever occurred to you that nothing has ever occurred to God?

Right is right, even if you are the only one doing it. Wrong is wrong even when everyone is doing it.

Even when you can't see Him, God is there.

"Look up Isaiah 53:6, and enter in at the first 'all', and come out at the last 'all'." - D.L. Moody

Not 'God, use me!', but rather 'God, make me usable!'" - Mike Bowling

Joy is not the absence of trouble but the presence of Christ. - William Hoven

Don't waste time trying to change GOD'S mind.

"The first and the great work of a Christian is about his heart." - Jonathan Edwards

Difficulties are only miracles that have not yet happened.

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If being a Christian was a crime, would there be enough evidence to convict you?

"I'm not looking for the undertaker, but the "upper-taker"! - Victor Sears

We may seem the object of ridicule, but we’re the focus of infinite love.

"We can easily be too big for God to use, but never too small for Him to use." - Lester Roloff

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

"No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless." - John R. Rice

When faithfulness is most difficult it is most necessary!

"You don't get strength for the load; you get strength from the load." - Jack Hyles

Truth does not divide people, it simply shows where there is already a division between them.

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