Pastors

To Quote

Whenever you fall, pick up something.

– Oswald Avery

The pioneers are the guys with the arrows in their backs.

– Erwin Potts, head of McClatchy Newspapers, which has been reluctant to take on new ventures

Any revitalization of faith in this country will have to start with prayer, in which we gain a sense of the living presence of God.

– George H. Gallup, Jr.

We’re in need of a spiritual revival.

– Norman Lear, TV producer and founder of People for the American Way

We grow and mature spiritually through adversity not when everything is going smoothly. … [I]n a time of adversity or trouble, the Christian has the opportunity to know God in a special and personal way.

– C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General

God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.

– Augustine

… [T]he pendulum is swinging back from self-expression to self-discipline. But if we are serious about this, it means we will have to sacrifice some measure of the freedom we now have to do anything we want if it feels good.

– Michael Horowitz

If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion.

– Elbert Hubbard

Preach the gospel at all times. If necessary, use words.

– Francis of Assisi

It would be rash to say that there is any prayer which God never grants. But the strongest candidate is the prayer we might express in the single word encore.

– C.S. Lewis

In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.

– Thomas Jefferson

God loves us in good times and bad. … But he is even more real in our lives when we are having tough times.

– Joe Gibbs, former head coach of the Washington Redskins

All the wrong people are against it, so it must be right.

– James Carville, presidential adviser

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