Who a man is is not important; What he knows does not matter but what he is to the inscrutable God is what matters. If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If please Him, does it matter whom we displease?
- Leonard Ravenhill -
The Spirit of God and the Spirit of the World
The heart of man is narrow, and cannot contain both loves. The world draws dowin the heart from God; and so the more the love of the world prevails the more the love of God dwindles and decays…The Spirit of God in true Christians is opposed to the spirit of the world.
- Matthew Henry -
A Better Man
Until we solve the human equation called man and get him straightened out, we will never have a peaceful world. You've got to build a better man before you can build a better society.
- Billy Graham -
Curvature of the moral spine
The curvature of the moral spine is an affliction which only the Great Physician can cure.
- Anonymous -
Morality
The essential amorality of all atheist doctrines is often hidden from us by an irrelevant personal argument. We see that many articulate secularists are well-meaning and law-abiding men; we see them go into righteous indignation over injustice and often devote their lives to good works. So we conclude that "he can't be wrong whose life is in the right"–that their philosophies are just as good guides to action as Christianity. What we don't see is that they are not acting on their philosophies. They are acting, out of habit or sentiment, on an inherited Christian ethic which they still take for granted though they have rejected the creed from which it sprang. Their children will inherit some what less of it.
- Joy Davidman (1915-1960), Smoke on the Mountain [1955] -
