If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back. -Spurgeon

If men would pray as they ought to, the marvels of the past would be more than reproduced. The Gospel would advance with a facility and power it has never known. Doors would be thrown open to the Gospel, and the Word of God would have a conquering force rarely if ever known before. -EM Bounds

Christian worship must contain both the cross and the crown. Sing of majesty, and sing of mercy. -Matt Redman

If, instead of being conformed to this world, I am conformed to Christ’s death, He will conform my body to His glorious body, Phillipians 3:10, 21; Romans 12:3. -Bob Sorge

“The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead.” -CS Lewis

The love of Jesus challenges every other human idea of “love” because of the otherworldly cost His love pays to come near to us and get into the dirt and grime of our mess, tenderly caring for us here. -David Sliker

“Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.” ― A.W. Tozer

"The best way to dwell in the presence of the Lord is to be a thankful person." —Rick Joyner

If I draw your eyes to me, I’ve swindled you; if I draw your eyes to Jesus, I’ve served you. -Bob Sorge

“Jesus taught that above everything else, above demands, busyness, and all the activity in life, your primary occupation is intimacy with the Father—seeing His face, hearing His voice and connecting to His will” —Corey Russell

We cannot understand Jesus except in the context of the Bible as a whole. To detach Jesus from this story is to create a mythical figure. -Lesslie Newbigin

Any brand of compassion that compromises truth and righteousness ultimately ends in tyranny and treachery. -Bob Sorge

"There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech." —Charles Spurgeon

The Lord is more jealous than we are resistant. Any wall that we’ve put up, He has His eye on. And He has a plan to get through that wall. -Dana Candler

"Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking." —William Booth

"If it’s true that the Spirit of God dwells in us and that our bodies are the Holy Spirit’s temple, then shouldn’t there be a huge difference between the person who has the Spirit of God living inside of him or her and the person who does not?" — Francis Chan

It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore, but a supreme delight. - Gordon Lindsay

We can always dilute negativity by rejoicing. -Graham Cooke

"The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of rules and regulations—it is a picture of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His unhindered way with us." — Oswald Chambers

“Where reason is indignant, our nature rebels, our piety anxiously keeps us away: that is precisely where God loves to be. There He confounds the reason of the reasonable; there He aggravates our nature, our piety—that is where he wants to be, and no one can keep Him from it. Only the humble believe Him and rejoice that God is so free and so marvelous that He does wonders where people despair, that He takes what is little and lowly and makes it marvelous. And that is the wonder of all wonders, that God loves the lowly.God is not ashamed of the lowliness of human beings. God marches right in. He chooses people as His instruments and performs His wonders where one would least expect them. God is near to lowliness; He loves the lost, the neglected, the unseemly, the excluded, the weak and broken.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Singular Eye (Mt 6:22)

The Olivet Discourse

"Everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted." —Martin Luther

"We sing songs because we are responding to a beautiful Man. The more we see His beauty, the more we sing." —Murray Hiebert

“The moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in Mount Zion.” Isaiah 24:23. As stars vanish in sunlight, the sun vanishes in God-light. -John Piper

"The Word made all things and remained in His creation to uphold and sustain it." —A. W. Tozer