More words of wisdom from those who knew their God intimately.

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

“God’s program is directed toward, and is experienced in, community.” ~ Stanley Grenz

“It has often been that the greatest thing of God has been very small in the eyes of man.” ~ T. Austin-Sparks

“The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.” ~ J. Oswald Sanders

“Truth becomes hard if it is not softened by love; love becomes soft if it is not strengthened by truth.” ~ John Stott

“Christianity seems at first to be about morality, rules, guilt, and virtue, yet it leads you out of that, into something beyond.” ~ C.S. Lewis

“The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.” ~ A.W. Tozer

“The early church was married to poverty, prisons, and persecutions. Today the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.” ~ Leonard Ravenhill

“A due contemplation of the glory of Christ will restore and compose the mind.” ~ John Owen

“Holiness is a beautiful, lovely thing. Men are apt to drink in strange notions of holiness from their childhood as if it were a melancholy, morose, sour thing.” ~ Jonathan Edwards

“I am a Christian, not because someone explained the nuts and bolts of Christianity, but because there were people willing to be nuts and bolts.” ~ Rich Mullins