“Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.”  ~ A. A. Hodge (Leader in the American Presbyterian Church)

“Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.”  ~ A. B. Simpson (Founder of the Christian Missionary Alliance)

“We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.”  ~ A. C. Dixon (Pastor, Bible Expositor and Evangelist)

“There is still One whose faith in you has never wavered. And how wonderful it is that that one should be Jesus Christ! It was a wonderful dream God dreamed, Christ says, when He created you; it was a stately being that was in His mind when you were fashioned; and I can make you all He meant that you should be.”  ~ A. J. Gossip (Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology)

“By faith we are taken into Christ, made at once safe from holy wrath against sin, and kept safe from all perils and penalties. He, our divine Redeemer, becomes to us the new sphere of harmony and unity with God and His law, with His life and His holiness.” ~ A. T. Pierson (American Presbyterian Pastor)

“The Bible recognizes no faith that does not lead to obedience, nor does it recognize any obedience that does not spring from faith. The two are at opposite sides of the same coin.”  ~ A. W. Tozer (American Preacher and Author)

“Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.”  ~ Abraham Kuyper (Dutch Theologian)

Sometimes when things are falling apart they may actually be falling into place.”

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” – Woodrow Wilson

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life, and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.” – Dean Koontz

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.” – Maria Shriver

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt 

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” – C.S. Lewis

The  friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.” – Barbara Kingsolver

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” Ed Cunningham

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” – Hubert H. Humphrey

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” – 

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”- Albert Camus

The greatest gift in life] is the gift of friendship, and I have received it; the greatest healing therapy is friendship.”  — Hubert Humphrey

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” — G. Randolf

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” — Helen Keller

“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”

“True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.” — Helen Keller

Best friends are the people in your life who make you laugh louder, smile brighter and live better.”

“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.” — Aristotle

“Sometimes being with your best friend is all the therapy you need.”

“Never let your best friends get lonely…keep disturbing them.” — Candlelight Publications

“We’ll be best friends forever because you already know too much.”

We are product of our past but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.”  

“The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it – that’s how we learn.”  (The Purpose Driven Life)

“Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.”  (The Purpose Driven Life)

“God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.”  (The Purpose Driven Life)

“I don’t know the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone.”  (The Purpose Driven Life)

Life, Love and Purpose

“The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.” 

“Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.”  (The Purpose Driven Life)

“Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye…”  (The Purpose Driven Life)

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you’re available.”  

“Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.”  (The Purpose Driven Life)

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don’t run after them.”  

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.” Oswald Chambers

If God is diligent, surely we ought to be diligent in doing our duty to Him.  Think how patient and diligent God has been to us!  -Oswald Chambers

Trusting in my own mental understanding becomes a hindrance to complete trust in God.  Oswald Chambers

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work. Oswald Chambers

The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer. Oswald Chambers

Get into the habit of saying, “Speak, Lord,” and life will become a romance Oswald Chambers

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.” Oswald Chambers

Look back over your own history, as revealed to you by grace, and you will see one central fact growing large—God is love.” Oswald Chambers

Leave the broken, irreversible past in God’s hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him. – Oswald Chambers

Our true character comes out in the way we pray. Oswald Chambers