January Quotes
January 1
Now, if the book of Genesis is an allegory, then sin is an allegory, the Fall is an allegory and the need for a Savior is an allegory - but if we are all descendants of an allegory, where does that leave us? It destroys the foundation of all Christian doctrine - it destroys the foundation of the gospel. —Ken Ham
January 2
The carnal mind always maps out for itself a way in which self can work and become great; but the Lord’s way is quite the reverse. —Charles Spurgeon
January 3
Many of those who accuse the Christian God of being a “genocidal god” because of the Flood, support the genocidal killing of millions of children in their mother’s wombs, which is a double standard fallacy! —Ken Ham
January 4
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. —Dietrich Bonhoeffer
January 5
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. —Jim Eliot
January 6
If I look at the world, I will conform to ways of the world. If I look at the Word, I will conform to the will of God. —AW Tozer
January 7
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. —G.K. Chesterton
January 8
You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the Earth by the Master Craftsman. —Max Lucado
January 9
If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all. —David Livingstone
January 10
Let the world, rather than God, be offended with me. —Martin Luther
January 11
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. —Dietrich Bonhoeffer
January 12
If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself. —Augustine
January 13
I know that some are always studying the meaning of the fourth toe of the right foot of some beast in prophecy and have never used either foot to go and bring men to Christ. I do not know who the 666 is in Revelation but I know the world is sick, sick, sick and the best way to speed the Lord's return is to win more souls for Him. —Vance Havner
January 14
Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open. —Corrie Ten Boom
January 15
Relying on God has to start all over everyday as if nothing has yet been done. —C.S. Lewis
January 16
When the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right... something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it Will be God without disguise... it will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up. —C.S. Lewis
January 17
Discernment is not simply... telling the difference between what is right and what is wrong; it is the difference between Right and ALMOST Right. —Charles Spurgeon
January 18
Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man. —R. C. Sproul
January 19
I'm not afraid of the devil. The devil can handle me - he's got judo I never heard of. But he can't handle the One to whom I'm joined; he can't handle the One to whom I'm united; he can't handle the One whose nature dwells in my nature. —A. W. Tozer
January 20
They gave our Master a crown of thorns. Why do we hope for a crown of roses? —Martin Luther
January 21
You are not mature if you have a high esteem of yourself. He who boasts in himself is but a babe in Christ, if indeed he be in Christ at all. Young Christians may think much of themselves. Growing Christians think themselves nothing. Mature Christians know that they are less than nothing. The more holy we are, the more we mourn our infirmities, and the humbler is our estimate of ourselves. —Charles Spurgeon
January 22
A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience. —Leonard Ravenhill
January 23
Unless we are thoroughly convinced that without Christ we are under the eternal curse of God, as the worst of His enemies, we shall never flee to Him for refuge. —John Owen
January 24
A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way. —Leonard Ravenhill
January 25
The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture. —Elisabeth Elliot
January 26
Praise lies upon a higher plain than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle around myself to some extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration, seeing and praising only the majesty and power of God, His grace and redemption. —Ole Hallesby
January 27
The world changes, circumstances change, we change but God's Word never changes. —Warren Wiersbe
January 28
Faith never knows where it is being led, but it LOVES and KNOWS the ONE who is leading. —Oswald Chambers
January 29
Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink. —Dwight L. Moody
January 30
God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event. —Matthew Henry
January 31
We have suffered from the preaching of cheap grace. Grace is free, but it is not cheap. People will take anything that is free, but they are not interested in discipleship. They will take Christ as Savior but not as Lord. —Vance Havner