Glen's Quotes Db (3184 total)

Most Christians are affected far more than they know by the standards and methods of the surrounding world. In these days when power and size and speed are almost universally admired, it seems to me particularly important to study afresh the "weakness", the "smallness of entry", and the "slowness" of God as He begins His vast work of reconstructing His disordered world. We are all tempted to take short cuts, to work for quick results, and to evade painful sacrifice. It is therefore essential that we should look again at love incarnate in a human being, to see God Himself at work within the limitations of human personality, and to base our methods on what we see Him do.

If Christianity should happen to be true -- that is to say,
if its God is the real God of the universe -- then defending it
may mean talking about anything and everything. Things can be
irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is false, but
nothing can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity
is true. [All] things not only may have something to do with
the Christian God, but must have something to do with Him if He
lives and reigns.

Talleyrand, French diplomat, for money, fame and power bought, sold, double crossed and duped twenty kings and leaders including Napoleon, Alexander of Russia, Francis of Austria and Louis XVIII of France, erected many palaces and led two revolutions. When he died doctors embalmed him after removing his brains, and placed him in a satin-lined coffin. A servant entered to clean up the room and wondered what should be done with the stuff on the table. He remembered a sewer out in the street, so threw the brains therein. Man’s brains fade; God’s wisdom wins out at last.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.