August Quotes

August 1

We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be. — Oswald Chambers

August 2

If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me. — John Bunyan

August 3

A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ. — Jonathon Edwards

August 4

You may fear that the Lord has passed you by, but it is not so: he who counts the stars, and calls them by their names, is in no danger of forgetting his own children. He knows your case as thoroughly as if you were the only creature he ever made, or the only saint he ever loved. Approach him and be at peace. — Charles Spurgeon

August 5

Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves. — A. W. Tozer

August 6

Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you. — Corrie Ten Boom

August 7

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. — C. S. Lewis

August 8

Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view. — Charles Swindoll

August 9

We are fighting the greatest battle of all time with the most untrained army on earth. If strict discipline is necessary in art and athletics, how can we expect to be advanced Christians and stay in kindergarten? — Vance Havner

August 10

Give your life to God; he can do more with it than you. — Dwight L. Moody

August 11

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV? — Leonard Ravenhill

August 12

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything. — G. K. Chesterton

August 13

The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else. — Oswald Chambers

August 14

The reason why the Christians in this day are at such a loss as to some things is that they are contented with what comes from man's mouth, without searching and kneeling before God to know of Him the truth of things. — John Bunyan

August 15

You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary. — Jonathon Edwards

August 16

My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me. — Charles Spurgeon

August 17

A real Christian is an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge. — A. W. Tozer

August 18

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire? — Corrie Ten Boom

August 19

There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is... me. — C. S. Lewis

August 20

The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it. — Vance Havner

August 21

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself. — Dwight L. Moody

August 22

There is a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word. — Leonard Ravenhill

August 23

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. — G. K. Chesterton

August 24

If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others. — Oswald Chambers

August 25

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. — John Bunyan

August 26

How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here? — Jonathon Edwards

August 27

It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time. — Charles Spurgeon

August 28

The best preparation for worship is not a rehearsal, but surrender. — A. W. Tozer

August 29

There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still. — Corrie Ten Boom

August 30

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts. — C. S. Lewis

August 31

What we live is what we believe. Everything else is just so much religious talk. — Vance Havner

Marj Lancaster