May Quotes

May 1

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. — Thomas Sowell

May 2

I am no longer anxious about anything, as I realize that He is able to carry out His will for me. It does not matter where He places me, or how. That is for Him to consider, not me, for in the easiest positions He will give me grace, and in the most difficult ones His grace is sufficient. — Hudson Taylor

May 3

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining - they just shine. — Dwight L. Moody

May 4

It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it. — Vance Havner

May 5

We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything. — Charles Swindoll

May 6

Prayer is not an agency by which my will is to be accomplished upon the earth. The purpose of prayer is to get God's will to be accomplished upon the earth, and so many times we ask and receive not because the motive behind our asking is really that of accomplishing my will rather than God's will. — Chuck Smith

May 7

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them. — Elisabeth Elliot

May 8

Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners: forgiveness is for the guilty. — Charles Spurgeon

May 9

We We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile. — J.R.R. Tolkien,

May 10

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything. — C. S. Lewis

May 11

The essence of prayer lies in the heart drawing near to God: and it can do that without words. — Charles Spurgeon

May 12

The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will. — Hudson Taylor

May 13

The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation. — Dwight L. Moody

May 14

At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture. — Vance Havner

May 15

Today is unique! It has never occurred and it will never be repeated. At midnight it will end, quietly, suddenly, totally. Forever. But the hours between now and then are opportunities with eternal possibilities. — Charles Swindoll

May 16

God is more interested in what we are than in what we do. He looks for fruit; we try to produce works. — Chuck Smith

May 17

When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him. — Elisabeth Elliot

May 18

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

May 19

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me. — Corrie Ten Boom

May 20

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind. — C.S. Lewis

May 21

I don't always feel His presence. But God's promises do not depend upon my feelings; they rest upon His integrity. — R. C. Sproul

May 22

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years. — Charles Spurgeon

May 23

Many Christians estimate difficulties in the light of their own resources, and thus attempt little and often fail in the little they attempt. All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His power and presence with them. — Hudson Taylor

May 24

Everybody wants to enjoy heaven after they die, but they don't want to be heavenly-minded while they live. — Dwight L. Moody

May 25

It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it. — Vance Havner

May 26

We aren't just thrown on this earth like dice tossed across a table. We are lovingly placed here for a purpose. — Charles Swindoll

May 27

Though prayer doesn't change God's mind or God's purposes, prayer does change something - it changes us. — Chuck Smith

May 28

It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life. — Elisabeth Elliot

May 29

Whosoever will reign with Christ in heaven, must have Christ reigning in him on earth. — John Wesley

May 30

Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties. — C. S. Lewis

May 31

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible. — Corrie Ten Boom

Marj Lancaster