April Quotes

April 1

I'd rather be in the heart of Africa in the will of God, than on the throne of England, out of the will of God. —David Livingstone

April 2

I have given God countless reasons not to love me. None of them has been strong enough to change Him. —Paul Washer

April 3

Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren't looking! —Billy Sunday

April 4

What is your ambition in life today? Is it to get rich? Is it to make a name for yourself? Is it even to do some wonderful thing for God? Listen to me, beloved. The highest desire that can possess any human heart is a longing to see God. —J. Vernon McGee

April 5

It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity. —Anne Graham Lotz

April 6

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance. —Martin Lloyd-Jones

April 7

Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder. —Dietrich Bonhoeffer

April 8

God often goes to the gutter to find the recipient for His grace. He lifts him out, washes him and transforms him – making him into a child of God fit for His kingdom. That is God’s grace. —Chuck Smith

April 9

The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it. —J. I. Packer

April 10

It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces. —Samuel Chadwick

April 11

If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice? —David Livingstone

April 12

You are a steward of every moment, of every talent, of every gift, of every resource that God has given you. Chose wisely what you do today! —Paul Washer

April 13

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his. —Billy Sunday

April 14

The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible. —J. Vernon McGee

April 15

If Jesus forgave those who nailed Him to the cross, and if God forgives you and me, how can you withhold your forgiveness from someone else? —Anne Graham Lotz

April 16

There are two types of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.' —C. S. Lewis

April 17

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself. —Dietrich Bonhoeffer

April 18

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know. —Chuck Smith

April 19

What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal life that Jesus gives? To know God. What is the best thing in life? To know God. What in humans gives God most pleasure? Knowledge of himself. —J. I. Packer

April 20

The Holy Ghost does not come upon methods, but upon men. He does not anoint machinery, but men. He does not work through organizations, but through men. He does not dwell in buildings, but men. He indwells the Body of Christ, directs its activities, distributes its forces, empowers its members. —Samuel Chadwick

April 21

God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours. —David Livingstone

April 22

A lot of people think that Christianity is you doing all the righteous things you hate and avoiding all the wicked things you love in order to go to Heaven. No, that's a lost man with religion. A Christian is a person whose heart has been changed; they have new affections. —Paul Washer

April 23

Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity. —Billy Sunday

April 24

Immorality is just as bad now as it was in the past. The difference is that now we flaunt it. It used to be done in secret, but now it is done in the open. —J. Vernon McGee

April 25

If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that's obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from my problems and my pain and my unanswered prayer. —Anne Graham Lotz

April 26

You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have. —Corrie Ten Boom

April 27

Comfort the troubled, and trouble the comfortable. —Dietrich Bonhoeffer

April 28

So live for the kingdom of God. Seek to bring glory to Jesus Christ and the Lord will use you. It is my prayer, my constant and daily prayer, that God would keep me useable. —Chuck Smith

April 29

There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me. —J. I. Packer

April 30

There is no way of learning to pray but by praying. No reasoned philosophy of prayer ever taught a soul to pray. We know not what we should pray for as we ought, and if prayer waits for understanding it will never begin. We discover by using. We learn by practice. Though a man should have all knowledge about prayer, and though he should understand all mysteries about prayer, unless he prays he will never learn to pray. —Samuel Chadwick