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The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.


Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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If you find a perfect church, don't join it; you'll ruin it
HANK HANEGRAAFF we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Nowadays, it's hard to find the best horror and to be interesting and to be afraid of it!
DEYTH BANGER The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl...
ANGIE KARAN A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The entire time we playing, the current had gently moved us downstream with the tide. We were drifti...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Life becomes perfect if I look at it through my imperfect perceptions.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I suppose the Church would be perfect only if it were run by perfect beings. God is perfect, and His...
DIETER F. UCHTDORF People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,
CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister.
TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma...
TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th...
TRISHA LEAVER We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot com...
NICK HORNBY Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
EMINEM Stop waiting for the perfect day or the perfect moment... Take THIS day, THIS moment and lead it to ...
STEVE MARABOLI We didn’t think anything of it at the time, but we saw several of the bodies of the crew, space pi...
CHRISTINA ENGELA If you have a question, ask. How do you ask? Say it or write it
SOTONYE ANGA The value of routine; trusting your swing.
LORII MYERS The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem. - Charles Hadden Spurge...
CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic...
ODO SIMON AGBO Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you...
TERENCE T. GORSKI I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature,...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON A young woman asked the great preacher Charles Spurgeon if it was possible to reconcile God’s sove...
ELISABETH ELLIOT When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgi...
ALDEN NOWLAN The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgi...
ALDEN NOWLAN If we look at the balance between good and evil, our world as it is has an imbalance of evil and it ...
GARY F EVANS... Lo, thou, my Love, art fair;
Myself have made thee so;
Yea, thou art fair indeed,
Whe...
WILLIAM BALDWIN The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON There were valid reasons for the Bible being unfamiliar to the masses originally. The medieval churc...
JAMES MCCLELLAND As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them. - ...
CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON Pain has creative power,
Let the magic unfold...
HENNA SOHAIL Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film)
DEYTH BANGER Maybe you've never fallen into a frozen stream. Here's what happens.
1. It is cold. So cold tha...
MAUREEN JOHNSON We are all imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT Ages and epochs belong to Time. Only the fleeting moment is eternal.
MARTY RUBIN The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgi...
ALDEN NOWLAN Standing on the edge of that darkness, she felt the stirrings of reckless want. A wild sort of brave...
EMILY LLOYD-JONES Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY 1862 ...although we can judge that an act is in itself a grave offense, we must entrust judgment of ...
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever...
CRAIG CLEVENGER If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
BJ NELSON We all try to camouflage the monotony, But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all ...
PETER HøEG It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentl...
JOSEPH ADDISON It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle...
JOSEPH ADDISON It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentl...
FRANCOIS DE FENELON Within the depth of my being, you might find me perfect. The superficial, if sincere, is imperfect.
INAAM ABDULKARIM If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?
LEE STRASBERG If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
CRAIG GROESCHEL VIEW FROM A HILL

I am not yet quite over it.
I am lying down on top of it.
Surv...
JOHN TOTTENHAM When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
DANIEL MELGAçO He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.
J.K. ROWLING It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentl...
JOSEPH ADDISON Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light.
GINA GREENLEE The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons, with Hims...
DALLAS WILLARD What determines our brotherhood is what that man is by reason of Christ. Our community with one anot...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER I would like to encourage you to stop thinking of what you're doing as ministry. Start realizing tha...
RICH MULLINS Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Jesus said the weeds would grow with the wheat until the Judgement," Dietrich answered, "so one find...
MICHAEL FLYNN No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Starting today, must forget what gone yesterday,appreciate what remains today & look forward what ca...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe...
THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress...
SARAH JIO Time creates history. Meditation creates the moment.
MA JAYA SATI BHAGAVATI Don’t wait for perfect moment. Grab it at the earliest.If wait too long for perfect moment,the mom...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea...
PHILIP T.M The present: It is interesting that the “NOW" is called "the present.” The present is the ultima...
MICHAEL SMITH Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 Orthodoxy is, i...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.
ROBERT FALCON SCOTT nothing's news.
it's the same old thing in
disguise.
only one thing comes without a CHARLES BUKOWSKI We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, b...
JEFF MILLER Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.
CASEY STENGEL Life doesn´t come with any guarantees. You have to risk it to get the biscuit." - The Alchemist, Pa...
PAULO COELHO Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo...
DANIEL OJEDA We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid...
KURT VONNEGUT Fiery trials make golden Christians
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Quizá para ti hay un
mañana. Quizá para ti hay mil mañanas, o tres mil, o diez mil, tanto t...
LAUREN OLIVER In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of ...
SAUL BELLOW He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the eas...
SAUL BELLOW Every story needs some sort of secret that impels it forward. Otherwise why would the reader bother ...
DEB LOUGHEAD Somewhere in the ruins above them, the cats are howling.
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C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a ...
CHARLES SPURGEON Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure...
CHARLES SPURGEON 'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came ...
CHARLES SPURGEON None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
CHARLES SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES SPURGEON A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you...
CHARLES SPURGEON Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
CHARLES SPURGEON Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
CHARLES SPURGEON Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is...
CHARLES SPURGEON What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
CHARLES SPURGEON In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's natur...
CHARLES SPURGEON You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear ...
CHARLES SPURGEON The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
CHARLES SPURGEON I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been a...
CHARLES SPURGEON I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make mu...
CHARLES SPURGEON Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.
CHARLES SPURGEON I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my ...
CHARLES SPURGEON I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to p...
CHARLES SPURGEON Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for j...
CHARLES SPURGEON We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our chi...
CHARLES SPURGEON If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one...
CHARLES SPURGEON True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - ...
CHARLES SPURGEON A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world...
CHARLES SPURGEON Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
CHARLES SPURGEON Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatr...
CHARLES SPURGEON Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's su...
CHARLES SPURGEON We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.
CHARLES SPURGEON The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves fo...
CHARLES SPURGEON The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with ...
CHARLES SPURGEON It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
CHARLES SPURGEON There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at...
CHARLES SPURGEON After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so w...
CHARLES SPURGEON Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
CHARLES SPURGEON We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal pro...
CHARLES SPURGEON Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so...
CHARLES SPURGEON There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He cas...
CHARLES SPURGEON The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit ...
CHARLES SPURGEON O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never ...
CHARLES SPURGEON The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach pe...
CHARLES SPURGEON Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast...
CHARLES SPURGEON A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments...
CHARLES SPURGEON Have we been going up and down in business, and are those round about us as yet unaware of our Chris...
CHARLES SPURGEON If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any ...
CHARLES SPURGEON A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
CHARLES SPURGEON By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
CHARLES SPURGEON A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored a...
CHARLES SPURGEON Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws ne...
CHARLES SPURGEON I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that...
CHARLES SPURGEON In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim...
CHARLES SPURGEON Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?
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