… quotes displayed on the sign by the road
“The prayerful reading of the scriptures works the earth of the heart.”
Below you will find a list of the messages displayed on the Christ Church sign displayed by the street in front of the building. We’ve gotten many comments on these quotes over the years and have had several people visit us after they have been challenged by these messages while driving down League Line Road past the church.
The list you see here is partial at present. Please ponder and enjoy each of these as we work to build the list from Pastor Dan’s file of thought provoking quotes.
- “No man was ever wise by chance.” — Seneca
- “God gives lavishly.” — Eugene H. Peterson
- “For, truly, if he is with me, I care not where I go.” — Francis de Sales
- “Unfurl the sails and let God steer us where he will.” — Bede
- “An unchurched Christian is a grotesque anomaly.” — John Stott
- “A Christian should be a halleluja from head to toe.” — Augustine
- “Following Jesus does'nt make for smooth sailing.” — Eugen H. Peterson
- “Ignorance of the scriptures is ignorance of Christ.” — Jerome
- “Letting go of a cramped self-will opens up an expansive God-Willed Life.”
- “The worst sins of men an spiritual.” — C. S. Lewis
- “The church will outlive the universe.” — C. S. Lewis
- “Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.” — Karl Barth
- “And here in dust and dirt, o here, the lilies of His love appear.” — George Herbert
- “Lives again our glorious King, where, o death, is now thy sting.” — Charles Wesley
- “Pride asserts, humility testifies.” — Augustine
- “Following Jesus doesn't take place on our terms. We follow Jesus on his terms.” — Eugene Peterson
- “Sabbath is the time set aside to do nothing wo we can receive everything.”
- “Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.”
- “I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.” — Charles Spurgeon
- “We are called to both individual discipleship and corporate fellowship.” — John Stott
- “In quietness and in trust shall be your strength.”Isaiah 30:15
- “Be still and know that I am God.”Psalm 46:10
- “O lord, I love the habitation of your House.”Psalm 26:8
- “We slander God by our very eagerness to work for him without knowing him.” — Oswald Chambers
- “An attentive reading of scripture works the soil of the heart.”
- “Borrowed beliefs have no power.” — Eugene H. Peterson
- “I hunger again to get out of the way one more time and say one more time fill us with your presence again and give us souls that we can walk with and love. We don't care where they come from. We don't care what they look like. We want to be able to love them when they come and point to you (Jesus).” — Dan Schiel 1/2/2011 Sermon
- “Where is the joy of the bridegroom's presence? How long has it been since we were the church that He wanted to visit when he wanted to have a good time … and when He wanted to have His way with his people? How long has it been since the joy of the Lord filled your soul?” — Dan Schiel 1/2/2011 Sermon
- “What can the Lord do? Anything He wants.” — Dan Schiel 1/2/2011 Sermon
- “Never tell them you're a preacher! It ends the party.” — Dan Schiel 1/2/2011 Sermon
- “The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation.” — T. S. Eliot
- “In Christ two natures met to be thy cure.” — George Herbert
- “Presume upon the veracity of God.” — John Calvin
- “What power and efficacy God's Word has … it changes the whole man.” — Richard Sibbes
- “By reducing Christian spirituality to formula we deprive our hearts of wonder.”
- “The prayerful reading of the scriptures works the earth of the heart.”
- “A Christian should be a hallelujah from head to toe.” — Augustine
- “Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible.” — C. S. Lewis
- “It's the Holy Spirit's style to fashion holy lives among the inept.”
- “The first word is God's word. Prayer is answering speech.”
- “Theology is for doxology.” — J. I. Packer
- “Wonder is the basis for worship.”
- “It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.” — Henry Ward Beecher
- “Example is always more efficacious than precept.” — Samuel Johnson
- “Begin the day with God. Spend the day with God. End the day with God.”
- “Those who know God have great contentment in God.” — J. I. Packer
- “That knowledge is best which ends in practice.” — Thomas Manton
- “Free will after the fall is nothing but a word.” — Martin Luther
- “Unless we recapture something of the childlike as we follow him, we will not find the life that he came to free us toward.” — Jeff Berryman JeffBerryman.com
- “Spiritual growth takes place in quietness, in hidden ways, in silence and solitude.” — Eugene Peterson
- “We grow up into Christ by growing down into lowliness.” — J. I. Packer
- “How can anyone be arrogant when he stands beside the cross?” — Carl Henry
- “He who considers his own sins is more merciful toward his fellow servant.” — Chrysostom
- “The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom and humility comes before honor.”
- “God-devotion makes a country strong; God-avoidance leaves people weak.”
- “God does not just barely save us. He is lavish with grace.”
- “Self-righteousness in large part consists in a denial of our lostness.”
- “Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.”
- “Prayer will make a man quit sinning or sin will entice a man to quit praying.”
- “Perfection consists in being what God wants us to be.” — Therese of Lisieux
- “A culture for whom God is no longer present believes everything.”
- “The chief happiness for a man is to be what he is.” — Erasmus
- “A man's character is his fate.” — Heraclitus
- “Easter is the New Year's day of the soul” — A. B. Simpson
- “He is risen. Behold and believe, wonder and worship.”
- “I took men to Jesus Christ and left them there.” — George Fox
- “A fully comprehended God is no God at all.” — Gerhard Tersteegen
- “The life of the Christian is a holy longing.” — Augustine
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- “The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.” — Emily Dickenson
- “If life is Christ, to die is "more Christ"” — P. T. Forsyth
- “The heavens cannot contain Him; a woman carried Him in her bosom.” — Augustine
- “In the incarnation our creator and judge becomes our kinsman and redeemer.”
- “The history leading up to the end of time is in God's hands.”
- “The end of time is in God's hands.”
- “Anything this side of hell is grace.”
- “Self righteousness in large part consists in a denial of lostness.”
- “A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches.”Proverbs 22:1
- “Holy desires grow through delay.” — Bernard of Clairvaux
- “The best prayers have often more groans than words.” — John Bunyan
- “Before a man can do things there must be things he will not do.”
- “Faith is a refusal to panic.” — D. Martyn Lloyd Jones
- “Forgiveness is not sentimentality. It is hard-edged gospel.”
- “Action without prayer thins out into something merely exterior.” — Eugene Peterson
- “We don't come to God; God comes to us. We don't start the conversation; God does.”
- “Following Jesus doesn't take place on our terms. We follow Jesus on his terms.”
- “Life in the company of Jesus is not a discussion group but an act of becoming.”
- “The abdication of belief makes the behavior small.” — Emily Dickenson
- “Holy scripture fixes our doctrine lest we dare to be wiser than we ought.”
- “What a man is on his knees before God, that he is - no more, no less.”
- “Be not anxious with what you have, but what you are.” — Gregory the Great
- “To know our own wretchedness and not know God makes for despair.”
- “To know God and not know our own wretchedness makes for pride.”
- “Only the God-sought seek for God.”
- “I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.” — John Newton
- “Have we not all lived too much without Jesus.” — Charles Spurgeon
- “The work of the Holy Spirit is the life of Jesus Christ.” — John Owen
- “A proud soul is content with nothing.” — Thomas Brooks
- “The church is most biblical when least concerned about impressing the world.”
- “It is the person that most really has God that most really seeks God.”
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