… quotes displayed on the sign by the road
“A proud soul is content with nothing.” — Thomas Brooks
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.
- “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.”
- “The bible recognizes no faith that does not lead to obedience.” — A. W. Tozer
- “Do not think less of what God has done, but think more of what He is doing.”
- “We do not draw the cross too big, but we paint the dove too small”
- “Easter -- We meet Jesus in resurrection surprise: "My Lord and my God"”
- “Love the Lord, love the world, work for nothing … practice resurrection”
- “Some things can only be explained by the presence of God.”
- “He who fears God has nothing else to fear.” — Charles Spurgeon
- “Every victory we win over the flesh will result in strengthening our soul.”
- “Peace will be found not in indulging our appetites, but in resisting them.”
- “Maybe it takes a lifetime to learn to pray with a pure heart.” — Eugene Peterson
- “A struggled learned, prayed-for obedience to God is a true obedience.”
- “In scripture God speaks to us; in prayer we speak to God.”
- “In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
- “Waiting in prayer is a disciplined refusal to act before God acts.”
- “Hope is hearing the melody of the future ...
faith is the dance to it.”
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