Thursday, August 24, 2006

What great people said about the bible.


"The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible." George Washington Carver

"It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom." Horace Greeley

"The existence of the Bible is a book for the people. It's the greatest benefit the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity." Immanuel Kant

"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man." Abraham Lincoln

"The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and the oppressed. The human race is not in a position to dispense with it." Thomas Huxley

"The Bible is no mere book, but it's a living creature with a power that conquers all who oppose it." Napoleon

"The Bible is...as necessary to spiritual life as breath is to natural life. There is nothing more essential to our lives than the Word of God." Jack Hayford

"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." George Washington

"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people...so great is my veneration of the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read, the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens in their country and respectful members of society." John Adams

"A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know the price of rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved." Benjamin Franklin

"That Book (the Bible) is the rock on which our Republic rests." Andrew Jackson

"The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty...students' perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands." Thomas Jefferson

"The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed." Patrick Henry

"If we will not be governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants." William Penn

"Bible reading is an education in itself." Lord Tennyson

"There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history." .... "I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily." Sir Isaac Newton

"The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever growing influence of the Bible." W.H. Seward

"The Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures." A.W. Tozer

"It is clear that there must be difficulties for us in a revelation such as the Bible. If someone were to hand me a book that was as simple to me as the multiplication table, and say, 'This is the Word of God. In it He has revealed His whole will and wisdom,' I would shake my head and say, 'I cannot believe it; that is too easy to be a perfect revelation of infinite wisdom.' There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners." R.A. Torrey

"My advice to Sunday Schools no matter what their denomination is: Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your heart, and practice them in your lives. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future. 'Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people (Proverbs 14:34)'." Ulysses S. Grant

"At this time I both read and studied all kinds of literature: cosmography, histories, chronicles, and philosophy and other arts , to which our Lord opened my mind unmistakably to the fact that it was possible to navigate from here to the Indies, and He evoked in me the will for the execution of it; and with this fire I came to Your Highnesses. All those who heard of my plan disregarded it mockingly and with laughter. All the sciences of which I spoke were of no profit to me nor the authorities in them; only in Your Highnesses my faith, and my stay. Who would doubt that this light did not come from the Holy Spirit, anyway as far as I am concerned, which comforted with rays of marvelous clarity and with its Holy and Sacred Scriptures." Christopher Columbus

Monday, July 24, 2006

Is the end near?


***** Signs given by Jesus to his second coming ******
Matthew 24 verses:
4 Jesus answered: "Watch out that no one deceives you".
5 For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ' and will deceive many.
6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.
7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
8 All these are the beginning of birth pains.
9 "Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me".
10 At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other,
11 and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.
12 Because of the increase of wickedness , the love of most will grow cold,
13 but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.
14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.


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Saturday, July 22, 2006

The archer's faith


Ephesians 2:8-9 - "For by grace you have been saved through FAITH and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of GOD . Not by works so that no one could boast".

The bible clearly tells us that the only way to salvation is by faith alone. And that the object of faith is Jesus Christ . John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whosoever believes on Him should not perish but have eternal life", the verse says that God loves us and He wanted us just to believe in Him so that we will have the eternal life. In John 14:16 "Jesus said, I am the way , the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father but through me". Remember, God used "the way" instead of "a way". That denotes the fact that He alone is the only way to salvation. Not by religion, not by works, not by any person but by Him alone. In Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord ", the bible says that all of us will die as a penalty of our sins, but through the love of God, He gave us a wonderful gift (salvation). He sent His son for us. Salvation is a gift to be received not a goal to be achieved . Of course, we can't own the gift unless we receive it. Revelation 3:20 says that Christ is knocking at the door of our lives/hearts and that we need to invite Him in. Dear friend, Christ loves you, His grace is abundant to you. He is just waiting for you to come to Him, repent from your sins and believe that He alone could save you. I John 5:11-13 "And the witness is this, that God gave unto us eternal life, and this life is in His Son(Jesus Christ). He that hath the Son (Jesus Christ) has the life ; he that hath not the Son of God hath not the life. These things have I written unto you that you may know that you have eternal life, even unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God". May God bless you...