Quotes from the book

In the book there are many quotes at the beginning of the chapters all throughout, I thought I would just share many of them that I liked in no particular order.

Christ has no body on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Christ's compassion for the world is to look out; yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good; and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now. Saint Teresa of Avila

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
Frederick W. Faber

The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.
John Macarthur

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet. Frederick Buechner

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. Gail Sheehy

Hell will be full of people who thought highly of the Sermon on the Mount. You must do more than that. You must obey it and take action. John Macarthur

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost

A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine. D. L. Moody

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available. Rick Warren

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. Mother Teresa

Christianity is flourishing wonderfully among the poor and the persecuted while it atrophies among the rich and secure. Philip Jenkins

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. John W. Gardner

He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught. Saint Thomas Aquinas

Sometimes I would like to ask God why He allows poverty, suffering, and injustice when he could do something about it. Well, why don't you ask Him? Because I'm afraid He would ask me the same question. Anonymous

We've drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.
Paul Harvey

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Mankind wants glory. We want health. We want wealth. We want happiness. We want all our felt needs met, all our little human itches scratched. We want a painless life. We want the crown without the cross. We want the gain without the pain. We want the words of Christ's salvation to be easy. John Macarthur

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap and then you grow wings.
William Sloane Coffin

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. Mohandas Gandhi

A church that lives within its four walls is no church at all.
Pastor Morgan Chilulu

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try spending the night in a closed room with a mosquito. African Saying

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. Henry Van Dyke

Make your life a mission- not an intermission. Arnold Glasgow

The one who says it can't be done should get out of the way of the one who is doing it. Chinese Proverb

We can do no great things, only small things with great love. Mother Teresa