Great Throughts Treasury

"Heaven is full of answers for which nobody ever bothered to ask."

"Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away."

"Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self-esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Amen!"

"History is full of surprises, and the next century will be no exception."

"'Hope and change' has become a clich‚ in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed."

"Heavenly rest will be so refreshing that we will never feel that exhaustion of mind and body we so frequently experience now. I?m really looking forward to that."

"How often we commit our burdens to the Lord and then fail to trust Him by taking matters into our own hands. Then, when we have messed things up, we pray, Oh, Lord, help me, I'm in trouble. The choice is yours. Do you want to trust your life in God's pocket or keep it in your own?"

"Human nature is the same the world over, and when the gospel of Christ is preached in simplicity and power, there is a response in the human soul."

"Hope is one of the theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not, as some modern people think, a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is. If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. aim at earth and you will get neither."

"Hope, like faith and a purpose in life, is medicinal."

"I am amazed at the wonders of technology and am grateful for the ways in which we are able to use it to share the Gospel around the world."

"Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything."

"I am convinced that when a man sincerely searches for God with all his heart, God will reveal Himself in some way."

"I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist."

"I am not a televangelist."

"I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'"

"I am selling the greatest product in the world. Why shouldn?t it be promoted as well as soap?"

"I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the law because of religious reasons."

"I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected."

"I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God."

"I can tell you that God is alive because I talked to him this morning."

"I can barely walk, but it's a privilege to be able to move at all."

"I can't prove it scientifically, that there's a God, but I believe."

"I don't eat with beautiful women alone."

"I can truly say that since that moment, I?ve never doubted that the Bible is the word of God. Furthermore, God has confirmed this to me time after time, as I have witnessed the power of the word of God at word in the lives of people."

"I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man."

"I don't have many sad days."

"I don't have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful."

"I don't have to see a murder in order to condemn murder."

"I feel sorry for the man who has never known the bracing thrill of taking a stand and sticking to it fearlessly. Moral courage has rewards that timidity can never imagine. Like a shot of adrenaline, it floods the spirit with vitality."

"I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I'm still sort of an invalid now."

"I first met Bev Shea while in Chicago when he was on Moody Radio. As a young man starting my ministry, I asked Bev if he would join me. He said yes, and for over 60 years we had the privilege of ministering together across the country and around the world."

"I don't think that there's any conflict at all between science today and the Scriptures. I think that we have misinterpreted the Scriptures many times and we've tried to make the Scriptures say things they weren't meant to say, I think that we have made a mistake by thinking the Bible is a scientific book. The Bible is not a book of science. The Bible is a book of Redemption, and of course I accept the Creation story. I believe that God did create the universe. I believe that God created man, and whether it came by an evolutionary process and at a certain point He took this person or being and made him a living soul or not, does not change the fact that God did create man... whichever way God did it makes no difference as to what man is and man's relationship to God."

"I don't think I get angry."

"I don't think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do."

"I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation."

"I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park."

"I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it."

"I don't think there is a single social issue I haven't spoken on."

"I found that this Parkinson's does slow you down, whether you want to slow down or not."

"I have a certainty about eternity that is a wonderful thing, and I thank God for giving me that certainty. I do not fear death. I may fear a little bit about the process, but not death itself, because I think the moment that my spirit leaves this body, I will be in the presence of the Lord."

"I have a very strange feeling of loss. I almost feel as though one of my family members has gone,"

"I have been asked on hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering."

"I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms."

"I have often said that the first thing I am going to do when I get to Heaven is to ask, ?Why me, Lord? Why did You choose a farm boy from North Carolina to preach to so many people, to have such a wonderful Team of associates, and to have a part in what You were doing in the latter half of the twentieth century??"

"I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority."

"I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn't mean that we must grow weaker spiritually."

"I have the problems of, I must confess, old age."

"I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future."

"I haven't written my own epitaph, and I'm not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served."