April Quotes
April 1
If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him, does it matter whom we displease? —Leonard Ravenhill
April 2
Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him. —Hudson Taylor
April 3
A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for. —Richard Wurmbrand
April 4
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. —Corrie Ten Boom
April 5
Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us. —Elisabeth Elliot
April 6
At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture. —Vance Havner
April 7
No faith is so precious as that which lives and triumphs through adversity. Tested faith brings experience. You would never have believed your own weakness had you not needed to pass through trials. And you would never have known God’s strength had His strength not been needed to carry you through. —Charles Spurgeon
April 8
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. —C. S. Lewis
April 9
The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory. —Alexander MacLaren
April 10
The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us. —Billy Graham
April 11
When a nation calls its prime men to battle, homes are broken, weeping sweethearts say their good-byes, businesses are closed, college careers are wrecked, factories are refitted for wartime production, and rationing and discomforts are accepted – all for war. Can we do less for the greatest fight that this world has ever known outside of the cross – this end-time siege on sanity, morality and spirituality? —Leonard Ravenhill
April 12
To me it seemed that the teaching of God’s Word was unmistakably clear: ‘Owe no man anything.’ To borrow money implied to my mind a contradiction of Scripture – a confession that God had withheld some good thing, and determination to get for ourselves what He had not given. —Hudson Taylor
April 13
It must be understood that there are no nominal, halfhearted, lukewarm Christians in Russia or China. The price Christians pay is far too great. The next point to remember is that persecution has always produced a better Christian - a witnessing Christian, a soul-winning Christian. Communist persecution has backfired and produced serious, dedicated Christians such as are rarely seen in free lands. These people cannot understand how anyone can be a Christian and not want to win every soul they meet. —Richard Wurmbrand
April 14
Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… it’s something we make inside ourselves. —Corrie Ten Boom
April 15
The world cries for men who are strong, strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer. —Elisabeth Elliot
April 16
I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was sink. When it took off from England, all kinds of passengers were aboard - millionaires, celebrities, people of moderate means, and poor folks down in the steerage. But a few hours later when they put the list in the Cunard office in New York, it carried only two categories - lost and saved. Grim tragedy had leveled all distinctions. —Vance Havner
April 17
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength. —Charles Spurgeon
April 18
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.' —C. S. Lewis
April 19
As the flowers follow the sun, and silently hold up their petals to be tinted and enlarged by its shining, so must we, if we would know the joy of God, hold our souls, wills, hearts, and minds, still before Him, whose voice commands, whose love warns, whose truth makes fair our whole being. God speaks for the most part in such silence only. If the soul be full of tumult and jangling voices, His voice is little likely to be heard. —Alexander MacLaren
April 20
God never takes away something from your life without replacing it with something better. —Billy Graham
April 21
He’s not your lackey. He’s not your servant. He’s not there to pull every mountain down. He’s there to give you strength to get over the mountain – not to ease your burden. —Leonard Ravenhill
April 22
Fruit-bearing involves cross-bearing. —Hudson Taylor
April 23
Martin Luther, when he walked in the woods, used to raise his hat to the birds and say, ‘Good morning, theologians — you wake and sing, but I, old fool, know less than you and worry over everything, instead of simply trusting in the heavenly Father’s care. —Richard Wurmbrand
April 24
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire? —Corrie Ten Boom
April 25
We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies to ourselves. —Elisabeth Elliot
April 26
If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home. —Vance Havner
April 27
We have all things and abound; not because I have a good store of money in the bank, not because I have skill and wit with which to win my bread, but because the Lord is my shepherd. —Charles Spurgeon
April 28
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. —C. S. Lewis
April 29
Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, and hour by hour. —Alexander MacLaren
April 30
Take one day at a time. Today, after all, is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. —Billy Graham