August Quotes
August 1
You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are. —George Washington
August 2
As I am humbled by my difficulties, so I am strengthened by God's grace. —Alistair Begg
August 3
God created the heavens and the earth to reveal His glory. Don’t allow creation to eclipse and steal the worship God desires and deserves. —David Jeremiah
August 4
If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him, does it matter whom we displease? —Leonard Ravenhill
August 5
If God sends us on stony paths, he provides strong shoes. —Corrie Ten Boom
August 6
If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. —Elisabeth Elliot
August 7
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. —C. S. Lewis
August 8
Sin is the second most powerful force in the universe, for it sent Jesus to the cross. Only one force is greater — the love of God. —Billy Graham
August 9
Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason - I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other - my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen. —Martin Luther
August 10
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence. —Isaac Newton
August 11
While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. to the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian. —George Washington
August 12
Death for the Christian is to fall asleep in the arms of Jesus and waking up and finding out that you're home. —Alistair Begg
August 13
The man whose little sermon is ‘Repent’ sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by the age whose moral tone he challenges. There is but one end for such a man: ‘off with his head.’ You had better not try to preach repentance until you have pledged your head to Heaven. —Leonard Ravenhill
August 14
Worry is like a rocking chair: it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere. —Corrie Ten Boom
August 15
We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom he has given the breath of life. We die in order to live. —Elisabeth Elliot
August 16
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. —C. S. Lewis
August 17
The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. —Billy Graham
August 18
From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures; for as long as I have God's Word, I know that I am walking in His way and that I shall not fall into any error or delusion. —Martin Luther
August 19
All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer. —Isaac Newton
August 20
The blessing and protection of Heaven are at all times necessary but especially so in times of public distress and danger. The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier, defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country. —George Washington
August 21
It is in our forgiveness of other people’s sins against us that we reveal the fact that we have been truly forgiven by God. —Alistair Begg
August 22
It’s not that your most important work is meaningless; it’s that your most trivial movements are also significant. —David Jeremiah
August 23
Don’t let obstacles along the road to eternity shake your confidence in God’s promise. The Holy Spirit is God’s seal that you will arrive. —David Jeremiah
August 24
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
August 25
Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible. —Corrie Ten Boom
August 26
Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections. —Elisabeth Elliot
August 27
They asked her (Ruth Graham) did she ever think about divorce and she said, ‘No, I’ve never thought of divorce in all these 35 years of marriage, but,’ she said, ‘I did think of murder a few times.’ —Billy Graham
August 28
Pray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you. —Martin Luther
August 29
A Heavenly Master governs all the world as Sovereign of the universe. We are astonished at Him by reason of His perfection, we honor Him and fall down before Him because of His unlimited power. From blind physical necessity, which is always and everywhere the same, no variety adhering to time and place could evolve, and all variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, Whom I call the Lord God. —Isaac Newton
August 30
I now make it my earnest prayer that God would… most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of the mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion. —George Washington
August 31
As a result of grace, we have been saved from sin’s penalty. One day we will be saved from sin’s presence. In the meantime we are being saved from sin’s power. —Alistair Begg