May Quotes

May 1

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with. —Billy Graham

May 2

It is not my strength that grows, so much as God's strength in me, which is given more abundantly as the days roll. It is so given on one condition. If my faith has laid hold of the infinite, the exhaustless, the immortal energy of God, unless there is something fearfully wrong about me, I shall be getting purer, nobler, wiser, more observant of His will; gentler, like Christ; every way fitter for His service, and for larger service, as the days increase. —Alexander MacLaren

May 3

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. —C. S. Lewis

May 4

The doctrine of the atonement is to my mind one of the surest proofs of the divine inspiration of Holy Scripture. Who would or could have thought of the just Ruler dying for the unjust rebel? This is no teaching of human mythology, or dream of poetical imagination. This method of expiation is only known among men because it is a fact; fiction could not have devised it. God himself ordained it; it is not a matter which could have been imagined. —Charles Spurgeon

May 5

We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves. —Vance Havner

May 6

The fact that I’m a woman doesn’t make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I’m a Christian does make me a different kind of woman. —Elisabeth Elliot

May 7

In darkness God’s truth shines most clear. —Corrie Ten Boom

May 8

If a Christian really believed that his neighbor will be tortured in all eternity in Hell, he should try day and night to persuade him to repent and believe. How sad that this doesn't happen. —Richard Wurmbrand

May 9

Argument almost always leaves behind a sore feeling in the heart of the one who has been worsted. By loving teaching, by Christ-like living, we are to win this people for our Lord. They do not understand what disinterested love and unselfishness mean: you are to go and live it among them. —Hudson Taylor

May 10

In the church pillars have given place to pillows. —Leonard Ravenhill

May 11

I've read the last page of the Bible, it's all going to turn out all right. —Billy Graham

May 12

God keeps giving Himself as long as we bring that into which He can pour Himself. And when we stop bringing, He stops giving. —Alexander MacLaren

May 13

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world. —C.S. Lewis

May 14

Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin. —Charles Spurgeon

May 15

God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out. —Vance Havner

May 16

God’s work done in God’s way never lacks God’s supply. —Elisabeth Elliot

May 17

What wings are to a bird and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul. —Corrie Ten Boom

May 18

God will judge us not according to how much we endured, but how much we could love. —Richard Wurmbrand

May 19

The good works of the unsaved may indeed benefit their fellow-creatures; but until life in Christ has been received, they cannot please God. —Hudson Taylor

May 20

The only reason we don’t have revival is because we are willing to live without it! —Leonard Ravenhill

May 21

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men. —Billy Graham

May 22

He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust. —Alexander MacLaren

May 23

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely 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. —C. S. Lewis

May 24

Sickness may befall, but the Lord will give grace; poverty may happen to us, but grace will surely be afforded; death must come but grace will light a candle at the darkest hour. Reader, how blessed it is as years roll round, and the leaves begin again to fall, to enjoy such an unfading promise as this, 'The Lord will give grace.' —Charles Spurgeon

May 25

When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers. —Vance Havner

May 26

If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child. —Elisabeth Elliot

May 27

With Jesus, even in our darkest moments the best remains and the very best is yet to be… —Corrie Ten Boom

May 28

Even the best of Christians are troubled by the question, "Why does an almighty God send, or at least allow, suffering?" When you are nagged by thoughts like this, say to yourself, "I am still in elementary school. When I graduate from the university of Christian life, I will understand His ways better and doubts will cease. —Richard Wurmbrand

May 29

God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supplies. —Hudson Taylor

May 30

The trouble today is that we have too many dead preachers giving out dead sermons to dead people. —Leonard Ravenhill

May 31

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life. —Billy Graham