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Renewal of mind begins with mediation on the word of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Every new morning brings new mercy, new love and new grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Hold fast to the promises of God. And mediate on it day and night.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The word of God is a certainty.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
We marvel at God’s mercy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
No matter what happens to you, if you have life, with faith and hope, you will live to see your situation change.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You ought to forgive others. Sometimes, the dark deed of others is due to inner struggles and fears. With your shining light and kind deeds, you will help them to turn to the light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You can never out-give God.
— Anonymous
The grace of God makes everything possible.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Whatever is within your limit, do it to lift the souls of humankind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The disgrace of the church in the twentieth century is that more zeal is evident among Communists and cultists than among Christians.
— William MacDonald, True Discipleship
When I leave this earthly home and go up to God to dwell, someone will look on the heaped up grave and whisper, "She tried to do well.
— Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds, Cumberland Presbyterian
The light shines brightly in the darkness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
If God has really done something in Christ on which the salvation of the world depends, and if He has made it known, then it is a Christian duty to be intolerant of everything which ignores, denies, or explains it away.
— James Denney
We may have different points of arguments from perspectives of belief, faith and religion.But we must not hate each other. We are one human family.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
God gives out good gifts of wisdom, talent, beauty, and skill 'graciously'--that is, in a completely unmerited way. He casts them across all humanity, regardless of religious conviction, race, gender, or any other attribute to enrich, brighten, and preserve the world.
— Timothy J. Keller
Don’t complain. Find the courage to be grateful for every circumstance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I had a love affair with life, and as is the custom, I will lose, but will regain a greater love with my heavenly Father.
— Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds, Cumberland Presbyterian
God love to be with us. We must daily seek His presence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
With heavy rainfall, the river will overflow its banks. This is spirit of gratitude; the more grateful you are, the more your life overflow with abundance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Happiness in marriage is a choice you have to make: fight for, protect, pursue. It doesn't happen to you, you make it happen.
— Ngina Otiende, Blues to Bliss: Creating Your Happily-Ever-After In The Early Years
It is only by grace, the divine-self manifest.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Renew your mind with the word of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Life has been dark but full of light; sad, but full of joy; disappointing, but full of hope; needy but full of plenty, sick but full of health.
— Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds, Cumberland Presbyterian
Prophecy is a possibility.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The state of no being knows neither pleasure nor pain.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A dream is a divine prophecy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We are justified by faith and saved by grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Life is a divine adventure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Faith is a firm assurance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The light is shinning in every dark place.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We try to find something to fill our void. But it is only God who can fill the void.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
If we focus on the problems of life, we will be paralysed. But we dwell on the promise of God; we find the faith, hope and courage to survive life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
If you begin reading your Bible daily, you will develop a positive mindset, positive attitude and positive action.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience. In our eagerness to get rid of the legalistic doctrine of works we have thrown out the baby with the bath and gotten rid of obedience as well.
— A.W. Tozer, Paths to Power
Initially, the God of the Old Testament might seem overwhelming and domineering to you, or tyrannical, or perhaps even evil, which is good. It is the first telling that God is indeed God, by sheer definition, and not some ear-tickling fairy by which one in his depravity is guaranteed to find another form of stale romanticism or love at first sight. For such a first impression as the latter would be problematic to the essence of Christianity. Therefore the Christians are right in saying that the nature of imperfect men cannot ultimately co-exist with the nature of a perfect God; and that the hope of each man is now desperately found in God's sending of Christ.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Our sins are our downfall. We must repent and return to the Lord. And He will receive and forgive us graciously.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You know that your church has always taken a view on these matters very different from ours, from the day that the first printing press was assembled. Your church did not want your holy scriptures in the hands of ordinary people. We felt differently. To us, printing was an avokat ha kodesh, a holy work. Some rabbis even likened the press to an altar. We call it 'writing with many pens' and saw it as furthering the spread of the word that began with Moses on Mount Sinai. So, my good father, you go and write the order to burn that book, as your church requires of you. And I will say nothing to the printing house, as my conscience requires of me. Censura praevia or censura repressiva, the effect is the same. Either way, a book is destroyed. Better you do it than have us so intellectually enslaved that we do it for you.
— Geraldine Brooks, People of the Book
A disciple can be forgiven if he does not have great mental ability. He can be forgiven also if he does not display outstanding physical prowess. But no disciple can be excused if he does not have zeal. If his heart is not aflame with a red-hot passion for the Savior, he stands condemned.
— William MacDonald, True Discipleship
Music gives infinite strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Walking in the path of light is heavenly paradise.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You will never know just how thrilled my heart is to behold such a throng of people; especially as they have gathered to pay tribute and love's greatest honor to loved ones who, today, are basking in the sunshine of God's heaven.
— Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds
One more soldier of the Cross has taken up his crown
—  one more beloved member of our church has gone to the great assembly above
May you find the strength of will and the grace of endurance to overcome every challenge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The sweetness of adversity: we develop the sanity of solitude.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I am positive that much that passes for the gospel in our day is very little more than a very mild case of orthodox religion grafted on to a heart that is sold out to the world in its pleasures and tastes and ambitions.
— A.W. Tozer, How to Be Filled with the Holy Spirit
God holds the three keys; life, wealth and honour.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Great grace, great life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The Lord cared for us in the wilderness. May we never forget Him in times of abundance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The holy time establish the holy-event.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
[The Church] has lived through its early travails and has now come to accept an easier way of life. It is content to carry on its painless program with enough money to pay its bills and a membership large enough to assure its future. Its members now look to it for security rather than for guidance in the battle between good and evil. It has become a school instead of a barracks. Its members are students, not soldiers. They study the experiences of others instead of seeking new experiences of their own.
— A.W. Tozer, Paths to Power
I want to be like Jesus in my heart.
— Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds
The Klan as an Order stands behind Pure Womanhood and it is an inspiration to look into the face of one of your sex occupying the sacred desk and administering the Word of God to this people.
— James Brice Klan, No. 28 Realm of Louisiana
Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds' influence on the lives of many people in Louisiana and elsewhere has been immeasurable. Countless hundreds will rise up in the last day to call her 'blessed.
— Reverend Dr. Thomas H. Campbell, Cumberland Presbyterian
I'm proud to have been the son of so great a woman.
— Reverend Sidney E. Slaton, Cumberland Presbyterian
Christmas united us as holy beings. We experience love, joy and peace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
She was only a dew drop that sparkled a short while under the brilliant rays of heaven's sunlight.
— Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds
The state of no being, knows neither pleasure nor pain. It is purely divine.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
If you can keep alive in your heart the spirit of cheerfulness, the love of the wonderful, the sweet amazement of happy thoughts, the challenge of service, the lure of tomorrow and the joy of today, you will never grow old.
— Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds, Cumberland Presbyterian
To be a good pastor one must have the wisdom of a Solomon, the intuition of a Newton, the patience of Job, the thinking faculties of an Einstein, and a compassion likened unto the Son of God.
— Reverend Sidney E. Slaton, Cumberland Presbyterian
We most respectfully submit that the word "Man" with reference to a human being is a generic term, and as used in the Holy Scripture, and constitution and the other confessional statements of our church as no reference to sex, but should be construed to, and does, in fact, include the human being whether male or female. (1921)
— Reverend E.B McEuen, Owensboro Presbyterian
I can only hope and pray for God to supply my every need!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Gratefulness is the glory to God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
For my own part, I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office. People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Is that a sacrifice which brings its own blest reward in healthful activity, the consciousness of doing good, peace of mind, and a bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter? Away with the word sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.
— David Livingstone
Every exceptional bias against Christianity I find to be evidence for its validity.
— Criss Jami, Healology
I cannot, of course, prove that there is no supervising deity who invigilates my every momentand who will pursue me even after I am dead. (I can only be happy that there is no evidence forsuch a ghastly idea, which would resemble a celestial North Korea in which liberty was not justimpossible but inconceivable.) But nor has any theologian ever demonstrated the contrary. Thiswould perhaps make the believer and the doubter equal—except that the believer claims to know,not just that God exists, but that his most detailed wishes are not merely knowable but actuallyknown. Since religion drew its first breath when the species lived in utter ignorance andconsiderable fear, I hope I may be forgiven for declining to believe that another human being cantell me what to do, in the most intimate details of my life and mind, and to further dictate theseterms as if acting as proxy for a supernatural entity. This tyrannical idea is very much older than P a g e | 5 of 29Christianity, of course, but I do sometimes think that Christians have less excuse for believing, letalone wishing, that such a horrible thing could be true.
— Christopher Hitchens, Is Christianity Good for the World?
You can't fight and claim you want to be free from the oppressor while still holding tight to things the oppressor gave you.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
the believer claims to know, not just that God exists, but that his most detailed wishes are not merely knowable but actually known. Since religion drew its first breath when the species lived in utter ignorance and considerable fear, I hope I may be forgiven for declining to believe that another human being can tell me what to do, in the most intimate details of my life and mind, and to further dictate these terms as if acting as proxy for a supernatural entity.
— Christopher Hitchens, Is Christianity Good for the World?
Living according to God's truth means that my ego must die, and I must live entirely for God and for my neighbors. Living according to God's truth means not following the crowd and not being dismayed when even your friends misunderstand you. For the God whom you serve will have the final word. On the day of judgement he will speak the final word over the whole of your life.
— Mikhail Khorev, Letters from a Soviet Prison Camp
Knowing God is more than knowing about him; it is a matter of dealing with him as he opens up to you, and being dealt with by him as he takes knowledge of you. Knowing about him is a necessary precondition of trusting in him (‘how could they have faith in one they had never heard of?’ [Romans 10:4 NEB]), but the width of our knowledge about him is no gauge of the depth of our knowledge of him (pp. 39-40).
— J.I. Packer, Knowing God
To promise to abide by this legislation, so inimical to God, would mean forsaking the gospel and turning away from God's law. This is why Christians have a choice to make, either to trade in their loyalty to God for freedom from persecution, or to remain true to Christ and consequently run the risk of persecution.
— Mikhail Khorev, Letters from a Soviet Prison Camp
For know, dear ones, that every one of us is undoubtedly responsible for all men- and everything on earth, not merely through the general sinfulness of creation, but each one personally for all mankind and every individual man. This knowledge is the crown of life for the monk and for every man. For monks are not a special sort of men, but only what all men ought to be. Only through that knowledge, our heart grows soft with infinite, universal, inexhaustible love. Then every one of you will have the power to win over the whole world by love and to wash away the sins of the world with your tears.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We are empowered by God to overcome every adversity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Seek the Lord while you must.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Sin drains strength. Righteousness gives strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The Lord God is my hope, my joy and my strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I live with a passionate passion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Operate from ur strength and not ur weakness.everyone has weaknesses
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Achievers Handbook 4: Over 100 Inspirational Keys to Fulfill your Destiny
In quietness we find inner peace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The Mighty King is the God of all grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I became a Christian at the age of seventeen. I made a very conscious act of commitment and my only desire was to be kept in purity and holiness throughout the whole time of my earthly pilgrimage. I didn't choose Christ's narrow path for the riches, fame, or comfortable life it would bring, for I had experienced several times in my family before I became a Christian that true discipleship would mean a life of persecution.
— Mikhail Khorev
The psalmist [of Psalm 119] was interested in truth and orthodoxy, in biblical teaching and theology, not as ends in themselves, but as means to the further ends of life and godliness. His ultimate concern was with the knowledge and service of the great God whose truth he sought to understand (pp. 22-23).
— J.I. Packer, Knowing God
All speculative theology, which rests on philosophical reasoning rather than biblical revelation, is at fault here. Paul tells us where this sort of theology ends: “The world by wisdom knew not God” (1 Cor 1:21 KJV). To follow the imagination of one’s heart in the realm of theology is the way to remain ignorant of God, and to become an idol-worshipper, the idol in this case being a false mental image of God, made by one’s own speculation and imagination.
— J.I. Packer, Knowing God
Be strong in spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I think, if there's a God out there, He could at least put in an appearance and tell us what the truth is.''But, Neil, don’t you know? That’s what God did. That’s exactly what he did. He wrapped himself in skin…to tell us what the truth is…His first coming was only the opening act. He’s been relentless in His pursuit of us ever since. He’s on your heels right now.
— Ann Tatlock, Things We Once Held Dear
The greatest force of humankind is the power of love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We must live as people with great hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The word of God renews my mind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
In the moment of quietness, my strength re-energized
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The longer you look at Jesus, the more you will want to serve him in his world. That is, of course, if it’s the real Jesus you’re looking at. Plenty of people in the church and outside it have made up a ‘Jesus’ for themselves, and have found that this invented character makes few real demands on them. He makes them feel happy from time to time, but doesn’t challenge them, doesn’t suggest they get up and do something about the plight of the world. Which is, of course, what the real Jesus had an uncomfortable habit of doing.
— N.T. Wright, Following Jesus: Biblical Reflections on Discipleship
The spirit of life is the spirituality of soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Great joy comes from God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Folk tell their children that success lies in working hard and being thrifty, but that is as much nonsense as supposing that a badger, a fox and a wolf could build a church. The way to wealth is to become a Christian bishop or a monastery's abbot and thus be imbued with heaven's permission to lie, cheat and steal your way to luxury.
— Bernard Cornwell, The Burning Land
Dollars had once gathered like autumn leaves on the wooden collection plates; dollars were the flourishing sign of God's specifically American favor, made manifest in the uncountable millions of Carnegie and Mellon and Henry Ford and Catholina Lambert. But amid this fabled plenty the whiff of damnation had cleared of dollars and cents the parched ground around Clarence Wilmot.
— John Updike, In the Beauty of the Lilies
Forgiveness brings healing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Great God, Great faith.Great faith, Great spirit.Great spirit, Great soul.Great soul, great life.Great life, great deeds.Great deeds, great blessings.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Without Christ a people may always have the freedom to do, but never the power to complete.
— Criss Jami, Healology
The Holy God.The righteous God.The supreme God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Jesus says to anyone who uses their faith or lack of faith to excuse their acts of disobedience to his call: First obey, do the external works, let go of what binds you, give up what is separating you from God's will! Do not say, I do not have the faith for that. You will not have it so long as you remain disobedient, so long as you will not take that first step. Do not say, I have faith, so I do not have to take the first step. You do not have faith, because and so long as you will not take that first step. Instead, you have hardened yourself in disbelief under the appearance of humble faith.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In everyday life, a blessed act of saying ‘hello, a smile, word of encouragement…’ can uplift someone spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Let the brickwork of ignorance be thrown down, and let not spiritual sunshine be shut out from the self-deceived heart. Pride, Self-love, cowardly Mistrust of God’s wisdom and goodness, are natural to our fallen nature; but the entrance of His Word into the heart is as that of the glorious beams of the day,—joy, brightness, and holiness follow the admission into its deepest recesses of the pure, life-giving light of Heaven!
— A.L.O.E.
Love is divineLove is pure.Love is noble.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You must conquer every fear with faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Single Christians living in purity and community are billboards for the sufficiency of Jesus
— Peter Hubbard
Gratitude is the spirit of graceful sacred-existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Nurture your great spirit for a great self.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The divinity within is an endless strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Bountiful blessings!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A life of faith is an enduring sacred-existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The grace of joyful living gives strength to the bones.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
There is nothing that can satisfy a tasty soul accept the living water.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Faith gives us strength.Grace gives us power.Hope gives us anchor.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We will share each other’s burdens with love and kindness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
There are two types of spirits
—  either light or darkness.Only one spirit (either light or darkness) operates at a time. Grace-divine gives power for spirit of light to exist as a sacred-self.
There two kinds of spirit
—  either light or darkness.
To get power is to pray.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The grace of living life is to give glory to God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Without adversity, we will not have seen the sweetness of God’s splendid.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Blake's song isn't really a song for England alone," said Dym. "It's a song for every land. We're all building the unseen Jerusalem together. But the powers of darkness don't want to see a time when the earth shall be filled with the glory of the God as the waters cover the sea.
— Constance Savery
All I do know is that the world has a Chief who was victorious when the powers of darkness struck at him with everything they had. He has the plans today. The darkness won't last forever. There's a splendour beyond.
— Constance Savery, Enemy Brothers
Anyone who falls short of God’s grace, out of rage, can harm many.It our sacred duty to love, motivate and pray for one another, so we will all be under God’s grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
That's the crazy thing about Christianity — the idea that the finite can contain the infinite. After all, what is the incarnation if not that? So there's an incredible physicality to the spiritual within the Christian story. There's not this weird sort of  Greek separation, where there's a higher spiritual world and a corrupted, bad world of  flesh. It's all one. Because if God chose to have a body, there's a way in which spiritual things are revealed in the physical things that are all around us — bread, wine, people, tears, laughter.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss. The great symbol of Christianity means sacrifice and no one calls himself a Christian can evade this stark fact.
— Elisabeth Elliot
O Lord, Thy Word, gives me hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
No one knows the dead world? Only the dead spirits?
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The proponents of Marxian biology appear in unexpected places. In the early disputes over evolution, the most effective aid to the Marxian line came from the humanitarian but conservative Christians, who not only rejected evolution on theological grounds, but who also looked with horror on the amoral viciousness of what they took to be natural selection. Marx himself had also objected to the competitive aspects of natural selection, so both his followers and the more conservative religious groups found themselves on the same side. In fact, the Marxian biologists of the last seventy-five years had their pathways made smooth by the Victorian fundamentalists.
— Conway Zirkle, Evolution, Marxian biology and the social scene
All those who die in the Lord, will rise in the resurrection day.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Our sacred duty is to love, motivate and pray for one another, so that, we all received grace of God, for every good deed.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
He is the Firstfruits of God's harvest, and millions have followed Him. The same power that raised Him from the dead lives in them, giving them life everlasting.
— Ron Cantor
God is great and gracious.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Enjoy the times of plentiful and endure the times of scarcity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Holy words, Holy faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Jesus never expected us simply to turn the other cheek, go the second mile, bless those who persecute us, give unto them that ask, and so forth. These responses, generally and rightly understood to be characteristic of Christlikeness, were put forth by him as illustrative of what might be expected of a new kind of person – one who intelligently and steadfastly seeks, above all else, to live within the rule of God and be possessed by the kind of righteousness that God himself has, as Matthew 6:33 portrays. Instead, Jesus did invite people to follow him into that sort of life from which behavior such as loving one’s enemies will seem like the only sensible and happy thing to do. For a person living that life, the hard thing to do would be to hate the enemy, to turn the supplicant away, or to curse the curser… True Christlikeness, true companionship with Christ, comes at the point where it is hard not to respond as he would.
— Dallas Willard
Prayer is a sacred-utterance to God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I will be a fisher of souls!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The inspired words, which flush my mind, come from a higher power!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Whatever your situation, may you find hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
If you can fix yourself you can fix the problem===the cure u need is somewhere within you
— Ikechukwu Joseph
Just because you help others doesn’t mean you never need help yourself. Doctors can catch colds. Lawyers can be sued. Police officers can call 911.
— Sarah Jakes, Lost and Found: Finding Hope in the Detours of Life
let's bear His name and walk by His WordIsaiah 4:1King James Version (KJV)4 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.The word woman in the bible is mostly put there to represent the church, and the man like Christ himself. It is so sad to see how clear this scenario is visible in our days. Many churches claiming to have the word of God, claiming to know Jesus-Christ but yet denying that Word if it isn't explain according to what they've been taught from their theological schools. They just want to be called child of God or christian but still living horribles lives outside the assemblies. The bible emphasises on the word NAME, we see people baptising in titles : father, son and Holy Ghost. Remember that even from our grammar, those three aren't names but rather titles. The name by which everything is been done is the name of Jesus-Christ. So even if your marriage is been blessed in those titles, you need to do what is right. God will not take any excuses for He has set His Word and wants us to behave like it, to walk by it and to do everything by it. May God be gracious to us, for we will give an account for whatever we do under the sun. Shalom God bless you.
— Jean Faustin Louembe
We are all imperfect and no one is without flaws. And fortunately, ministry is not about leading people to ourselves, it’s about leading them back to the One who saved us. How tragic…that we often allow the image of perfection to cloud the need to show where His strength is made perfect in us.
— Sarah Jakes, Lost and Found: Finding Hope in the Detours of Life
he way up is through service,Sacrificial service - it is better to serve than to be served
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Through Faith: Living an Overcoming Life
GRACE means God Redeems And Christ Empowers!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The Lord God must be greatly feared!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When you’re a teenager - How do you determine what being a Christian looks like, if you’re not willing to be as transparent as the realty TV world we live in? If we are to make it easy for others to find God, we must be more diligent about sharing our stories, openly and honestly.
— Sarah Jakes
He who searches shall find the deity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Do not be overcome by hate. But conquer hate with love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Religion is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an unalterable, unchallengeable, tyrannical authority who can convict you of thought crime while you are asleep, who can subject you to total surveillance around the clock every waking and sleeping minute of your life, before you're born and, even worse and where the real fun begins, after you're dead. A celestial North Korea. Who wants this to be true? Who but a slave desires such a ghastly fate? I've been to North Korea. It has a dead man as its president, Kim Jong-Il is only head of the party and head of the army. He's not head of the state. That office belongs to his deceased father, Kim Il-Sung. It's a necrocracy, a thanatocracy. It's one short of a trinity I might add. The son is the reincarnation of the father. It is the most revolting and utter and absolute and heartless tyranny the human species has ever evolved. But at least you can fucking die and leave North Korea!
— Christopher Hitchens
Lord I thank you for the timely provisions
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You can read the word of God, but without mediation and prayer, we become spiritually weak and unfilled.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors.
— Joel Osteen
Religious intolerance is an idea that found its earliest expression in the Old Testament, where the Hebrew tribe depicts itself waging a campaign of genocide on the Palestinian peoples to steal their land. They justified this heinous behavior on the grounds that people not chosen by their god were wicked and therefore did not deserve to live or keep their land. In effect, the wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian peoples, eradicating their race with the Jew's own Final Solution, was the direct result of a policy of religious superiority and divine right. Joshua 6-11 tells the sad tale, and one needs only read it and consider the point of view of the Palestinians who were simply defending their wives and children and the homes they had built and the fields they had labored for. The actions of the Hebrews can easily be compared with the American genocide of its native peoples - or even, ironically, the Nazi Holocaust. With the radical advent of Christianity, this self-righteous intolerance was borrowed from the Jews, and a new twist was added. The conversion of infidels by any means possible became the newfound calling card of religious fervor, and this new experiment in human culture spread like wildfire. By its very nature, how could it not have? Islam followed suit, conquering half the world in brutal warfare and, much like its Christian counterpart, it developed a new and convenient survival characteristic: the destruction of all images and practices attributed to other religions. Muslims destroyed millions of statues and paintings in India and Africa, and forced conversion under pain of death (or by more subtle tricks: like taxing only non-Muslims), while the Catholic Church busily burned books along with pagans, shattering statues and defacing or destroying pagan art - or converting it to Christian use. Laws against pagan practices and heretics were in full force throughrout Europe by the sixth century, and as long as those laws were in place it was impossible for anyone to refuse the tenets of Christianity and expect to keep their property or their life. Similar persecution and harassment continues in Islamic countries even to this day, officially and unofficially.
— Richard C. Carrier, Sense and Goodness Without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism
When faced with a difficult situation, do not panic but pray!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When you appreciate the blessings in life, your soul rejoices.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
May your soul revive, rekindle and rejoice.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The heavens declare the glory of God.The heavens declare the majesty King.The heavens declare the marvellous Lord.The heavens declare the mighty Saviour.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Colonization of the world, more often than not by robbery and warfare, spread Christianity into the Americas and other corners of the earth, just as Islam was spread throughout Asia and Africa. lt is not a coincidence that the two most widespread religions in the world today are the most warlike and intolerant religions in history. Before the rise of Christianity, religious tolerance, including a large degree of religious freedom, was not only custom but in many ways law under the Roman and Persian empires. They conquered for greed and power, rarely for any declared religious reasons, and actually sought to integrate foreign religions into their civilization, rather than seeking to destroy them. People were generally not killed because they practiced a different religion. Indeed, the Christians were persecuted for denying that the popular gods existed — not for following a different religion. In other words, Christians were persecuted for being intolerant.
— Richard C. Carrier, Sense and Goodness Without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism
All sorts of darkness and evil are now hiding themselves under the umbrella of religion, Christianity, church etc.
— Sunday Adelaja
Love is a divine being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We ought to pray persistently.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I have decided to take on the biggest in my opinion challenge facing Christianity today. Which unfortunately is largely seen in the African continent and other developing countries. This challenge is ignorance!
— Sunday Adelaja
Gratitude is glory to God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
God can save all souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
There is grace for forgiveness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The word of God is an immense wealth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Archbishop Mannix was possessed of the clearest intellect I have ever encountered. He prayed regularly for five hours and more each day, this in the midst of a life of intense activity. When he was well over ninety, I once asked him about the precise quality of the Faith which had sustained him. His answer? 'My Faith has always been like a thin silken thread, fraying perpetually at the brink of a precipice over which I hang. Yet the thread has never snapped.
— Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria
You must not only pray and fast, but read and mediate on word of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
May you find grace to live zealous life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You ought to pray, read and mediate on word of God. These acts lead to the greatest spiritual awaken.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
To will and to do are by grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Those who trust and hope in the Lord, will forever be happy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
My path was predetermined by the Creator.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Naked I came into the world and naked I will depart out of it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Imagination is glow of thoughts by supernatural force.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
God’s manifest His mighty power, when we absolute depend on Him.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Only God can save every soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Some of us cover to protect our bodiessome of us cover to protect our soulsin both cases,respect their choices.
— Anjum Choudhary
My soul is like a house, small for you to enter, but I pray you to enlarge it. It is in ruins, but I ask you to remake it. It contains much that you will not be pleased to see: this I know and do not hide. But who is to rid it of these things? There is no one but you.
— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
God supply my needs, one day at a time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
May God give you the grace to do many good deeds.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We can experience a change of heart by divine grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The power of grace transforms the heart of men.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Dream of yoking a gnat with an archangel, and then imagine that you can help your Lord in the work of salvation.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
My mother is very religious. She's one of those old ladies that spends her life in the church. She just prays and prays, day and night. We have a very different idea of what religion is. She doesn't understand what my work is about, why I want to make changes in the way we live. She thinks we should be thankful for the little we have and leave well enough alone. I suppose she thinks that if she prays enough, God will come down from the sky with a plate of beans for her to eat.But I don't think that God say, 'Go to church and pray all day and everything will be fine.' No. For me God says, 'Go out and make the changes that need to be made, and I'll be there to help you.' [p. 30]
— Elvia Alvarado, Don't Be Afraid, Gringo
Only God can set the soul in bondage free.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The Christianity you are struggling with. The one you treat with contempt. Some of us are enjoying it BIG TIME !Don't relax Laaaaa.......Strive and pray for the Holy Ghost
— Mary Tornyenyor
I can always call on God, in time, in where.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The ‘Lord’s Prayer’ is totally of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Christianity has so much taken roots among us that drunkards sing gospel songs on their way home
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
We ought to test for the living water.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Is there love without an action? No! Love is an active word.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
It is also said that the sheep heed the Shepherd, because they know his voice. Is it true that men recognize Christ's call and respond to it? In one sense it must be, for he has said so; yet much in me qualifies the statement. Actually I respond much more readily to the call of 'the others'; I neither really understand Christ's summons nor follow it. Therefore, in order that I may hear, he must not only speak, but also open my ears to his voice. Part of me, the profoundest part, listens to it, but superficial, loud contradiction often overpowers it. The opponents with whom God must struggle in order to win us are not primarily ‘the others,’ but ourselves; we bar his way. The wolf who puts the hireling to flight is not only outside; he is also within. We are the arch-enemy of our own salvation, and the Shepherd must fight first of all with us – for us.
— Romano Guardini, The Lord
The bond of two souls is divine.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Eternity, sacred time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Lost in time but now I am saved by grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The divine moment is the grace of life-change.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
God is the Father of lights.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The Christian worldview, contra-postmodernism, understands language not as a Self-referential, merely human and ultimately arbitrary system of signs that is reducible to contingent cultural factors, but it has the gift of a rational God entrusted to beings made in his own image and likeness.
— Douglas Groothuis
It does not matter how long it takes. God will fulfil the promises.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Prayer is heart to heart talk with the Creator.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The soul awakens in times of difficulty by divine grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You ought to pray and read the Bible concurrently. You cannot pray effectively without reading the Bible and the vice versa.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The Creator seeks to save the lost souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I was once in darkness, but now, I see a bright light on my path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Thank God for forgiveness of my sins.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
This is my greatest desire, to move heavenly onward.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised
—  but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
Start today like a new beginning, and not a repeat.
— Deborah Brodie, The Path That Gets Brighter: A Devotional to Instruct, Illustrate, and Encourage Kingdom Principles
The deeds of the light are goodness, righteousness and faithfulness
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I do not know you, my friends, not individually, most of you, but this is the wonderful thing about the work of a preacher, he does not need to know his congregation. Do you know why? Because I know the most important thing about every single one of you, and that is that each of you is a vile sinner. I do not care who you are, because all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. I do not care what particular form your sin takes. There is a great deal of attention paid to that today. The preacher is not interested in that. I do not want a catalogue of your sins. I do not care what your sins are. They can be very respectable or they can be heinous, vile, foul, filthy. It does not matter, thank God. But what I have authority to tell you is this. Though you may be the vilest man or woman ever known, and though you may until this moment have lived your life in the gutters and the brothels of sin in every shape and form, I say this to you: be it known unto you that through this man, this Lord Jesus Christ, is preached unto you the forgiveness of sin. And by him all who believe, you included, are at this very moment justified entirely and completely from everything you have ever done— if you believe that this is the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and that he died there on the cross, for your sins and to bear your punishment. If you believe that, and thank him for it, and rely utterly only upon him and what he has done, I tell you, in the name of God, all your sins are blotted out completely, as if you had never sinned in your life, and his righteousness is put on you and God sees you perfect in his Son. That is the message of the cross, that is Christian preaching, that it is our Lord who saves us, by dying on the cross, and that nothing else can save us, but that that can save whosoever believeth in him.
— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Words are life. Positive words create positive life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
There is another reason also why the soul has traveled safely in this obscurity; it has suffered: for the way of suffering is safer, and also more profitable, than that of rejoicing and of action. In suffering God gives strength, but in action and in joy the soul does but show its own weakness and imperfections. And in suffering, the soul practices and acquires virtue, and becomes pure, wiser, and more cautious.
— San Juan de la Cruz, Dark Night of the Soul
I never knew the extent of God’s greatness until I hang on to His glorious hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
What we believe in our heart, we must declare with our mouth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
But I'd be in big trouble if Karma was going to finally be my judge. I'd be in deep shit. It doesn't excuse my mistakes, but I'm holding out for Grace. I'm holding out that Jesus took my sins onto the Cross, because I know who I am, and I hope I don't have to depend on my own religiosity.
— Michka Assayas
Plato's proposals in this matter are abhorrent to all true Christians. His intentions were, of course, excellent, for he desired the greatest possible improvement of the human race; but his good intentions led him to the proposal of measures which are necessarily unacceptable and repugnant to all those who adhere to Christian principles concerning the value of the human personality and the sanctity of human life. Moreover, it by no means follows that what has been found successful in the breeding of animals, will also prove successful when applied to the human race, for man has a rational soul which is not intrinsically dependent on matter but is directly created by Almighty God. Does a beautiful soul always go with a beautiful body or a good character with a strong body? Again, if such measures were successful — and what does "successful" mean in this connection? — in the case of the human race, it does not follow that the Government has the right to apply such measures. Those who to-day follow, or would like to follow, in the footsteps of Plato, advocating, e.g. compulsory sterilisation of the unfit, have not, be it remembered, Plato's excuse, that he lied at a period anterior to the presentation of the Christian ideals and principles. — 230
— Frederick Charles Copleston, A History of Philosophy, Vol 1.1 Greece and Rome