Quotes (starting with D)

Posted on June 11, 2013 by pastorjeffsneighborhood
Danger
“On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside of the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of conditions. Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ladies straw hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping God may someday wake and take offense, or the waking God may draw us out to where we can never return.”
Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk 40-41
“If those who prepare for leadership are looking for the safe place, who will lead the church into the dangerous places?”  Erwin McManus, An Unstoppable Force, 32
“To live outside of God’s will puts us in danger; to live in his will makes us dangerous.” Erwin McManus, An Unstoppable Force, 33.
Death
“It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” –Woody Allen–
“If I could drop dead right now, I’d be the happiest man alive!” — Pete Townshend —
“If you live to the age of a hundred you have it made, because very few people die past the age of a hundred.” — George Burns —
Deadlines
“I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.” –Douglas Adams–
Decision Making
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” — Yogi Berra —
Desire
“If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I submit that this notion has crept in from Kant and the Stoics and is no part of the Christian faith.  Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.  We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in the a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant to the offer of a holiday at the sea.  We are far too easily pleased.” –C.S. Lewis– (The Weight of Glory, 4)
“Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best;  God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.” 
— George MacDonald —
“Desire is the soul of prayer. The cause of insufficienct prayer is often lack of desire.” –Andrew Murray —
Destiny
“To every man there comes in his lifetime that special moment when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered that chance to do a very special thing, unique to him and fitted to his talents.”
— Winston Churchill —
Dieting
“Never eat more than you can lift” –Miss Piggy–
Difficulties
“Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties.  When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger,  Let it be so with us.  Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist.” 
Amy Carmichael, Edges of His Ways, 18.
Direction
“It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward to the future, or past to the back.”
— Dan Quayle —
Directions
“You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.” 
–Yogi Berra —
Discernment
“Discernment is God’s call to intercession, never to fault-finding.”
— Oswald Chambers —
Discipleship
“The true follower of Christ will not ask, “If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?  Rather he will say, “This is truth.  God help me to walk in it, let come what may!”
— A.W. Tozer–
“…being a disciple means living a disciplined life, and it is not very likely that you will get other disciples unless you are one first.”
— Evelyn Underhill —
Discouragement
“I have never known God to use a discouraged person.”
–D.L. Moody–
Discussion
“I’m not going to discuss what I’m going to bring up….Even if I don’t discuss it, I’m not going to discuss it.” — President George Bush (discussing his role with the press) —
Disorder
“The police in Chicago are not here to create disorder, they are here to preserve it.” 
Richard Daley, Sr. (Mayor of Chicago)
Distant (When God hides his face)
“The hiding of God’s face toward us is not on account of our sin or backsliding. God is simply working His sovereign will, trusting that His children will love Him, even when they do not understand His ways — as in the case of Job.”
— Oswald Chambers, Devotions for a Deeper LIfe, March 6 —
Doing
“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.” 
— G.K. Chesterton  What’s Wrong with the World, 320 —
“It isn’t what you wish to do, it’s what you will do for God that transforms your life.”
— Henrietta Mears —
Doubt
“Doubt is the shadow cast by faith.”
— Hans Kung —
Dull or Exciting?
“…dull people always want excitement” 
G.K. Chesterton,  Sidelights on New London, p. 63
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About pastorjeffsneighborhood

Born and raised in Minnesota, I have served in churches in Minnesota, Ohio, Oregon and California. I am a graduate of Crown College (MN) and George Fox Evangelical Seminary (OR). I have also done additional graduate studies in New Testament Studies at the Center for Advanced Theological Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary (CA). I am also a graduate of the College of Prayer. Having served as the Academic Dean and Program Director at Horizon Institute of Los Angeles for several years, I have returned to the pastorate and serve as Pastor of Big Trees Community Bible Church in Arnold, CA.
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