Sunday, March 20, 2011

Bob Jones Sr Quotes 5

* You have no right to have any ambition to be anything except for what God Almighty wants you to be.
* You have only one responsibility – do the will of God in your life, that’s all that counts, that’s the way to victory, that’s the way to eternal achievement, that’s the way to everlasting success, that is God’s way, that’s the only way.
* God help us to get on your side, and not try to pull you over on our side.
* A good thing that is not used to glorify God is a bad thing.
* God’s will for you is the best thing that could ever happen to you. Nothing will ever be right in your life until God is first.
* The fingers of time will soon pinch your face full of wrinkles, and paint and powder won’t get rid of them.
* Whatever you do, do it God’s way.
* As long as you think you can partly save yourself, you will never be saved, forgiven and born again. You can’t earn salvation, or help pay for it after you get it.
* A man that doesn’t fear God doesn’t have any sense at all.
* Every man has to die and go out into Eternity, and the man that won’t prepare for the inevitable is just plumb crazy.
* Don’t be an idler, get busy for Jesus Christ.
* The Bible is so.
* The thing that’s first in your life is your god.
* I’m only one, but I am one; I cannot do everything, but I can do something; What I can do, I ought to do; And by the grace of God, I will do.
* If God is anything, He is everything. God is entitled to first place. He should be exalted above everything else.
* Some day you’re going to look into the Eyes that have seen you every single minute of your life. You will have to look right into the Eyes that know everything about you. The sins of all your midnights shall be seen in the light of noonday. You would never be respected by anyone if all your secrets sins were known. But God knows, He has your whole life recorded in books in heaven awaiting you at the White Throne Judgment.
* Wisdom is knowing how to meet the emergencies of life and death.
* Some folks get so tied up with religious technicalities; they lose all the blessings of being God’s child.
* Watch out for religious machines ran by religious bosses. If you don’t play by the religious bosses’ rules, you’re out.
* You have don’t have a good job unless Jesus Christ approves of it. Your job should glorify His name.
* Give God the glory for everything, you’ve never done anything except for what God has given you the strength and ability to do.
* No man is a good man who doesn’t have a proper relationship to God through faith in Jesus Christ.
* A man that’s mean enough to reject Jesus Christ is just a bad egg, that’s all.
* Human morality can never take a man to heaven. Morality is good, but it will not save your sinful soul and atone for your human guilt. Religion may help you to be more moral in the sight of men, but it will never forgive your sins or give you eternal life.
* The tendency of human nature is to deify man, humanize God, and minimize sin.
* When the devil gives you the cup of sin, he puts everything good on top, the first few swallows are exhilarating and thrilling, but then you get down to the bottom of the cup of sin where the dregs are, the dregs are bitter, down in the dregs there’s the sting of the scorpion and the serpent’s bite, and all the pleasures of sin come to an end in the fires of hell.
* Every time the world claps its hand, the blood of Calvary spatters all over the place.
* Judge things by what God says, not how they look to you. Check things by God’s words. The Bible is the word of God, you can depend on it in time and eternity. Anything that is not right is not of God. Check everything in life with the word of God and you’ll stay out of trouble. Will to do the will of God.
* Put Jesus in everything you do.
* There’s no such thing as a little thing if it’s done for God. Little is much when God is in it. Everything depends upon God’s blessing.
* Be little for Jesus, and make Jesus big.
* I’m not going to heaven because I’m a good man, I’m going to heaven because Jesus Christ is the Good Savior.
* Don’t be a musty bookish person, get down there where the people live. Be practical and sensible. Don't be critical or technical. Get rid of your denominational glasses, and just read the Bible with a open heart.
* Let God have your life; He can do more with it than you can. Let Jesus Christ have your soul; He can save it from sin, you can’t.
* There is an innate instinct that makes a man want a god. Every man has a god. You have some kind of god right now. Your god is the thing that’s first in your life. What is your god?