INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

- Quotes that inspired HFM

‘We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.’

"Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right."

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“Read the Bible. Just read the Bible. It has the ring of truth. It defends itself. It’s like a lion. You don’t defend it. You don’t defend the lion. You open the cage and let it out. It’ll be okay. And the Scripture is like that. But it’s like that even morally, there’s something in the heart of people that resonates with biblical morality.”

“We should never allow the things we do not understand to obscure for us the areas of truth where God has provided clear understanding.”

When you hear someone state, “I know what the Bible says, but…” it should be a telltale sign that they don’t really know what the Bible says.

Men will not be judged by what historians have written, but by the words the Lord has spoken.

IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE YOU’RE GOING, ANY TRAIL WILL TAKE YOU THERE.

LIVE IN SUCH A WAY THAT IF SOMEONE SPEAKS ILL OF YOU, NO ONE WILL BELIEVE IT.

“Ideas are like seeds. They might seem small; they might seem insignificant; they might even go unnoticed by all except those who hold them in the moment. But let there be no doubt: both ideas and seeds are incredibly powerful. From seeds dropped in fertile ground grow the mighty oaks that anchor the land, altering the course of the rivers and wind. And from ideas planted in the fertile soil of the human mind grow the thoughts and convictions of mankind, altering the course of history for the world and the individual.”

“Satan is most effective in the church when he comes not as an open enemy, but as a false friend; not when he persecutes the church, but when he joins it; not when he attacks the pulpit, but when he stands in it.”

“The truth is always greater than our knowing”

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”

“Do not despise the day of small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin.”

“What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.”

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”

“Joseph stood in Egypt; Daniel stood in Babylon; but, Adam fell in Paradise.”

“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”

“God never made a promise that was too good to be true.”

“After the day’s work is done, that’s the time for wine.”

“A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.”

“When you open your Bible, God opens His mouth.”

“Men do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself, but because it contradicts them.”

The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

Be nice to people on the way up, because you may meet them on the way down.

Do not fear anything except the LORD Almighty. He alone is the Holy One. If you fear him, you need fear nothing else. He will keep you safe .

Whatever exists now has already been, and whatever will be has already been; for God will seek to do again what has occurred in the past.