"Over half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: 'Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.' Since then I have spent well-nigh fifty years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some sixty million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: 'Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.'"
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, 1983

Matt Chandler: Jesus wants the Rose

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-zR3h2UsR4

"If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity...how many of them would turn out to have been reasoned out of it by honest argument?
Do not most people simply drift away?" C.S. Lewis

Nietzche on Authenticity

German philosopher Nietzsche said, "If you want me to become a Christian, you will have to look a lot more like Jesus Christ!"

America will never be destroyed from outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves. Abraham Lincoln

Howard Guiness on Sacrifice

Where are the young men and women of this generation who will hold their lives cheap and be faithful even unto death? Where are those who will lose their lives for Christ's sake, flinging them away for love of him? Where are those who will live dangerously and be reckless in his serve? ....Where are the adventurers, the explorers, the buccaneers for God who count one human soul of far greater value than the rise or fall of an empire? ... Where are God's men in this day of God's power?

Howard Guinness, Sacrifice, posted by Ray Ortlund, Jr. (his blog is Christ is Deeper Still)