Zeline Kelly Bates Quotes & Sayings

We commit to other believers in the local church simply because it's part of God's calling us into his family. It's what it means to be a Christian. Take the passage from 1 John 4:19-21. It starts with our salvation: "He first loved us." Then it continues into our love for other Christians. "Whoever loves God must also love his brother." Every person loved by God in this salvific sense loves other Christians. There are no exceptions. And that means we should stop viewing commitment to a local church as a process and start viewing it as an event. The event is our salvation, and commitment is something that inevitably follows- not something that merely happens as we mature. — Jamie Dunlop

For most of the world, civil and political rights ... come as luxuries that are far away in the future. — Andrew Young

A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after. — Pete Seeger

Fangs sank into Nikki Youngblood's leg, setting her skin on fire. A scream gurgled in her throat, but she willed herself past trees smeared by her jarred vision — Heather Burch

I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation. — T.D. Jakes

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. — Charles De Lint

In truth it is inequality that is the illusion. The extreme disproportion between men, that we seem to see in life, is a thing of changing lights and lengthening shadows, a twilight full of fancies and distortions. — G.K. Chesterton

I wasn't sure what to say. Shall I tell her you're out? — Neil Gaiman

Why, you mean you didn't get abducted and dragged across country purely to make us a story for us to chew over endlessly?" asked Pip, tossing his shock of tow-colored hair indignantly. "The nerve! — Mercedes Lackey

The purpose of God's Word is to transform people in every country and every century into the image of God. — David Platt

I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night. — Al McGuire

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence. — John Dryden