Posted in Quotes on September 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Dr. Frank C. Laubach (September 2, 1884—June 11, 1970) was a Christian Evangelical missionary and mystic known as “The Apostle to the Illiterates.” In 1935, while working at a remote location in the Philippines, he developed the “Each One Teach One” literacy program, which has been used to teach about 60 million people to read [...]
Posted in Quotes on September 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Richard J. Foster is a Christian theologian and author in the Quaker tradition. His writings speak to a broad Christian audience. He has been a professor at Friends University and pastor of Evangelical Friends churches. Foster resides in Denver, Colorado.Foster is best known for his 1978 book Celebration of Discipline (ISBN 0-06-062839-1), which examines the [...]
Posted in Quotes on September 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Amy Beatrice (a.k.a. Wilson) Carmichael (December 16, 1867–January 18, 1951) was a Protestant Christian missionary in India, who opened an orphanage and founded a mission in Dohnavur. She served in India for fifty-five years without furlough and authored many books about the missionary work there.Amy Carmichael was born in the small village of Millisle in [...]
Posted in Quotes on September 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Karl Barth (May 10, 1886 – December 10, 196 
(pronounced “bart” 
a Swiss Reformed theologian, was one of the most influential Christian thinkers of the 20th Century, Barth spent his childhood years in Bern. From 1911 to 1921 he served as a Reformed pastor in the village of Safenwil in the canton Aargau. In 1913 [...]
Posted in Quotes on September 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Saint Francis of Assisi (September 26, 1181 – October 3, 1226) was a Roman Catholic friar and the founder of the Order of Friars Minor, more commonly known as the Franciscans.He is known as the patron saint of animals, birds, and the environment, and it is customary for Catholic churches to hold ceremonies honoring animals [...]
Posted in Quotes on September 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Blaise Pascal, (June 19, 1623–August 19, 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father. Pascal’s earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts [...]
Posted in Prayer, Quotes on September 12, 2007 | No Comments »
“Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry, as He did me, to teach you to pray.” - Robert Murray McCheyne
“The evangelization of the world depends first of all upon a revival of prayer. Deeper than the need for [...]
Posted in Quotes on September 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a prominent early twentieth century Scottish Protestant Christian minister and teacher.Chambers was born 24 July 1874 in Aberdeen, Scotland to devout Baptist parents. He converted in his teen years. While walking home from a service conducted by Charles Spurgeon, he mentioned to his father that, had there been an opportunity, he [...]
Posted in Quotes on September 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, commonly C.H. Spurgeon, (June 19, 1834 – January 31, 1892) was a British Reformed Baptist preacher who remains highly influential amongst Reformed Christians of different denominations, among whom he is still known as the “Prince of Preachers.” He also founded the charity organization now known as Spurgeon’s, that works worldwide with families [...]
Posted in Quotes on September 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (August 15, 1917 – March 24, 1980), commonly known as Monseñor Romero, was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in El Salvador. He later became the eighth Bishop and fourth Archbishop of San Salvador, succeeding the long-reigning Luis Chávez y González.As archbishop, he witnessed ongoing violations of human rights [...]
