Todd Friel Quotes

#1. We don't need "trip to heaven" books. We have an actual God-ordained vision of heaven and future events.

Todd Friel

#2. Gardeners are the ultimate mixologists.

Amy Stewart

#3. Instead of beseeching men to be reconciled to God, we find ministers wasting their time in giving Sunday lectures about all kinds of subjects. Rome is burning and Nero is playing his fiddle. Souls are perishing and minsters are amusing them.

Todd Friel

#4. Never forget, God is more interested in our holiness than He is in our happiness. The next time you feel the sting of God's correction, ask yourself the question, "Of what do I need to repent?" When you do, God will forgive. That is the way He is.

Todd Friel

#5. Turning on the lights doesn't make cockroaches appear; the light merely reveals their presence. Similarly, college does not cause anyone to become an unbeliever; college merely reveals that a person was never a genuine believer to begin with.

Todd Friel

#6. Judge not lest ye be judged" has become the battle cry not only for biblically illiterate secularists, but for professing evangelicals as well. Postmodern hypersensitivity is not a malady merely for unbelievers; Christians are downright allergic to judging.

Todd Friel

#7. The biblical math could not be simpler; if a person who professes to be a Christian lives like the devil, he is of the devil.

Todd Friel

#8. We also hate lying because it is more than just fibbing, it is a personal slight. It is the liar's way of saying, "I don't respect you." That is precisely what we tell God when we lie. Lying is our special way of saying to God, "I hate the truth. I hate you.

Todd Friel

#9. I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

Seth MacFarlane

#10. A million possible endearments ran through his head. But he said, Help.

Robyn Carr

#11. We can't even remotely fathom that whatever is ending for us is always more than an ending.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#12. When we break a law (lie, steal, murder, fornicate, blaspheme, lust, hate, covet, gossip, dishonor authority) we are striking out at God's character and in essence saying, "I hate who you are." That is why sin is exceedingly sinful (Rom. 7:13).

Todd Friel

#13. God's wrath and love are most vividly on display at the Cross. If you ever doubt God's settled anger at sin, look at the Cross. If you ever doubt how kind, good, and loving God is, look at the Cross.

Todd Friel

#14. I completely failed to see the value in memorizing the stupid periodic table of elements.

Inara Scott

#15. God created places and things in the Old Testament to teach us about Jesus in the New Testament. These pictures are so simple, even a child can understand them. God graciously babbled at us so we can learn complex truths.

Todd Friel

#16. Not having your man card for so long has clearly turned your brain to mush. ~Justin

Reese Monroe

#17. The next time an unbeliever tells you they would believe in God "if He would just do a miracle," you will know that is not true. Miracles do not convert people, God converts people.

Todd Friel

#18. Every atheist who believes in morality, gravity, and does math is a closeted believer.

Todd Friel

#19. The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.

Henry Kissinger

#20. I think certain people like to torture me because they think I've had it easier than I actually have and they think: 'Oh, she's got this, she's got that, she's always had everything perfect,' and it's sooo not true.

Mariah Carey

#21. Are you still trying to please God with your own works? Isaiah makes it clear, your efforts cannot purchase what you need. You need living water. You need Jesus.

Todd Friel

#22. My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.

Margaret Cavendish

#23. It is safe to say that the majority of evangelical churches today are busy teaching their flock how to be better goats, but they are not preaching Bible-centered messages that grow religious affections.

Todd Friel

#24. We should always judge with a humble attitude acknowledging that any correct understanding we have of the Bible is a gift from God.

Todd Friel

#25. We know we need, and so we acquire and eat and eat, past the point of bodily fullness, trying to sate a greater need. Ashamed of this, we turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how to not-need.

Marya Hornbacher