QUOTE(S) OF THE DAY:

"A believer's peace is lost when he allows sincere, religious people to put him under the covenant of works of the old testament. And when a believer loses sight of the truth of his standing in Christ then he loses sight of grace, mercy, love and the power of God. Then he gets into confusion as to the truth, and his peace evaporates, and it is gone." Victor Paul Wierwille

"Christianity is not a religion. There is a lot of religion in so-called 'Christianity' today, but that is not God's fault. Religion is what man does; Christianity is what God wrought in Christ. Christianity is not a religion--it is The Way, The Truth, and The Life--it is what God wrought in Christ. It is a father and His family; God is our Father, and we are His children. That puts us in the household of God."
Victor Paul Wierwille

"The greater the leader, the greater the servant"
"You can be dead right but dead wrong because you have no love."
"When you forget God’s grace, you will be the one to cast the first stone." Victor Paul Wierwille

"Things in this world are made to be used; people are made to be loved. You never use another individual. You can use things but not people; people are to be loved. Christianity is love; religion is selfishness." Victor Paul Wierwille

"Religion has made the Word of God of non-effect by its tradition. That is why today men and women are living in deserts of spiritual despair and they drink from the stagnant pool of tradition instead of the fountain-head of God’s revealed and written Word."
Victor Paul Wierwille

These are some of my favorite quotes. Even though the man was wrong about his appliocation of the Word in some instances, he did an immeasurable amount of Biblical research, and I would credit his life to causing my further hunger and thirst for righteousness when I was in a very dry period. I once again became starving and desperate for God. I thought I could not know enough. Although the "religiosity" in my life followed me and my heart was not always right, God has not finished His work in me. I am truly "working out my own salvation". I have the privilege to be growing in Christ in the midst of a fabulous church of believers with both a heart for God's heart and knowledge to apply as that loving heart's example.