Life
Quotes - Church Bulletin Blurbs
for JanuaryDecember 2005
Life
Quotes 2005 - Printed below
Life Quotes are
quotations on life issues for use in weekly congregational bulletins (feel free
to use in monthly newsletters as well).
The quotes are
dated but could generally be used anytime.
We ask that
Life Quotes be printed as written, in their entirety.
January 2
All of creation is about life. Every word God spoke in the beginning calling
things into existence was for the purpose of sustaining and perpetuating life.
Rev. Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from
Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
January 9 Regarding women who have had abortions, While
I might not understand the hurt you feel inside, I do understand the forgiveness
Jesus offers. He offers His blood to cover and cure all sinsall hurtsall
painsall guiltall burdens. Jesus invites you to have your burden lifted
up to the cross, where He comes to give Life . . . Dont allow the devil
to work in your life by holding on to the sin and the guilt and the pain. Satan
may want to see you suffer. Jesus does not! Rev. Paul E. Kaldahl, Jr., First
English Lutheran Church, Spencer, Iowa A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life /
www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
January
16 In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court looked at the slave, Dred Scott,
and came up with the wrong decision, declaring the slave as property
and not a citizen under the U.S. Constitution. The slaves life
was still protected. In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court got it wrong again and handed
down decisions on abortion which declared open season on unborn children
throughout the full nine months of pregnancy. After 44 million abortions, most
people have not noticed that the population descended from U.S. African slaves,
comprising around 12% of the population, make up about 35% of the abortion population.
This means that more Americans of African descent have died in the abortion chambers
than have died in all the years of slavery and lynchings. Dr. Mildred F.
Jefferson, M.D., President, Right to Life Crusade, Inc. A Life Quote from Lutherans
For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
January
23 We who base our pro-life views on the Word of God can take that one
step further. It is whose we are that gives us value. God is the author of life
and the giver of life. We are His because He made us. We are His because He has
purchased and won us through the once-upon-a-time blastocyst, Jesus
Christ. The baby walking in the womb is someone created by God and
redeemed by Jesus. But so is the blastocyst who doesnt have legs yet and
the child who cant walk and the grandma who cant remember. Rev.
Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from Lutherans
For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
January
30 Abortion is a great evil . . . laying siege to and attacking God
and His Church. But, as with all such attacks, abortion provides opportunity for
great faithfulness . . . Abortion provides opportunities to share the truth about
the God-given value of life. Abortion provides opportunity to proclaim a peace
that the world cannot have or understand. It is peace with God through Jesus Christ.
This peace reigns even in the midst of difficulties. This peace motivates making
good choices. This peace comforts when bad choices have been made. Rev.
Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from Lutherans
For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
February
6 The fetuses are alive at the time of the final delivery . . . Very,
very frequently, we notice that [the heart] is [beating]. LeRoy Carhart,
an abortionist attempting to defend partial-birth abortion in a federal court
by claiming that nearly all abortions after the first trimester are
essentially partial-birth. A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org
/ 888-364-LIFE
February 13 Real
love starts with a friendship. If a man and a woman have nothing in common but
a sexual desire, what will be left of the relationship when the desire is gone?
Real Love, Real Life brochure, available from Lutherans For Life A Life Quote
from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
Note:
The brochure, Real Love, Real Life, is available from Lutherans For Life. Item
#615T. $0.50 ea. plus S&H.
February
20 In one of Abraham Lincolns 1860 speeches there is a passage
that pours cool scorn on those who claim to think that slavery is wrong, but denounce
all attempts to restrain it: You will not let us do a single thing
as if it was wrong; there is no place where you will allow it to be even called
wrong! . . . We must not call it wrong in politics because that is bringing morality
into politics, and we must not call it wrong in the pulpit because that is bringing
politics into religion. The abortion debate has followed a similar pattern.
Ramesh Ponnuru, Senior Editor, National Review A Life Quote from Lutherans For
Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
February
27 At the end of The Passion of the Christ we get a glimpse of Jesus
after He has risen from the dead. To some this scene spells s-e-q-u-e-l!
But to us it spells H-O-P-E! To us it spells L-I-F-E!
To us it is our M-E-S-S-A-G-E! Rev. Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive
Director, Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org
/ 888-364-LIFE
March 6 Abortion
is a reflection that society has failed women. Patricia Heaton, Actress,
Everybody Loves Raymond A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org
/ 888-364-LIFE
March 13 For women
and men who are suffering from an abortion decision, What we can do is minister
the truth that Jesus loves and heals the brokenhearted and binds up their
wounds (Psalm 147:3). Grace Kern, Director, Word of Hope, LFLs
post-abortion ministry, 888-217-8679 A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org
/ 888-364-LIFE
March 20
Palm Sunday As Gods people today, we are citizens of Heaven, not of
this world. But we are to be good citizens while here and let our influence be
felt. Things do not always go according to plan. But through faith, we know Gods
plan. We know what He has done in Jesus to bring an end to the burdens of sin
and death. We know someday we will be back to where we belong as citizens of Heaven.
Therefore, we live in hope! Rev. Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive Director,
Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org
/ 888-364-LIFE
March 25
Good Friday / Annunciation A more precise answer to the question of how
God came into the world is As a zygote! A zygote is the name given
to what human beings look like at the one-cell stage . . . In order to redeem
us, Jesus had to become just as we were except without sin (Hebrews 4:15). Jesus
conception as a holy zygote attests to our humanity from the moment of conception.
Rev. Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from
Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
Note:
A brochure, The Annunciation and Abortion, is available from Lutherans For Life.
Item #202T. $0.25 ea. plus S&H.
March
27 Easter Sunday The resurrection story of Easter Sunday is pivotal
to all that we believe in, not just for eternity but for now as well. We know
that we are strangers here and that heaven is our home. We also know that the
reason we are here is to serve God and share His message of life everlasting.
We do that with an obedient life, a ready tongue, and a Christ-focused heart that
faces all of lifes trials with confidence. Even in the harshest of times,
the Christian faith prevails. Rev. Robert Fleischmann, National Director,
Christian Life Resources A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org
/ 888-364-LIFE
April 3 If
the unborn child is not a human person, no defense for abortion is necessary .
. . But if the unborn child is a human person, then no justification for abortion
is adequate. Greg Koukl, Founder and President, Stand to Reason A Life Quote
from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
April 10 Its one thing to want a healthy
child. But its another thing to refuse to let an unhealthy child see the
light of day. When we manipulate life in this way and diminish the humanity of
the unborn, we become less human ourselves because we end up viewing lifeall
life, ours includedas a commodity that can be rejected by quality control.
Charles Colson, Chairman and Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries A Life Quote
from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
April 17 Contrary to the worlds perspective,
men and women (of any age) are not called to sexual living, but holy
living. We were created in Gods image, not that of animals, and although
the perfect image is flawed by sin, we are not held captive by sexual thoughts
and desires. We are not destined to meet animalistic needs. Real Love, Real
Life brochure A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org
/ 888-364-LIFE
Note: The brochure, Real Love, Real Life,
is available from Lutherans For Life. Item #615T. $0.50 ea. plus S&H.
April 24 With . . . abortion we say, in essence,
Isnt it a shame to bring children into the world who havent
got a chance? The only problem with that argument is that were playing
God when we think we know what that chance really will be. Elizabeth Skoglund,
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life /
www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
May
1 The resurrection is our assurance of Christs presence with us
in this life and our presence with Him in eternal life. Jesus ascended into
Heaven and He will come again to bring us new life! He ascended
into Heaven to rule over all of His creation. Things may seem out of control,
but be assured Jesus is in control. He uses all events working them together for
the good of His people and getting things ready for His glorious return when He
will make all things new! Rev. Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans
For Life A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
May 8 Mothers Day I want to thank
the godly women of the Christian church for the faithful and loving witness you
give your children from day-to-day. Thank you for bringing your sons/daughters
to the house of the Lord so that they might be adopted into Gods family
through Holy Baptism. Thank you for placing the Word of God into their hands.
Thank you for singing Christian hymns and songs to them as you rock them to sleep
at night. Thank you for having the mind of Christ in yourself and humbling yourself
in service to your children. Thank you for teaching them to pray by being a person
of prayer yourself. Thank you for molding your children into little Christs
by modeling his love and forgiveness in your life. Yes, Solomons words (Proverbs
31:29) are true of you women . . . you mothers of faith . . ., Many women
do noble things, but you surpass them all. Rev. Dr. Glenn E. Schaeffer,
President, Lutherans For Life of Canada A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life /
www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
May
15 Purity/chastity focuses on our identity as redeemed sons and daughters
of God. Purity/chastity is the best way to: avoid sexually transmitted diseases,
prevent pregnancy, maintain moral values, build self-esteem. Real Love,
Real Life brochure A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org
/ 888-364-LIFE
Note: The brochure, Real Love, Real Life,
is available from Lutherans For Life. Item #615T. $0.50 ea. plus S&H.
May 22 People need an understanding that the
unborn child is a living, functioning but immature human being who is exactly
what they once were. That fact might help them remember that no family can survive
without new babies and that no society that throws its babies away can endure.
Dr. Mildred F. Jefferson, M.D., President, Right to Life Crusade, Inc. A Life
Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
May 29 Memorial Day Weekend When I think
of freedom . . . I often think of Martin Luther. In his famous treatise, The Freedom
of the Christian, Luther wrote, A Christian man is the most free lord of
all, and subject to none, a Christian man is the most dutiful servant of all,
and subject to every one. Dennis Di Mauro, President, Northern Virginia
LFL A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
June 5 The reality of problematic marriages,
however, does not abdicate the essence of what marriage is. Jesus makes this clear.
But at the beginning of creation God made them male and female.
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,
and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two but one
(Mark 10:6-8). What God intended marriage to be in the beginning, He still intends
marriage to be. Rev. Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For
Life A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
June 12 Only the active
protection of unborn children by the rest of the human family can save humanity
from extinction. Dr. Mildred F. Jefferson, M.D., President, Right to Life
Crusade, Inc. A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org
/ 888-364-LIFE
June 19 Fathers
Day By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but
I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order
to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities
of death; the other embodies creations and life. And while the hordes of death
are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. General Douglas MacArthur
A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
June 26 Every human life is a life purchased
by the blood of Jesus. Qualities may diminish but the value God gives to life
never does. The grandma in the nursing home who must wear a diaper and no longer
remembers her family is just as valuable to God as the grandma who works in her
garden and is president of the Ladies Aid. We limit the power of God when we think
He can work in and through the second grandma but not the first. We challenge
the will of God when we take charge of when it is time for someone to die. Because
of what He has done in Christ, we can be assured of His presence even in the darkest
of times. Rev. Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For Life
A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
July 3 Legalizing abortion actually alters the
form of government we have . . . It abolishes the notion of a government that
secures rights that are beyond its reach (because they are given by the Creator),
and establishes one in which those rights are given and taken by government decree.
That affects everything. Father Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests
for Life A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
July 10 O most glorious God . . . Direct my thoughts,
word and work, wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb, and purge
my heart by the Holy Spirit . . . Daily frame me more and more into the likeness
of thy Son, Jesus Christ . . . Thou gavest thy Son to die for me, and has given
me assurance of salvation . . . George Washington A Life Quote from Lutherans
For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
July
17 Every child is a wonder child. For You created my inmost being;
You knit me together in my mothers womb. I praise you because I am fearfully
and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful (Psalm 139:13-14). It is
a true wonder that any of us are here. But it is no wonder to God. Rev.
Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from Lutherans
For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
July
24 As one woman who was conceived in rape put it, It doesnt
matter how I began. What matters is who I will become. Every child, regardless
of how he or she began, regardless of state of development or state of health
can be used according to Gods purpose. It is no wonder to Him. Rev.
Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from Lutherans
For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
July
31 Surviving an abortion should not be seen as a mistake but as an opportunity.
It should bring home in the first place that we should not be carrying out abortions
in a civilized society. Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, England
A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
August 7 This line from Scriptures kept coming
into my head: For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole
world and lose his own soul? Tasha Danvers Smith, a British athlete
who gave up the chance to try for Olympic gold in 2004 after she discovered she
was pregnant. She had briefly considered having an abortion. A Life Quote from
Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
August 14 Real love is NOT soap opera lovepassionate
and intense but selfish and temporary. It is NOT an until somebody better
comes along kind of love. Real love is Gods kind of loveAgape
love. The kind of love that is a forever loveprotecting, trusting, and hopeful.
It remains forever, even when life is difficult. Real Love, Real Life brochure
A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
Note:
The brochure, Real Love, Real Life, is available from Lutherans For Life. Item
#615T. $0.50 ea. plus S&H.
August
21 Peoples hearts have turned to ice in the name of choice.
Deb Lakamp, Secretary, LFL National Office, commenting on the call by some for
abortion on demand. A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org
/ 888-364-LIFE
August 28 Christians
need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic
grandson most surely is. By going down the path were currently on, we might
one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.
Charles Colson, Chairman and Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries A Life Quote
from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
September 4 Labor Day Weekend Having the
right attitude, you see, about family-related issues is crucial, and there are
encouraging signs that attitudes are improving. But attitude isnt everything.
Historical patterns show that without the foundation of a solid biblical worldview,
attitudes can easily shift back and forth with the prevailing breezes. Charles
Colson, Chairman and Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries A Life Quote from Lutherans
For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
September
11 Grandparents Day I see . . . generational faithfulness . .
. Everywhere I travel, I see people standing at the wall in front of their homes.
With materials for their work in one hand and the Sword of the Spirit in the other,
daddies are fathering and mommies are mothering; shepherds are shepherding and
teachers are teaching. We are all building from the Cornerstone, Jesus Christ.
The foundation is for generations to come. Linda D. Bartlett, former President,
Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org
/ 888-364-LIFE
September 18 How
far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate
with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong.
Because someday in life you will have been all of these. George Washington
Carver, American educator and innovator in the agricultural sciences A Life Quote
from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
September 25 Being forgiven by God does not mean
you will instantly have all the answers and all painful memories will be gone.
It does mean we now have a way to resolve our problemsGods way. If
you draw on Gods power for your life, your anger and bitterness will eventually
be replaced with love and peace. By proclaiming the truth we can bring hope and
healing! Grace Kern, Director, Word of Hope, LFLs post-abortion ministry,
888-217-8679 A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org /
888-364-LIFE
October 2 We need to
be supportive of pregnant women in our churches. We need to offer to make them
a meal when the baby is born and share in their joy of this precious new arrival.
We need to let them know that their children are a blessing to the entire church
community. Dennis Di Mauro, President, Northern Virigina LFL A Life Quote
from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
October 9 We need to help with the unexpected
pregnancies in our communities. We can do this by volunteering at our local pregnancy
center, helping a woman with a ride to the doctors office, or simply being
a supportive ear to an unwed mother who just wants to share her difficulties.
Dennis Di Mauro, President, Northern Virigina LFL A Life Quote from Lutherans
For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
October
16 We need to speak out in defense of the unborn. We need to publicly
praise good laws like Laci and Conners Law (Unborn Victims of
Violence Act) that are passed to help protect women and their children. We need
to stop avoiding conversations about pro-life topics, because these conversations
can change the minds of others. And we need to tell others who are contemplating
abortion that God has another and better plan for their unborn children.
Dennis Di Mauro, President, Northern Virigina LFL A Life Quote from Lutherans
For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
October
23 People of all ages need to be touched, but sexual touching is reserved
by God for the commitment of marriage. God helps men and women keep their desires
under control by reminding them that their bodies are temples of the Holy
Spirit who lives within you (1 Corinthians 6:19). What we do with our bodies
should bring glory, not to self, but to God! Real Love, Real Life brochure
A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
Note:
The brochure, Real Love, Real Life, is available from Lutherans For Life. Item
#615T. $0.50 ea. plus S&H.
October
30/31 Reformation In all his [the Christians] works he
ought to entertain this view and look only to this objectthat he may serve
and be useful to others in all that he does; having nothing before his eyes but
the necessities and the advantage of his neighbor. Martin Luther A Life
Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
November 6 So what can you do to make a difference
in the area of life? Pray! Pray for our nation that a respect for life at all
stages and conditions may be restored. Pray for Christs Church that she
might be united in her message of life. Be informed! The issues are complicated.
No one can keep up with them all. But organizations like Lutherans For Life try
to keep up with them for you. In their free quarterly journal, LifeDate, they
keep you informed and do so from a Biblical perspective. Give them a call. Be
an example and a mentor. Teach and model the God-given value of life to your children
and grandchildren. Take some action! Shining the Word of Life into peoples
lives is more than just saying words. We are called upon to be that light.
Rev. Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from
Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
November 13 Whitewashing abortion leads the righteousthose
Christians struggling in despair with an abortion decisionto be disheartened.
They never hear the cleansing blood of Jesus applied to their sin. Rev.
Dr. James I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from Lutherans
For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
November
20 Jesus, who was in the beginning with God, came into our muck-and-mire
life to bring us a new beginning. Everything He did was for this new beginning,
to bring us new life. The Word of Life was conceived by the Holy Spirit
and born of the virgin Mary. Why? To bring us new life! Rev. Dr. James
I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For Life A Life Quote from Lutherans For
Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
November
27 Every child is a wonder child . . . We should spend more time being
like Zechariahs neighbors [Luke 1] wondering, What then is this child
going to be? We should spend less time wondering, What then is this
child going to cost? or What then is this child to do since Im
so young? or What then is this child to do if disabled? or What
then is this child doing getting in the way of my plans? Rev. Dr.
James I. Lamb, Executive Director, Lutherans For Life
December
4 When Elizabeth heard Marys voice (Luke 1:39-45), the infant
leapt in her womb and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out,
How does it happen that the mother of my Lord should come unto me?
Except only for Mary His mother, the first person to recognize Jesus as Lord was
His unborn cousin John, a fetus in the sixth month, not even viable by todays
medical standards. And the Lord Who was recognized by His Spirit-filled relatives
was Himself an embryo, not yet large enough to be visible to the naked eye.
Michael Schwartz, Vice President for Government Relations for Concerned Women
of America A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
December 11 The meeting of Mary and Elizabeth
(Luke 1:39-45) must have occurred within just a few days of the Annunciation,
when Mary conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit. Yet this microscopically
tiny embryo, this undifferentiated blob of protoplasm about the same
age as the embryos who are destroyed in stem-cell experiments, was the Incarnate
God, the eternal Son, of one essence with the Father. Michael Schwartz,
Vice President for Government Relations for Concerned Women of America A Life
Quote from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
December 18 A Gospel (Luke 1:39-45) that introduces
us to Jesus as an embryo-God and that depicts John the fetus as rejoicing in the
presence of his Lord leaves no room to doubt the humanity and the personhood of
the unborn child. There are some Christians, it is true, who are confused about
whether the unborn are as completely human as the rest of us. If an embryo just
a few days after conception can be God, and a fetus prior to viability can rejoice
in the presence of that God, then it is impossible to pretend that the Bible is
in the slightest degree unclear about the matter. Michael Schwartz, Vice
President for Government Relations for Concerned Women of America A Life Quote
from Lutherans For Life / www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE
December 25 Christmas Day We confess it
in our creed every week: conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin
Mary. The God of life gives the gift of life; indeed He gives life where
there is no life. He creates it by His power. He sustains it by His Word. He conceives
it by the power of the Holy Spirit. He is the God of life. Rev. Andrew H.
Bartelt, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life /
www.lutheransforlife.org / 888-364-LIFE