The Complete Gathered Gold: A Treasury of Quotations for Christians

Throughout his more than sixty years of ministry, John Blanchard, author of Ultimate Questions and Does God Believe in Atheists?, learned from hundreds of Christian men and women. The Complete Gathered Gold collects more than fifteen thousand of his favorite quotations on over six hundred subjects. Christians can find nuggets of wisdom on every topic, from “adoption” to “zeal.” The Complete Gathered Gold is sure to be a treasure trove for preachers, teachers, and everyday believers whenever they want to read a gem of truth.

"Ever since I became a Christian, I have had a trawling eye and an insatiable appetite to hoard pithy statements that summarized important truths or expressed valuable insights in memorable ways. I soon began to arrange my growing collection into an indexed system, where they were joined by hundreds of other statements I read or heard as the years went by.

In assembling the material for publication, I have avoided cluttering up the pages with titles, ranks, positions, and dates, leaving the quotations to stand on their own, but a subject index has been provided, including cross-references where it was thought that these would be helpful.

I have deliberately excluded from the mountains of material at my disposal any quotations that are of a negative nature, such as those reflecting anti-Christian attitudes about God, life, man, death, and eternity. These have their place as counterpoints in otherwise positive presentations, but I wanted this collection to be wholly positive and more widely useful than as a technical reference book. It will obviously be a comprehensive resource for preachers, teachers, and other Christian communicators, but I trust that it will also be a means of direction, inspiration, insight, and encouragement to countless “ordinary” Christians in the rough and tumble of their daily lives."

–John Blanchard