Quotations Anyone?

[1Timothy115]

Just the quote, interpretation should be left to the hearer...no arguing please. 

The crucible of adversity is a less severe trial to the Christian than the refining pot of prosperity.  Morning by Morning, February 10, H.A. Spurgeon

[SureWord]

"I cannot pray, but I sin; I cannot preach, but I sin; I cannot administer, nor receive the holy sacrament, but I sin. My very repentance needs to be repented of: and the tears I shed need washing in the blood of Christ.”

Bishop George Berkeley.

Some might take issue with the "holy sacrament" part but the rest of what he said was spot on.

[1Timothy115]

“An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.” — Billy Sunday

I first heard this in 1980-81 (not sure which) from a Christian brother while attending a IFB Church in Va. Bch. Va. I didn't know until today it originated with Billy.

Edited February 11, 2021 by 1Timothy115

[Bouncing Bill]

The word 'but' in a sentence is an eraser. It erases everything before it.

[1Timothy115]

On 2/12/2021 at 7:15 AM, Bouncing Bill said:

The word 'but' in a sentence is an eraser. It erases everything before it.

Is it original or did someone else start it?

 

[Bouncing Bill]

8 minutes ago, 1Timothy115 said:

Is it original or did someone else start it?

 

Someone said it to me. I do not remember who. But I think it is a very true statement.

[1Timothy115]

Father, I pray You will keep me on Your side of Your Word.

[SureWord]

"The more I know of some dogs the less I think of some Christians"

- "Fighting Bob" Shuler from his sermon "Some Dogs I Have Known".

The sermon was about the faithfulness and courage of some dogs he came across in his lifetime as compared to some Christians.

He is not the Crystal Cathedral phony but an old time Methodist preacher during the 20s and 30s. 

Fighting Bob was so ahead of the cancel culture of today he got cancelled back in 1933 by the FCC for his sermons that called out crooked politicians and police and the politicians and police of Los Angeles in those days were corrupt beyond measure.

 

 

 

 

Edited February 14, 2021 by SureWord

[Bouncing Bill]

I heard this on the podcast, On Being, this morning.

 

Men marry women thinking they [women] will stay the same.

Women marry men thinking they [men] will change.

12 hours ago, SureWord said:

"The more I know of some dogs the less I think of some Christians"

- "Fighting Bob" Shuler from his sermon "Some Dogs I Have Known".

The sermon was about the faithfulness and courage of some dogs he came across in his lifetime as compared to some Christians.

He is not the Crystal Cathedral phony but an old time Methodist preacher during the 20s and 30s. 

Fighting Bob was so ahead of the cancel culture of today he got cancelled back in 1933 by the FCC for his sermons that called out crooked politicians and police and the politicians and police of Los Angeles in those days were corrupt beyond measure.

 

 

 

 

Your quote reminded me of three quotes from Mark Twain.

 

1. If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

2.The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's.

3. The more I learn about people the more I like my dog.

Edited February 14, 2021 by Bouncing Bill

[1Timothy115]

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."           Helen Keller or Anne Sullivan

Some say Miss Keller attributed the saying to her teacher Anne Sullivan. As remarkable a life story as Helen Keller's was, so too is the biography of Anne Sullivan. https://www.biography.com/activist/anne-sullivan

 

Edited February 14, 2021 by 1Timothy115

[Bouncing Bill]

"Lord, let us be as great as we think we are."

Prayer by Carlyle Marney in front of 10,000 attendees at a Southern Baptist convention. A short, but insightful prayer. He said he was never invited to pray or speak at an SBC convention again. He greatly influenced my theology. 

[SureWord]

"The tune of America is pitched to the dollar." - Evangelist Sam Jones

[1Timothy115]

"My concern is that unless we have a real spiritual awakening, and Jesus tarries a while longer, we need missionaries from Africa or China to reintroduce North America to Christianity."  The Purpose Of Man, A. W. Tozer

[Bouncing Bill]

"We are too small to send missionaries all over the world. If we send missionaries to China and successfully convert the Chinese, they are large enough to send missionaries over the entire world."

 

A young Korean woman said this to me on a train in China as we traveled from Xi'an to Tianjin ... about a 26 hour trip.

[Bouncing Bill]

Notable Quotes

“The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical necessity or social justice is quite bewildering to anyone brought up on our traditional ethical concepts, while for the Christian who bases his life on the Bible, it merely confirms the fundamental wickedness of evil.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Letters and Papers from Prison — 1967; 1997)