Quotations Anyone?

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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

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"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.

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“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 by 1Timothy115

[Bouncing Bill 63]

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

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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 63]

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.

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

[SureWord 192]

"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 by SureWord

[Bouncing Bill 63]

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 by Bouncing Bill

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"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 by 1Timothy115

[Bouncing Bill 63]

"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. 

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

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"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

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"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.

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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)

[Ukulelemike 3,802]

This might be a composite of quotations, but:

  "When we preach, we stand, not at a pulpit, but on a throne. We cannot play at preaching: Life, Death, Heaven and Hell all hang on the preaching and hearing of a sermon." CH Spurgeon

This used to hang on my office when I was first a pastor, (and wen I had an office).

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"If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?" - Psalm 11:3

 

"To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 

 

 

 

Edited February 17 by SureWord

[Bouncing Bill 63]

6 hours ago, Ukulelemike said:

This might be a composite of quotations, but:

  "When we preach, we stand, not at a pulpit, but on a throne. We cannot play at preaching: Life, Death, Heaven and Hell all hang on the preaching and hearing of a sermon." CH Spurgeon

This used to hang on my office when I was first a pastor, (and wen I had an office).

I have good friends at Spurgeon's College in London.

[Bouncing Bill 63]

"The Baptist preacher Carlyle Marney visited a college campus. A student asked, ’Dr. Marney, would you say a word or two about the resurrection of the dead?’

Marney answered, ’I will not discuss that with people like you.’

When the student wanted to know why, Marney said, ’Look at you, in the prime of the life, potent -- never have you known honest-to-God failure, heart-burn, impotency, solid defeat, brick walls, mortality. So what can you know of a dark world which only makes sense if Christ is raised?’" 1

1 from PreachingNow

Marney was a great influence on my life.

[SureWord 192]

What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

George Whitfield

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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience."

 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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“If soul-winning is the most important work of the church, it naturally follows that Satan will do all he can to get us side-tracked or satisfied with something else.”

“But Social Service is not Salvation: and Reformation is not Regeneration.”

                                                                                                                                                Oswald J. Smith

[Bouncing Bill 63]

Works, i.e. social service does not save, but faith without works is dead. Show me your works and I will show you your faith. 

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The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort. He develops toward himself a kindly sense of humor and learns to say, ’Oh, so you have been overlooked? They have placed someone else before you? They have whispered that you are pretty small stuff after all? And now you feel hurt because the world is saying about you the very things you have been saying about yourself? Only yesterday you were telling God that you were nothing, a mere worm of the dust. Where is your consistency? Come on, humble yourself, and cease to care what men think.’

A.W. Tozer - The Pursuit of God

[Bouncing Bill 63]

“If you get to thinking you're a person of influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.” – Will Rogers

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On 2/21/2021 at 8:06 PM, Bouncing Bill said:

Works, i.e. social service does not save, but faith without works is dead. Show me your works and I will show you your faith. 

A quote? Who?

[Bouncing Bill 63]

I believe this is what is said in James 2:14-26. 

This is also what Tim Maynard said in his blog on August 15, 2015

 “Show me your faith without deeds and I will show you my faith by my deeds.”  (2:14-26 )  In this instance, “deeds” or doing good deeds or works is portrayed as evidence that one’s faith is genuine.  Can you be considered a true Christ follower and do nothing to show it?  Of course Jesus also said, “By your fruits you will know them.” (Matthew 7:20)  Does fruit imply good works or good deeds?

https://fruitcove.com/i-will-show-you-my-faith-by-my-deeds/

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On 2/21/2021 at 8:06 PM, Bouncing Bill said:

Works, i.e. social service does not save, but faith without works is dead. Show me your works and I will show you your faith.

I read a quote similar to this somewhere recently but can't recall where and it's really bugging me.

"Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask; by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?"

"The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world."

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Edited Wednesday at 05:30 PM by SureWord

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5 hours ago, Bouncing Bill said:

I believe this is what is said in James 2:14-26. 

This is also what Tim Maynard said in his blog on August 15, 2015

 “Show me your faith without deeds and I will show you my faith by my deeds.”  (2:14-26 )  In this instance, “deeds” or doing good deeds or works is portrayed as evidence that one’s faith is genuine.  Can you be considered a true Christ follower and do nothing to show it?  Of course Jesus also said, “By your fruits you will know them.” (Matthew 7:20)  Does fruit imply good works or good deeds?

https://fruitcove.com/i-will-show-you-my-faith-by-my-deeds/

Your post wasn't a quote of James 2:14-26, that may be your understanding but not a direct qute, i.e. direct quote: "Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works." James 2:18 (bold added by me). However you said...

On 2/21/2021 at 8:06 PM, Bouncing Bill said:

Show me your works and I will show you your faith. 

Tim Maynard, it appears, uses some version besides the KJV. Maybe that's why you made a scripture quotation error, I don't know.  If you're attempting to quote people using other versions than the KJV as a way of causing conflict I would prefer you refrain from further posts in this thread. Also, it appears that Tim is attempting to make a Biblical interpretation which I believe is incorrect. If anything I've said is in error, I will gladly retract the error. I certainly don't want any argument to ensue. Just quotations please.

Also, I see you've either mis-quoted Matthew or used some foriegn version.

Edited Wednesday at 08:33 PM by 1Timothy115

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"How often misused words generate misleading thoughts." Herbert Spencer

[Bouncing Bill 63]

It is impossible to separate works from faith, yea just as impossible as to separate burning from shining from fire.   Martin Luther

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3 hours ago, Bouncing Bill said:

It is impossible to separate works from faith, yea just as impossible as to separate burning from shining from fire.   Martin Luther

Interesting, I've seen a few articles alluding toward Martin Luther retaining observance of Roman Church dogma. A discussion on the dogma he retained apart from Luther's 95 Theses could be an extensive thread all on it's own.

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"Then along comes our Lord and issues a long-awaited spiritual emancipation proclamation and signs it in blood."

                                                                                                                                        A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of Man

[SureWord 192]

3 hours ago, 1Timothy115 said:

Interesting, I've seen a few articles alluding toward Martin Luther retaining observance of Roman Church dogma. A discussion on the dogma he retained apart from Luther's 95 Theses could be an extensive thread all on it's own.

I believe Luther considered himself Catholic til the day he died. He did retain some papist dogma but regardless, he did some great things and was a beacon of light in a dark church. After 1000 years of oppression under the iron fist of the Roman Church you can't expect people to shake off all the heresies over night. He was a great man in his day but I'd be leary of some of his theology.

Edited Thursday at 05:55 AM by SureWord

[Alan 3,493]

On 2/24/2021 at 11:29 PM, Bouncing Bill said:

 “Show me your faith without deeds and I will show you my faith by my deeds.”  (2:14-26 )

Bouncing Bill,

the above quote from James 2:14 is not from the King James Version of the Bible.

To quote from the Rules of Online Baptist, "Feel free to quote the Bible, if you do we ask that you use the KJV. This is done to avoid confusion. The Administrators and Moderators of this site believe that the KJV is Gods preserved Word for the English speaking people, and we ask that you respect that and use the KJV when quoting scripture."

Could you either delete the quote, strike-through the quote, and give the correct King James Version quote in your post. When a person is quoted not using the King James Version, as you quoted Maynard, the correct King James Version is to be added, or strike-through the different version, and an explanation given with the correct King James Version quotation.

Alan