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Category: Quotes
Words of wisdom, philosophy, encouragement and humor from various sources.
Quoted: Billy Cole on Mistakes
A doctors mistakes get buried, but a preachers mistakes go to hell.
Quoted: Kenneth Haggestrom on Finding Apostle Paul’s Remains
In reference to the following news story… http://news.softpedia.com/news/St-Apostle-Paul-Remains-Found-41948.shtml It’s in the news. The Catholics say they’ve found the “Apostle St. Paul” … I didn’t know he was lost. They found his bones. But will they also find his message? They found his remains. But will they search for his gospel? If those bones could live… Continue reading Quoted: Kenneth Haggestrom on Finding Apostle Paul’s Remains
Quoted: Jay Jones on Church Territorialism
In my estimation, I think “our” problem (I say ‘our’ for the sake of generality) is not that we don’t want the lost to be saved, but rather we don’t want to lose folks from our churches to neighboring congregations. Everyone that has lost a saint to a neighbor church has at least some slight… Continue reading Quoted: Jay Jones on Church Territorialism
Quoted: Shane Hayes on Ministers Compromising Truth and Holiness
“Their ‘revelation’ today is building a prison that their children will inhabit tomorrow.”
Quoted: Johnny Cash on Life
When I’ve learned enough to really live, I’ll be old enough to die.
Quoted: Ernest C. Wilson on Prayer
Prayer is the key that unlocks the stores of abundance and blessing. The secret of effectual prayer is belief. When we pray, we get not necessarily what we ask for but what we expect. If we pray for some good thing, expecting its realization to be deferred, it will be. If we pray for a… Continue reading Quoted: Ernest C. Wilson on Prayer
Quoted: Eugene Peterson on Holiness
In our kind of culture anything, even news about God, can be sold if it is packaged freshly; but when it loses its novelty, it goes on the garbage heap. There is a great market for religious experience in our world; there is little enthusiasm for the patient acquisition of virtue, little inclination to sign… Continue reading Quoted: Eugene Peterson on Holiness
Quoted: Dale Carnegie on How We’re Perceived
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it. —Dale Carnegie
Quoted: Jay Jones on Emergent Theology
Emergent ideology is born of postmodernism and deconstructionism. It is the thought that to truly understand ‘truth’, one must first unlearn and untrain themselves from all that has been previously understood, and begin rebuilding truth piece-by-piece. It is this deconstructing, this dismantling of time-tested Truth, that has destroyed the faith of many, and reduced true… Continue reading Quoted: Jay Jones on Emergent Theology