Category: Quotes

“It is not a matter primarily of whether or not we reach our particular goals. As individuals and as a group we need to reach our potential. Nothing else is good enough. We must reach toward our potential.”

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

Emergent leaders often say the message remains the same, but our methods must change if we are going to be relevant to our generation. The measure of success for many pastors today is how many are coming, rather than how many are listening and obeying what God has said in His Word. Roger Oakland, author… Continue reading Quoted: Roger Oakland on Success According to Emergents

Most of us are far more concerned about our comfort than God’s glory.

Some people’s religion is like a wooden leg. There is neither life nor warmth in it. Although it helps them hobble along, it never becomes part of them. It has to be strapped on every morning. Christianity is more than a creed to be believed, it is a life to be lived. It does no… Continue reading Quoted: Kelsey Griffin on Religion

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. —Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788 – 1860)

He drew a circle that shut me out—Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win; We drew a circle that took him in.

Sermon length is not measured in minutes; it is measured in minutes-beyond-interest, in the amount of time the minister continues to preach after he has lost the interest of his hearers. From book entitled “Why Johnny Can’t Preach” (by T. David Gordon).

“How does one become a butterfly?” She asked pensively. “You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”