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Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

I’d rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.

The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them.

I believe that many professing Christians are cold and uncomfortable because they are doing nothing for their Lord; but if they actively served him, their blood would begin to circulate spiritually, and it would be well with them.

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.

It [Jamaat-e-Islami] is not a missionary organisation or a body of preachers or evangelists, but an organisation of God’s troopers.

The world needs Christians who don’t tolerate the complacency of their own lives.

Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with Him. Theological insights are gained not only from between two covers of a book, but from two bent knees before an altar. The Holy Hour becomes like an oxygen tank to revive the breath of the Holy Spirit in the midst of the foul and fetid atmosphere of the world

If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because God’s law is wrong. Therefore the State should remove the causes of that burden. The human must not be limited and controlled to fit the economic, but the economic must be expanded to fit the human.

I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.

Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts… it flushes the self-pity out of our systems.

I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?

When the family is destroyed, society eventually disintegrates.

Within the Scripture there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely! Christ is able to save you if you come to Him-be your faith weak or be it strong.

Whenever you find a preacher who takes the Bible allegorically and figuratively…that preacher is preaching an allegorical gospel which is no gospel. I thank God for a literal Christ, for a literal salvation. There is literal sorrow, literal death, literal Hell, and, thank God, there is a literal Heaven.

Where’s the church, who took the steeple, Religion’s in the hands of some crazy ass people, Television preachers with bad hair and dimples, The God’s honest truth is, it’s not that simple

I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.

The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be ‘Devoted for Life.’

A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him. Prophets have been on the receiving end of mud more than medals.

Never trust a preacher with more than two suits.

There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty.

A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister’s wife.

Any sermon that is not birthed in prayer is not a message from God no matter how learned the preacher.

Preachers prepare with this fear: ‘Am I going to be able to fill the time?’ The audience never worries about that.

Were I a preacher, I should preach above all other things, the practice of the Presence of God…. Those who have the gale of the Holy Spirit go forward, even in sleep.

God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world’s heart for two thousand years.

The cross stands high above the opinions of men and to that cross all opinions must come at last for judgment.

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.