These are quotes which stood out to me, possibly for use in a sermon someday. Their presence here does not mean I agree with them, it merely shows that I might want to reference them later. The default view is five random selections. Use the tag list on the right to view all quotes relevant to that theme.
The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.
Matrimony isn't a word, it's a sentence.
I have put no emphasis on the virgin birth in the course of this chapter. This is not because I do not believe in it, for I do; but because, as I understand it, the account of Christ's miraculous birth was given in the Gospels for the sake of those who had already come to believe in him and who wished to know the facts, but was never used as a means of evoking faith in those who were not yet convinced on other grounds as to who he was. After all, a virgin birth would be possible without any implications of deity.
The man was hanging over the rail, his face green, his eyes glazed. He was seasick, as seasick as it is possible to be. Along came a hardy, seagoing type. "Buck-up friend. Remember, nobody ever died of seasickness." "Oh don't say that," said the man on the rail. "It's only the hope of dying that's keeping me alive."
A man goes into a drug store and asks the pharmacist if he can give him something to cure the hiccups. The pharmacist promptly reaches out and slaps the man's face. "What did you do that for?" the man asks. "Well, you don't have the hiccups anymore, do you?" The man says, "No, but my wife out in the car still does!"