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.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
The Romans had a proverb which said that money was like sea-water; the more a man drank the thirstier he became.
id: 1377 | source: William Barclay's commentary on Lucan commentary of the Rich Fool | tags: Contentment, Greed, Money
When the army of Julian the Apostate was on the march to Persia some of the soldiers got hold of a Christian believer to torment and torture him in brutal sport. After they wearied of it, they looked into his eyes and said to their helpless victim, with infinite scorn in their voices, "Where now is your carpenter God?" The prisoner looked up through pain, blood, and agony to say, "Where now is my carpenter God? He is building a coffin for your emperor."
id: 1672 | source: R. Geoffrey Brown, "Look! A Great White Horse!" Preaching Today, Tape No. 111 | tags: Suffering, Victory Of God
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
You see, there is a great deal of difference between revival and evangelism. I am so sick to death, I hardly read any reports of meetings that come to me. Everybody is getting half of America saved. If you add all the lists of people saved, everybody in America, the whole population has been saved and filled with the Holy Ghost about six times over in the last ten years. And yet we are as dumb and as dead and as damned as we were when we started off... People come to the altar, yes, but meet them at the door and ask what happened. "Oh, ah, ah, ah, ah. I confessed my sins." There is not one evangelist in fifty in America today preaching salvation. They are preaching forgiveness. "Just come and get forgiven." That is not salvation. Jesus came to do more than forgive us our sins.
id: 2995 | source: Leonard Ravenhill, "Baptism of Fire" http://articles.christiansunite.com/article581.shtml | tags: Evangelism, Revival, Salvation