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.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: PRESIDENT CAN'T SWIM
On their way to get married, a couple are involved in a fatal car accident.
The couple find themselves sitting outside the Pearly Gates waiting for St.
Peter to process them into Heaven.
While waiting, they begin to wonder: Could they possibly get married in
Heaven? When St. Peter shows up, they asked him.
St. Peter says, "I don't know. This is the first time anyone has asked. Let
me go find out," and he leaves.
The couple sat and waited for an answer. . . . .. .for a couple of months.
While they waited, they discussed that IF they were allowed to get married
in Heaven, SHOULD they get married, what! with the eternal aspect of it all.
"What if it doesn't work?" they wondered, "Are we stuck together FOREVER?"
After yet another month, St. Peter finally returns, looking somewhat
bedraggled. "Yes," he informs the couple, "you CAN get married in Heaven."
"Great!" said the couple, "But we were just wondering, what if things don't
work out? Could we also get a divorce in Heaven?"
St. Peter, red-faced with anger, slams his clipboard onto the ground.
"What's wrong?" asked the frightened couple.
"OH, COME ON!!" St. Peter shouts, "It took me three months to find a
preacher up here who wants to take a chance on marring someone for eternity!
Do you have ANY idea how long it'll take me to find a lawyer?
"Two strangers happen to be on a cruise ship that wrecks, and they make it to a desert island. The first guy starts freaking out and roaming the whole island looking for anything that might help them get off. The second guy just leans back under a tree and relaxes. Pretty soon this starts to irritate the first guy, so he starts ripping on the other guy.
"Don’t you care that we’re stranded?”
“Oh, we’ll be rescued.”
“How can you be so sure?”
“I’m a Christian.”
“Well whoop-te-doo. Pray or something. Don’t just sit there.”
“No, you don’t understand—I’m a Christian and I make a million dollars a week.”
“Your money’s not gonna help you out here. I don’t see any boat stores.”
“No, you don’t understand—I’m a Christian and I make a million dollars a week and I tithe. My pastor will find me!”
Some think that the Old Testament is stricter than the New,
but they are judging wrongly: they are fooling themselves. The
old Law did not punish the desire to hold onto wealth: it
punished theft. But now the rich man is not condemned because
he has taken the property of others: rather, he is condemned
for not giving his own property away.
Charles Malik is a Harvard educated Lebanese scholar and diplomat. He received more than fifty honorary doctorates from Canadian, American and European universities, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Notre Dame. Here is what he writes:
"The university is a clear-cut fulcrum with which to move the world. The problem here is for the church to realize that no greater service can it render itself and the cause of the Gospel, with which it is entrusted, than to try to recapture the universities for Christ on whom they were originally founded.
"One of the best ways of treating the macrocosm is through the handle of the universities in which millions of youths destined to positions of leadership spend, in rigorous training between four and ten years of the most formative period of their life.
"More potently than by any other means, change the university and you change the world." (Charles Malik)