"Henceforward, therefore, I hope you will enter into your studies, not to get a parish, nor to be polite preachers, but to be great saints." - George Whitfield
"Peace, if possible, but truth at any rate." - Martin Luther
"Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny." --Aristotle
"Every minister should make much of his calling and impress upon others the fact that he has been delegated by God to preach the Gospel. As the ambassador of a government is honored for his office and not for his private person, so the minister of Christ should exalt his office in order to gain authority among men. This is not vain glory, but needful glorying.
Paul takes pride in his ministry, not to his own praise but to the praise of God. Writing to the Romans, he declares, "Inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office," i.e., I want to be received not as Paul of Tarsus, but as Paul the apostle and ambassador of Jesus Christ, in order that people might be more eager to hear. Paul exalts his ministry out of the desire to make known the name, the grace, and the mercy of God. " - Martin Luther
"There have appeared men in these later days who feel persecuted if they are not allowed to enter pulpits established to uphold a given set of principles, and there to overthrow the very doctrines the church is set to defend. Men who do not preach the accepted doctrines of the Baptists, have no right in Baptist pulpits, and it is no abridgement of their rights nor any persecution to keep them out. We are under no sort of obligations to furnish heretics with means to subvert the truth." (Ten Years in Texas, p 129) J.B. Gambrell, the President of Mercer University from 1893 - 1896
"A man with God is always in the majority." - John Knox
"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for SCARS!" - H. A. Ironsides
"Faith is to rest, not in the best of God's servants, but in His unchanging Word." - H. A. Ironsides
"No sermon is a success which leaves men satisfied with themselves." - John R. Rice
"The Bible was not given to increase our knowledge but to change our lives." - D. L. Moody
To his young men returning from preaching he asked two questions. Did anyone get saved? Did anyone get mad? If they answered no to both he told them they were not called to preach for a sermon will either lead a soul to Christ or the truth will anger them. - John Wesley
"I set myself on fire and people come watch me burn." - John Wesley (Oh God, make me a ten alarm blaze!!)
"Cursed be the unity for which the Word of God is put at stake." - Martin Luther
"Any man under 35 that is not a Liberal has no compassion. Any man over 35 that is not a Conservative is a fool." - Winston Churchill
"As Christians, we are tempted to give in too much. We must stand up and show our Christian colours. We canot remain silent and concede everything away." C. S. Lewis
"Son, don't take ten minutes and tell me you can't do it. Take five and do it." - SMSGT Shirley Gooch, USAF after I told him I couldn't do something. That was back in 1971 and it still helps me today.
"There is no safety for honest men, except by believing all possible evil of evil men." - Edmund Burke
"Honor never grows old, and honor rejoices the heart of age. It does so because honor is, finally, about defending those noble and worthy things that deserve defending, even if it comes at a high cost. In our time, that may mean social disapproval, public scorn, hardship, persecution, or as always, even death itself. The question remains: What is worth defending? What is worth dying for? What is worth living for?" - William J. Bennett in a lecture to the U. S. Naval Academy, Nov 24, 1997
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people." Theodore Roosevelt 1907
