Pastors

To Quote

Heaven is full of answers to prayers for which no one ever bothered to ask. –Billy Graham

I may have my faults, but being wrong ain’t one of them. –Jimmy Hoffa

Wealth takes away the sharp edges of our moral sensitivities and allows a comfortable confusion about sin and virtue. –Henri Nouwen

The experts don’t know for sure how old or how big the universe is. They don’t know what most of it is made of. They don’t know in any detail how it began or how it will end. –Time magazine on the current upheaval in astrophysics

Never excuse. Never explain. Never complain. –motto of the British Foreign Service

When life knocks you to your knees–well, that’s the best position in which to pray, isn’t it? –Ethel Barrymore

We live in a strange society where we make documentaries of serial killers, movie idols out of organized crime members, authors out of political crooks, and role models out of criminals who beat the system. … I don’t know when crime went from being news to entertainment, but somehow it’s made the transition. –Erma Bombeck

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. –Martin Luther King, Jr.

I hate everybody. I know they say, “Now, you can’t hate the world; don’t be bitter.” But I just hate everybody. –Heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson during his recently ended prison sentence for rape

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no more hurt, but only more love. –Mother Teresa

How do I want to be remembered? Not primarily as a Christian scholar, but rather as a loving person. This can be the goal of every individual. –Elton Trueblood

I would rather be cheated a hundred times than develop a heart of stone. –Tim Stafford

If that was God on that cross, then the hill called Skull is a granite studded with stakes to which you can anchor. –Max Lucado

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