QUIVER OF QUOTES FROM THE PAST....
An Illinois
preacher compiled a list of sins he found recorded in the bible, totaling 457.
He has been swamped with request for copies of the list by people who are afraid
they might have missed a few.
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When you speak to others for their own good, you call
that constructive criticism; when someone speaks to you for your own good,
that's called interference!
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Some folks equate their goodness, by their absence of
badness; People who think like that, repent of their sins, by thanking
God that they aren't so bad and wicked as their neighbors.
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Failures can be divided into types of people.... Those
who thought and never did and those who did and never thought!-----------------------------------------------------------------------
When most Dads say they want there sons to have
everything they didn't have when they were kids.... they really mean "A's" in
school grades!
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Some men work hard to keep their sons from having the
problems that made men out of their fathers.
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Dwight L. Moody was preaching when someone handed him a
note passed to him by the usher. It had only one word boldly sketched
on it, "FOOL".
Moody looked at it and said out loud, "I've often
received notes that weren't signed, but this is the first time I've received
a note that someone signed, but forgot to write a message."
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Footprints in the sands of time are not made sitting
down!
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"Genuine ignorance is..... profitable because it is
likely to be accomplished by humility, curiosity, and open-mindedness;
whereas the ability to repeat catch phrases, cant terms, and
familiar propositions coats the mind with varnish, waterproofing the brain to
new ideas." -
John W. Dewey
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"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance; we don't know
because we don't want or care to know." - Aldous Huxley
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"I don't feel obligated to believe that the same God who
has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended for us
to forgo their use." - Galileo
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Logicians have but ill defined,
As
rational the human mind.
Logic, they say, belongs to man,
But let them prove it if they can.
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Which way is it really? Question: Which is the greatest
problem among professed believers today ignorance or apathy? Answer by
far too many: "I don't know and I don't care!
"A man thinking about speaking the truth to others,
should have one foot in the stirrup." - (An Old
Indian Proverb)
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"It is morally dishonest and intellectually shallow for
us to blame anybody but ourselves for the responsibility of our
choices." - (Ray L. Colvard,
The Freeman)
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"To every people there comes one terrible and inevitable
final hour, when it must chose between those thing by which men live, or those
things by which they die." - (Taylor Caldwell, The
Final Hour)
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No man is so ignorant that he doesn't know just what he
would do if he were in your shoes; I know he knows, because he's
always telling me what to do and where I can go...."If I were
You",...."IF the shoe fits , wear it, etc....." It seems to me, I always get
better advice than what I give. ANYBODY OUT HERE IN POST LAND GOT ANY
GOOD ADVICE? But please be nice, and don't be crude or rude. And be
specific, with facts and figures with the primary purpose of helping
and not harming.
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"He who has lost his freedom, has nothing else to lose."
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"It is not goodness, to be just a little better than the
worst."
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Mohammedans have ninety-nine names for God, but none say
"Our Father"!
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"Truth is the highest thing that a person can seek."
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"Heaven would often be unjust, if all our prayers were
answered, YES!"
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"The measure of a man's real character is what he would
do if he knew he would never be found out."
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"Friendship is like a famous cathedral which took a
century to build, but only took one minute to destroy."
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"Most of our dilemmas arising between human beings could
be allayed by simply using proper words, in proper places, in the
proper times."
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"If you want your friends to see what God and His Son
Jesus will do for them, let them see what God done for you."
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"When men speak evil of you, so live that no one will
believe them."
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God has revealed many truths which He has not explained.
We will just have to be content to let Him know some things that we
do not know and take Him at His word." Amen and Amen!
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Shouldn't we be grateful, that John 3:16, doesn't read
like unto this! "For God so loved the world, that He sent a Salvation
Committee"...
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"A bodily injury is much sooner forgotten, than is a
personal insult"
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"The most degrading of all slavery which human beings
can know is to fear the light and refuse to think, lest one should have
to give up a dogma. There is one fatal man in our world and he is
the unthinking one. If one cannot reason, he is a fool; and if he will
not reason, he is a bigot; but if he dares not reason, he is a
slave." - R. Ingersol
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"Silence isn't always golden, sometimes it is just plain
yellow." - Anon
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"He who struggles for what he believes to be right is a
free man. Even if you live in the freest nation in the world and you're
lazy, callous, apathetic, irresolute, you are not free, but a slave." - Lynazio Silone
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"It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his
errors as his knowledge. Malinformation is more hopeless than
noninformation; for error is always more busy than is ignorance. Ignorance
is a blank sheet on which we may write; but error is a scribbled
one on which we must first erase before a positive step is taken.
Ignorance is content to stand still with her back to the wall of
truth, but error is more presumptuous and proceeds along in its self same
direction. Ignorance has no light, but error chases a false glimmer
of hope. The consequence is, that error, when she retraces her
footsteps, has much farther to go before she can arrive at truth, than
ignorance does." - (Colton)
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"In every religious error which has gained a foothold in
this world, there is a mixture of some truth. Absolute error....
would contradict men's sense of what is just and right, too violently;
its heavily weight of absurdity would sink it. There must be some
morsel of truth attached, in order to make it float; and in nothing has
the craft of Satan and all of his agents been more conspicuous than
in the sagacity with which they mix a maximum of falsehood, with a
minimum of truth." - (L.
H. Wiseman)
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"Let not the freedom of inquiry be shackled. If it
multiplies bitter contentions among the wise and virtuous, it exercises
the charity of those who contend. If it shakes for a time the belief
that is rested only on prejudice, it finally will settle, on the
broader and more solid basis of conviction." - (Henry Kirke White)
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"One tribe of the Ishmaelites is made up of high-flying
ignoramuses, who are very mighty about doctrines in sermons; here
they are as decisive as a sledge hammer, and as certain as death. He
who knows nothing is confident in everything; hence they are
bullheaded beyond measure. Every clock and even the sun-dial, must be set
according to their watch; and the slightest difference from their
opinion proves a man to be rotten at the heart. Venture to argue with
them, and their little pot boils in quick style; ask them for a reason
and you might as well go to a sand-pit for sugar. They have bottled
up the sea of Truth and carry it around in their waist-coat pocket.
They have measured heaven's line of Grace, and as far as things
which angels long to know, they have seen them all as boys see sights
in a peep show at the County Fair." - (Charles
H. Spurgeon)
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"The coming Day of Crisis in which all will answer to
the Eternal One, will find us prepared or unprepared, not on the
basis of the "Declaration and Address", "Confession of Faith", or the
words of any man or group of men; but on the basis of our
acceptance of and allegiance to the Incarnate Anointed One, Jesus of
Nazareth. But the impossibility of "Succession", either Presbyterian or
Congregational, necessitates the application of the restoration
principle, especially in this Twentieth Century." - (Edward Fudge,
Restoration Thought)
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When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing!
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THINK TWICE, BEFORE YOU SPEAK..... This sometimes gets
turned around.
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In the Sea of life, LOVE MANY, TRUST FEW, always paddle
your own canoe
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"The spirit & soul of all reformation is free
discussion." - A. Campbell
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"Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly,
as when they discuss it openly and freely, with compassion."
- T. McCaulay
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"Truth never suffers from open and honest
investigation; Only error."
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JOHN DRYDEN SAID OVER 300 HUNDRED YEARS
AGO.....
"Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the
cement of all society, the finest and noblest ground on which to
live, a ground on which nothing, is to be assumed."
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Yours for Truth and Freedom......Horace Hooper