Here are some interesting quotes I discovered reading John Broadus’ On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons (the volume I have was revised by Jesse Weatherspoon). “With the emphasis today upon the institutional program of the church, pastoral visitation, counseling and administration, the proper use of ceremonial and ritual in worship these tend to become competitors of preaching and to disparage the…
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“And the duty of singing praises to God seems to be appointed wholly to excite and express religious affections. No other reason can be assigned why we should express ourselves to God in verse rather than in prose, and do it with music, but only that such is our nature and frame that these things have a tendency to move…
On Separation of church and state: “Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.” – Autobiography, 1937 On Government and Religion: “Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God.” – Christendom in Dublin, 1933 On History (Maybe applicable to Fundamental Christianity)…
Sometimes it is easier to wait by the dock and steal the fish from another boat rather than going through the labor and endurance needed to catch the fish. “We’re no longer fishers of men, but keepers of the aquarium, and we spend most of our time swiping fish from each other’s bowls.” -Dr. Kermit Long I do believe that…
"Live simply so that others can simply live." -Dr. Clifford Clark