Seeds

For many years now I've been collecting quotes that act as prompts for blogs and illustrations for sermons. I thought I would share some of these with you with the hope that they will stimulate your own thinking.

Never teach a child something they will later have to unlearn. —Earl Palmer

People go through three conversions in the Christian faith: their head, their heart and their purse. —Martin Luther

The truth is never a wrong answer. —Brother Cadfael in The Virgin in the Ice by Ellis Peters

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped —Evelyn Underhill

The times most favorable to fits of depression, I have experienced, may be summed up in a brief catalogue. First, among them I mention the hour of great success. When at last a long-cherished desire is fulfilled, when God has been glorified greatly by our means, a great triumph achieved… Before any great achievement, some measure of the same depression is very usual… This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry… In the midst of a long stretch of unbroken labor, the same affliction may be looked for. The bow cannot be always bent without fear of breaking… —Charles H. Spurgeon

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. —Betty Reese

Doing good is imperative. Doing everything is impossible. — Grant Howard

The fact that you were okay yesterday has nothing to do with whether you are going to be so today. The fact that you were close to God yesterday has nothing to do with whether you are going to be close to God today. All Satan needs is an opportunity. You don’t even have to open the door for the devil. Just leave it unlocked; he knows how to turn the knob. —Tony Evans

The qualification for having a public ministry is not giftedness. The qualification for ministry is proven character. —Steve Farrar

Sin will take you farther than you wanted to go; keep you longer than you wanted to stay; cost you more than you wanted to pay. —Steve Farrar

Many believers are simply frantic over the fact of failure in their lives, and they will go to all lengths in trying to hide it, ignore it, or rationalize about it. And all the time they are resisting the main instrument in the Father’s hand for conforming us to the image of His Son! —Miles Stanford