Quotemeal: Aug. 16th, 2008

Saturday, August 16, 2008

"If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer "Action!""
— Thomas Brooks

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"All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions."
— Reinhold Niebuhr —
"Commitment without reflection is fanaticism in action, though reflection without commitment is the paralysis of all action."
— John Mackay —
"The Gospels do not explain the Resurrection; the Resurrection explains the Gospels."
— John S. Whale —
"How would telling people to be nice to one another get a man crucified? What government would execute Mister Rodgers or Captain Kangaroo?"
— Philip Yancey —

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Illustration of Thomas Brooks — "If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer "Action!""

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