“There’s no rulebook in Haddon Robinson’s ‘Homiletics’ that says, ‘Thou shalt preach the entire flipping book or thou shalt be damned.’”
MadMania
Faith, Books, and Stuff
Tag: quotable
“They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow (Schlaukopf) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.”
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”
“We snack on danger! We dine on death! And dead men don’t make money!”
“If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged.” –attributed to Richelieu, but not conclusively his.
“The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.”
“God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.” –Otto von Bismarck
“If I had a genie that would be my only wish–a time machine. And maybe money for college.”
“Were it necessary a dissertation might be written on the Persian words, and Persian forms of speech, in this and the two following books; but probably after my toil few of my readers would thank me for my pains.” –Adam Clarke from his commentary on Ezra 8:36
“For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the giver himself?” (John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 4.17.36)