“There’s no rulebook in Haddon Robinson’s ‘Homiletics’ that says, ‘Thou shalt preach the entire flipping book or thou shalt be damned.’”
Tag: quotable
Sep 28
Quotable: Otto von Bismark
“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.”
Sep 18
Quotable: Theodore Roosevelt
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”
Sep 13
Quotable: Road Warrior Hawk
“We snack on danger! We dine on death! And dead men don’t make money!”
Aug 31
Quotable: Cardinal Richelieu
“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.
Aug 16
Quotable: Bern Williams
“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.”
Jul 03
Happy Independence Day from Germany
“God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.” –Otto von Bismarck
Jun 14
Overheard: 14 year old female
“If I had a genie that would be my only wish–a time machine. And maybe money for college.”
Dec 31
Quotable: John Calvin
“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)
Jan 29
Quotable: Adam Clarke
“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