Quotemeal: Mar. 29th, 2012

Thursday, March 29, 2012

"The kingdom of heaven is not for the well meaning but for the desperate."
— James Denney

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"The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, "What a lovely sermon!" but, "I will do something!""
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"Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance."
— Alfred North Whitehead —
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
— William Shedd —

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Illustration of James Denney — "The kingdom of heaven is not for the well meaning but for the desperate."

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