Quotes from David Swing

The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.

The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.

As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of a sandy desert, but amid all the settings of nature's leaves and blossoms, and lights and shades—nature's framework of their picture—so there are truths which do not appear well in arid fields of philosophic inquiry, but which demand the colored air and the bowers of poetry to be the setting of their charms.

The beauty of the sunbeam lies partly in the fact that God does not keep it; he gives it away to us all.