Quotes About Message

The fault of the courage culture, therefore, is not its underlying message that courage is good, but its severe underestimation of the complexity involved in deploying this boldness in a useful way.

To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world. Presidential message, December 25, 1927

If anybody is left behind in a congregation of a thousand, the preacher has not preached well.

Preachers, however eloquent they are, are rarely heard as readily as pastors. After all, shepherds are sheep lovers, and the sheep are dependent upon their shepherds, who love them even before they listen.

Comtemporary pulpits feel that to bring up dying is just not as relevant as telling people how to live, marry, succeed, relate, or become a winner.

A single sermon is not likely to effect much change.

Because the secular culture didn't want a Lord, preaching quit saying, "Thus saith the Lord.

Great sermon theses are powerful acids that etch themselves on the "have-tos" of the speaker. They are rarely written down. They don't need to be. They have already been written boldly on the preacher's soul.

When it comes to adding authority to the sermon, the Bible is the most powerful way to comment on what the Bible has to say.

Stories are often layered with meaning. If you don't learn from a story's message, if you gloss over or dismiss it--even if it's a message with which you don't agree--then you have wasted not only your time but the writer's time as well.

Hawks' attention was drawn to the giant solar beacon, a huge light that flashed straight out into space, changing color every second and sending out the message: "Quis separabit homo"-Who shall separate mankind?

Da ist ein Herr für Sie, Herr Baron — ein Herr Asenkerschbaumer? Sehr dringlich, sagt er?« Gerhard behandelte alle Indikative als Fragen, ein fränkischer Hamlet.

God's speech in nature is not to be confused with the notion of a talking cosmos, as by those who insist that nature speaks, and that we must therefore hear what nature says as if nature were the voice of God. 'Hear God!' is the biblical message, not 'Listen to nature!' Nature is God's created order, and in nature God presents himself.

The gospel is only good news if it gets there on time.

History's most unusual and momentous news continues to be the message that the holy God provides sinful man a way of escape from the damning consequences of sin, and proffers him a new kind of life fit for both time and eternity. This ongoing global news is more important than the Allies' rollback of Hitler and the Nazis, or modern technology's putting a man on the moon, or scientific research's latest medical breakthrough.

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

I am neither spurred on by excessive optimism nor in love with high ideals, but am merely concerned with the fate of the individual human being - that infinitesimal unit on whom a world depends, and in whom, if we read the meaning of the Christian message aright, even God seeks his goal.

When you accept the survival signal as a welcome message and quickly evaluate the environment or situation, fear stops in an instant. Thus, trusting intuition is the exact opposite of living in fear. In fact, the role of fear in your life lessens as your mind and body come to know that you will listen to the quiet wind-chime, and have no need for

Each child has something to teach us, a message that will help to explain why we are here. — from the Talmud

The good news is that the fear and uncertainty last only as long as it takes us to hear the underlying positive message and begin to act on it.

There was a little note on the nightstand written on the back of a KFC napkin: Went for coffee, be right back. R Okay, so maybe he didn't sign it with a heart or an XOXO, but the man was going for coffee. Gotta love that.

In studying the Bible as a young man, I found intimations of the idea that forms of media favor particular kinds of content and therefore are capable of taking command of a culture.

Recovering authentic Christian spirituality does not require producing a new message. Nor does it mean joining the cacophony of our culture. Instead, recovering authentic Christianity requires increasing the clarity and power of the signal so it can be heard over the background noise.

Sarek: Do you have a message for your mother? Spock: Yes. Tell her I feel fine. Spock: Live long and prosper, Father. Sarek: Live long and prosper, my son.