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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli

The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.

- John Newton

Do as we say, and not as we do.

- Boccaccio

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.

- Francois Fenelon

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not What a lovely sermon, but, I will do something!

- St. Francis de Sales

But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.

- Oliver Goldsmith

Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to find it done at all.

- Samuel Johnson

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

- Martin Luther

I have taught you, my dear flock, for above thirty years how to live; and I will show you in a very short time how to die.

- George Sandys

Sermons in stones and good in every thing.

- William Shakespeare

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.

- Anonymous

The minister's brain is often die "poor-box" of the church.

- Henry B. Whipple