Quotes by clergymen

For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted. John C. Maxwell

We don't mature momentarily, but over the long-term. John C. Maxwell

Long-Term Over Mature Momentarily

Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person's life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader's style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented. John C. Maxwell

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy. John Chrysostom

Enemy Wealth Nothing More Comrade Hostile Domestic Than

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin. John Chrysostom

Men Power Thinking Sin May Avoid

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also. John Chrysostom

Care Church Sex Men Before Must Magnitude Entrusted Retire Over Also Majority Female Souls Task Required Many Whole

Hell is paved with priests' skulls. John Chrysostom

Hell Priests Paved Hell Is

Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone. John Clayton

Alone Language Approximately Between Were English English Language Lives Published Jesus

Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century. John Clayton

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes. John Clayton

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people? John Clayton

Death God Time You Suffering People Problems Will College Young Every Every Time Say He Merciful Almost How Am Tragedies Campus Happen Explain Loving Young People

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords? John Clayton

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other. John Clayton

Christmas World Competition Complicated Christ Guilt Focus Pressure Other Birth Members Tries Outdo Layers Doing Imposed Denominational Gets Program

Just as a puppy can be more of a challenge than a gift, so too can the holidays. John Clayton

Gift Challenge Too Puppy More Than Just Holidays

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards. John Henry Newman

Great Hazards Intended Ends

Calculation never made a hero. John Henry Newman

Hero Made Never Calculation

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen. John Henry Newman

Seen Difficult Never Towards Up Very Get Persons Resentment Whom

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar. John Henry Newman

Insist Must Never Along Sure Content Being Soar Ground Creep

Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God. John Jewel

God Paradise Angels Voice Perfect He Talk Him Heard Walked Did Beheld Estate Placed Company Presence Adam