Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.
[Jesus] was born and baptized that by his suffering he might purify the water.
Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.
Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God.
I greet you from Smyrna together with the Churches of God present here with me. They comfort me in every way, both in body and soul. My chains, which I carry about on me for Jesus Christ, begging that I may happily make my way to God, exhort you: persevere in your concord and in you community prayers.
I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died for us; Him I love who rose again because of us.
Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round.
I think whites are used to being in power, so when whites think we ought to have integrated churches they think, "People ought to come to our church. What can we do to get them to come?"
The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.
As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth.