| Author |
Quotes |
| Richard J Foster | Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied. |
| Robert Hamill | God is not a power or principle or law, but he is a living, creating, communicating person -- a mind who thinks, a heart who feels, a will who acts, whose best name is Father. |
| Robert L Short | The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we desire, leads to easy disillusionment with both what we had thought to be God and what we had thought to be prayer. |
| Robert Leighton | What are our lame praises in comparison with His love? Nothing, and less than nothing; but love will stammer rather than be dumb. |
| Robert Leighton | Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 What are our lame praises in comparison with His love? Nothing, and less than nothing; but love will stammer rather than be dumb. |
| Robert P Lightner | The doctrine of the blessed Trinity is a reminder of the supernaturalness of biblical Christianity. The doctrine defies rationalization, yet it provides for the believer the answer to the unity and diversity of the world. |
| Roger Williams | We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity. |
| Rowland Croucher | Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 Above all, desire to please Christ; dread his disapproval above everything else. |
| Rufinus | As, then, a consummate master teaches both by example and by precept, so Christ taught the obedience, which good men are to render even at the cost of death, by Himself first dying in rendering it. |
| Ruth Graham | Feast of Thomas the Apostle If God doesn't bring judgment on America soon, He will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah. |
| Saiom Shriver | How do the words of the Peaceful Master become the tirades of warmonger pastors? |
| Samuel Butler | Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883 The New Jerusalem, when it comes, will probably be found so far to resemble the old as to stone its prophets freely. |
| Samuel Rutherford | Alas, we but chase feathers flying in the air, and tire our own spirits, for the froth and over-gilded clay of a dying life. One sight of what my Lord hath let me see within this short time, is worth a world of worlds. |
| Samuel Rutherford | To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith. |
| Samuel Rutherford | Oh my debt of praise, how weighty is it, and how far run up! Oh that others would lend me to pay, and teach me to praise! |
| Samuel Rutherford | Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace. |
| Samuel Rutherford | When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. |
| Samuel Smith Drury | We are building may splendid churches in this country, but we are not providing leaders to run them. I would rather have a wooden church with a splendid parson, than a splendid church with a wooden parson. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. |
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