John Bradford famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.

  • I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

  • Matt Hock was the first person who showed me how much fun and how cool it can be to be a Christian,

  • My family background was deeply Christian.

  • There's not much to say about acting but this. Never settle back on your heels. Never relax. If you relax, the audience relaxes. And always mean everything you say.

  • We must never settle for harmony at the expense of holiness, nor for peace at the expense of principle.

  • Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.

  • The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.

  • If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

  • We have declared a bitter war against the principle of democracy and all those who seek to enact it.