William Murchison famous quotes

If religion and churches are truly threats to our liberties, how did those liberties survive, and in such healthy condition, all those years of classroom prayer and Bible-reading?
-- William Murchison

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This notion of public-school doors being barred to God would have confounded not only the founding fathers but also those who attended American public schools as recently as the early 1960s.
-- William Murchison

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The only thing better than good English writing is - I can't think of anything. You just don't pour it pureed over your potatoes. You savor it as if it were a find chardonnay. What on Earth does it matter if you stop and repeat a phrase, roll it around on your tongue, dart a few lines ahead and then suddenly come back and reread it? If the phrase is good enough, you are supposed to stop and rejoice in it.
-- William Murchison

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This willful deafness to religious argument, so new in our history, has had various effects. A principal one is encouragement of the already widespread view that religion doesn't have a lot to do with modern concerns - the way people live, the way they think.
-- William Murchison

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... religious insults are considered acceptable even by those who decry slurs about race, ethnicity, and gender. Religious people seem to deserve such treatment.
-- William Murchison

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A judge found it constitutionally intolerable that Louisiana should interject 'religious beliefs and moral judgments into teaching.'
-- William Murchison

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The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.

I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies.

God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.

…for a true Christian, all strangers are Jesus.

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

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.

All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.

When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do. But when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.

Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.