William Cameron Townsend famous quotes

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The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.
-- William Cameron Townsend

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Proclaim the Word more and argue about it less.
-- William Cameron Townsend

#Arguing
Understanding Scripture in a language other than the heart language in which we think and experience emotion is "like trying to eat soup with a fork. You can get a little taste, but you cannot get nourished.
-- William Cameron Townsend

#Heart #Thinking #Understanding
The task of getting the Gospel in an adequate way to every ethnic person is tremedous. There is but one solution. I'm sure that it isn't man, money, surveys, not talk. They all have their place, but if the basis of all of it isn't fervent, believing prayer, they are in vain. And prayer should not only be the basis but it should permeate and vitalize the whole work.
-- William Cameron Townsend

#Prayer #Believe #Men

Blaire, This teardrop represents many things. The tears I know youâ€™ve shed over holding your motherâ€™s piece of satin. The tears youâ€™ve shed over each loss youâ€™ve experienced. But it also represents the tears weâ€™ve both shed as weâ€™ve felt the little life inside you begin to move. The tears Iâ€™ve shed over the fact Iâ€™ve been given someone like you to love. I never imagined anyone like you Blaire. But every time I think about forever with you Iâ€™m humbled that you chose me. This is your something blue. I love you, Rush
You're it for me, baby. Just you. You're not going to be your mother. You're special and unique and we're going to get you help. But I will be right by your side the entire time. I'll never leave you. I swear it.
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body -- it will all get conquered like this.
A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.
Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.
He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.
Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.
If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril at that moment.
After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

William Cameron Townsend famous quotes

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