Richard P. Stanley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men.
-- Richard P. Stanley

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All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.
The greatest gift a church can receive is to have a group of families who take their responsibilitie s with such Christian seriousness that they are willing to completely alter their lifestyle to raise up disciples for Jesus Christ.
The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.

Richard P. Stanley famous quotes

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