Charles Clayton Morrison famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world membership in which is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership.
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Peace talk when war is impending is hazardous for the talker, and in war time it is criminal. War talk in peace time, which is infinitely more wicked, runs no risk at all.
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The love of God is no mere sentimental feeling; it is redemptive power!
-- Charles Clayton Morrison
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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I had two thoughts about it. One was I could do that, and the next one was I'll never get to do that.
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I got drunk in Canada. I was there for 2 days but I was drunk there for 4 days. I don't know how it worked. I guess it was with the time difference or something.
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Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.
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As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.
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All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.
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I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.
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A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist.
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I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.
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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
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