"The church was first established and organized with a world-wide mission for a world-wide work."

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Source : Roland Allen (2012). “The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church and the Causes Which Hinder it”, p.96, The Lutterworth Press

Roland Allen

#Church Quotes #World Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off.”
“The characteristics of a good musician can be summarized as follows: 1. A well-trained ear. 2. A well-trained intelligence. 3. A well-trained heart. 4. A well-trained hand. All four must develop together, in constant equilibrium. As soon as one lags behind or rushes ahead, there is something wrong. So far most of you have met only the requirement of the fourth point: the training of your fingers has left the rest far behind. You would have achieved the same results more quickly and easily, however, if your training in the other three had kept pace.”
“I would not preach tolerance, which seems to me another name for condescension and presupposes faults in those to be tolerated ... Nor do I believe in demanding love - that should be the gift of a free will. But simply to be kind - that is not too much to ask of any of us.”

Source : Josephine Lawrence (1945). “Let Us Consider One Another”, New York ; London : . Appleton-Century
“I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.”
“I don't really believe in vices. I love wine and cheese and chocolate, but they're what make life fun. They're a pleasure and an important part of living.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.”
“When our minds as people normally starts to wrap around things, we start to attach all these ideas to it that really aren't that necessary to the core of it, if you just experience it and kind of go through it.”
“If users are not doing what the designer intended (when users are investing time, effort, etc in your product), the designer may be asking them to do too much.”

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