#reaching

I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#chapel #church #god #preacher #preaching

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#cynicism #fruit #hard #hip #media

AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#biggest #biggest challenge #challenge #country #disaster

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#always #anything #avoid #classify #contact

I was young not too long ago, and I know the last thing you want is someone preaching to you. ↗

— America Ferrera

#i #know #last #long #preaching

It does not answer the aim which God had in this institution, merely for men to have good commentaries and expositions on the Scripture, and other good books of divinity; because, although these may tend, as well as preaching, to give a good doctrinal or speculative understanding of the word of God, yet they have not an equal tendency to impress them on men's hearts and affections. God hath appointed a particular and lively application of his word, in the preaching of it, as a fit means to affect sinners with the importance of religion, their own misery, the necessity of a remedy, and the glory and sufficiency of a remedy provided; to stir up the pure minds of the saints, quicken their affections by often bringing the great things of religion in their remembrance, and setting them in their proper colours, though they know them, and have been fully instructed in them already. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#gospel #homiletics #preaching #worship #equality

Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top. ↗

— Winston Graham

#climbing #comma #ever #find #gaining

I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true. ↗

— Arsenio Hall

#come #confidence #consumed #deep #deep down

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. ↗

— Louis Kahn

#out #reaching #truth

If I play my cards right, I could bring network wrestling back to TV. Unfortunately, to most people, wrestling is a laughingstock. But fortunately, I'm reaching people who otherwise wouldn't watch it. ↗

— Andy Kaufman

#bring #cards #could #fortunately #i