QUOTES OF THE WEEK!

The Practical Christian Faith of Robert E. Lee


"I recall a story, that a few years after the [American Civil] war (which is the great chronological epoch in a large part of our country), at the White Sulphur Springs in Virginia, was a venerable man at whom all the people looked with profound admiration, whose name was Robert E. Lee. He was a devout Episcopalian. One day a Presbyterian minister came to preach in the ball-room, according to custom, and he told me this story. He noticed that General Lee, who was a very particular man about all the proprieties of life, came in late, and he thought it was rather strange. He learned afterwards that the General had waited until all the people who were likely to attend the service had entered the room, and then he walked very quietly around in the corridors and parlors, and out under the trees, and wherever he saw a man or two standing he would go up and say gently: ‘We are going to have divine service this morning in the ball-room; won’t you come?’ And they all went. To me it was very touching that that grand old man, whose name is known all over the world and before whom all the people wanted to bow, should so quietly go around, and for a minister of another denomination also, and persuade them to go."
John A. Broadus
Sermons and Addresses, p. 38
(Baltimore: M. H. Wharton & Co., 1886)



Some more quotations from Sermons and Addresses by John A. Broadus--


"It is easy to talk nonsense on the subject of church music. It is very difficult to talk wisely. But I think we sometimes forget in our time that there is a distinction between secular and sacred music. I have seen places where they did not seem to know there was such a distinction." p. 18

"Our advocate [Jesus] does not argue that we are innocent, but confessing our guilt, pleads for mercy to us; and he does not present our merits as a reason why mercy should be shown us, but his merits. . . . And God is made propitious, favorable to us, not when he is willing to save, but when it is made right that he should save us, . . . " pp. 77, 78



"We must be, ought to be, intensely dissatisfied with ourselves; but let us be satisfied with our Savior, and have peace with God through him; not content with the idea of remaining such as we are, but, seeing that the same Gospel which offers us forgiveness and acceptance offers us also a genuine renewal through our Lord Jesus Christ, and promises that finally we shall be made holy, as God is holy, shall indeed be perfect, as our Father in heaven is perfect." pp. 94-5


"Oh, ye people that have to do with the world’s young men, you never know what some little word you speak is going to do I shaping the whole character and controlling the whole life of the man who walks by your side!" p. 172


"But, in one sense, every man is self-educated who is ever really educated at all." p. 251



"[God] can determine better than we, in what ways we shall be most useful. He knows whether it is best for us to labor in one part of his vineyard or another, in one or another sphere and method of Christian exertion." p. 353


"Whatever is worth teaching at all is worth teaching well; and there is no really good teaching without an enthusiastic interest in the subject, and a passionate desire to give the pupil all possible assistance." p. 360



The quotes above were taken from "AS I SEE IT" Volume 12, Number 9, September 2009. AISI is sent free to all who request it by writing to the editor at: DKUTILEK@juno.com. You can be removed from the mailing list at the same address. Back issues sent on request. All back issues may be accessed at http://www.kjvonly.org/ ]



Keep not ill company lest you increase the number. - George Herbert



Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence. - Beecher

Critics are a dime a dozen. Any fool can criticize. - Dr. Lee Roberson

The life of faith excludes worry. Worry is sin. - Roberson

Chastening, rightly borne, will make strong Christians. - Roberson

Let all things press you to His side. - Roberson

Let me get this straight...We're going to pass a health care plan written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it,
passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it,
signed by a president that also hasn't read it and who smokes,
with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes,
overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and
financed by a country that's nearly broke.
What could possibly go wrong? - Unknown