John Bentley quotes

“It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible.”
-- John Bentley

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“Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.”

“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”

“Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.”

“We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.”

“God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.”

“We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.”

“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.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers

“God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.”

“Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”

“Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation