Joseph C. Aldrich quotes

“The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians-when they are somber and joyless, when they are self-righteous and smug in complacent consecration, when they are narrow and repressive, then Christianity dies a thousand deaths.”
-- Joseph C. Aldrich

Source : Joseph C. Aldrich, Joe Aldrich (1993). “Lifestyle Evangelism: Learning to Open Your Life to Those Around You”, Multnomah

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“Impression minus expression leads to spiritual depression.”
-- Joseph C. Aldrich

Source : Joseph C. Aldrich (1977). “Secrets to inner beauty”

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“Have you ever noticed how many men in the Bible failed in the second half of life? Our enemy is so cunning that he will wait forty or even fifty years to set a trap.”
-- Joseph C. Aldrich

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“God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from.”

“Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.”

“I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.”

“I'm addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there's so damn much about myself to improve.”

Source : "Drop Dead Healthy" by A.J. Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2012.

“Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.”

“I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.”

“Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.”

Source : Aaron Hill (1760). “Works”, p.21

“Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.”

“If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?”

“Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.