Haddon W. Robinson quotes

“The Bible does not provide a map for life - only a compass.”
-- Haddon W. Robinson

#Bible Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Doe Quotes

“For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death.”
-- Haddon W. Robinson

#Life And Death Quotes #Matter Quotes #Moral Quotes

“Next time you see an ant, remember: winter is coming! The best time to prepare for tomorrow is today.”
-- Haddon W. Robinson

#Winter Quotes #Today Quotes #Next Quotes

“Badgers know where their strength lies. Do you?”
-- Haddon W. Robinson

#Lying Quotes #Badgers Quotes

“The God who speaks with utmost integrity must have messengers who represent him well.”
-- Haddon W. Robinson

#Integrity Quotes #Messengers Quotes #Speak Quotes

“You will invest your life in something, or you will throw it away on nothing.”
-- Haddon W. Robinson

“For many wealthy people, giving a tenth is a way of robbing God. Their tithe becomes a tip.”
-- Haddon W. Robinson

Source : Haddon W. Robinson, Scott M. Gibson (2002). “Making a Difference in Preaching: Haddon Robinson on Biblical Preaching”, p.142, Baker Books

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #Way Quotes

“Ministers must read. We are required to read not as a luxury but as a necessity.”
-- Haddon W. Robinson

#Luxury Quotes #Ministers Quotes

“Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?”

“The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.”

“In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.”

“Holy Scripture is so exalted that there is no one in the world ... wise enough to understand it so fully that his intellect is not overcome by it. Nevertheless, man can stammer something about it.”

“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.”

“Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that anything that would tell you otherwise is just a movement of thought in the mind that says "Whatever is, isn't the way it is supposed to be." So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called "the peace that passes all understanding."”

“Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.”

“If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 57), 1937.

“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”

“Yeah, I want to be liked, obviously. Everybody does.”

Source : "Milwaukee Talks: QB Aaron Rodgers, May 2008". Interview with Jason Wilde, onmilwaukee.com. May 23, 2008.