Joseph Bayly quotes

“Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.”
-- Joseph Bayly

Source : Joseph Bayly (2000). “A Voice in the Wilderness”, p.241, David C Cook

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“Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance.”
-- Joseph Bayly

Source : Joseph Bayly (1969). “The View from a Hearse: A Christian View of Death”

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“Jesus Christ didnt commit the gospel to an advertising agency; He commissioned disciples. And He didnt command them to put up signs and pass out tracts; He said that they would be His witnesses.”
-- Joseph Bayly

Source : joseph bayly (1974). “the gospel blimp”

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“Supporting a murderous political agenda with such an argument is tragic!”
-- Joseph Bayly

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“God's people should plan for a voyage of a thousand years, but be prepared to abandon ship tonight.”
-- Joseph Bayly

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“My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.”

“Let us not doubt that God has a father's pity towards us, and that in the removal of that which is dearest to us He is still loving and kind. Death separates, but it also unites. It reunites whom it separates.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1892). “Abraham Coles: Biographical Sketch, Memorial Tributes, Selections from His Works, (some Hitherto Unpublished.)”

“I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”

“For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain”

Source : Adam Lindsay Gordon, Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1911). “Poems: A.H. Massina”

“There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.”

“There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.”

Source : Agnes Smedley (1975). “Battle Hymn of China”

“Everything seems overwhelming when you stand back and look at the totality of it. I build a lot of stuff and it would all seem impossible if I didn't break it down piece by piece, stage by stage. The best gift you can give yourself is some drive--that thing inside of you that gets you out the door to the gym, job interviews, and dates. The believe-in-yourself adage is grossly overrated.”

“It's a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us. When God begins moving, the devil fires up all his artillery.”

“The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!”

“Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.”

Source : Abba Eban (1969). “My people: the story of the Jews”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson