George Bennard quotes

George Bennard quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“So I'll cherish the old rugged cross, Till my trophies at last I lay down; I will cling to the old rugged cross, And exchange it some day for a crown.”
-- George Bennard

Source : The Old Rugged Cross (1913 hymn)

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“'Tis spring; come out to ramble The hilly brakes around, For under thorn and bramble About the hollow ground The primroses are found. And there's the windflower chilly With all the winds at play, And there's the Lenten lily That has not long to stay And dies on Easter day.”
“They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.”
“If I do not give a friend "The benefit of the doubt," but put the worst construction instead of the best on what is said or done, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”
“'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.”
“In Christ's resurrection, therefore, the Christian man sees the earnest and pledge of his own resurrection; and by it he is enheartened as he lays away the bodies of those dear to him, not sorrowing "as the rest that have no hope," but with hearts swelling with glad anticipations of the day when they shall rise to meet their Lord. "For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will He bring with Him.”
“There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.”

Source : "Charles James Fox" by L. G. Mitchell, London: Penguin, (p. 41), 1997.
“There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.”
“Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.524, Macmillan
“Good guys are most likely to finish last, but also most likely to finish first.”
“From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.”

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