Sermons and Biblical Studies

One can spin, another can make shoes, and these are the gifts of the Holy Ghost; and I tell you that, if I were not a priest, I should esteem it a great gift to be able to make shoes, and would try to make them so well as to become a pattern to all. … Continue reading “WORK,
DIGNITY OF”

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. Herbert Hoover Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. William Shakespeare

How forcible are right words! The Bible, Job 6:25 kjv He multiplieth words without knowledge. The Bible, Job 35:16 kjv A word spoken in due season, how good is it! The Bible, Proverbs 15:23 kjv A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. The Bible, Proverbs 25:11 kjv Let thy … Continue reading “WORDS”

We’ve had numerous occasions where God has revealed sins of people, either through a word of knowledge or a combination of that and a word of wisdom or prophecy. John Wimber

See also: Bible The Word of God is not a sounding but a piercing word, not pronounceable by the tongue but efficacious in the mind, not sensible to the ear but fascinating to the affection. Bernard of Clairvaux The Word is the face, the countenance, the representation of God, in whom he is brought to … Continue reading “WORD
OF GOD”

See also: Mystery It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize. Aristotle Wonder is the basis of worship. Thomas Carlyle The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder. Gilbert K. Chesterton He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand … Continue reading “WONDER”

See also: Suffragettes; Votes for women Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent, that I resolved to claim … Continue reading “WOMEN’S
RIGHTS”

A fresh wind is blowing across this church of ours. Barbara C. Harris, first Anglican woman bishop If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the sacraments? Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1895 I … Continue reading “WOMEN’S
MINISTRY”

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. Timothy Leary

Of the 2,000 contributors in the fourteenth edition of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, only 7.5% of the contributors were women, and only 0.5% of all the quotations cited were penned by women. The Oxford Book of Quotations bettered those percentages – barely: 8.5% women, 1% quotations by women. Elaine Partnow