Southern Maiden Blog: December 2007

William Tyndale Quotes

I defie the Pope and all his lawes. If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy who drives the plough to know more of the scriptures than you do.

I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.

I will cause a boy who drives a plow to know more of the scriptures than the pope.

I call God to record against the day we shall appear before our Lord Jesus, that I never altered one syllable of God's Word against my conscience, nor would do this day, if all that is in earth, whether it be honor, pleasure, or riches, might be given me

Quotes by D.L. Moody

I believe the family was established long before the church, and my duty is to my family first. I am not to neglect my family.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

Character is what a man is in the dark.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007