WIST Quotations

Boreham, Frank W. -- “The Leopard’s Skin,” sec. 4, The Three Half-Moons (1929)

Dave — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 14:38:41 +0000

Men are willing to keep their evil characters if they can but get rid of their evil reputations. They are scrupulously studious of appearances.

Frank W. Boreham (1871–1959) Anglo-Australian preacher
“The Leopard’s Skin,” sec. 4, The Three Half-Moons (1929)
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Boreham, Frank W. -- “So It’s Your Birthday!” The Tide Comes In (1958)

Dave — Fri, 07 May 2021 20:34:08 +0000

Yet, when all is said and done, birthdays are mere records of time, not registers of distance. They are chronometers, not speedometers. They tell us how long we have been upon the road, not how far we have travelled.

Frank W. Boreham (1871–1959) Anglo-Australian preacher
“So It’s Your Birthday!” The Tide Comes In (1958)

Boreham, Frank W. -- The Drums of Dawn, “The Tower of Babel” (1933)

Dave — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 14:29:00 +0000

We make religion a drudgery, a grind, a slavery when it should be a revelry, a festival, an everlasting song.

Frank W. Boreham (1871–1959) Anglo-Australian preacher
The Drums of Dawn, “The Tower of Babel” (1933)
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Boreham, Frank W. -- The Drums of Dawn, Part 2, ch. 5 “The White Giants” (1933)

Dave — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 16:43:42 +0000

We never see the entire stretch of the road from any one point. Life is not a long, straight path — the untrodden portion clearly visible — it is a winding and undulating lane. “Come on,” Life seems to say, showing us just one little bit of the track, “you can manage this — and now this — and now this again!” And those who can be persuaded to concentrate their flagging energies on each stretch as it unfolds itself find themselves standing at last, with glowing hearts and flushed faces, on the lonely and little trodden summit.

Frank W. Boreham (1871–1959) Anglo-Australian preacher
The Drums of Dawn, Part 2, ch. 5 “The White Giants” (1933)
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Boreham, Frank W. -- The Fiery Crags (1929)

Dave — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 16:53:20 +0000

Since we all need reproving and rebuking, and since we all know that we need reproving and rebuking, we ought — if we were logical — to be extremely grateful to those who reprove and rebuke us. And I suppose that, sooner or later, we are; but almost invariably later.

Frank W. Boreham (1871–1959) Anglo-Australian preacher
The Fiery Crags (1929)

Boreham, Frank W. -- The Ivory Spires (1934)

Dave — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 14:48:27 +0000

It must be made clear to men that the narrow path that leadeth unto life is as crowded with adventure as the broad path that leadeth to destruction.

Frank W. Boreham (1871–1959) Anglo-Australian preacher
The Ivory Spires (1934)
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