WIST Quotations

Moody, D. L. -- God’s Good News, “Where Art Thou?” [Gen. 3:9] (1897)

Dave — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 23:21:52 +0000

Depend upon it, as long as the church is living so much like the world, we cannot expect our children to be brought into the fold.

Dwight Lyman "D. L." Moody (1837-1899) American evangelist and publisher
God’s Good News, “Where Art Thou?” [Gen. 3:9] (1897)
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Brooks, Phillips -- “Unspotted from the World,” sermon

Dave — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 00:25:32 +0000

When a man comes not merely to tolerate, but to boast of the stains that the world has flung upon him; when he wears his spots as if they were jewels; when he flaunts his unscrupulousness, and his cynicism and his disbelief and his hard-heartedness in your face as the signs and badges of his superiority; when to be innocent and unsuspicious and sensitive seems to be ridiculous and weak; when it is reputable to show that we are men of the world by exhibiting the stains that the world has left upon our reputation, our conduct, and our heart, then we understand how flagrant is the danger; then we see how hard it must be to keep ourselves unspotted from the world.

Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American clergyman, hymnist
“Unspotted from the World,” sermon
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 4, sc. 2, l. 81ff (4.2.81-85) (1606)

Dave — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 13:17:58 +0000

LADY MACBETH: Whither should I fly?
I have done no harm. But I remember now
I am in this earthly world; where to do harm
Is often laudable, to do good sometime
Accounted dangerous folly.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 4, sc. 2, l. 81ff (4.2.81-85) (1606)
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Chesterfield (Lord) -- Letter to his son, #112 (4 Oct 1746)

Dave — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 12:54:04 +0000

Do not imagine that the knowledge, which I so much recommend to you, is confined to books, pleasing, useful, and necessary as that knowledge is: but I comprehend in it the great knowledge of the world, still more necessary than that of books. In truth, they assist one another reciprocally; and no man will have either perfectly, who has not both. The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world and not in a closet. Books alone will never teach it you; but they will suggest many things to your observation, which might, otherwise escape you; and your own observations upon mankind, when compared with those which you will find in books, will help you to fix the true point.

Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) English statesman, wit [Philip Dormer Stanhope]
Letter to his son, #112 (4 Oct 1746)
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Poe, Edgar Allan -- Marginalia, June 1849 (1981)

Dave — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 13:08:07 +0000

In looking at the world as it is, we shall find it folly to deny that, to worldly success, a surer path is Villainy than Virtue.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) American author, poet, editor, literary critic
Marginalia, June 1849 (1981)