“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else and still unknown to himself.”
- Francis Bacon
“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else and still unknown to himself.”
- Francis Bacon
May not the inadequacy of much of our spiritual experience be traced back to our habit of skipping through the corridors of the Kingdom like children in the market place, chattering about everything, but pausing to learn the value of nothing.
- A. W. Tozer
“It is easier to declaim like an orator against a thousand sins in others than to mortify one sin in ourselves; to be more industrious in our pulpits than in our closets; to preach twenty sermons to our people than one to our own hearts.”
(John Flavel)
That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.
(William Shakespeare)