Monday, April 29, 2024

Pithy Sayings from Sermons of George Stephens, April 29, 1924

Pithy Sayings from Sermons of George Stephens

If you put a baby in a refrigerator and it freezes to death, that is no sign that it was not well born. Some churches are so cold they freeze young converts to death, while other converts grow in grace and strength in the warm spiritual atmosphere of other churches.

The word “selah”, which you often see at the end of verses in the Psalms means “think of that.”

If the people of America would serve God, the pests would be taken off of us. The boll weevil and other pests are sent because people forget God.

The greatest blessing God can bestow on any community is to give it a revival from heaven.

If the church of Jesus Christ would get on fire it would sweep the country for God.

There is no power in coldness. We are so proper, so formal and so dignified, we’re dead.

Since the war we have had a perfect deluge of hatred and jealousy and suspicion all over the world.

If you have hate toward a living soul in your heart, you have a bit of hell in you.

Some people outside the church have a higher standard for Christians than some professed Christians have for themselves.

It’s all right for the boat to be in the water, but it is all wrong for the water to be in the boat. Some church people have too much of the world in them.

Half the people who belong to the church never darken a church door; not a third of those who attend services attend prayer meeting.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Tuesday, April 29, 1924

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