Quotes about Message

This is worrisome, not only because he is reading a translation from the original Hebrew or Greek that has already involved a great deal of interpretation, but also because it is such a short distance between believing you possess an error-free message from God and believing that you are an error-free messenger of God.

In a single sentence, Gandhi has given me a new way to live with the verse at the end of Matthew's Gospel, which Christians sometimes call the Great Commission. The way to make a disciple is to be one. If your life does not speak, your footnotes will have limited impact. Become worthy of the message, and join the spinning brigade. Why isn't that the Great Commission?

The two things that make you a good head coach in this league are if you can get the players to respect you and if you can come across with a clear, consistent message.

While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox Christianity has not wanted Jesus to have a political message.

The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track.

This entire book—don't forget this please—is for each of those seven churches. Every vision, every interlude, every song is for each of them.

The top two lines on every prophet's job description look like this: Speak openly and clearly about what God is for. Speak openly and clearly about what God is against. The third and fourth lines look like this: I [God] am with you. Have courage. (But you may have to duck or die.)

Most of the time, creative entrepreneurs lose interest long before their marketing message loses its power.

I think there is a time, if I can say this; there is a time in a message where you might just tell a story to give your audience a break.

I freighted a leaf with a mental message for the friends at home, and dropped it in the stream. But I put no stamp on it and it was held for postage somewhere.

I am reminded of how difficult and time-consuming it is to reinvent the pencil every time you want to send a message.

We see the unity, and not the divisions. It is such a simple image with a compelling message; one planet, one human race.