Quotes about Messenger

Affliction is better than sin, and if God sends the one to cleanse us from the other, let us thank him, and be also content to pay the messenger.

Well," Nicholas said seriously, "I think that all good gifts come ultimately from God. It wouldn't do for the messenger to take credit for his master's work.

I am not an originator but a transmitter.

Millions of angels are at God's command.

Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

Remember that to these worlds and these beings and these ages we are to be the messengers of the grace and wisdom and glory of God. In that view the future loses its sense of dread, and one looks on to the new opportunities for art, and music, and poetry, and above all perchance of preaching, that are coming to the ransomed ones when the discipline of time is merged into the fitness of eternity, with reverent and holy desire.

My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Angels crisscross the Old and New Testaments, being mentioned directly or indirectly nearly 300 times.

If we believe in what God made and what God said, we will believe in the One whom God sent.

A true messenger lives a burdened life. If he is the Lord's vessel, he carries in his heart a burden for souls none can share but those who know it firsthand.

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.