Fred B. Craddock Famous Quotes
Reading Fred B. Craddock quotes, download and share images of famous quotes by Fred B. Craddock. Righ click to see or save pictures of Fred B. Craddock quotes that you can use as your wallpaper for free.
The first is that learning to preach is difficult, and the difficulty is not greatly relieved by having a skilled instructor or by the discovery that one seems to be naturally a "good talker.
Learning to preach is difficult because preaching is difficult.
Art is not a gift which a few people are given, but rather it is a gift which most people throw away.
If the stories of our faith are such that you're too young to remember them, then you are not old enough to preach.
Boredom is a form of evil; perhaps one of Kierkegaard's characters was more correct when he said, "Boredom is the root of all evil." Boredom is a preview of death, if not itself a form of death, and when trapped in prolonged boredom, even the most saintly of us will hope for, pray for, or even engineer relief, however demonic.
don't sit on your patio in the high noon of your tranquility and make light of the huts that people build in the midnight of their desperation.
The surest way to stop growing is to stop reading.
It is not uncommon in the church for us to urge each other to witness to our faith and sometimes we do so as though it were easy to do. It is not. Our faith is so profoundly intimate and important that we draw our breath in pain to tell the story of our faith in God. And to find the appropriate word to speak even to a receptive mind is difficult. Especially if the opportunity that presents itself comes as a total surprise.
