We recommend Click on the book cover for more info. Recent posts Your browser does not support JavaScript! More new books of quotations Click the image above to see new releases on Amazon. In May , the great American humorist, novelist and social critic Samuel Clemens — best known by his pen name, Mark Twain — was in In many books of quotations and on thousands of websites H. The animal characters Walt Kelly created for his classic newspaper comic strip Pogo were known for their seemingly simplistic, but slyly When President Warren G.
In fact, he refers to Romans 6 as a proof that Christians are supposed to fight against sin. But his conclusions — if I interpret them correctly — seem to infer that this battle proceeds in a linear path from victory to victory.
If this is so, what happened to David? What of his sanctification? And what about Peter, who denied Jesus three times?
So, what happened? Or did God allow Peter and David to fall into sin for his just purposes, while preserving their faith, granting them repentance, and restoring them to himself?
For this reason, they must constantly watch and pray that they may not be led into temptations. This is the true engine for bringing down all haughtiness - this the sword for putting an end to all pride, when we are taught that we are utterly nothing, and can do nothing, except through the grace of God alone. I mean supernatural grace, which comes forth from the spirit of regeneration.
For, considered as men, we already are, and live and move in God. Hence we act only when he has prepared us for acting.
We work because God works in us. We love because he generates love in our hearts. I am profoundly aware of that whenever I respond in love in a situation where I would normally snap out in anger, or when I put up with something with a patience I rarely display. The Book of Common Prayer is full of petitions to God to keep us from sin. In Romans 6, Paul reminds Christians that they are no longer slaves to sin and challenges them to live in light of this freedom.
But I am grateful that Romans 6 is followed by Romans 7, where Paul balances his exhortation with a realistic view of the daily Christian life:.
But for the grace of God, there goes John Bradford. In a biographical work about a pastor named Andrew Fuller included an interesting variant of the saying credited to Bradford: 4. The saying was ascribed to George Whitfield instead of John Bradford: 6.
The comment was assigned to John Newton: 8. Oh, crime and virtue, virtue and crime! Did not Philip Neri say to Philip, as he saw a criminal haled to execution: There thou goest, Philip, but for the grace of God! And if thou hast escaped all these things, and the many more too numerous to mention, go down on thy knees, and thank thy God for His mercies!
In the story was told with the prominent evangelist Dwight Moody playing the central role: You have heard the story, have you not, concerning Dwight Moody, the famous evangelist, and the drunken man? Moody was walking along a Chicago street with a friend one day.
Staggering by and finally reeling into the gutter went the drunken man. In H. Mencken published the saying in his massive compendium of quotations. Mencken noted that the words had been attributed to multiple individuals: He is said to have applied the words to himself on seeing a criminal pass by on the way to the gallows. He himself was burned at Smithfield, July 1, In conclusion, the earliest evidence located by QI in points to John Bradford as the creator of this statement.
However, this citation appeared more than two centuries after the death of Bradford. In addition, there are many different versions of the remark, and the phrasing has evolved over time.
Support for other possible creators is considerably weaker. Some later individuals may have repeated a remark or used a template that was already in circulation.
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