Sherwood Eddy

“Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not merely patch up the old order of things, but came to make all things new.”

“Blessed are the peacemakers, and one sure way of peacemaking is to let the fire of contention burn itself out.”

“Religion is not a matter of learning, nor of good works, nor of morality, but a new creation, a new life.”

“A man may be a good man and yet not a Christian. He may be an honest man, a truthful man, and a man of high moral character, and yet not be a Christian.”

“Possessions, power and prestige are at best shadows of the real, fleeting and unsubstantial.”

“Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, uttered or unexpressed; the motion of a hidden fire that trembles in the breast.”

“We are not to be cisterns, but channels; not reservoirs, but rivers.”

“To be a Christian is to have Christ living in you.”

“Every thoughtful man who has not been insulated and chloroformed by logic and scholasticism knows that he is a creature of impulses and passions.”

“We are not called to be successful, but to be faithful.”

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.”

“War is the suicide of the race.”