Carl F H Henry Quotes

#1. Carl F. H. Henry was reputed to say, The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.

J.D. Greear

#2. Whoever lacks the initiative to read books stifles his own selfhood,

Carl F. H. Henry

#3. Empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.

Ellen Hopkins

#4. I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.

Carl Andre

#5. Evangelical agencies with ready funding may have too little depth and vision to cope with the current conflict. God's kingdom is built not on perpetual motion, one-liners, and flashbulbs but on Christ.

Carl F. H. Henry

#6. Can anyone be arrogant when he stands beside the cross?

Carl F. H. Henry

#7. We are all preparing for things to come. That is the purpose of mortal life ... We are all children of a Heavenly Father who has sent us to earth with the invitation to prepare for eternal life. Every choice, every experience, every repentance and reformation prepares us for what is to come.

Dallin H. Oaks

#8. My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.

Langston Hughes

#9. Secularism denounces supernaturalism and promotes a nonreligious or antireligious basis of social organization and morality.

Carl F. H. Henry

#10. You know a constellation of imperishable values. Live by the mighty truth and power of God. Live above the sludge of a sick society. Live among dispirited humans as the vanguard of peace and good news. Remember, our Commander in Chief has no use for tin soldiers.

Carl F. H. Henry

#11. The surest way to lose democracy is to take it for granted. Every citizen must contribute to its advancement in some way. No nation or culture can long survive the absence of transcendent values and absolutes.

Carl F. H. Henry

#12. There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. We Americans are not God's covenant people. America has, in any event, no biblical guarantee of perpetuity.

Carl F. H. Henry

#14. Nonetheless, the oyster, could it fancy, should fancy its excremental equipment a hot item, for what other among Creation's crapping creatures can convert its bodily wastes into treasure?

Tom Robbins

#15. That's a good question. Let me try to evade you.

Paul Tsongas

#16. I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

John Bright

#17. Jesus Christ turns life right-side-up, and heaven outside-in.

Carl F. H. Henry

#18. He said, I suppose there are people who are purely moved by great art. I never met a painter who was. I'm not. All I think of when I see that picture is that it has the supreme mastery I have spent all my life trying to attain. And shall not. Ever.

John Fowles

#19. The perspective is more important than the perception

Amit Abraham

#20. A Christianity without a passion to turn the world upside down is not reflective of apostolic Christianity

Carl F. H. Henry

#21. The whole secret of abundant living can be summed up on this sentence: 'Not your responsibility but your response to God's ability'.

Carl F. H. Henry

#22. The gospel is good news only if it arrives in time.

Carl F. H. Henry

#23. Our generation is lost to the truth of God, to the reality of divine revelation, to the content of God's will, to the power of His redemption, and to the authority of His Word. For this loss it is paying dearly in a swift relapse into paganism.

Carl F. H. Henry

#24. Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it makes sense. I don't think out the plot ahead of time.

Heidi Julavits

#25. The evangelical task primarily is the preaching of the Gospel, in the interest of individual regeneration by the supernatural grace of God, in such a way that divine redemption can be recognized as the best solution of our problems, individual and social

Carl F. H. Henry

#26. We must confront the world now with an ethics to make it tremble, and with a dynamic to give it hope

Carl F. H. Henry

#27. We are, in other words, continuous with everything here on earth. Including, and especially, each other.

Eula Biss