Top 21 Craddock Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Craddock

#1. Her account is that she tried to get out of having to read it, but it was no use."
"And that's fair enough," sighed Craddock. "If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

Agatha Christie

#2. When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God."
-Review of Ida Craddock's "Heavenly Bridegrooms

Aleister Crowley

#3. I have known others who could use totems of their own to turn reality inside out. To reshape it like the soft clay it is. There was Craddock McDermott, who claimed that his spirit existed in a favorite suit of his.

Joe Hill

#4. Many men want wealth,
not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.

Henry Ward Beecher

#5. Nations conquered and true love prevails, all encompassed in a poets tale.

R.J. Craddock

#6. Preaching is the concerted engagement of one's faculties of body, mind, and spirit.

Fred B. Craddock

#7. I'm crucified between the sky of what I intend to be and the earth of my performance.

Fred B. Craddock

#8. Learning to preach is difficult because preaching is difficult.

Fred B. Craddock

#9. Your commitment should stand even in a fallen state

Sunday Adelaja

#10. Art is not a gift which a few people are given, but rather it is a gift which most people throw away.

Fred B. Craddock

#11. 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.

Fred B. Craddock

#12. The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives.

Stanislaw Leszczynski

#13. Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's an artefact from times long gone.

Carl Sagan

#14. I like writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It's therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is given fingerpaints.

Woody Allen

#15. If you care anything about your personal security, you should first of all pray for order and tranquility throughout the four quarters of the land ...

Nichiren

#16. 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.

Fred B. Craddock