Craddock's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. At first they'd thought the guillotine would be a sweet, clean business, but when you have twenty, perhaps thirty heads to take off in a day, there are problems of scale.

Hilary Mantel

#3. Redefine the possible.

Stewart Brand

#4. I feel great that I've been given a chance in the golden years of my life. To me, it's the last battle, and I've been given a chance to get stuck in some good armament, some good power, and there's a chance that now I can finish off my working years with my head held high.

Eric Burdon

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

R.J. Craddock

#6. God is not interested in you doing this for Him, He is interested in doing things THROUGH you.

Eric Ludy

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

Fred B. Craddock

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

Fred B. Craddock

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

Fred B. Craddock

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. The surest way to stop growing is to stop reading.

Fred B. Craddock

#16. One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what you want.

Philip Sington

#17. There will be over 3,500 killed in USA today from abortion. No flags lowered, no presidents crying. No media hyperventilating. Normal day,

Matt Drudge

#18. I don't actually breakdance.

James Webb

#19. If the stories of our faith are such that you're too young to remember them, then you are not old enough to preach.

Fred B. Craddock