Criswell Quotes

#1. I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.

Iggy Azalea

#2. Do you have the talent?' is rarely the question. 'Do you have the guts to finish?' is the real question.

Orrin Woodward

#3. Value judgments have value only to the extent that they provoke opposition.

Marty Rubin

#4. He was born a King. The wise men came from the East and asked, 'Where is He that is born King of the Jews?' (Matthew 2:2). He died a King.
In Greek, in Latin, and in Hebrew the description was written above His cross, 'This is Jesus, The King' (Matthew 27:37)

W. A. Criswell

#5. After seventy years of expository preaching, I have yet to touch the hem of His garment.

W. A. Criswell

#6. Two can live as cheaply as one
if one doesn't eat the other goes naked.

W. A. Criswell

#7. The election of John F Kennedy will lead to the death of a free church and a free state.

W. A. Criswell

#8. We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have never believed in them.

Jean Baudrillard

#9. The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous.

Henry Drummond

#10. A skunk by any other name still stinks.

W. A. Criswell

#11. I regret that he didn't do anything about it, even though he was at least a head taller than me. I wouldn't have minded bleeding at all for one more opportunity to give the kind of Bat Lesson that Finger, Robinson, Sprang and others only dreamed of.

Jim Steranko

#12. I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.

W. A. Criswell

#13. The adverse economic events following the First World War turned me toward economics.

Theodore Schultz

#14. You've got to have a dream ... if you don't have any big dreams, nothing happens.

Ian Rush

#15. Susan: ... My enemies can take what they want, but my life is mine and so long as I breathe, it has value. I won't ever give up. Not again.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#16. But we will not bury our mother. We have no interest in putting her bones in soft ground, no desire for memorials and platitudes, no feelings attached to the organic detritus of her terminated existence.

JY Yang

#17. When our trials come, when we feel pain and suffering, when our tears flow again, it is our joy and comfort to lift our faces heavenward and to go on, standing on the promises of God.

W. A. Criswell

#18. The first priority of the Leader is to Pray for and be concerned for the welfare of your flock. The key to the rest of our life and ministry will be the investment of prayer we make in the lives of others.

W. A. Criswell

#19. It certainly wasn't the sensible thing to do. [Referring to her move to Italy.]

Jennifer Criswell

#20. God sends people into our lives just when we need them, to say the right word, His word, just when we need it.

W. A. Criswell

#21. To lift Him up, to preach His name, and to invite souls to love Him and to follow Him is the highest, heavenliest privilege of human life.

W. A. Criswell