David Bosch Quotes

#1. Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God.

David Bosch

#2. To participate in mission is to participate in the movement of God's love toward people, since God is a fountain of sending love.

David Bosch

#3. Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas.

Mandell Creighton

#4. I believe that as public servants, we have a shared goal - to deliver to Americans the service they deserve and expect.

Todd Park

#5. The church is not made up of spiritual giants; only broken men can lead others to the cross.

David Bosch

#6. It is dull in this world, gentlemen!

Nikolai Gogol

#7. Missionary activity is not so much the work of the church as simply the Church at work.

David Bosch

#8. It is possible that I was mistaken and I do not willfully invite any disillusions at this point in my life. I am willing to stay in the dark.

J.D. Salinger

#9. He made us laugh, he took my pain away. I love you, Lauretta.

Marty Feldman

#10. The point is that all of life is "pointless" - vanity or emptiness - unless something else is involved that transcends the pointlessness.

Jim Berg

#11. How many times had I let myself connect with someone only to have it thrown back in my face?

Jay Asher

#12. [Ashcroft vowed to] spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag.

John Ashcroft

#13. Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

Henry Fielding

#14. It would be erroneous to argue that the Reformation broke with the medieval Catholic paradigm in every respect. Some elements of Protestantism were in fact a continuation, even if in a new form, of what typified the Catholic model also.

David J. Bosch

#15. Those words, though heaven only knew how often she had heard them, still gave her her thrill. They braced her like a tonic. Life acquired significance. She was about to step from the world of make-believe into the world of reality.

W. Somerset Maugham

#16. Tragically, from the Orthodox point of view, we only too often convert people not to this one church, the body of Christ, but to our own denomination, at the same time imparting to them the "poison of division" (Nissiotis 1968:198).

David J. Bosch

#17. Only the willing to suffer can conquer suffering.

David Bosch

#18. Did you hear about Katie Parkinson? ... She's going out with Christopher... They've been kissing."

"It was like a Semtex explosion in my brain. I did not know whether to cry or run away.

Will Once

#19. History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

Hippolyte Taine

#20. One day, when people can live together in peace and harmony in the world; only then, we will call this day, the one day, of the days.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#21. If the Church is 'in Christ,' she is involved in mission. Her whole existence then has a missionary character. Her conduct as well as her words will convince the unbelievers and put their ignorance and stupidity to silence.

David Bosch

#22. Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.

Charles Caleb Colton

#23. Our missionary activities are only authentic insofar as they reflect participation in the mission of God.

David Bosch

#24. The moment a man falls into sin, divine life ceases to flow, and his life becomes one of helplessness.

Smith Wigglesworth