Luccock Quotes

#1. A scientist said, "The very best way to send an idea is to wrap it up in a person." That was what happened at Christmas. The idea of divine love was wrapped up in a Person.

Halford Luccock

#2. But it is always easy to put together stories about a past which nobody any longer remembers, like those about journeys to countries where nobody has ever been.

Marcel Proust

#3. The aim of preaching is not the elucidation of a subject, but the transformation of a person ... Our task is ... the sharing of intense faith and experience.

Halford Luccock

#4. The Christian message is not an exhortation - "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that.

Halford Luccock

#5. I believe in comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

Halford Luccock

#6. See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.

Paulo Coelho

#7. Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.

Vasily Grossman

#8. Mind the Light; come under Holy Obedience.
pg.33 in Prayer and Worship

Douglas Steer

#9. We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people.

Halford Luccock

#10. No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

Halford Luccock

#11. If the Creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the rest of nature unchanged, we should never doubt we were in another world, and so in strict reality we should be, just as if all the world besides our senses were changed.

John Muir

#12. For my part, getting up seems not so easy By half as lying.

Thomas Hood

#13. Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.

Grace Murray Hopper

#14. No one can whistle a symphony.

Halford Luccock

#15. When challenge and skills are in balance the activity is its own reward

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#16. Cold as a bitch's tit." "It's 'witch's.'" "Why? Doesn't matter," Eve said quickly. "Neither way makes sense. If somebody's a witch, why do they put up with cold tits? I'm a bitch, and twenty-four hours ago, my tits were plenty warm.

J.D. Robb

#17. I am sure as I grow older I will understand more about my own feelings and how to put them in a song.

Michael Tolcher

#18. I don't know of a guitar player that has only one guitar. They're never happy with one. I'm never happy with just one of them. I woke up and ended up with six, even if you can only play one at a time!

Les Paul

#19. But I come with a dream in my eyes tonight
And knock with a rose at the hopeless gate of your heart.

E. E. Cummings

#20. There is the liability of accepting prematurely an artificial horizon for our own character and personality, of losing the horizon of the possible person we might be. It is the danger of considering our character as something static, rather than as something emerging.

Halford Luccock