Morecraft Quotes

#1. Taking the 'desert island challenge' which leads Christians to submit their family life to Sola Scriptura inevitably leads them to desire to submit their corporate worship to Sola Scriptura.
(Excerpt from the forward of "How God Wants Us to Worship Him" by Joseph C. Morecraft)

Douglas W. Phillips

#2. Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.

John Piper

#3. The law you submit to uncritically indicates your religious commitment.

Joseph C. Morecraft III

#4. Nothing appears to succeed like success in a world that is principally made up of failure.

Radclyffe Hall

#5. The regulative principle may therefore be seen, in a particular sense, as a natural inference from the doctrine of total depravity.

Joseph C. Morecraft III

#6. I believe the Reformation is greater than the revolution.

Joseph C. Morecraft III

#7. Human beings, regenerate or unregenerate, have neither the right nor the competence to dictate to a sovereign God how He is to be worshipped.

Joseph C. Morecraft III

#8. Braden, Ellie, and Adam came in and took their usual table directly across from us so that Braden and Joss could screw each other with their eyes.

Samantha Young

#9. We need to understand that a man can never lay down his religion and act as a religionless person.

Joseph C. Morecraft III

#10. It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.

Alva Myrdal

#11. Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find.

Hesiod

#12. God doth not promise here to man that HeWill free him quickly from his misery;But in His own time, and when He thinks fit,Then He will give a happy end to it.

Robert Herrick

#13. You can't come out of drama school and think, 'It's all going to be amazing.' You have to expect to work in a bar for at least five years and be a waitress for maybe two!

Emilia Clarke

#14. We're not to do everything man tells us to do. We are to obey the Lord Jesus Christ, and our allegiance to the state is limited and defined by our superior allegiance to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Joseph C. Morecraft III

#15. Gratitude paints little smiley faces on everything it touches.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#16. According to the Bible a tyrant is somebody, some civil magistrate that seeks to impose upon it's people another law than the law of God; that derives it policies and it's laws from another source of law, than the source of the law of God contained in Holy Scripture.

Joseph C. Morecraft III

#17. In this study, we will be attempting to answer the pivotal question: How does God want to be worshipped? How we want to worship God is irrelevant.

Joseph C. Morecraft III

#18. A woman on a Southwest Airlines flight gave birth to a baby. As soon as he was born, the baby said, 'I had more leg room in the womb.'

Conan O'Brien

#19. We live not for the years but for the moments.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Civil government and economics and society change because theology changes.

Joseph C. Morecraft III

#21. Tyranny flourishes in those societies that reject the Reformed Faith. Tyranny is squelched and liberty flourishes in those societies that embrace the Reformed Faith in all its fullness.

Joseph C. Morecraft III

#22. Creativity becomes more visible when adults try to be more attentive to the cognitive processes of children than to the results they achieve in various fields of doing and understanding.

Loris Malaguzzi