William Cameron Townsend Quotes

#1. Understanding Scripture in a language other than the heart language in which we think and experience emotion is like trying to eat soup with a fork. You can get a little taste, but you cannot get nourished.

William Cameron Townsend

#2. With a ready tongue and rapier wit, Hamilton could wound people more than he realized, and he was so nimble in debate that even bright people sometimes felt embarrassingly tongue-tied in his presence.

Ron Chernow

#3. You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.

Paul Auster

#4. Warmth cocooned her, and she slipped into sleep without even noticing where she was.

Alice Wallis-Eton

#5. Chorus of women: [ ... ] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way.

Aristophanes

#6. Was a master of the PowerPoint presentation nearly a century before it existed.

Scott Anderson

#7. Proclaim the Word more and argue about it less.

William Cameron Townsend

#8. Whatever praises itself but in the deed devours the deed in the praise.

William Shakespeare

#9. The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.

William Cameron Townsend

#10. I try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone.

Beck

#11. The idea that any of their offspring could possibly be accused of involvement in criminal activities caused deep offence, even to parents who believed that property was theft.

Amanda Craig

#12. I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.

Alan Shepard