Destruction Quote by Richard Hooker

“Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us,…

— William Shakespeare

“All believers need to become teachers, shepherds, ministers, and good-news-bearers.”

— Henry Hon

The pines were roaring on the height, The wind was moaning in the night. The fire was red, it flaming spread; The trees like…

— JRR Tolkien

“From afar they raise their voices like torches, and they cry out, as from some lofty and conspicuous watchtower, admonishing us where to walk…

— Eusebius of Caesarea

If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then…

— Timothy Keller

We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how…

— J. I. Packer

There needs to be an order of office, but in every single office that is presented in the Scriptures there is the personal emphasis…

— Francis Schaeffer

Ministers often preach about the Gospel instead of preaching the Gospel. They often preach about sinners instead of preaching to them.

— Charles Grandison Finney

From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation…

— Jane Hamilton

My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me, I guess.…

— John Marsden

“[The main road was] now teeming with people carrying torches, pitchforks, and rakes, and one very confused man who apparently had mistaken the mob…

— Cuthbert Soup

Prayer is the way to destroy all fear. It is the way to banish sorrow, the way to light a torch of hope. It…

— Daisaku Ikeda

Once Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age.

— Mahmud Tarzi

Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and…

— D. H. Lawrence

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does…

— Margaret Mead