W. A. Criswell Quotes

• When our trials come, when we feel pain and suffering, when our tears flow again, it is our joy and comfort to lift our faces heavenward and to go on, standing on the promises of God.

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  Moving On, Encouraging, God

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• To lift Him up, to preach His name, and to invite souls to love Him and to follow Him is the highest, heavenliest privilege of human life.

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  Love, Life, God

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• God sends people into our lives just when we need them, to say the right word, His word, just when we need it.

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  People, Needs, Our Lives

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• The first priority of the Leader is to Pray for and be concerned for the welfare of your flock. The key to the rest of our life and ministry will be the investment of prayer we make in the lives of others.

  W. A. Criswell

  Prayer, Keys, Priorities

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• After seventy years of expository preaching, I have yet to touch the hem of His garment.

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  Years, Hem, Garments

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• A skunk by any other name still stinks.

  W. A. Criswell

  Names, Stink, Stills

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• There is no such thing as separation of church and state. It is merely a figment of the imagination of infidels.

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  Imagination, Church, Separation

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• He was born a King. The wise men came from the East and asked, 'Where is He that is born King of the Jews?' (Matthew 2:2). He died a King.
  In Greek, in Latin, and in Hebrew the description was written above His cross, 'This is Jesus, The King' (Matthew 27:37)

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  Wise, Jesus, Kings

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• The election of John F Kennedy will lead to the death of a free church and a free state.

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  Scary, Church, Election

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• Two can live as cheaply as one--if one doesn't eat the other goes naked.

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  Two, Naked, Ifs

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• I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.

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  Believe, Imagination, Religion

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