A selection of articles and sermon notes which seek to explore various subjects beyond the Sacred Page and are Christ-centred and Bible-based throughout, prepared from an archive spanning over half a century of Christian ministry, together with more recent writings.
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say –
Sholem Asch (1955)
The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye –
Henry Ward Beecher (1887)
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure – Johnsonian Miscellanies (1897)
You don’t write because you want to say something; you write because you’ve got something to say – F. Scott Fitzgerald (1945)
He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public – Emerson (1841)
Beneath the rule of men entirely great the pen is mightier than the sword – Bulwer-Lytton (1838)
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body – Richard Steele (1729)
The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people – George Dennison Prentice (1860)
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision – Joseph Joubert (1842)
I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring all kinds of things that be buried in my heart – Anne Frank (1945)
When genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot – David Herbert Lawrence (1939)
A sentence should read as its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end – Henry David Thoreau (1862)
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing – Benjamin Franklin (1790)