Vernon Law Quotes

Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom.

Shun all vice, especially card playing.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

I think a good pastor is somebody who is honest and humble and has a really caring heart.

Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence.

I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.

I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.

Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.

My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first.

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.

Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom.

I'm not only a Christian, but I'm a pastor of a church.

My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences.

It was next of importance to show how the press is made subservient to the cause of the Gospel and the extension of the kingdom of God; then, how the voluntary principle can grapple with existing evils in society, such as intemperance, Sabbath breaking, slavery, and war, by means of diverse associations formed for their repression or removal; and finally, I have reviewed the beneficent and humane institutions of the country, and illustrated the energy of the voluntary principle in their origin and progress.

Moral character has now some influence in our elections, but not that place which it deserves. The law of public opinion excludes confirmed sots, and persons judicially convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors against the State; but it ought to render the election of all profane swearers, notorious Sabbath breakers, seducers, slanderers, prodigals and riotous persons, as well as the advocates of dueling, impracticable.

A bishop must be irreproachable, married only once, temperate, self-controlled, decent, hospitable, able to teach.

I was in the ministry for some time. All my family is immersed in a black church in Memphis.

So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius' wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.

I don't do things which are wrong according to Jesus. Like don't make 'bad' relations with anyone except your husband.

I don't know who I'll end up with, but whoever he is must have a strong religious commitment, must be someone who loves God.

I want to be a pastor in a high school.

My father was a religious leader in the community, and my sister is a pastor.

God just kept me on the right path. I never smoked, drank, none of that.

All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship.