1 Corinthians 3
"The mark of a great statesman is a man who knows the way God is going for the next 50 years.”
–William Gladstone
1 Corinthians 4
“Public opinion in this country is everything.”
–Abraham Lincoln
“The last infirmity of a noble mind is the love of fame.”
–John Milton
“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today will curse tomorrow, only one thing endures—character.”
–Horace Greeley
1 Corinthians 5
“Compromise is the most immoral word in the English language.”
–John Morley
1 Corinthians 7:1-20
“The other question which arises is, Was Saul married? Had he the support of some loving heart during the fiery struggles of his youth? Amid the to-and-fro contentions of spirit which resulted from an imperfect and unsatisfying creed, was there in the troubled sea of his life one little island home where he could find refuge from incessant thoughts? Little as we know of his domestic relations, little as he cared to mingle mere private interests with the great spiritual truths that occupy his soul, it seems to me that we must answer this question in the affirmative.”
–Life and Word of St. Paul, by F.W. Farrar
1 Corinthians 11:17-34
“Every morning and all hours and on the account of the goodness of God towards them they praise and laud Him…And if any of their righteous number passes away from the world they rejoice and give thanks to God…If a child chance to die in its infancy they praise God mightily, as for one who has passed through this world without sin.”
–Aristides’ description of the way Christians in the second century lived
1 Corinthians 12:31—14:2
“Put the cookies on the bottom shelf so the kiddies can get them.”
–Dr. Harry Ironside
“Language without love is noise without melody.”
–Dr. W. Graham Scroggie
They never loved who dreamed that they loved once.
Love looks beyond the bounds of time and space,
Love takes eternity in its embrace.
–from “I Loved Once” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1 Corinthians 14:1-40
“Tongues seem to have ceased first of all the gifts.”
–Dr. A. T. Robertson
1 Corinthians 15:1-44
“It is not thy joy in Christ that saves thee. It is not thy hope in Christ that saves thee. It is Christ. It is not even they faith in Christ, though that be the instrument.”
–Charles Spurgeon
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