QUOTE for the day

[Jay Ross]

“It is netter to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie. It is better to stand alone with the truth than to be wrong with a multitude.” - Adrian Rogers

It is interesting to consider the meaning of the noun, "netter" as it dates from the 1400's and has the meaning of "someone who makes nets" or "who is a fisherman" but if Adrian Rogers lived 1931-2005 and was a Baptist Pastor and writer, and also President of the Southern Baptist Convention for three terms, then the (slang) meaning could be more recent and be a reference to someone who spends a lot of time on the internet. Or "netter" is being used in the sense of "neither or" which for me seems closer to what the intended meaning is in this quote.

 

[Matthias]

It is interesting to consider the meaning of the noun, "netter" as it dates from the 1400's and has the meaning of "someone who makes nets" or "who is a fisherman" but if Adrian Rogers lived 1931-2005 and was a Baptist Pastor and writer, and also President of the Southern Baptist Convention for three terms, then the (slang) meaning could be more recent and be a reference to someone who spends a lot of time on the internet. Or "netter" is being used in the sense of "neither or" which for me seems closer to what the intended meaning is in this quote.

Or “netter” was a typo. Thanks for reading. Sometimes I have the feeling that these quotes are just words whispered in the wind.

 

[Jay Ross]

Or “netter” was a typo.

Glad that I was of some service. Sadly, I did not consider that you could have made a typo, but then again, I often do that as well.

 

[Matthias]

“Satan, like a fisherman, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.” - Thomas Adams

 

[Matthias]

“If my life is fruitless it doesn’t matter who praises me. And if it’s fruitful it doesn’t matter who criticizes me.” - John Bunyan

 

[Matthias]

“Unbelief brings misery, but a childlike trust brings happiness.” - Charles Spurgeon

 

[Matthias]

“The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.” - Carl Sagan

 

[Matthias]

“Something is wrong in our souls if we relish contentious arguments, especially with strangers.” - Gabriel N.E. Fluhrer

 

[Matthias]

“What you are in secret is what you really are.” - John Owen

 

[Matthias]

“A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child and the hide of a rhinoceros. His biggest problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.” - Charles Spurgeon

 

[Matthias]

“The greatest cause of which captivity and the decay of the faith and this blindness wherein we now are, sprang first from allegories.” - William Tyndale

 

[Matthias]

“Christianity is married to history. If it is not historical in its foundational assertions, it is worth less than any myth.” - R.C. Sproul

 

[Matthias]

“Live slowly enough to be able to think deeply about God.” - J.I. Packer

 

[Matthias]

“To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.” - A.W. Tozer

 

[Matthias]

“The hour is coming when we shall be astonished to think what mere trifles were once capable of discouraging us.” - John Newton

 

[Matthias]

“The Bible contains what men hate: the truth.” - Charles Spurgeon

 

[Matthias]

“Why keep trying to drink from dry wells when living water is yours in Jesus?” - Paul David Tripp

 

[Matthias]

“What’s in the root of the tree is going to show in the fruit of the tree. What’s in the well will show in the water.” - Adrian Rogers

 

[Matthias]

“The poorest person on Earth is not the one without money, but the one without Jesus.” - Scott Roberts

 

[Matthias]

“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” - C.S. Lewis