Preacher's reputation and other quotes

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"The preacher who is concerned with gaining a reputation, rising in his profession, is always in bondage." -- Vance Havner

"When potty-mouth preachers, hoochie-coochie 'worship' teams, and coffee lounges are what it takes, churches have a problem." -- Max (last name unknown)

"The command to hold is the command to hold, even if everyone else lets go." -- Allen Michael Rea

"A horrible pastor loves the imaginary people who don’t go to his church more than the real people who are already there." -- Andy Flowers

"Expect lost people to act like lost people; however, churches and Christians should not follow along with them." -- Allen Michael Rea

"If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me." -- W. H. Auden

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another." -- Charles Dickens

"They're sharing a drink they call loneliness, But it's better than drinking alone." -- Billy Joel

"Jesus extended kindness without exclusions, conditions, or asterisks." -- Jonathan Merritt

"The point is not to speak to the culture. The point is to change it." -- William Willimon

Man is "a poor, sinful, crawling reptile, a wretch defiled, morning, noon, and night, with everything foul and filthy, who has broken the law of God a million times, and cannot keep it a single moment!" -- J. C. Philpot