Quotes about Misconception

I've asked people why they think God would probably not use them to share the gospel with someone on a "bad" day. A typical reply is, "I wouldn't be worthy," or "I wouldn't be good enough." Such a reply reveals an all-too-common misconception of the Christian life: the thinking that, although we are saved by grace, we earn or forfeit God's blessings in our daily lives by our performance.

Threequarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

People never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Seeing is not always believing.

It is a great mistake to think that God is chiefly concerned with our being religious.

It's a well-known fact that tall people are evil.

First, most people think the word prodigal means wayward or lost. It doesn't. Prodigal means lavish or wastefully extravagant. It's like spending money recklessly. It also means to give on a lavish scale. So, in the case of the prodigal son story, you could argue that the father was prodigal since he gave his love freely, on a lavish scale. You might even say recklessly.

We see that the world seeks happiness instead of holiness. Therefore, we assume we should do the opposite. But we're wrong.

For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn't be more wrong.

Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart. Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

It's not what we don't know that hurts. It's what we know that ain't so.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.