Charles L. Quarles > Quotes

“After nineteen hundred years the Sermon on the Mount still haunts men. They may praise it, as Mahatma Gandhi did; or like Nietzsche, they may curse it. They cannot ignore it. Its words are winged words, quick and powerful to rebuke, to challenge, to inspire. And though some turn from it in despair, it continues, like some mighty magnetic mountain, to attract to itself the greatest spirits of our race (many not Christians), so that if some world-wide vote were taken, there is little doubt that men would account it “the most searching and powerful utterance we possess on what concerns the moral life.”2”
― Charles Quarles, Sermon On The Mount: Restoring Christ's Message to the Modern Church

“The Stoics believed that all events were planned by God. Thus, the key to happiness was to submit to one’s fate. Fear and grief resulted when one resisted one’s fate.”
― Charles L. Quarles, The Illustrated Life of Paul

“Luke wrote that the scrolls were worth 50,000 pieces of silver (Acts 19:19). If these pieces of silver were denarii, each piece was the equivalent of the wage for the average worker for an entire day. Fifty thousand denarii would be the equivalent of 160 years of wages for a man who worked six days a week. In modern currency this would amount to millions and millions of dollars.”
― Charles L. Quarles, The Illustrated Life of Paul