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Boulevards Of Paradise
203 pages, Hardcover
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F.W. Boreham
138 books59 followersRev. Dr. Frank W. Boreham
(March 3rd 1871 – May 18th 1959) Served, and wrote, in the UK, New Zealand, and Australia.
(March 3rd 1871 – May 18th 1959) Served, and wrote, in the UK, New Zealand, and Australia.
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October 5, 2020
By now you know how much I adore Boreham and he wins again. Quotes to share...
"God sometimes compels me to knock many times at His door in order that I may realize my utter dependence upon Him."
"The dominant ambition of the church is to make Christ as supreme in the life of the world as Shakespeare is in the literature of the world. The fame of classical authors is made and maintained by a passionate few. It is by the passionate few that the renown of genius is kept alive from one generation to another. Everything depends on the passionate few."
"That fact is that even perfection is never perfection in itself. There is always room, within the framework of absolute perfection, for infinite processes of development."
"Perfection is always on the march. There is a far-away look in its eye. Perfection is invariably struggling towards perfection."
"God gave us a Saviour - a perfect Saviour - but a Saviour with nothing fixed, nothing final, nothing static about His perfection."
"It should be the supreme business of my life to make Him so thoroughly at home in my heart that He will abide there, honoured and beloved and obeyed, till the day break and the shadows flee away."
"It is absolutely essential that a young man's faith should be his very, very own. Otherwise it will never really fit him."
"God is an inveterate beginner. He is for ever and ever beginning; and, when the things that He begins to lose the energy with which He began them, He begins all over again...He may begin in the darkness, but He always finishes in the light."
"The best way of defining Motherism is by lopping off the initial letter. Motherism is Otherism. That is why women play so prominent a part in all benevolent and philanthropic activities."
"Is there, in the whole wide world, anything as gentle as a shadow? The Bible is amazingly rich in its symbolism of gentleness."
"Yes, the harvest is primarily His business; and He does His business well. He never neglects His business, never forgets it, never becomes so engrossed in the stars as to overlook the seed."
"God never allows the forest to obscure the trees. He never loses the individual in the crowd."
"Why pray? The question is often asked, yet the answer is easy. We pray intuitively, automatically, instinctively. It is one of life's involuntary movements. Prayer is part of the complicated mechanism of nature. Prayer is the wordless eloquence of a universe in need."
"Which goes to show that when a feels a burden laid upon his heart, he should instantly act upon the impulse. The little that he can do may be pitifully inadequate, but let him do that little all the same. And when he does that little, he will find that others have experienced the same urge and done their little too. Many mickles make a muckle. And so the work is done."
"Nature, behind the shadow of a doubt, is excellent. She tells us much. But her deficiencies are far more striking than her attainments. For, although she has much to teach men, she cannot teach them how to live. And if, for lack of that essential instruction, they have acquired the habit of living badly, she cannot tell them how to escape from the tyranny of their evil ways and to enter into the newness of life."
"The legislation of every stately empire is based on these statutes and commandments of the Bible."
"The Gospel does not countermand the Law; it gives it a new and greater authority. I am not come to destroy the Law, said Jesus, but to fulfill it - to fill it full."
"The Gospel does what the Law did, and does it more effectively. It does not argue, in the abstract, about the crookedness of a stick: it lays a straight stick beside it and the deformity is immediately exposed by the contrast."
"My usefulness depends, not on my wealth or my talents or my personal qualities, but on the stores of grace that, through me, may flow into the lives which touch mine."
"We must learn a higher wisdom. Ashamed of the past, we must turn shining and expectant faces to the future, giving glory to God for all the grace we have not tasted yet."
"God sometimes compels me to knock many times at His door in order that I may realize my utter dependence upon Him."
"The dominant ambition of the church is to make Christ as supreme in the life of the world as Shakespeare is in the literature of the world. The fame of classical authors is made and maintained by a passionate few. It is by the passionate few that the renown of genius is kept alive from one generation to another. Everything depends on the passionate few."
"That fact is that even perfection is never perfection in itself. There is always room, within the framework of absolute perfection, for infinite processes of development."
"Perfection is always on the march. There is a far-away look in its eye. Perfection is invariably struggling towards perfection."
"God gave us a Saviour - a perfect Saviour - but a Saviour with nothing fixed, nothing final, nothing static about His perfection."
"It should be the supreme business of my life to make Him so thoroughly at home in my heart that He will abide there, honoured and beloved and obeyed, till the day break and the shadows flee away."
"It is absolutely essential that a young man's faith should be his very, very own. Otherwise it will never really fit him."
"God is an inveterate beginner. He is for ever and ever beginning; and, when the things that He begins to lose the energy with which He began them, He begins all over again...He may begin in the darkness, but He always finishes in the light."
"The best way of defining Motherism is by lopping off the initial letter. Motherism is Otherism. That is why women play so prominent a part in all benevolent and philanthropic activities."
"Is there, in the whole wide world, anything as gentle as a shadow? The Bible is amazingly rich in its symbolism of gentleness."
"Yes, the harvest is primarily His business; and He does His business well. He never neglects His business, never forgets it, never becomes so engrossed in the stars as to overlook the seed."
"God never allows the forest to obscure the trees. He never loses the individual in the crowd."
"Why pray? The question is often asked, yet the answer is easy. We pray intuitively, automatically, instinctively. It is one of life's involuntary movements. Prayer is part of the complicated mechanism of nature. Prayer is the wordless eloquence of a universe in need."
"Which goes to show that when a feels a burden laid upon his heart, he should instantly act upon the impulse. The little that he can do may be pitifully inadequate, but let him do that little all the same. And when he does that little, he will find that others have experienced the same urge and done their little too. Many mickles make a muckle. And so the work is done."
"Nature, behind the shadow of a doubt, is excellent. She tells us much. But her deficiencies are far more striking than her attainments. For, although she has much to teach men, she cannot teach them how to live. And if, for lack of that essential instruction, they have acquired the habit of living badly, she cannot tell them how to escape from the tyranny of their evil ways and to enter into the newness of life."
"The legislation of every stately empire is based on these statutes and commandments of the Bible."
"The Gospel does not countermand the Law; it gives it a new and greater authority. I am not come to destroy the Law, said Jesus, but to fulfill it - to fill it full."
"The Gospel does what the Law did, and does it more effectively. It does not argue, in the abstract, about the crookedness of a stick: it lays a straight stick beside it and the deformity is immediately exposed by the contrast."
"My usefulness depends, not on my wealth or my talents or my personal qualities, but on the stores of grace that, through me, may flow into the lives which touch mine."
"We must learn a higher wisdom. Ashamed of the past, we must turn shining and expectant faces to the future, giving glory to God for all the grace we have not tasted yet."
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October 22, 2023Amazing writer and thinker. Very interesting!
August 8, 2021
In 1936 F.W. Boreham, finding himself in doubtful health (as he puts it) thought his ministry was at an end. Seven years later, while conducting a midday service once a week at Scots Church in Melbourne, Australia he found his vitality renewed and once more took up his pen in order to give us this delightful volume of essays. It is hard to pick a favorite but The Candle and the Bird is surely one of the best.
In speaking of the work and the movement of the Holy Spirit he says “But whatever the cause (of spiritual sterility), such distressing conditions do emerge; and the thing to be remembered at those times is that this unhappy state of affairs represents, not the snuffing out of a candle, but the frightening away of a bird. The distinction is vital. If you extinguish a light, the act is final: you plunge the room into darkness without creating any illumination elsewhere. The flame does not flash into being in some other part of the house. But if you startle a bird, the gentle creature flies away and sings its lovely song upon some other bough.”
In speaking of the work and the movement of the Holy Spirit he says “But whatever the cause (of spiritual sterility), such distressing conditions do emerge; and the thing to be remembered at those times is that this unhappy state of affairs represents, not the snuffing out of a candle, but the frightening away of a bird. The distinction is vital. If you extinguish a light, the act is final: you plunge the room into darkness without creating any illumination elsewhere. The flame does not flash into being in some other part of the house. But if you startle a bird, the gentle creature flies away and sings its lovely song upon some other bough.”
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