After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference between an inquiry and a revelation.
Joseph ParkerHumans need Jesus Christ as a necessity and not as a luxury. You may be pleased to have flowers, but you must have bread. . . . Jesus is not a phenomenon, He is bread: Christ is not a curiosity, He is water. As surely as we cannot live without bread, we cannot live truly without Christ: If we know not Christ we are not living, our movement is a mechanical flutter, our pulse is but the stirring of an animal life.
Joseph ParkerWhen science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.
Joseph ParkerSpeak to the suffering, and you will never lack an audience. There is a broken heart in every crowd.
Joseph ParkerThe man whose little sermon is โrepentโ sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by the age whose moral tone he challenges. There is but one end for such a manโโoff with his head!โ You had better not try to preach repentance until you have pledged your head to heaven
Joseph ParkerThe first step in understanding the sex industry is to understand the customers, the johns. ... These men have already violated moral standards - and they know it. Talking about right and wrong aren't compelling arguments for them. They are criminals who have chosen to break the law and hurt people, many of them young people.
Joseph Parker