Quiet Hints, Chapter 16–"Vanity”

Topics: Pastors·Preaching

Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 16, “Vanity."

“Every gift, no matter what it is, has a coiled serpent it. A man’s deadliest danger lies ever at the center of his greatest strength.”

“Many a man has had his usefulness destroyed by the very gift which should have carried him on to power.”

“Good looks will carry a minister far but not to the end of the day.”

“Literary style is even more dangerous than good looks."

“No matter what a minister does some one is sure to commend him. No other man in the town is so praised as he.”

“Popularity is the most fearful of all tests. If any man thinks he stands let him take heed.”