Broken Bread Quotes

“We are living in an age of intense activity. The very atmosphere is charged with a spirit of hurry and rush. This spirit influences our spiritual life in too great a measure and works damage to its development. Our souls are too noisy.”
― John Wright Follette, Broken Bread

“There were heathen in Bithynia who needed to be converted and Paul had a real burden for them. He could have gone there and established some missions, and swung the entire country. That, no doubt, was very possible, and yet the Lord forbade him to go. How can you reconcile that with what we call our message of today? I don't try to. I don't have to prove the Bible or to explain God. Some people spend half of their lives proving the Bible, keeping God's glory bright, and holding Him on the throne. We were never called to do this. We are called to live for Jesus and let God take care of His work.”
― John Wright Follette, Broken Bread

“It takes a quiet heart, peace of spirit, and clear vision (long range, if you please), to interpret trouble in terms of strength and high living. Little souls, small people, are usually hurt all the time; the ego within is unduly important and consequently is easily hurt or flattered. Such souls have too small a world and hence everything relates directly to the self within. They will have a very difficult time, to say the least.”
― John Wright Follette, Broken Bread

“Oh, yes, the philosophers wanted to know what truth was, but when they had the very Embodiment of truth in their midst they rejected it. They would rather get it second- third- or fourth-hand; they are afraid to get too near the fire and they fear that direct truth might inconvenience them. So they seek to get rid of Truth by throwing Him over the”
― John Wright Follette, Broken Bread

“precipice, but you cannot get rid of truth that way.”
― John Wright Follette, Broken Bread

“Behind my back I fling, Like an unvalued thing, My former self and ways, And reaching forward far, I seek the things that are Beyond time’s lagging days.”
― John Wright Follette, Broken Bread

“A man driving his car in traffic along the highway recently, suddenly discovered that all the cars ahead of him were turning right into a dirt road. He thought, of course, there was a detour ahead and so followed the traffic. After driving for some miles he hailed a farmer and asked, “Where does this detour end? . . . . Aw! this ain’t no detour,” replied the farmer. “You are following a funeral procession to a cemetery.”
― John Wright Follette, Broken Bread

“He likes short prayers and long faith rather than long prayers and short faith.”
― John Wright Follette, Broken Bread

“Maybe the very hindrance today in your development of spiritual life is due to the fact that you are seeing too many things, people, conditions, acts, circumstances, symptoms, etc. If God seeks to lay His hand upon your eyes and does not explain to the satisfaction of your flesh the reasons for so doing, then go blind. Remember, as the vision of the natural leaves, the heavenly dawns. Maybe you are hearing too much. The mind  and heart are distressed because they are not able to make a satisfactory reconciliation between conflicting reports.”
― John Wright Follette, Broken Bread

“Here and now I must settle and plan the issues which project themselves on into eternity. Christ knew that, and in His teaching concerning the deeper and fuller life, He let His followers know it was no easy matter. He did not say, "Now just confess your sins and accept Christ and all things are yours." Instead He made very stringent and searching demands of those who wish to enter fully into all that He has for us. We must deny ourselves, take up our cross daily, and follow Him (Luke 9: 23). Instead of loving our life we must lose it for His sake (Matthew 10: 39). We must love Him more than we love our father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters (Luke 14: 26).”
― John Wright Follette, Broken Bread