Parting Aphorisms and Smartass Sayings

1. Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly
2. Salvation is a gift requiring response
3. The Christian life is like driving a car on ice. The automatic non-thinking reaction is not the thing to do.
4. Dissecting a frog is instructive but aft wards it will not hop!
5.  In matters of faith and nutrition, you are what you eat.
6.  Ministry is like being pecked to death by a flock of small ducks
7. Every expression of Christianity has an inner inarticulate essence and a cultural manifestation. – Rev Stephen Parsons
8.  Don’t collect so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire. – Wendell Berry
9.  If you want a huge funeral die young and tragically. If you live to old and it rains there will be nobody there.