{"id":571,"date":"2012-10-26T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisrestlesspilgrim.wordpress.com\/?p=571"},"modified":"2012-10-23T07:36:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T14:36:59","slug":"pithy-christian-one-liners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/26\/pithy-christian-one-liners\/","title":{"rendered":"Pithy Christian One-Liners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. It is easier to preach ten sermons than it is to live one.<\/p>\n<p>2. People are funny; they want the front of the bus, the middle of the road, and the back of the church.<\/p>\n<p>3. Some people are kind, polite, and sweet-spirited until you try to sit in their pews.<\/p>\n<p>4. Many folks want to serve God, but only as advisers.<\/p>\n<p>5. The good Lord didn&#8217;t create anything without a purpose, but mosquitoes come close.<\/p>\n<p>6. Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your front door forever.<\/p>\n<p>7. Quit griping about your church; if it was perfect, you couldn&#8217;t belong.<\/p>\n<p>8. If your church wants a better Minister, it only needs to pray for the one it has.<\/p>\n<p>9. God Himself does not propose to judge a man until he is dead. So why should you?\u00a0We were called to be witnesses, not lawyers or judges<\/p>\n<p>10. Some minds are like concrete: thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.<\/p>\n<p>11. Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n<p>12. Forbidden fruits create many jams.<\/p>\n<p>13. God doesn&#8217;t call the qualified, He qualifies the called.<\/p>\n<p>14. God grades on the cross, not the curve.<\/p>\n<p>15. God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.<\/p>\n<p>16. The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. It is easier to preach ten sermons than it is to live one. 2. People are funny; they want the front of the bus, the middle of the road, and the back of the church. 3. Some people are kind, polite, and sweet-spirited until you try to sit in their pews. 4. Many folks want to serve God, but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1604],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","tag-one-liners"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15147,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/15147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}