Quotes about Delivery

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Every kind of integralism, open or disguised, is contrary in principle to true catholicity, which can win to itself and comprise all things only if it delivers itself up and dies like the seed to rise again.

Tone can be as important as text.

Too often we think of religion as a far-off, mysteriously run bureaucracy to which we apply for assistance when we feel the need. We go to a local branch office and direct the clerk (sometimes called a pastor) to fill out our order for God. Then we go home and wait for God to be delivered to us according to the specifications that we have set down. But that is not the way it works. And if we thought about it for two consecutive minutes, we would not want it to work that way.

I believe it is tough to be funny and tougher to make people laugh. And it needs to be been done effortlessly. A joke can be comedy, but one can kill the joke if it is delivered badly.

The three essentials for great preaching are: truth, clarity, and passion.

After a short labor, and without too much pain (I decided that the pain of delivery was overrated), my son was born.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

Preaching is truth through personality.

Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way.