Richard Salter Storrs: Quotes about the truth

Richard Salter Storrs was American Congregational clergyman. Explore interesting quotes on truth.

Richard Salter Storrs: 26 quotes3 likes

“Always carry with you into the pulpit a sense of the immense consequences which may depend on your full and faithful presentation of the truth.”

Richard Salter Storrs

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 477.

“Just as soon as any conviction of important truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it—a desire which is immediate and irresistible. Sacrifice is gladness, service is joy, when such an idea becomes a commanding power.”

Richard Salter Storrs

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 606.

“If any of you ever go into the pulpit "simply upon the cold legs of custom," be very careful to take a manuscript with you. But if you go to speak to the assembly because your mind is full of the truth, and you long to impart that truth to them, for their sake and for God's sake, — then charge your mind with it, and speak with all the force you can give it, without any notes.”

Richard Salter Storrs

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 483.