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Lighter moment baseball quotes(cont):

(Yogi Berra) Little Leage baseball is good. It keeps the parents off the streets

(Satchel Paige) I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in awhile I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation

(Yogi Berra) Ninety percent of the game is half mental

(Whitey Ford) The way to make coaches think  you're in your shape in the spring is to have a good tan

(Bill Veeck) If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off

((Yogi Berra) The others teams could make trouble for us if they win

(Eddie Bane) I think I threw the ball as hard as anyone. The ball just didn't get there as fast

(Yogi Berra) Third base ain't so bad if nothin' is hit to you

(Dick Allen,commenting on artificial turf) If a horse won't eat, I don't want to play on it

(George Will) All I remember about my wedding day in 1947 was that the Cubs lost a doubleheader

(Curt Flood) The funny thing about those uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller

(Charlie Lau) There are two theories about hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works

(Bob Uecker) The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it quits rolling and then pick it up

(Yogi Berra) Think! How you gonna think and hit at the same time?

(Sandy Koufax on Roberto Clemente)  He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another

(Yogi Berra) Slump? I ain't in a slump. I just ain't hittin'

(Ken Singleton) A man told me once to walk with the Lord. I'd rather walk with the bases loaded

(George Brett on third baseman Jamie Quirk) He looks like a greyhound , but runs like a bus

(Cincinnati Gazette editorial,1879) The baseball mania has run its course.It has no future as a professional endeavor

(Joe Stowell) Fully devoted followers are like mirrors in motion

(Joe Stowell) Followers of Christ escape the boredom and drudgery of a system of rituals and regulations ; instead they  continually rejoice in the  constant discovery of  the intriguing Person of Christ

( I Cor 9:19/The Message paraphrase) I have voluntarily become a servant to any and all in order to reach a wide variety of people

(I Cor 9:22/The Living Bible paraphrase) Whatever a person is like, I try to find common ground with him so that he will let me tell him abnout Christ and let Christ save him

( Numerous writers) God blesses us so that we may bless others

(C. Stanley) It is an amazing thing that God has promised to reward us richly for doing nothing but what we should do

(Warren Wiersbe, quoting an old proverb) He who does not teach his son to work teaches him to be a thief

(Augustine, commenting on the Old and New Teataments) The New is the Old concealed; the Old is the New revealed

(Warren Wiersbe) I Cor 9:11 enunciates a basic principle of the Christian life: If we receive spiritual blessings, we should in turn share material blessings

(Wiersbe) If each believer practiced Mt. 6:33, there would be plenty of money for missions, manpower for service, and the work of the Lord would prosper

(Wiersbe) What a paradox: free from all men, yet the servant of all men!

(Wiersbe) It is unfortuante that the phrase " all things to all men" has been used and abused by the world and made to mean what Paul did not intend it to mean. Paul wasn't a chamelleon who changed his message and methods with each new situation. Nor was Paul a compromiser who adjusted his message to please his audience. He was an ambassador, not a politician! He simply adapted his approach to different groups. Paul did not have a "stock sermon" for all occasions. It is worth noting that our Lord followed the same approach. Jesus was flexible and adaptable, and Paul followed his example. Neither Jesus or Paul had an inflexible " evangelistic formula" that was used in every situation. It takes tact to have contact. To immature people, Paul's lifestyle probably looked inconsistent. In reality, he was very consistent, for his overriding purpose was to win people to Jesus Christ. Consistency can become a very legalsitic thing, and a man can become so bound by man-made rules and standards that he has no freedom to minister. He is like young David trying to battle in Saul's armor. Paul's ministry was not compromise, but rather total abandonment to the higher law of love.  Paul followed the example of the Savior and humbled himself to become the servant of all.