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Originally Posted by Ivan  I remember someone saying that a woman preaching is like a dog walking on his hind legs...he can do it but not well. | The "someone" was Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), the great English lexicographer and author, and the exact quote, as found in James Boswell's (1740-1795) The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D (1791) runs thusly: Next day, Sunday, July 31 [1763], I told him I had been, that morning, at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. JOHNSON: "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprized to find it done at all."
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"When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus, put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone." - Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)
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