Who Said That?: More Than 2,500 Usable Quotes and Illustrations

George Sweeting is a Bible teacher and former president of Moody Bible Institute. He has had a five minute radio show called "Climbing Higher" for many years. He collected these quotes to use in sermons, radio talks, and other speechs. Many of them are very familiar, some are fairly obscure, and some are by Sweeting himself (perhaps by the encouragement of his publisher). Being a Christian myself and interested in expressions of faith and statements about God, I enjoy this collection. I would guess I couldn't find most of these in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Here's a sample: C.S. Lewis, "If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you, you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all." Carl Jung, "I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those over 35, there has not been one whose problem is the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life." D.L. Moody, "Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me." That's good stuff!

This book is put together well and provides the writer/speaker with plenty of timely quotes. I especially enjoy this book because Sweeting references many quotes from the classics, like Luther, Moody, Spurgeon, Havner, and others. The only drawback, and it is a slight one, is that Sweeting tends to quote himself a lot. I enjoy his insight, but would have preferred he filled those long spaces with more classic quotes. Nonetheless, its a great book and a handy reference tool.