“He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples?”  [John 10--9:27

“He said, why said, "Do you all want to be His disciples too?" That's good--that's good solid testimony.  That's a really good witnessing, and what I'd say. Said, "Do you all..." Here's a lay member, a blind man, standing on the street after meeting Jesus, now asking the disciples--asking the Pharisees if they want to be His disciples, the bishops, head men. "You want to be His disciples also?" They said, "Nay, you're his disciple; we're Moses' disciple (looking way back down through history, you know). We're Moses' disciple. This man, we don't know nothing about him; we don't know where he come from.” [Taking Sides With Jesus, JEFF IN, 62-0601]

“When they seen this poor, blind man, they thought, "Well, now surely, there's a sin behind that somewhere." When we see something happen to a man, we always say, "Well, he sinned; he got out of the will of the Lord somewhere." When Brother Crase hit the post, he got out of the will of the Lord somewhere in somebody's idea. When the gun blowed up on me, "Well, he was out of the will of the Lord." Brother Neville hit the car, "He was out of the will of the Lord." That's not exactly right. No, sir, it isn't. God permits those things. Jesus turned around and taught them a lesson. They said, "His father must've sinned, or--or did his mother sin, or did he sin?" Jesus said, "Neither of them sinned, but that the works of God might be made manifest." Amen. See? God lets things happen just to, for the works of God to be made manifest.” [Taking Sides With Jesus, JEFF IN, 62-0601]

“There's many times that a minister will make a mistake. And if he comes into a neighborhood, a precious brother who's trying to do what's right and to lead the people right, everything that the devil can point to the unbeliever or the so-called Christian in that neighborhood to throw off on that man, he'll do it. You know, the real Christian way is to hide everything you can from a brother. Don't tell his bad things; just tell his good things. Just tell what you know about him that's good. If anything's bad, let it alone. The poor fellow's got enough against him anyhow. Don't try to take a pole and shove a man further into the ditch. The Christian attitude is to pick him up and take him out of the ditch. See? Don't never try to shove him down; he's down already. Try to help him up. And... But too many of us today, too many people today, I might say, try to do that.” [Taking Sides With Jesus, JEFF IN, 62-0601]

“He was permitted to be blind so the works of God could be manifested, 'cause he come on the side of the Lord Jesus. He took sides with Him. Now, he put a stinger to them. You know what they did? They said, "Now, we know you were borned in sin, try to teach us." And shoved him out of the church, knocked him out, pushed him out, throwed him out. But as soon as he was throwed out, did you notice? Jesus found him again. Amen. Jesus found him again. So don't worry if they throw you out. He'll find you again. See? All right. And He said to him, "Does thou believe on the Son of God?" He said, "Lord, Who is He?" He didn't even know, but the only thing that he knowed, that where he was blind, he could then see.” [Taking Sides With Jesus, JEFF IN, 62-0601]