Quotes by Clergymen - Page 10

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
Henry Ward Beecher
Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but they return with the richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
William Gurnall
When God intends a mercy for his people, he stirs up the spirit of prayer in them. Fervency unites the soul and directs the thoughts to the work at hand. It will not allow diversions and denies all foreign thoughts seeking to intrude. Pray fervently or you do nothing. Cold praying is no more prayer than a painting of fire is fire. How can prayers that do not even warm your own heart move God’s? A fervent prayer will never find a cold reception with God. Elijah’s prayer called fire down from heaven because it carried fire up to heaven.
William Gurnall
It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.
William Ralph Inge
If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other laws than his, if it were at thy choice, thou art not his disciple (331).
Richard Baxter
God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for the giving that is governed by a fixed determination. The Spirit of God revolutionises our philanthropic instincts. Much of our philanthropy is simply the impulse to save ourselves an uncomfortable feeling. The Spirit of God alters all that. As saints our attitude towards giving is that we give for Jesus Christ’s sake, and from no other motive.
Oswald Chambers
The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s Word.
Oswald Chambers
Good is not good where better is expected.
Thomas Fuller
I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
William Sloane Coffin Jr.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Thomas Fuller
0 little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.
Phillips Brooks
God's friendship is with people who know their poverty.
Oswald Chambers
In vain our labours are whatsoe'er they be unless God gives the Benediction.
Robert Herrick
Are you ready to be less than a mere drop in the bucket--to be so totally insignificant that no one remembers you even if they think of those you served? Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted--not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?
Oswald Chambers
Be on the lookout for mercies. The more we look for them the more of them we will see.... Better to loose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.
Maltbie D. Babcock
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
George Whitefield
Rise with the lark and with the lark to bed.
James Hurdis
God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.
Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.
Charles Caleb Colton
Tumble me down, and I will sitUpon my ruines (smiling yet:)Teare me to tatters; yet I'le bePatient in my necessitie.Laugh at my scraps of cloathes, and shunMe, as a fear'd infection:Yet scarre-crow-like I'le walk as one,Neglecting thy derision.
Robert Herrick
Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
Henry Ward Beecher
The "show business," which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from Our Lord's conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we have to do exceptional things for God; we have not. We have to be exceptional in ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, surrounded by sordid sinners. That is not learned in five minutes.
Oswald Chambers
Let those who smile at me, ask themselves whether they have been indebted most to imagination or reality for all they have enjoyed in life, if indeed they have ever enjoyed any thing.
Charles Robert Maturin
We are in the Dark to one another's Purposes and Intendments, and there are a thousand Intrigues in our little Matters, which will not presently confess their Design, even to sagacious Inquisitors...
Joseph Glanville
The strongest Christian is unsafe among occasions to sin (519).
Richard Baxter
Religion is a way of walking not a way of talking.
Dean William R. Inge
Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
Thomas Fuller
Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.
Robert Burton
Remember whose you are and whom you serve.
Oswald Chambers
That man is blest Who does his best And leaves the rest Then-do not worry.
Charles F. Deems
Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome;But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.
Henry Van Dyke
Time is too slow for those who wait too swift for those who fear too long for those who grieve too short for those who rejoice but for those who love time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke
Twas now the very witching time of night,When churchyards groan, and graves give up their dead,And many a mischievous, enfranchised spriteHad long since burst his bonds of stone or lead,And hurried off, with schoolboy-like delight,To play his pranks near some poor wretch's bed,Sleeping, perhaps serenely as a porpoise,Nor dreaming of this fiendish Habeas Corpus.
Thomas Ingoldsby
One of the penalties of sin is our acceptance of it.
Oswald Chambers
There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual safety.
Charles Robert Maturin
Faith is an act of self-consecration in which the will the intellect and the affections all have their place.
William Ralph Inge
Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others but then they return with their richer lading at last so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
William Gurnall
Even innocent Adam is liker to forget God in a paradise, than Joseph in a prison, or Job upon a dunghill(376)[.]
Richard Baxter
Trouble and prayer are closely related. . . . Trouble often drives men to God in prayer while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.
E.M.Bounds
The world did not appreciate Abraham Lincoln until he died. His great figure has been looming higher each succeeding decade. We understand Jesus better than any other generation..A great man is like a mountain, you cannot appreciate when standing at its base.
Charles Jefferson
And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.
Charles Kingsley
If thy meditation tends to fill thy note-book with notions, and good sayings, concerning God, and not thy heart with longing after him, and delight in him, for aught I know thy book is as much a Christian as thou (553).
Richard Baxter
Now comes the mystery! (last words)
Henry Ward Beecher
O Douglas O Douglas! Tender and true.
Sir Richard Holland
Good is not good, where better is expected.
Thomas Fuller
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
Henry Ward Beecher
Anger is the rising up of the heart in passionate displacency against an apprehended evil, which would cross or hinder us of some desired good.
Richard Baxter
The cocktail party - a device for paying off obligations to people you don't want to invite to dinner.
Charles Merrill Smith
A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.
Oswald Chambers
It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf
Thomas Fuller
A good life fears not life nor death.
Thomas Fuller
Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion.
Oswald Chambers
Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.
E.M.Bounds
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
Oswald Chambers
None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn.
Henry Ward Beecher
The dog is the god of frolic.
Henry Ward Beecher
Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).
Richard Baxter
No Centaurs here, or Gorgons look to find,My subject is of man, and human kind.
Robert Burton
As we draw on the grace of God He increases voluntary poverty all along the line. Always give the best you have got every time; never think about who you are giving it to; let other people take it or leave it as they choose. Pour out the best you have, and always be poor. Never reserve anything; never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives.
Oswald Chambers
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
Charles Caleb Colton