Quotes by Clergymen - Page 13

Man is better off without the confusion and fear of psychic experience and his progress will be faster.' If telepathy ever becomes a possibility he was not sure it would be a good thing, '...for it may put us back in contact with the spirits of the dead and progress does not lie in that direction.
H. Russell Wakefield
The world goes up and the world goes down And the sunshine follows the rain And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again.
Charles Kingsley
If someone out of work knows only three words about their impending job-hunt, I’m willing to bet thosethree words will be: resumes/CV, interviews, and networking.
Richard N. Bolles
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
Henry Ward Beecher
When shall I be past these soul-tormenting fears, and cares, and griefs, and passions? When shall I be out of this frail, this corruptible, ruinous body; this soul-contradicting, insnaring, deceiving flesh? When shall I be out of this vain and vexatious world, whose pleasures are mere deluding dreams and shadowsl whose miseries are real, numerous, and uncessant? How long shall I see the church of Christ lie trodden under the feet of persecutors ; or else, as a ship in the hands of foolish guides, though the supreme Maker doth moderate all for the best? (642-3)
Richard Baxter
High tech needs to be complemented by high touch.
Richard N. Bolles
Faith and hope and patience and all the strong beautiful vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer his personal salvation and personal Christian graces have their being bloom and fruitage in prayer.
E.M.Bounds
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
Dean William R. Inge
The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
Oswald Chambers
My son is my son till he have got him a wife But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.
Thomas Fuller
Too fair to worship too divine to love.
Henry Hart Milman
Why dost thou not see that on earth they desires fly from thee? Art thou a not as a child that thinketh to travel to the sun, when he seeth it rising or setting, as it were close to the heart ; but as he traveleth toward it, it seems to go from him ; and when he hath long wearied himself, it is as far off as ever, for the thing he seeketh is in another world? Even such hath been thy labour in seeking for so holy, so pure, so peaceable as society, as might afford thee a contented settlement here. Those that have gone as far as America for satisfaction, have confessed themselves unsatisfied still (643).
Richard Baxter
The Lord's questions always reveal the true me to myself.
Oswald Chambers
The success of your job-hunt dependson you—with a little help from your friends. You must be in charge of it. You must plan it. You mustdirect it. You must know what works and what doesn’t work. Your job-hunt is by its very nature a“self-directed search.
Richard N. Bolles
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Thomas Fuller
Many people believe they are attracted by God or by Nature when they are only repelled by Man.
Dean William R. Inge
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless you are slamming the door in the face of God.
Charles L. Allen
Nobody who is afraid of laughing and heartily too at his friend can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.
Julius Charles Hare
Engage in no pursuit in which you cannot look up unto God, and say, 'Bless me in this, my Father!
Legh Richmond
Don't pray to escape trouble. Don't pray to be comfortable in your emotions. Pray to do the will of God in every situation. Nothing else is worth praying for.
Samuel M. Shoemaker
Some say that Love, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies.
Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles
No matter what looms ahead if you can eat today enjoy the sunlight today mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
Henry Ward Beecher
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
John Witherspoon
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
E.M.Bounds
Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring.
Thomas Fuller
[W]hen the pleasure is at the sweetest, death is the nearest (461)[.]
Richard Baxter
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it.
Charles Caleb Colton
[I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily and seriously, and bless God that thou hast yet time to do it; and though that which is past cannot be recalled, yet redeem the time now by doubling thy diligence (260).
Richard Baxter
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down provided it is the right temptation put in the right spot.
Henry Ward Beecher
The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.
Henry Ward Beecher
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness is not the end of life character is.
Henry Ward Beecher
We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.
Charles Caleb Colton
The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs and never care how to come down the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.
Thomas Adams
It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.
E.M.Bounds
The enemies of Freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.
Dean William R. Inge
The sweetest poison doth often bring the surest death (645).
Richard Baxter
Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.
Robert Burton
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
Charles Caleb Colton
The way of painful duty is the way of fullest comfort. Christ carrieth all our comforts in his hand : if we are out of that way where Christ is to be met, we are out of the way where comfort is to be had (312).
Richard Baxter
Life like war is a series of mistakes and he is best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.
Frederick W. Robertson
Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever.
Charles Kingsley
God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.
Oswald Chambers
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
Thomas Fuller
The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades but the best of all professions.
John Newton
Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.
Charles Kingsley
We also wish warmly to affirm those sisters and brothers, already in membership with orthodox churches, who - while experiencing same-sex desires and feelings - nevertheless battle with the rest of us, in repentance and faith, for a lifestyle that affirms marriage [between a man and woman] and celibacy as the two given norms for sexual expression. There is room for every kind of background and past sinful experience among members of Christ's flock as we learn the way of repentance and renewed lives, for "such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God" (1 Corinthians 6:11).This is true inclusivity.
Richard Bewes
Prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned God-ward.
Phillips Brooks
God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children just as far as God's ability goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.
E.M.Bounds
Prayer is not an exercise it is the life.
Oswald Chambers
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.
Henry Ward Beecher
Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong How hard the battle goes the day how long Faint not-fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.
Maltbie D. Babcock
If we are taught by God in affliction we are blessed. When God teaches, he applies his instruction to the heart. He commands light to shine out of darkness (2 Corinthians 4:6). The Holy Spirit brings divine truths in such a clear and convincing light that the soul sits down fully satisfied. The soul both sweetly and freely acquiesces in the revealed truths. When God teaches, the soul experiences truth as David (Psalm 119:71). Some only know notionally, but David knew by experience; he became more acquainted with the Word. He knew it more, loved it better, and was more transformed in the nature of it. Thus, Paul, “I know who I have believed” (2 Timothy 1:12) – “I have experienced his faithfulness and his all-sufficiency; I can trust my all with him. I am sure he will keep it safe to that day.” Those taught of God in affliction can speak experimentally, in one degree or another. They can speak of their communion with God (Psalm 23:4). The sweet singer of Israel had comfortable presence. Those taught of God can say: “As we have heard, so we have seen. I have experienced this word upon mine heart, and can set my seal that God is true.” God’s teaching is a powerful teaching. It conveys strength as well as light. Truth only understood needs to be put into action and practice. God’s teachings are sweet to the taste. David rolled them as sugar under his tongue, and received more sweetness than Samson from his honeycomb. Luther said he would not live in paradise without the Word, but with the Word he could live in hell itself. Teaching is sweet because it is suitable to the renewed man (Jeremiah 15:16).
Thomas Case
It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
Henry Ward Beecher
Grammar is the logic of speech even as logic is the grammar of reason.
Richard Trench
The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting.
Thomas Traherne
Visualize "prayerize " "actionize " and your wishes will come true.
Charles L. Allen
Show me the man you honor and I will know what kind of man you are.
Thomas John Carlisle
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley