Quotes by Clergymen - Page 15

Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God not of the answer.
Oswald Chambers
Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled.
Henry Ward Beecher
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher
To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.
Richard Baxter
Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.
Oswald Chambers
You can never be fully human unless you've discovered the humanity in other human beings. Don't close your eyes to the injustices of your own country by trying to solve the injustices of another country. That's an evasion of Christian responsibility.
Beyers Naudé
What a glut of books! Who can read them?
Robert Burton
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.
Charles Kingsley
There is something so pure and frank and noble about him that to doubt his sincerity would be like doubting the brightness of the sun.
Charles Jefferson
I also was persuaded that the woman most in need of liberation was the woman in every man just as the man most in need of liberation was the man in every woman.
William Sloane Coffin
Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.
Oswald Chambers
Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
Frederick W. Robertson
...never act on the impulse of that feeling. If you do, you will cause difficult situations to arise which will take years to untangle. Wait for God's timing and He will do it without any heartache or disappointment.
Oswald Chambers
The man of pleasure by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be is often more miserable than most men.
Charles Caleb Colton
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
Thomas Fuller
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about 100 years before he is born.
Dean William R. Inge
Public prayers of are of little value unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.
E.M.Bounds
Tomb thou shalt not hold Him longer Death is strong but Life is stronger Stronger than the dark the light Stronger than the wrong the right Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.
Phillips Brooks
Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.
William Ralph Inge
To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness.
Oswald Chambers
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
Henry Ward Beecher
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke
Are you willing to stoop down and consider the needs and desires of little children; to remember the weaknesses and lonliness of people who are growing old; to stop asking how much your friends love you, and to ask yourself if you love them enough; to bear in mind the things that other people have to bear on their hearts; to trim your lamp so that it will give more light and less smoke, and to carry it in front so that your shadow will fall behind you; to make a grave for your ugly thougts and a garden for your kindly feelings, with the gate open? Are you willing to do these things for a day? Then you are ready to keep Christmas!
Henry Van Dyke
Great and good are seldom the same man.
Thomas Fuller
and the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the sooner and deeper will it cut thy fingers, if thou take not heed (647).
Richard Baxter
Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.
E.M.Bounds
We can only be used by God after we allow Him to show us the deep, hidden areas of our own character.
Oswald Chambers
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
Ralph W Sockman
To him who prays, and as he prays, the hour is sacred because it is God's hour
E.M.Bounds
There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we never saw who lived perhaps thousands of miles away, and yet these little sheets of paper speak to us, arouse us, teach us, open our hearts and in turn open their hearts to us like brothers. Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, philosophy lame.
Charles Kingsley
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
Charles Kingsley
Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.
Phillips Brooks
The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.
Thomas Fuller
Only so far as a man believes strongly mightily can he act cheerfully or do anything worth doing.
Frederick W. Robertson
The goal of prayer is the ear of God a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him pouring out our heart to Him and permitting Him to speak to us. Only by so doing can we expect to know Him and as we come to know Him better we shall spend more time in His presence and find that presence a constant and ever-increasing delight.
E.M.Bounds
Those who trade with heaven by prayer grow rich by quick returns.
William S. Plumer
If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God!
George Whitefield
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth the publishing to find honest men to publish it and to get sensible men to read it.
C. C. Colton
But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
Robert Herrick
I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.
Oswald Chambers
Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
Charles Caleb Colton
Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and put thee in(247).
Richard Baxter
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
Charles Caleb Colton
Gaining heaven, being delivered from sin, and being made useful to God are things that should never even be a consideration in real surrender.
Oswald Chambers
Ah, cruel parents indeed, who neglect the religious education of their children; more cruel in some respects than Herod; he slew the bodies of children, these murder souls; he murdered the children of others, these murder their own; he employed the agency of his servants, these do the work of slaughter themselves.
John Angell James
Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown.
Thomas Fuller
A man may as well open an oyster without a knife as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
Barten Holyday
What if you had once seen hell open, and all the damned there in their easeless torments, and had heard them crying out of their slothfulness in the day of their visitation, and wishing that they had but another life to live, and that God would but try them once again; one crying out of this neglect of duty, and another of his loitering and trifling, when he should have been labouring for his life; what manner of person would you have been after such a sight as this ? (284)
Richard Baxter
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
Charles Caleb Colton
Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter not with vain repetitions but with urgent repetitions. We repeat not to count the times but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them or die.
E.M.Bounds
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas Fuller
Light God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.
Thomas Fuller
Clothes and manners do not make the man but when he is made they greatly improve his appearance.
Henry Ward Beecher
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Charles Caleb Colton
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher
We would be cowards if we had courage enough.
Thomas Fuller
The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us.
Oswald Chambers
When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.
Oswald Chambers
I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.
Oswald Chambers