Quotes by Clergymen - Page 16

Just because you can’t find them doesn’t mean they don’t exist. You’ve got to change the way you’relooking for them. Because there are always job vacancies out there.
Richard N. Bolles
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
Henry Ward Beecher
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher
God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
Henry Ward Beecher
I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure. I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.
Preston Bradley
If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.
Oswald Chambers
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Thomas Fuller
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
Thomas Fuller
He that believeth that he believe, believeth himself and not God (333)[.]
Richard Baxter
We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
Oswald Chambers
Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purist ore is produced from the hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
Charles Caleb Colton
How few are our real wants and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.
Julius Charles Hare
Spiritual work is taxing work, and men are loath to do it. Praying, true praying, costs an outlay of serious attention and of time, which flesh and blood do not relish.
E.M.Bounds
Watch your motive before God have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.
Oswald Chambers
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
Thomas Fuller
Good habits which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Ralph W Sockman
The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.
Frederick Lewis Donaldson
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further and try to plant a virtue in its place.
Charles Caleb Colton
Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in you will work on a wrong level all day but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.
Oswald Chambers
Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.
Oswald Chambers
Human nature if it healthy demands excitement and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics He makes no passionless saints.
Oswald Chambers