Quotes by Clergymen - Page 4

your god may be your little Christian habit - the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your Father will upset your schedule if you begin to worship your habit instead of what the habit symbolizes. We say, 'I can't do that right now; this is my time alone with God.' No, this is your time alone with your habit.
Oswald Chambers
It is as if a Mohammedan, while recognizing the divine mission of the Arab prophet, were to write for his son a treatise on the ethics of the New Testament as better adapted than the moral system of the Koran for the training and confirming of a young man in the practice of virtue.
Andrew P. Peabody
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point where we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.
E.M.Bounds
Today is yesterday's pupil.
Thomas Fuller
Prayer like faith obtains promises enlarges their operation and adds to the measure of their results.
E.M.Bounds
Hope can give you wings, persistence, and energy. If you’re out of work, and want to stay upbeat, thengreet the sunrise, go for a walk, count your blessings, listen to beautiful music, drink more water thanusual, eat simpler, exercise more, laugh with your family and friends, watch cartoons, take naps in thedaytime if you can’t sleep well at night, but for heaven’s sakes, don’t obsess about depressing statistics.Just determine to find alternatives for everything you are doing about your job-hunt and your life. Youwant to be the exception to whatever the odds are, about anything. Hold on to Hope, and you can beatthose odds.
Richard N. Bolles
I'm not OK you're not OK-and that's OK.
William Sloane Coffin
There is only one thing to be done," went on the old lady, "be simple and quiet. Whenever your soul begins to be disturbed and anxious, put yourself in His Hands, and refuse to decide for yourself. It is easy, so easy.
Robert Hugh Benson
Trust thyself only and another shall not betray thee.
Thomas Fuller
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
Thomas Fuller
Prayer puts God's work in His hands-and keeps it there.
E.M.Bounds
Long, discursive, dry, and inane are the prayers in many pulpits. Without unction or heart, they fall like a killing frost on all the graces of worship. Death-dealing prayers they are. Every vestige of devotion has perished under their breath. The deader they are the longer they grow.
E.M.Bounds
Be you never so high the law is above you.
Thomas Fuller
Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you. Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus, I’ve lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spirit’s vision, Gazing on the Crucified.
Oswald Chambers
Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth.
Thomas Fuller
True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
Do I not well deserve to be turned into hell, if the scorns and threats of blinded men, if the fear of silly, rotten earth, can drive me thither (588)?
Richard Baxter
It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today.
Thomas Fuller
Obedience is love, fulfilling every command, love expressing itself. Obedience, therefore, is not a hard demand made upon us, any more than is the service a husband renders his wife, or a wife renders her husband. Love delights to obey, and please whom it loves. There are no hardships in love. There may be exactions, but no irk. There are no impossible tasks for love.With what simplicity and in what a matter-of-fact way does the apostle John say: 'And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things which are pleasing in his sight.
E.M.Bounds
Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long a-doing So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.
R. H. Barham
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Charles Caleb Colton
The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present all the time in every condition.
Oswald Chambers
There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires listless efforts lazy attitudes all must be strenuous urgent ardent. Flamed desires impassioned unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.
E.M.Bounds
Every time we pray our horizon is altered our attitude to things is altered not sometimes but every time and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.
Oswald Chambers
My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.” Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers
Yet I must tell you, that all these graces which are expressed by passions of sorrow, fear, joy, hope, love, are not so certainly to be tried by the passion that is in them, as by the will that is either contained in them, or supposed in them; not as acts of the sensitive, but of the rational appetite (358).
Richard Baxter
You say to me-ward's your affection's strong Pray love me little so you love me long.
Robert Herrick
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
William Ralph Inge
A forced kindness deserves no thanks
Thomas Fuller
Moments of prayer intruded on by sloth cannot be made up. We may get experience, but we cannot get back the rich freshness and strength which were wrapped up in those moments.
Frederick W. Robertson
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours.
Charles Caleb Colton
The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.
Thomas Fuller
Paul was devoted to a Person, not a cause.
Oswald Chambers
The public! why the public's nothing better than a great baby.
Thomas Chalmers
It is a good thing to be happy alone. It is better to be happy in company, but good to be happy alone. Men owe me the advantage of their society, but if they deny me that just debt, I will not be unjust to myself, and side with them in bereaving me. I will not be discouraged, lest I be miserable for company. More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
Thomas Traherne
To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature.
Robert Burton
Did universal charity prevail earth would be a heaven and hell a fable.
Charles Caleb Colton
If we would have God in the closet God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God but by living to God.
E.M.Bounds
The world is God's world after all.
Charles Kingsley
Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and inexpressible charm about it that is very satisfying to Jesus. You must learn to "go out" through your convictions, creeds, or experiences until you come to the point in your faith where there is nothing between yourself and God.
Oswald Chambers
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
Dean William R. Inge
A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.
Henry Ward Beecher
Welcome death quoth the rat when the trap fell.
Thomas Fuller
... God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so.
Oswald Chambers
Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and self-love may be love for my devotion to Jesus— not love for Jesus Himself.
Oswald Chambers
I want to tell you a growing conviction with me, and that is that as we obey the leadings of the Spirit of God, we enable God to answer the prayers of other people. I mean that our lives, my life, is the answer to someone’s prayer, prayed perhaps centuries ago.It is more and more impossible to me to have programmes and plans because God alone has the plan, and our plans are only apt to hinder Him, and make it necessary for Him to break them up. I have the unspeakable knowledge that my life is the answer to prayers, and that God is blessing me and making me a blessing entirely of His sovereign grace and nothing to do with my merits, saving as I am bold enough to trust His leading and not the dictates of my own wisdom and common sense.
Oswald Chambers
What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.
Oswald Chambers
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Edwin H. Chapin
We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours.
Oswald Chambers
Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it.
Oswald Chambers
There is no need to get to a place of prayer pray wherever you are.
Oswald Chambers
All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.
Richard de Bury
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned heavenward.
Phillips Brooks
If your hope dieth, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next to dead, both in likenss and preparation( 585).
Richard Baxter
He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.
Thomas Fuller
Be good sweet maid and let who can be clever.
Charles Kingsley
At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
E. H. Chapin
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu
God may turn his ears from prattling prayers or preaching prayers but never from penitent believing prayers.
William S. Plumer
With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness.
Thomas Chalmers