Quotes by Clergymen - Page 5

He is idle that might be better employed.
Thomas Fuller
He that falls into sin is a man that grieves at it is a saint that boasteth of it is a devil.
Thomas Fuller
Men never think their fortunes too great nor their wit too little.
Thomas Fuller
God’s revelation does not need the light of human genius, the polish and strength of human culture, the brilliancy of human thought, the force of human brains to adorn or enforce it; but it does demand the simplicity, the docility, humility, and faith of a child’s heart.
E.M.Bounds
There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so.
Charles Caleb Colton
The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.
Oswald Chambers
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
Jesus doesn't bring anything up from the wells of human nature--He brings them down from above.
Oswald Chambers
Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship
Thomas Fuller
What if you had seen haven open as Stephen did, and all the saints there triumphing in glory, and enjoying the end of their labours and sufferings, what a life would you lead after such a sight as this! Why, you will see this with your eyes before it be long.Thou hast the more cause to doubt a great deal, because thou never didst doubtl and yet more because thou hast been so careless in thy confidence. What do these expressions discover, but a wilful neglect of thy own salvation? As a shipmaster that should let his vessel alone, and mind other matters, and say, I will venture it among the rocks, and sands, and gulfs, and waves, and winds; I will never touble myself to know wheter it shall come safe to the harbour; I will trust God with it; it will speed as well as other men's vessels do. Indeed, as well as other men's that are as careless and idle, but not so well as other mens's that are diligent and watchful. What horrible abuse of God is this, for men to pretend that they trust God with their souls only to cloak their own wilful negligence! (290-291)
Richard Baxter
Life without faith in something is too narrow a space in which to live.
George Lancaster Spalding
Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;While he who walks in love may wander far,Yet God will bring him where the blessed are.
Henry Van Dyke
When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else once you are back in the light.
Oswald Chambers
If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him.
John Newton
The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the world correspond to reality.
William Ralph Inge
The ambitious climbs high and perilous stairs and never cares how to come down the desire of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall.
Thomas Adams
Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have, Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship.
Oswald Chambers
No man by mere high human wisdom would dare undertake a step for Jesus’ sake unless he knows that the Holy Spirit has directly spoken to him; and until He comes, I shall not go.
Oswald Chambers
The brain is not and cannot be the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. ... To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly is the only way to meet supreme opportunities when they come whether open-faced or disguised.
Maltbie D. Babcock
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
Henry Ward Beecher
Sirs, so much as your hearts as is empty of Christ and heaven, let it be filled with shame and sorrow, and not with ease (483).
Richard Baxter
One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.
Oswald Chambers
If it were not for hopes the heart would break.
Thomas Fuller
That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
Thomas Fuller
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it and that is the grave.
Henry Ward Beecher
Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge.
Thomas Fuller
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher
Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.
Thomas Fuller
Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.
E.M.Bounds
Nature is just enough but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
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 Sweet wife. No never come over again.
Charles Kingsley
A good marksman may miss.
Thomas Fuller
It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.
Henry Ward Beecher
There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.
Oswald Chambers
There are vast areas of stubbornness and ignorance the Holy Spirit has to reveal in each of us, but it can only be done when Jesus gets us alone...Jesus cannot teach us anything until we quiet all our intellectual questions and get alone with Him.
Oswald Chambers
A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day.
Charles Caleb Colton
Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.
Henry Van Dyke
[O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]
Richard Baxter
But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.
Henry Van Dyke
Pray for "all men." We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.
E.M.Bounds
We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it.
P.F. Bresee
Bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.
Preston Bradley
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.
Thomas Fuller
Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things the simplest and the sublim-est the weakest and the most powerful its results lie outside the range of human possibilities-they are limited only by the omnipotence of God.
E.M.Bounds
If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
Oswald Chambers
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table.
Oswald Chambers
You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.
Oswald Chambers
It is always darkest just before .the day dawneth.
Thomas Fuller
He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater.
Thomas Fuller
A true saying it is, ‘Desire hath no rest;‘ is infinite in itself, endless; and as one calls it, a perpetual rack, or horse-mill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.
Robert Burton
I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am
John Newton
Society is built upon trust.
Robert South
The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.
E.M.Bounds
At the bottom of a good deal of bravery ... lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
Edwin H. Chapin
We must continually maintain an adventurous attitude toward Him, despite any potential personal risk.
Oswald Chambers
The world is like a board with holes in it and the square men have got into the round holes and the round into the square.
Bishop Berkeley
Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
Henry Ward Beecher