Quotes by Clergymen - Page 8

A thankful and a contented spirit is a continual feast. We ought to be contented, and we shall be contented, if we are in the habit of seeing God in everything, and living upon Him day by day. Oh, for a spirit of true thankfulness!
Ashton Oxenden
We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.
Oswald Chambers
The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much. The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God.
Oswald Chambers
In about the same degree as you are helpful you will be happy.
Karl Reiland
The mob has many heads but no brains.
Thomas Fuller
Consideration doth, as it were, open the door between the head and the heart: the understanding having received truths, lays them up in the memory now, consideration is the conveyer of theme from thence to the affections (571).
Richard Baxter
We may reconcile ourselves to the world at our peril, but it will never reconcile itself to us. . . . This unwillingness to die, doth actually impeach us of high treason against the Lord : is it not a choosing of earth before him ; and taking these present things for our happiness, and consequently asking them our very God (469)?
Richard Baxter
In fair weather prepare for foul.
Thomas Fuller
God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.
John Henry Jowett
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
Oswald Chambers
Never say you will pray about a thing pray about it.
Oswald Chambers
Do noble things do not dream them all day long.
Charles Kingsley
Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.
Thomas Fuller
It is not what a man gets, But what a man is,That he should think of.He should first think of his character,And then of his condition.He that has character need have no fear of his condition.Character will draw condition after it.
H.W. Beecher (1813-1887)
It is hard to wait and press and pray and hear no voice but stay till God answers.
E.M.Bounds
Every family has in fact a sacred character belonging to it, which may indeed be forgotten or disdained; but the family is constituted, and ought therefore to be conducted, with the prospect of the rising generation following that which precedes it, not only to the grave, but to eternity"(Christopher Anderson). Every member of every household is an immortal creature; every one that leaves the circle by death, goes into an eternity of torment or bliss. And, since all the ordinances of God look to another world as their chief and ultimate reference, surely, surely, that institute which is the most powerful of all in the formation of character, must be considered as set up with a special intention to prepare the subjects of it for "glory, honour, immortality, and eternal life.
John Angell James
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Henry Ward Beecher
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
Dean William R. Inge
Perhaps the only real failure is that implying waste a conscious and flagrant non-use or misuse of ability.
Joseph H. Odell
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
John Henry Boetcker
To say prayers in a decent delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened till the mountains of obstacles are removed till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens-this is hard work but it is God's work and man's best labor.
E.M.Bounds
One must count ones riches by the means one has to satisfy his desires.
Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles
The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'.
Henry Ward Beecher
The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.
Oswald Chambers
The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.
Oswald Chambers
The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.
Thomas Fuller
Do not pray for easy lives pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks
Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.
Phillips Brooks
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
Dean William R. Inge
He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.
Thomas Fuller
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
Henry Ward Beecher
There are two days about which nobody should ever worry and these are yesterday and tomorrow.
Robert Jones Burdette
He that would have fruit must climb the tree.
Thomas Fuller
... for you will never, I trust, disconnect what you may yourselves be learning from the hope and prospect of being enabled thereby to teach others more effectually. If you do, and your studies in this way become a selfish thing, if you are content to leave them barren of all profit to others, of this you may be sure, that in the end they will prove not less barren of profit to yourselves. In one noble line Chaucer has characterized the true scholar:- "And gladly would he learn and gladly teach." Resolve that in the spirit of this line you will work and live.
Richard Chenevix Trench
Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.
Henry Ward Beecher
Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do rather than by the fine emotions we feel.
Elias L. Magoon
There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.
William Sloane Coffin Jr.
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
What a study in importunity, in earnestness, in persistence, promoted and propelled under conditions which would have disheartened any but a heroic, constant soul. [Jesus] teaches that an answer to prayer is conditional upon the amount of faith that goes to the petition. To test this, He delays the answer. the superficial pray-er subsides into silence, when thteanswer is delayed. But eh man of prayer hangs on, and on. The Lord recognizes and honors his faith, and gives him a rich and abundant answer to His faith evidencing, importunate prayer.
E.M.Bounds
On earth we have nothing to do with success or results but only with being true to God and for God. Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
Frederick W. Robertson
He comes where He commands us to leave.
Oswald Chambers
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
Thomas Fuller
A faith that sets bounds to itself that will believe so much and no more that will trust so far and no further is none.
Julius Charles Hare
One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.
Thomas Fuller
If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask then He will give them but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.
Oswald Chambers
So necessary is it not only that we should be what we appear, but appear what we are.
William Jay
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life impels us through all its mazes and meanderings but leads none of us by the same route.
Charles Caleb Colton
The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15).
Richard Baxter
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
Thomas Fuller
Time is a river...and books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in its sands. Only a few, a very few, endure the testings of time and live to bless the ages following.
Joseph Fort Newton
The test of mountain-top experiences, of mysticism, of visions of God and of solitariness is when you are “in the soup” of actual circumstances.
Oswald Chambers
Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God.
Maltbie D. Babcock
The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of
Charles Henry Parkhurst
We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.
Henry Melvill
Prayer is the great engine to overthrow and rout my spiritual enemies the great means to procure the graces of which I stand in hourly need.
John Newton
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Henry Ward Beecher
Beware of anything that would tarnish God's mirror in you. It is always something good stains it—good, but not best.
Oswald Chambers
The prayers of the Christian are secret but their effect cannot be hidden.
Howard Chandler Robbins