Quotes by Clergymen

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

Henry Ward Beecher

We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well.

Oswald Chambers

What the meaning of this period of unemployment is, now.One way to get at that definition is to ask ourselves, “What is this time for?

Richard N. Bolles

If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other laws than his, if it were at thy choice, thou art not his disciple (331).

Richard Baxter

most men know what they hate few what they love

Charles Caleb Colton

Before it's too late and time is running out let us turn from trust in the chain reactions of exploding atoms to faith of the chain reaction of God's love. Love - love of God and fellow men. That is God's formula for peace.

Richard Cardinal Cushing

God's friendship is with people who know their poverty.

Oswald Chambers

Till thou hast learned to suffer from a saint a well as from the wicked, and to be abused by the godly as well as the ungodly, never look to live a contented or comfortable life, nor ever think thou has truly learned the art of suffering (383).

Richard Baxter

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

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

Charles Kingsley

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

Men do recognise at last that a supernatural Religion involves an absolute authority, and that Private Judgment in matters of faith is nothing else than the beginning of disintegration.

Robert Hugh Benson

Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying or quit bad conduct.

E.M.Bounds

We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors and nothing more.

E.M.Bounds

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

They say so is half a lie.

Thomas Fuller

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

The prayers of the Christian are secret but their effect cannot be hidden.

Howard Chandler Robbins

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.

Thomas Fuller

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. He will never talk well and with real success to men for God who has not learned well how to talk to God for men.

E.M.Bounds

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.

Edward Hubbell Chapin

Many of us do not continue to grow spiritually because we prefer to choose on the basis of our rights, instead of relying on God to make the choice for us.

Oswald Chambers

Too fair to worship too divine to love.

Henry Hart Milman

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

A church debt is the devil's salary.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

Ralph W Sockman

As most of us know, the proper attitude toward ourselves is called “good self-esteem.” But self-esteem isan art. An art of balance. A balance between thinking too little of ourselves, and thinking too much ofourselves.The name for thinking too much of ourselves is “egotism.

Richard N. Bolles

Bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.

Preston Bradley

Different men view the same things in different ways. And the same men in the course of a few years alter their whole view of life. They have simply changed their companions on the road. Indeed the breaking with one set of people and the forming ties of friendship with others of a different type is often but the outward evidence and result of a hidden and inward change of the more intimate friendships of the mind.

Basil W. Maturin

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

Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue.

George Horne

One murder makes a villain millions a hero.

Bishop Beilby Porteus

I'm not OK you're not OK-and that's OK.

William Sloane Coffin

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

Thomas Fuller

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Thomas Fuller

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

One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.

Oswald Chambers

...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

All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

Richard de Bury

There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed. Our Brilliant Heritage, 946 R

Oswald Chambers

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

Dean William R. Inge

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from... human souls we never saw... And yet these arouse us terrify us teach us comfort us open their hearts to us as brothers.

Charles Kingsley

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down provided it is the right temptation put in the right spot.

Henry Ward Beecher

The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.

E.M.Bounds

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

Abel Stevens

We act like pagans in a crisis--only one out of an entire crowd is daring enough to invest his faith in the character of God.

Oswald Chambers

I care not what your education is elaborate or nothing what your mental calibre is great or small that man who concentrates all his energies of body mind and soul in one direction is a tremendous man.

T. DeWitt Talmage

The Bible attitude is not that God sends sickness or that sickness is of the devil, but that sickness is a fact usable by both God and the devil.

Oswald Chambers

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever Do noble things not dream them all day long And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.

Charles Kingsley

Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.

Robert Burton

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

You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely his, and this means that you have to watch to keep yourself fit. It takes a tremendous amount of time. Some of us expect to “clear the numberless ascensions”* in about two minutes.

Oswald Chambers

Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do rather than by the fine emotions we feel.

Elias L. Magoon

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

Oswald Chambers

Never ask another person's advice about anything God makes you decide before Him.

Oswald Chambers

Not what we have but what we use not what we see but what we choose-these are the things that mar or bless human happiness.

Joseph Fort Newton

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