Quotes by Clergymen - Page 2

A good life fears not life nor death.

Thomas Fuller

God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.

Oswald Chambers

Light God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.

Thomas Fuller

A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.

Thomas Fuller

In fair weather prepare for foul.

Thomas Fuller

Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue i.e. it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job and it will never be done unless we do it.

Oswald Chambers

Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.

Robert Herrick

Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.

Oswald Chambers

Inventiveness depends upon two habits of mind, which we can adopt and develop: attention andcuriosity.Attention means paying attention.....Curiosity means just that. Endlessly curious. Endlessly asking questions. Endlessly wanting to knowhow, and why?

Richard N. Bolles

In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Henry Ward Beecher

Now to enjoy the treasures of God in the similitude of God, is the most perfect blessedness God could devise. For the treasures of God are the most perfect treasures, and the manner of God is the most perfect manner.

Thomas Traherne

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Thomas Fuller

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Charles Kingsley

Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong How hard the battle goes the day how long Faint not-fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.

Maltbie D. Babcock

Our ordinary and reasonable service to God may actually compete against our total surrender to Him.

Oswald Chambers

Let [the wife] guard, as much as possible, against a gloomy and moody disposition, which causes her to move about with the silence and cloudiness of a spectre; for who likes to dwell in a haunted house?

John Angell James

If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.

Thomas Fuller

Tumble me down, and I will sitUpon my ruines (smiling yet:)Teare me to tatters; yet I'le bePatient in my necessitie.Laugh at my scraps of cloathes, and shunMe, as a fear'd infection:Yet scarre-crow-like I'le walk as one,Neglecting thy derision.

Robert Herrick

A man may as well open an oyster without a knife as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.

Barten Holyday

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

William Ralph Inge

Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.

Oswald Chambers

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

Phillips Brooks

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.

E.M.Bounds

Be on the lookout for mercies. The more we look for them the more of them we will see.... Better to loose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.

Maltbie D. Babcock

The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

Oswald Chambers

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame

Charles Caleb Colton

Are you ready to be less than a mere drop in the bucket--to be so totally insignificant that no one remembers you even if they think of those you served? Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted--not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?

Oswald Chambers

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

Henry Van Dyke

Danger past, God is forgotten.

Thomas Fuller

Like will to like each creature loves his kind.

Robert Herrick

I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.

Oswald Chambers

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

God may turn his ears from prattling prayers or preaching prayers but never from penitent believing prayers.

William S. Plumer

..a disability is something within you. A prejudice is something within theemployer...don’t look at yourself through their eyes. Look at yourself through your own eyes.

Richard N. Bolles

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

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

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

As we should not own our duties further than somewhat of Christ is in them, so should we no further our own hearts ; and as we should delight in the creatures no further than they have reference to Christ and eternity, so should we no further approve of our own hearts (483).

Richard Baxter

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! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come in you by the grace of God.

Phillips Brooks

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

Time is too slow for those who wait too swift for those who fear too long for those who grieve too short for those who rejoice but for those who love time is eternity.

Henry Van Dyke

The Golden Age was never the present Age.

Thomas Fuller

If a little labour little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

Robert Herrick

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

Thomas Fuller

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Henry Ward Beecher

Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled.

Henry Ward Beecher

You can never be fully human unless you've discovered the humanity in other human beings. Don't close your eyes to the injustices of your own country by trying to solve the injustices of another country. That's an evasion of Christian responsibility.

Beyers Naudé

We could be cowards if we had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was the end of all!

Richard Baxter

He who is not liberal with what he has, does but deceive himself when he thinks he would be liberal if he had more

William Swan Plumer

Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.

William Ralph Inge

The sexes in each species of beings . . . are always true equivalents-equals but not identicals.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

God did not direct His call to Isaiah— Isaiah overheard God saying, ". . . who will go for Us?" The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God’s call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.

Oswald Chambers

To the Virgins, To Make much of TimeGather ye rose-buds while ye may,Old Time is still a-flying;And this same flower that smiles today,tTomorrow will be dying.The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,tThe higher he’s a-getting,The sooner will his race be run,tAnd nearer he is to setting.That age is best which is the first,tWhen youth and blood are warmer;But being spent, the worse, and worsttTimes still succeed the former.Then be not coy, but use your time,tAnd while you may, go marry;For having lost but once your prime,tYou may for ever tarry.

Robert Herrick

Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

William Gurnall

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

Henry Ward Beecher

No matter what looms ahead if you can eat today enjoy the sunlight today mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

Henry Ward Beecher

now why is the devil's money accepted, the world's offer embraced, and God's rejected? Truly, men do not know the worth of what God offers them. The money the devil and the world offer is in their own currency, and is familiar to them. Swine trample on pearls, because they do not know their value. Men prefer the poor things they have because they are in their current possession. The devil seeks to peck out the eyes of men, that they do not see the blessed God and the happiness that is to be enjoyed in him. O how dull is the world's glass in the presence of true crystal! The magnet of earth will not draw man's affections while heaven is visible. He that has fed on the heavenly banquet cannot savor anything else.

George Swinnock

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