Quotes by Clergymen - Page 4

Beyond our utmost wants His love and power can bless To praying souls he always grants More than they can express.

John Newton

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

We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it.

P.F. Bresee

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Dean William R. Inge

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

Henry Ward Beecher

The praying which makes a prayerful ministry is not a little praying put in as we put flavor to give it a pleasant smack, but the praying must be in the body, and form the blood and bones. Prayer is no petty duty, put into a corner; no piecemeal performance made out of the fragments of time which have been snatched from business and other engagements of life; but it means that the best of our time, the heart of our time and strength must be given.

E.M.Bounds

In necessary things unity in doubtful things liberty in all things charity.

Richard Baxter

O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648).

Richard Baxter

Tomb thou shalt not hold Him longer Death is strong but Life is stronger Stronger than the dark the light Stronger than the wrong the right Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.

Phillips Brooks

Life without faith in something is too narrow a space in which to live.

George Lancaster Spalding

When God intends a mercy for his people, he stirs up the spirit of prayer in them. Fervency unites the soul and directs the thoughts to the work at hand. It will not allow diversions and denies all foreign thoughts seeking to intrude. Pray fervently or you do nothing. Cold praying is no more prayer than a painting of fire is fire. How can prayers that do not even warm your own heart move God’s? A fervent prayer will never find a cold reception with God. Elijah’s prayer called fire down from heaven because it carried fire up to heaven.

William Gurnall

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth the publishing to find honest men to publish it and to get sensible men to read it.

C. C. Colton

If you run after two hares you will catch neither.

Thomas Fuller

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

Thomas Fuller

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

The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present all the time in every condition.

Oswald Chambers

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Henry Van Dyke

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,Old Time is still a-flying;And this same flower that smiles today,tTomorrow will be dying.

Robert Herrick

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

To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.

Oswald Chambers

A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.

Thomas Fuller

As you emphasize your life you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

Phillips Brooks

Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.

Charles Caleb Colton

Just because you can’t find them doesn’t mean they don’t exist. You’ve got to change the way you’relooking for them. Because there are always job vacancies out there.

Richard N. Bolles

The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.

E.M.Bounds

He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.

Henry Van Dyke

A man surprised is half beaten.

Thomas Fuller

Tender-handed stroke a nettle and it stings you for your pains Grasp it like a man of mettle and it soft as silk remains.

Thomas Fuller

It is always darkest just before .the day dawneth.

Thomas Fuller

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Robert Herrick

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Thomas Fuller

O Lord let me not live to be useless!

Bishop John de Stratford

In about the same degree as you are helpful you will be happy.

Karl Reiland

It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act; in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.

William Sloane Coffin Jr.

The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.

Oswald Chambers

the difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't

Henry Ward Beecher

A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock and assumes ten different positions in a day.

Charles Caleb Colton

The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades but the best of all professions.

John Newton

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