Quotes by Bishops

For acting thus you will remain innocent among the hissings of the serpents, and like a sweet strawberry you will receive no venom from the contact of venomous tongues.
Francis de Sales
There is a wide difference between having poison and being poisoned. All apothecaries have poisons ready for special uses, but they are not consequently poisoned, because the poison is only in their shop, not in themselves; and so you many possess riches without being poisoned by them, so long as they are in your house or purse only, and not in your heart. It is the Christian's privilege to be rich in material things , and poor in attachment to them.
St. Francis de Sales
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men ... crisis shows us what we have become.
Bishop Westcott
While I am busy with little things I am not required to do greater things.
St. Francis de Sales
How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination?
Jeremy Collier
He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.
Beilby Porteous
There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.
J. H. Vincent
Vessels never give so great a sound as when they are empty.
Bishop John Jewell
The best things in life must come by effort from within not by gifts from the outside.
Fred Corson
A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.
James A. Pike
The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
Charles H. Fowler
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.
John Lancaster Spalding
A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergere and looks at the audience.
Mervyn Stockwood
Life has no smooth road for any of us and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps till the legend "over steep ways to the stars " fulfills itself.
W. C. Doane
The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying not What a lovely sermon but I will do something!
St. Francis de Sales
The minister's brain is often die "poor-box" of the church.
Henry B. Whipple
Prayer is a kind of calling home every day. And there can come to you a serenity a feeling of at-homeness in God's universe a peace that the world can neither give nor disturb a fresh courage a new insight a holy boldness that you'll never never get any other way.
Earl G. Hunt
No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.
J.C. Ryle
We must wrestle earnestly in prayer like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.
J.C. Ryle
No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
J.C. Ryle
Teach us to pray often that we may pray oftener.
Jeremy Taylor
A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers.
J.C. Ryle
The peace is won by accompanying God into the battle.
Eivind Josef Berggrav
Weep no more lady weep no more Thy sorrow is in vain For violets plucked the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow again.
Thomas Percy
Have patience with all things but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
St. Francis de Sales
Those who love to be feared fear to be loved. Some fear them but they fear everyone.
Jean Pierre Camus
Every day is a little life ... live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal those that dare misspend it are desperate.
Joseph Hall
What we love to do we find time to do.
John Lancaster Spalding
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.
John Lancaster Spalding
A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergere and looks at the audience.
Mervyn Stockwood
Life has no smooth road for any of us and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps till the legend "over steep ways to the stars " fulfills itself.
W. C. Doane
The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying not What a lovely sermon but I will do something!
St. Francis de Sales
The minister's brain is often die "poor-box" of the church.
Henry B. Whipple
Prayer is a kind of calling home every day. And there can come to you a serenity a feeling of at-homeness in God's universe a peace that the world can neither give nor disturb a fresh courage a new insight a holy boldness that you'll never never get any other way.
Earl G. Hunt
No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.
J.C. Ryle
We must wrestle earnestly in prayer like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.
J.C. Ryle
No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
J.C. Ryle
Teach us to pray often that we may pray oftener.
Jeremy Taylor
A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers.
J.C. Ryle
The peace is won by accompanying God into the battle.
Eivind Josef Berggrav
Weep no more lady weep no more Thy sorrow is in vain For violets plucked the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow again.
Thomas Percy
Have patience with all things but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
St. Francis de Sales
Those who love to be feared fear to be loved. Some fear them but they fear everyone.
Jean Pierre Camus
Every day is a little life ... live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal those that dare misspend it are desperate.
Joseph Hall
What we love to do we find time to do.
John Lancaster Spalding
What we can do for another is the test of powers what we can suffer is the test of love.
Brooke Foss Westcott
Hope is a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work and animates a man to do his utmost.
Jeremy Collier
If all were gentle and contented as sheep all would be as feeble and helpless.
John Lancaster Spalding
Teach me to live that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.
Bishop Ken
The nearer the church the further from God.
Bishop Lancelot Andrewes
I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if he wanted to but I very much doubt if he would because it seems to be contrary to the way in which he deals with persons and brings his wonders out of natural personal relationships.
Right Rev. David Jenkins
The glory of God is in man fully alive.
St. Irenaeus
Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly.
St. Francis de Sales
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows the ease of our passions the discharge of our oppression the sanctuary of our calamities the counselor of our doubts the clarity of our minds the emission of our thoughts the exercise and improvement of what we dedicate.
Jeremy Taylor
The private and personal blessings we enjoy-the blessings of immunity safeguard liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.
Jeremy Taylor
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Jean Baptiste Massieu
Greediness of getting more deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.
Thomas Sprat
Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
St. Francis de Sales
Your faith is what you believe not what you know.
John Lancaster Spalding
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop WC. Magee