Quotes by Clergymen

You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine.
Thomas Traherne
Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome;But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.
Henry Van Dyke
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
Gaining heaven, being delivered from sin, and being made useful to God are things that should never even be a consideration in real surrender.
Oswald Chambers
God cannot deliver me while my interest is merely in my own character. Paul was not conscious of himself. He was recklessly abandoned, totally surrendered, and separated by God for one purpose--to proclaim the gospel of God.
Oswald Chambers
This total surrender to 'the love of Christ' is the only thing that will bear fruit in your life. And it will always leave the mark of God's holiness and His power, never drawing attention to your personal holiness.
Oswald Chambers
To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness.
Oswald Chambers
Beware of surrender that is motivated by personal benefits that may result.
Oswald Chambers
Our ordinary and reasonable service to God may actually compete against our total surrender to Him.
Oswald Chambers
To keep clear of concealment to keep clear of the need of concealment to do nothing that he might not do out on the middle of Boston Common at noonday -I cannot say how more and more that seems to me to be the glory of a young man's life. It is an awful hour when the first necessity of hiding anything comes. The whole life is different thenceforth. When there are questions to be feared and eyes to be avoided and subjects that must not be touched then the bloom of life is gone. Put off that day as long as possible. Put if off forever if you can.
Phillips Brooks
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
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
Thomas Fuller
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
Charles Caleb Colton
Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
Henry Ward Beecher
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
William Ralph Inge
That man is blest Who does his best And leaves the rest Then-do not worry.
Charles F. Deems
There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. ... One of these days is Yesterday ... And the other day I do not worry about is Tomorrow.
Robert Jones Burdette
The world is God's world after all.
Charles Kingsley
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
Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.
Henry Van Dyke
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
Better to wear out than to rust out.
Bishop Cumberland
Be strong! We are not here to play to dream to drift We have hard work to do and loads to lift Shun not the struggle-face it 'tis God's gift.
Maltbie D. Babcock
Work alternated with needful rest is the salvation of man or woman.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
The happy people are those who are producing something.
William Ralph Inge
If a little labour little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
Robert Herrick
A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day.
Charles Caleb Colton
A good horse should be seldom spurred.
Thomas Fuller
Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long a-doing So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.
R. H. Barham
Too fair to worship too divine to love.
Henry Hart Milman
Men never think their fortunes too great nor their wit too little.
Thomas Fuller
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
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
Thomas Fuller
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
Thomas Fuller
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
Thomas Fuller
The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.
Thomas Fuller
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Thomas Fuller
Westward the course of empire takes its way.
Bishop Berkeley
Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.
Charles Caleb Colton
Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.
Thomas Fuller
Pure truth like pure gold has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
Charles Caleb Colton
Trust thyself only and another shall not betray thee.
Thomas Fuller
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may Old Time is still aflying And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick
What a day may bring a day may take away.
Thomas Fuller
It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today.
Thomas Fuller
Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.
Phillips Brooks
Do today's duty fight today's temptation do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see and could not understand if you saw them.
Charles Kingsley
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
Henry Ward Beecher
Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other-it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age.
Charles Caleb Colton
We can easily manage if we will only take each day the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
John Newton
Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
Henry Ward Beecher
There are two days about which nobody should ever worry and these are yesterday and tomorrow.
Robert Jones Burdette
The Golden Age was never the present Age.
Thomas Fuller
A house may draw visitors but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
Charles Caleb Colton
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Henry Ward Beecher
He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.
Thomas Fuller
If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city.
Charles Caleb Colton
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
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
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