Quotes by Clergymen - Page 10

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.
Thomas Fuller
Be good sweet maid and let who can be clever.
Charles Kingsley
Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
Henry Ward Beecher
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that He has a sense of humor.
William Ralph Inge
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
Thomas Fuller
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
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
If you run after two hares you will catch neither.
Thomas Fuller
As you emphasize your life you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.
Phillips Brooks
There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes but above me and within me there was a spirit stronger than them all.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Laboring toward distant aims sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best.
C. H. Parkhurst
Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
C. H. Parkhurst
Do noble things do not dream them all day long.
Charles Kingsley
Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
George Claude Lorimer
Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them.
Charles Caleb Colton
Be a friend to thyself and others will be so too.
Thomas Fuller
A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.
Thomas Fuller
Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad.
Thomas Fuller
Friendship that flames goes out in a flash.
Thomas Fuller
True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
Nobody who is afraid of laughing and heartily too at his friend can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.
Julius Charles Hare
We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
Thomas Fuller
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton
Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.
Charles Caleb Colton
They are rich who have true friends.
Thomas Fuller
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.
Henry Ward Beecher
A good friend is my nearest relation.
Thomas Fuller
God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.
Henry Ward Beecher
True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.
Charles Caleb Colton
He is rich that is satisfied.
Thomas Fuller
If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.
Thomas Fuller
He is not poor that hath not much but he that craves much.
Thomas Fuller
The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
William Ralph Inge
How few are our real wants and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.
Julius Charles Hare
Who covets more is evermore a slave.
Robert Herrick
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but the thankful heart... will find in every hour some heavenly blessings.
Henry Ward Beecher
There is no banquet but some dislike something in it.
Thomas Fuller
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
Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.
Thomas Fuller
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.
Charles Kingsley
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and as the magnet finds the iron so it will find in every hour some heavenly blessings!
Henry Ward Beecher
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
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas Fuller
I can forgive but I cannot forget is only another way of saying "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note-torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher
There are two kinds of fools: one says 'This is old therefore it is good' the other says 'This is new therefore it is better.'
Dean William R. Inge
Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.
Robert Burton
Many have been the wise speeches of fools though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
Thomas Fuller
But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
Robert Herrick
Flowers may beckon towards us but they speak toward heaven and God.
Henry Ward Beecher
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Henry Ward Beecher
Public opinion: a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for any one of us who is not content to be the average man.
Dean William R. Inge
There is no such thing as white lies a lie is as black as a coalpit and twice as foul.
Henry Ward Beecher
No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw or hold so fast as love can do with a twined thread.
Robert Burton
Life without faith in something is too narrow a space in which to live.
George Lancaster Spalding
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
Faith is an act of self-consecration in which the will the intellect and the affections all have their place.
William Ralph Inge
Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.
William Ralph Inge