Quotes by Clergymen - Page 11

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
Thomas Fuller
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Henry Ward Beecher
Faith is an assent of the mind and a consent of the heart consisting mainly of belief and trust.
E. T. Hiscox
A faith that sets bounds to itself that will believe so much and no more that will trust so far and no further is none.
Julius Charles Hare
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
Henry Ward Beecher
It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
Henry Ward Beecher
A stumble may prevent a fall.
Thomas Fuller
There is only one real failure in life that is possible and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
Frederic W. Farrar
Perhaps the only real failure is that implying waste a conscious and flagrant non-use or misuse of ability.
Joseph H. Odell
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher
Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
Frederick W. Robertson
I've never met a person I don't care what his condition in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure I believe in him for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. Whenever he develops the desire he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.
Preston Bradley
He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater.
Thomas Fuller
No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.
Frederick W. Robertson
Life like war is a series of mistakes and he is best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.
Frederick W. Robertson
A good marksman may miss.
Thomas Fuller
Today is yesterday's pupil.
Thomas Fuller
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every pebble in the road.
Henry Ward Beecher
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Thomas Fuller
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
Ralph W Sockman
The real difference between men is energy.
Thomas Fuller
Human nature if it healthy demands excitement and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics He makes no passionless saints.
Oswald Chambers
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Henry Ward Beecher
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it.
Charles Caleb Colton
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
Thomas Fuller
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
I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
William Sloane Coffin
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
Henry Ward Beecher
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
Henry Ward Beecher
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
Robert South
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
Charles Caleb Colton
If the world will be gulled let it be gulled.
Robert Burton
A church debt is the devil's salary.
Henry Ward Beecher
Body and mind like man and wife do not always agree to die together.
Charles Caleb Colton
What a day may bring a day may take away.
Thomas Fuller
It is always darkest just before .the day dawneth.
Thomas Fuller
My son is my son till he have got him a wife But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.
Thomas Fuller
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl vigilant in darkness and blind to light mousing for vermin and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.
Henry Ward Beecher
The mob has many heads but no brains.
Thomas Fuller
The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.
Thomas Fuller
A small demerit extinguishes a long service.
Thomas Fuller
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
Dean William R. Inge
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further and try to plant a virtue in its place.
Charles Caleb Colton
Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
Charles Caleb Colton
At the bottom of a good deal of bravery ... lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
Edwin H. Chapin
We would be cowards if we had courage enough.
Thomas Fuller
A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.
Thomas Fuller
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
Charles Caleb Colton
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.
Ralph W Sockman
The highest courage is not to be found in the instinctive acts of men who risk their lives to save a friend or slay a foe the physical fearlessness of a moment or an hour is not to be compared with immolation of months or years for the sake of wisdom or art.
Joseph H. Odell
Physical courage which despises all danger will make a man brave in one way and moral courage which despises all opinion will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp the latter for the council but to constitute a great man both are necessary.
Charles Caleb Colton
Bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.
Preston Bradley
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
He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.
Thomas Fuller
He who is afraid of every nettle should not piss in the grass.
Thomas Fuller
At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
E. H. Chapin
We could be cowards if we had courage enough.
Thomas Fuller
No great advance has ever been made in science politics or religion without controversy.
Lyman Beecher
Society is built upon trust.
Robert South