Quotes by Clergymen - Page 12

Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever.
Charles Kingsley
Whenas in silks my Julia goes Then then methinks how sweetly flows The liquefaction of her clothes!
Robert Herrick
0 little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.
Phillips Brooks
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
Henry Ward Beecher
O Douglas O Douglas! Tender and true.
Sir Richard Holland
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about 100 years before he is born.
Dean William R. Inge
They are proud in humility proud that they are not proud.
Robert Burton
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.
Charles Kingsley
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. ... New harmonies new contrasts new combinations of every sort. ... The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other to their work to surrounding objects.
Henry Ward Beecher
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
John Henry Boetcker
Cheat me in the price but not in the goods.
Thomas Fuller
Business is religion and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.
Maltbie Babcock
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
William Ralph Inge
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Charles Caleb Colton
The statistics of suicide show that for non-combatants at least life is more interesting in war than in peace.
William Ralph Inge
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from... human souls we never saw... And yet these arouse us terrify us teach us comfort us open their hearts to us as brothers.
Charles Kingsley
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward Beecher
All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.
Richard de Bury
Light God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.
Thomas Fuller
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.
Edward Hubbell Chapin
Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.
Dean William R. Inge
A good life fears not life nor death.
Thomas Fuller
The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs and never care how to come down the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.
Thomas Adams
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
Henry Van Dyke
He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.
Thomas Fuller
The dog is the god of frolic.
Henry Ward Beecher
Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.
Thomas Fuller
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry Ward Beecher
Old foxes want no tutors.
Thomas Fuller
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion.
Charles Caleb Colton
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
Henry Ward Beecher
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection or grief has humanized the soul.
Frederick W. Robertson
Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purist ore is produced from the hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
Charles Caleb Colton
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Edwin H. Chapin
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion.
Charles Caleb Colton
In vain our labours are whatsoe'er they be unless God gives the Benediction.
Robert Herrick
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
There is a time for all things a time to preach and a time to pray but those times have passed away there is a time to fight and that time has come!
General Peter Muhlenberg
That man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest do not worry.
Charles F. Deems
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas Fuller
Sudden acquaintance brings repentance.
Thomas Fuller
I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.
Thomas Fuller
Good is not good where better is expected.
Thomas Fuller
God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
Henry Ward Beecher
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it and that is the grave.
Henry Ward Beecher
Remember whose you are and whom you serve.
Oswald Chambers
I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.
Oswald Chambers
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.
Henry Ward Beecher
Now to enjoy the treasures of God in the similitude of God, is the most perfect blessedness God could devise. For the treasures of God are the most perfect treasures, and the manner of God is the most perfect manner.
Thomas Traherne
Men do recognise at last that a supernatural Religion involves an absolute authority, and that Private Judgment in matters of faith is nothing else than the beginning of disintegration.
Robert Hugh Benson
Whenever we put other things first, there is confusion.
Oswald Chambers
My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.” Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers
Beware of anything that would tarnish God's mirror in you. It is always something good stains it—good, but not best.
Oswald Chambers
We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it.
P.F. Bresee
He that dare not die, dare scarce fight valiantly (475).
Richard Baxter
Ye cannot live for yourselves; a thousand fibres connect you with your fellow-men, and along those fibres, as along sympathetic threads, run your actions as causes, and return to you as effects.
Henry Melvill
The touchstone of the Holy Spirit’s work in us is the answer to our Lord’s question: “Who do men say that the Son of Man is?” Our Lord makes human destiny depend on that one thing, Who men say He is, because the revelation of Who Jesus is is only given by the Holy Spirit.
Oswald Chambers
When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don't fill it with busyness, just wait.
Oswald Chambers
...never act on the impulse of that feeling. If you do, you will cause difficult situations to arise which will take years to untangle. Wait for God's timing and He will do it without any heartache or disappointment.
Oswald Chambers
One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.
Oswald Chambers