Quotes by Clergymen - Page 2

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
Charles Caleb Colton
He that would have fruit must climb the tree.
Thomas Fuller
The ambitious climbs high and perilous stairs and never cares how to come down the desire of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall.
Thomas Adams
The real difference between men is energy.
Thomas Fuller
Prayer may not change things for you but it for sure changes you for things.
Samuel Shoemaker
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going and going in that way too.
Henry Ward Beecher
None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn.
Henry Ward Beecher
Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.
Henry Van Dyke
And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.
Charles Kingsley
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.
Charles Caleb Colton
The cocktail party - a device for paying off obligations to people you don't want to invite to dinner.
Charles Merrill Smith
He that falls into sin is a man that grieves at it is a saint that boasteth of it is a devil.
Thomas Fuller
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
Charles Caleb Colton
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
Every tub must stand on its own bottom.
Thomas Fuller
The sexes in each species of beings . . . are always true equivalents-equals but not identicals.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Only so far as a man believes strongly mightily can he act cheerfully or do anything worth doing.
Frederick W. Robertson
A true man never frets about his place in the world but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature and swings there as easily as a star.
Edwin H. Chapin
I'm not OK you're not OK-and that's OK.
William Sloane Coffin
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
Henry Ward Beecher
They say so is half a lie.
Thomas Fuller
Better hazard once than always be in fear.
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
He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
Thomas Fuller
Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.
Phillips Brooks
A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size or it is not the door that providence means for him.
Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life impels us through all its mazes and meanderings but leads none of us by the same route.
Charles Caleb Colton
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war.
Charles Caleb Colton
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Julius Charles Hare
The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.
Thomas Fuller
I survived. (J'ai vecu.)
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes
Welcome death quoth the rat when the trap fell.
Thomas Fuller
They have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind.
Ballou Hosea
A good life is the only religion.
Thomas Fuller
Religion is a way of walking not a way of talking.
Dean William R. Inge
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but live for it.
Charles Caleb Colton
The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power.
Charles Caleb Colton
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Thomas Fuller
Prospect is often better than possession.
Thomas Fuller
Good is not good where better is expected.
Thomas Fuller
A man surprised is half beaten.
Thomas Fuller
Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge.
Thomas Fuller
The public! why the public's nothing better than a great baby.
Thomas Chalmers
Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
Charles Caleb Colton
Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.
Thomas Fuller
Pride perceiving humility honourable often borrows her cloak.
Thomas Fuller
There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so.
Charles Caleb Colton
We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.
Charles Caleb Colton
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
Thomas Fuller
In fair weather prepare for foul.
Thomas Fuller
I am 52 years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote.
Bishop Desmond Tutu
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned heavenward.
Phillips Brooks
The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades but the best of all professions.
John Newton
Never say you will pray about a thing pray about it.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer is God's answer to our poverty not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.
Oswald Chambers
The prayers of the Christian are secret but their effect cannot be hidden.
Howard Chandler Robbins
The spirit of prayer is the fruit and token of the Spirit of adoption.
John Newton
Prayer is not an exercise it is the life.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer is our most formidable weapon the thing which makes all else we do efficient.
E.M.Bounds