Quotes by Clergymen - Page 5

Fear is a kind of bell or gong which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.
Henry Ward Beecher
A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.
Thomas Fuller
A danger foreseen is half avoided.
Thomas Fuller
Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.
Thomas Fuller
To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature.
Robert Burton
Comparison more than reality makes men happy or wretched.
Thomas Fuller
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
Dean William R. Inge
One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.
Thomas Fuller
A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size or it is not the door that Providence means for him.
Henry Ward Beecher
Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. ... To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly is the only way to meet supreme opportunities when they come whether open-faced or disguised.
Maltbie D. Babcock
Public opinion a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man.
Dean William R. Inge
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 not.
Henry Van Dyke
Good habits which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Ralph W Sockman
No matter what looms ahead if you can eat today enjoy the sunlight today mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
Henry Ward Beecher
That man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest.
Charles F. Deems
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces and which most men throw away.
Charles Caleb Colton
Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong How hard the battle goes the day how long Faint not-fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.
Maltbie D. Babcock
Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring.
Thomas Fuller
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher
What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed.
Thomas Fuller
He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.
Charles Caleb Colton
The image of God cut in ebony.
Thomas Fuller
We can live without our friends but not without our neighbors.
Thomas Fuller
Thank God ever morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.
Charles Kingsley
The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat in the active and passive.
Dean William R. Inge
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a sad expression some are pensive and diffident others again are plain honest and upright.
Henry Ward Beecher
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
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
Thomas Fuller
In fair weather prepare for foul.
Thomas Fuller
We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.
Charles Caleb Colton
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