Quotes by Clergymen - Page 8

It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of men.
John Witherspoon
Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.
Henry Ward Beecher
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
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
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
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
Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.
Charles Caleb Colton
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war it is excitement.
Henry Ward Beecher
Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries and many would never try if they were not forced to.
Basil W. Maturin
A day dawns quite like other days in it a single hour comes quite like other hours but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.
Maltbie D. Babcock
Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations for sleep is a recreation. Add not therefore sauce to sauce. ... Pastime like wine is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head which hath lain fallow all night with some serious work.
Thomas Fuller
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities improve their talents but impair their virtues and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
Charles Caleb Colton
How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!
George Croly
Be the business never so painful you may have it done for money.
Thomas Fuller
God makes and apparel shapes: but it's money that finishes the man.
Thomas Fuller
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
Henry Ward Beecher
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states - Israel Athens Florence Elizabethan England.
Dean William R. Inge
That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
Thomas Fuller
Sickness is felt but health not at all.
Thomas Fuller
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.
Thomas Fuller
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well being of mankind.
Henry Ward Beecher
You say to me-ward's your affection's strong Pray love me little so you love me long.
Robert Herrick
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours.
Charles Caleb Colton
Love the itch and a cough cannot be hid.
Thomas Fuller
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
Dean William R. Inge
Grammar is the logic of speech even as logic is the grammar of reason.
Richard Trench
Like will to like each creature loves his kind.
Robert Herrick
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
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
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
George Whitefield
Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown.
Thomas Fuller
It is said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things and himself of anything.
Dean William R. Inge
Be you never so high the law is above you.
Thomas Fuller
It usually takes 100 years to make a law and then after it's done its work it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.
Henry Ward Beecher
A man may as well open an oyster without a knife as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
Barten Holyday
Rise with the lark and with the lark to bed.
James Hurdis
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Thomas Fuller
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
Charles Caleb Colton