Quotes by Clergymen - Page 9

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
Thomas Fuller
Give me a kisse and to that kisse a score Then to that twenty adde a hundred more A thousand to that hundred so kisse on To make that thousand up a million Treble that million and when that is done Let's kisse afresh as when we first begun.
Robert Herrick
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
Henry Ward Beecher
He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.
Thomas Fuller
The brain is not and cannot be the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
The humblest individual exerts some influence either for good or evil upon others.
Henry Ward Beecher
He is idle that might be better employed.
Thomas Fuller
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
Henry Ward Beecher
I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing you will never get it.
Charleszetta Waddles
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless you are slamming the door in the face of God.
Charles L. Allen
Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.
Robert Burton
Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.
Thomas Fuller
Hope arouses as nothing else can arouse a passion for the possible.
William Sloane Coffin
If it were not for hopes the heart would break.
Thomas Fuller
Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller
He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing.
Thomas Fuller
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
Dean William R. Inge
Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
Henry Ward Beecher
Man as we know him is a poor creature but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
Dean William R. Inge
Many people believe they are attracted by God or by Nature when they are only repelled by Man.
Dean William R. Inge
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
Dean William R. Inge
One murder makes a villain millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
Play the man Master Ridley we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England as I trust shall never be put out.
Bishop Hugh Latimer
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track ... an inch between wreck and smooth rolling prosperity.
Henry Ward Beecher
In about the same degree as you are helpful you will be happy.
Karl Reiland
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
Henry Ward Beecher
He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.
Charles Caleb Colton
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher
Did universal charity prevail earth would be a heaven and hell a fable.
Charles Caleb Colton
Charity begins at home but should not end there.
Thomas Fuller
Give if thou can an alms if not a sweet and gentle word.
Robert Herrick
In necessary things unity in doubtful things liberty in all things charity.
Richard Baxter
The sexes in each species of beings . . . are always true equivalents-equals but not identicals.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Nature is just enough but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him but to call out his best energy that he may be able to bear the burden.
Phillips Brooks
Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do rather than by the fine emotions we feel.
Elias L. Magoon
Goodwill is the mightiest practical force in the universe.
Charles F. Dole
There's no use in doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.
Charles Kingsley
The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.
Thomas Fuller
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher
The happy people are those who are producing something.
William Ralph Inge
He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.
Thomas Fuller
Happiness is not the end of life character is.
Henry Ward Beecher
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.
Robert Burton
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks
The man of pleasure by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be is often more miserable than most men.
Charles Caleb Colton
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
William Ralph Inge
To 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 to be satisfied with your possessions but not contented with yourself until you have made the best of them to despise nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness and to fear nothing except cowardice to be governed by your admirations rather than by your disgusts to covet nothing that is your neighbor's except his kindness of heart and gentleness of manners to think seldom of your enemies often of your friends and every day of Christ and to spend as much time as you can with body and with spirit in God's out-of-doors- these are little guideposts on the footpath to peace.
Henry Van Dyke
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
Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.
Charles Caleb Colton
Great and good are seldom the same man.
Thomas Fuller
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas Fuller
There but for the grace of God goes John Bradford.
John Bradford
The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.
Henry Ward Beecher
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
Dean William R. Inge
The enemies of Freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.
Dean William R. Inge
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
Dean William R. Inge
Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever Do noble things not dream them all day long And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.
Charles Kingsley
Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
Thomas Fuller