Quotes by Ministers

Lastly, Spurgeon reminds us that piety and devotion to Christ are not preferable alternatives to controversy, but rather that they should - when circumstances demand it - lead to the latter. He was careful to maintain that order. The minister who makes controversy his starting point will soon have a blighted ministry and spirituality will wither away. But controversy which is entered into out of love for God and reverence for His Name, will wrap a man's spirit in peace and joy even when he is fighting in the thickest of battle. The piety which Spurgeon admired was not that of a cloistered pacifism but the spirit of men like William Tyndale and Samuel Rutherford who, while contending for Christ, could rise heavenwards, jeopardizing 'their lives unto the death in the high places of the field'. At the height of his controversies Spurgeon preached some of the most fragrant of all his sermons.
Iain H. Murray
Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.
Malcolm X
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who is for or against it.
Malcolm X
We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.
Malcolm X
I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.
Malcolm X
I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had started to school when, sometimes, they would come in and ask for a buttered biscuit or something and my mother, impatiently, would tell them no. But I would cry out and make a fuss until I got what I wanted. I remember well how my mother asked me why I couldn't be a nice boy like Wilfred; but I would think to myself that Wilfred, for being so nice and quiet, often stayed hungry. So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
Malcolm X
Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.
Mark Rutherford
The west is broken into bars Of orange gold and gray Gone is the sun come are the stars And night infolds the day.
George MacDonald
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
George MacDonald
Great issues develop from small beginnings.
Norman Vincent Peale
When Ty Cobb got on first base he had an apparently nervous habit of kicking the bag. ... By kicking the bag hard enough Cobb could move it a full two inches closer to second base. He figured that this improved his chances for a steal or for reaching second base safely on a hit.
Norman Vincent Peale
The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow and when it comes it too is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow and so the cheat is prolonged even to the grave.
Mark Rutherford
It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.
George MacDonald
It is not the cares of today but the cares of tomorrow that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet.
George MacDonald
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale
Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue and always an enemy to happiness.
Hosea Ballou
Fear is faithlessness.
George MacDonald
A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear.
George MacDonald
God loves you. God doesn't want anyone to be hungry and oppressed. He just puts his big arms around everybody and hugs them up against himself.
Norman Vincent Peale
The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.
Robert C. Peale
The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else.
Roy L. Smith
Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.
Dr. Frank Crane
You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.
Dr. Frank Crane
My prayers my God flow from what I am not I think Thy answers make me what I am.
George MacDonald
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Norman Vincent Peale
Look as a painted man is no man and as painted fire is no fire so a cold prayer is no prayer.
Thomas B. Brooks
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.
Thomas B. Brooks
God hears no more than the heart speaks and if the heart be dumb God will certainly be dumb.
Thomas B. Brooks
Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls.
Thomas B. Brooks
Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production distribution and administration and many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.
Norman Vincent Peale
Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.
Malcolm X
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Norman Vincent Peale
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts. A thought can do us more good than a doctor or a banker or a faithful friend. It can also do us more harm than a brick.
Dr. Frank Crane
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Norman Vincent Peale
We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we take it what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.
Joseph Newton
This is a sane wholesome practical working faith: That it is a man's business to do the will of God second that God himself takes on the care of that man and third that therefore that man ought never to be afraid of anything.
George MacDonald
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
Mark Rutherford
Nobody's problem is ideal. Nobody has things just as he would like them.
Dr. Frank Crane
If you want greater prosperity in your life start forming a vacuum to receive it.
Catherine Ponder
Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
Cotton Mather
You can't measure time in days the way you can money in dollars because each day is different.
Phillip Hewett
Habits are safer than rules you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either they keep you.
Dr. Frank Crane
Timely service like timely gifts is doubled in value.
George MacDonald
As every thread of gold is valuable so is every moment of time.
John Mason
We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
George MacDonald
Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.
Dr. Frank Crane
You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.
Dr. Frank Crane
My prayers my God flow from what I am not I think Thy answers make me what I am.
George MacDonald
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Norman Vincent Peale
Look as a painted man is no man and as painted fire is no fire so a cold prayer is no prayer.
Thomas B. Brooks
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.
Thomas B. Brooks
God hears no more than the heart speaks and if the heart be dumb God will certainly be dumb.
Thomas B. Brooks
Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls.
Thomas B. Brooks
Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production distribution and administration and many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.
Norman Vincent Peale
Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.
Malcolm X
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Norman Vincent Peale
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts. A thought can do us more good than a doctor or a banker or a faithful friend. It can also do us more harm than a brick.
Dr. Frank Crane
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Norman Vincent Peale