Quotes by Ministers - Page 2

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
What you praise you increase.
Catherine Ponder
Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it.
Charles M. Sheldon
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
Hugh Blair
Joy increases as you give it and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Norman Vincent Peale
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart develop the happiness habit and life will become a continual feast.
Norman Vincent Peale
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
Thomas Higginson
The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate your mind from worry. Live simply expect little give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Norman Vincent Peale
Most of us have no real loves and no real hatreds. Blessed is love less blessed is hatred but thrice accursed is that indifference which is neither one nor the other.
Mark Rutherford
The golden rule is of no use whatsoever unless you realize that it is your move.
Dr. Frank Crane
When you wholeheartedly adopt a "with all your heart" attitude and go all out with the positive principle you can do incredible things.
Norman Vincent Peale
Hatred is self-punishment.
Hosea Ballou
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Norman Vincent Peale
Real happiness is cheap enough yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Hosea Ballou
Talking about God is not at all the same thing as experiencing God or acting out God through our lives.
Phillip Hewett
Not only then has each man his individual relation to God but each man has his peculiar relation to God.
George MacDonald
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not disgrace to reach the stars but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure but low aim is a sin.
Benjamin Mays
Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.
William P. Merrill
It should be part of our private ritual to devote a quarter of an hour every day to the enumeration of the good qualities of our friends. When we are not active we fall back idly upon defects even of those whom we most love.
Mark Rutherford
Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.
Hosea Ballou
The best things in life are appreciated most after they have been lost.
Roy L. Smith
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Norman Vincent Peale
Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.
Horace Bushnell
Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills.
Catherine Ponder
The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.
Catherine Ponder
If a man harbors any sort of fear it percolates through all his thinking damages his personality makes him landlord to a ghost.
Lloyd C. Douglas
The horse does abominate the camel the mighty elephant is afraid of a mouse and they say that the lion which scorneth to turn his back upon the stoutest animal will tremble at the crowing of a cock.
Increase Mather
There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith ... Can you reduce it to practice? If not have none of it.
Hosea Ballou
Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.
Robert Collyer
The principle part of faith is patience.
George MacDonald
Each morning puts man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy L. Smith
Energy even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed will move mountains.
Hosea Ballou
Education commences at the mother's knee and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.
Hosea Ballou
The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness.
Mark Rutherford
The successful man is he who when he sees that no further certainty is attainable promptly decides on the most probable side as if he were completely sure it was right.
Mark Rutherford
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Hosea Ballou
Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
George MacDonald
It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God.
George MacDonald
Where did you come from baby dear? Out of the Everywhere into here.
George MacDonald
Most of the fear that spoils our life comes from attacking difficulties before we get to them.
Dr. Frank Crane
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Norman Vincent Peale
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
He imagined them sitting somewhere, just enjoying each other's company, her head on his chest, his arm around her. And he realized how desperately lonely he had become.
Tim LaHaye
The God to whom I was introduced as a child was basically a Jewish one: male, fatherly, Anglo-European, bearded, angrily loving, judgmental, righteously indignant,mand frighteningly powerful, not to mention present everywhere and all-knowing. In trying to make sense of this God, man has continued to manufacture and manipulate images of this perceived deity. The images have changed over the centuries, based on the mood of the times. During kind times when harvests were abundant and peace reigned (admittedly rare in the ancient world), God was benevolent. When plpague and famine killed millions, God was portrayed as enraged and vengeful. To this day, this emotionally infantile God remains in power, a fear-based aberration produced by fevered imaginations, promoted by those who understand how such a deity can be used to gain and consolidate power over believers, and protected by flocks of billions who refuse to question their damning God for fear of their own damnation -- or out of an even greater immediate terror of social and cultural isolation. But I argue that it is PRECISELY this image of God -- an infantile, simplistic, ridiculous notion of the sublime power that underlies the world -- that is destroying civil religion, fueling the rage of the "angry atheist" movement, and pitting science against the spiritual at a time when we should be using every tool within reach to discover what it means to be human -- and divinely human at that.
Carlton D. Pearson
How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?
Malcolm X
If there is one Christian left who holds out hope that a God honoring, biblically accurate, mainstream Hollywood movie will emerge, I have some advice for you…stop waiting, it’s not going to happen, move on. If you want authentic Scripture, read the Scripture.
William Branks
Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job
Malcolm X
I should not be surprised," said Mr. Graham, "that the day should come when men will refuse to believe in God simply on the ground of the apparent injustice of things. They would argue that there might be either an omnipotent being who did not care, or a good being who could not help, but that there could not be a being both all good and omnipotent or else he would never have suffered things to be as they are.
George MacDonald
Many people engage in physical relationships without ever experiencing intimacy
DeBorrah K. Ogans