Pastor Quotes

“Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.”

“I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience.”

“I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.”

“If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.”

“Trials make more room for consolation. There is nothing that makes a man have a big heart like a great trial. I always find that little, miserable people, whose hearts are about the size of a grain of mustard seed, never have had much to try them. I have found that those people who have no sympathy for their fellows — who never weep for the sorrows of others — very seldom have had any woes of their own. Great hearts can only be made by great troubles.”

“A good character is the best tombstone.”

“This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it breaks, and overshadows before it yields its deluge of mercy. Depression has now become to me as a prophet in rough clothing, a John the Baptist, heralding the nearer coming of my Lord's richer benison”

“Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.”

“We have all heard the story of the man who preached so well and lived so badly, that when he was in the pulpit everybody said he ought never to come out again, and when he was out of it they all declared he never ought to enter it again.”

“Nothing but grace makes a man so humble and, at the same time, so glad.”

“Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or excitement must be paid for by subsequent depressions. While the trial lasts, the strength is equal to the emergency; but when it is over, natural weakness claims the right to show itself.”

“Get a friend to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you savagely. What a blessing such an irritating critic will be to a wise man, what an intolerable nuisance to a fool!”

“Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.”

“A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else.”

“Thankfulness makes much of little.”

“Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.”

“A man who does nothing never has time to do anything”

“We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.”

“Feel for others - in your pocket”

“It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.”

“Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is, the better.”

“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.”

“Patience, then, believer, eternity will right the wrongs of time.”

“None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.”

“We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.”