Pastor Quotes

“If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.”

“Now' is the watchword of the wise.”

“Ministers should be stars to give light, not clouds to obscure.”

“Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards!”

“A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.”

“It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them.”

“Home is the grandest of all institutions.”

“Victory needs conflict as its preface.”

“No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harboured in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that go up in their own estimation must come down again by His discipline”

“We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.”

“Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.”

“The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.”

“Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.”

“When the heart is full of joy, it always allows its joy to escape. It is like the fountain in the marketplace; whenever it is full it runs away in streams, and so soon as it ceases to overflow, you may be quite sure that it has ceased to be full. The only full heart is the overflowing heart.”

“I think you may judge of a man’s character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking only the affection of those who are great, depend upon it he is ambitious and self-seeking; but when you observe that a man seeks the affection of those who can do nothing for him, but for whom he must do everything, you know that he is not seeking himself, but that pure benevolence sways his heart.”

“We should shun ingratitude, and live daily in the heavenly atmosphere of thankful love.”

“Grace puts its hand on the boasting mouth, and shuts it once for all.”

“Giving is true loving.”

“For my part, I love to stand foot to foot with an honest foeman. To open warfare, bold and true hearts raise no objection but the ground of quarrel; it is covert enmity which we have most cause to fear, and best reason to loathe. That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.”

“Economy is half the battle in life, but it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.”

“We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, 'Is it pleasant?'but, 'Is it true?'”

“Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.”

“To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today.”

“An ounce of heart knowledge is worth a ton of head learning.”

“Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy.”