Preacher Quotes

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.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

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

Give because you love to give - as the flower pours forth its perfume.

Growing a beard is a habit most natural, Scriptural, manly and beneficial.

Six feet of dirt make all men equal.

Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.

Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory.

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and re-read them...digest them...a student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by 20 books he has merely skimmed.

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.

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

Idleness is the key of beggary.

Easy roads make sleepy travellers.

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

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.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

To be forgiven is such sweetness that honey is tasteless in comparison with it. But yet there is one thing sweeter still, and that is to forgive. As it is more blessed to give than to receive, so to forgive rises a stage higher in experience than to be forgiven.

He who does not serve God where he is would not serve God anywhere else.

Thou hast put me in this world for something, Lord; show me what that is, and help me to work out my life-purpose: I cannot do much, but as the widow put in her two mites, which were all her living, so, Lord, I cast my time and eternity too into thy treasury; I am all thine; take me, and enable me to glorify thee now, in all that I say, in all that I do, and with all that I have.

Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.

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

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.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

We are never, never so much in danger of being proud as when we think we are humble.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

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.

Feel for others - in your pocket

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

A man who does nothing never has time to do anything

The worst thing thou has to fear is the treachery of thine own heart.

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.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

A man says to me, 'Can you explain the seven trumpets of the Revelation?' No, but I can blow one in your ear, and warn you to escape from the wrath to come.

I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might.

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

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.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.

Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world

Grace does not choose a man and leave him as he is.

To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning.

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.

It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

Conflicts bring experience and experience brings that growth in Grace which is not to be attained by any other means!

Believe only half of the praise and half of the criticism.

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

Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man [the man at ease] dreams not of.

Now' is the watchword of the wise.

Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die.

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.

Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.

J.C. Ryle is an evangelical champion...One of the bravest and best of men.

Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.

Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.

Of two evils, choose neither.

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