quotes by Pastor Quotes

“The change is radical it gives us new natures, it makes us love what we hated and hate what we loved, it sets us in a new road; it makes our habits different, it makes our thoughts different, it makes us different in private, and different in public.”

“The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination.”

“One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable”

“Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.”

“Don't seek more days in your life but more life in your days.”

“As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly!”

“Without a quest, life is quickly reduced to bleak black and wimpy white, a diet too bland to get anybody out of bed in the morning. A quest fuels our fire. It refuses to let us drift downstream gathering debris.”

“Nothing is improved by anger, unless it be the arch of a cat's back. A man with his back up is spoiling his figure. People look none the handsomer for being red in the face. It takes a great deal out of a man to get into a towering rage; it is almost as unhealthy as having a fit. . . . Whatever wrong I suffer, it can not do me half so much hurt as being angry about it.”

“Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.”

“Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.”

“Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will.”

“A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”

“A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men.”

“We are all damaged goods in recovery.”

“He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.”

“When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.”

“Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.”

“Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.”

“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.”

“As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.”

“If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence.”

“We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.”

“He is truly great in who hath power over himself.”

“Let gratitude be awakened; let humility be deepened; let love be quickened.”

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

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

“If any man will preach as he should preach, his work will take more out of him than any other labor under heaven.”

“Every one of us can blame somebody for something that has happened in our lives. But don't waste your time. What we need most is a steady stream of love flowing among us. Love that quickly forgives, willingly overlooks, and refuses to take offense.”

“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”

“Adversity is a good test of our resiliency, our ability to cope, to stand back up, to recover from misfortune. Adversity is a painful pedagogue.”

“Who can ever measure the benefit of a mother's inspiration?”

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

“Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.”

“Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned”

“Worry is a complete waste of energy. It solves nothing.”

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

“I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.”

“Love has been called the most effective motivational force in all the world. When love is at work in us, it is remarkable how giving and forgiving, understanding and tolerant we can be.”

“Please, put aside all excuses and ask yourself, "What should I be doing?" Yes, you alone can make a difference. The question is, will you?”

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

“If we will only think, we shall begin to thank.”

“Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be. Is this world dreary? Then think of the next.”

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

“Victory needs conflict as its preface.”

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

“When filled with holy truth the mind rests.”

“Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty.”

“Home is the bottom line of life, the anvil upon which attitudes and convictions are hammered out the single most influential force in our earthly existence. No price tag can adequately reflect its value.”

“People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change”

“Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, 'He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.'”