Quotes

“God will use imperfect people to do His perfect work!”

“If we are too big for the small things, we will probably be too small for the bigger things.”

“The devil will subtract and divide, God will add and multiply.”

“Joy is the by product of walking in His gifting, frustration is the by product of walking solely in your gifting.”

“The church—it's all about souls but most only think of themselves.”

Quotes by Subject Title:

Ability

The question, “who ought to be boss?” is like asking, “Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?” Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
Henry Ford

Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Abstinence

Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
William Penn

Action

Thought is the blossom, language is the bud, action is the fruit behind it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraell

Give me a ready hand rather than a ready tongue.
Giusappe Garibaiti

Advice

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
William Rounseville Alger

He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
Benjamin Franklin

Age

A man is not too old as long as he is seeking something.
Jean Rostand

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. Chinese Proverb

Angel

One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian angel. Jewish Folk Saying 1

Anger

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
Malabar Proverb

Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
Horace

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.
Haliburton

Character

Given time, you can tell the true nature and character of a person.
Jim L. Fuller

Character is not made in a crisis—it is only exhibited.
Robert Freeman

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.
Jean Paul Richter

Charity

It is more blessed to give than receive.
Acts 20:35

The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.
J.S. Buckmaster

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
Victor Hugo

Cheerfulness

A good laugh is sunshine in a home.
William Makepeace Thackeray

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain

Christianity

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
Henry Ward Beecher

Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.
Thomas Fuller

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians, they are so unlike your Christ.
Ghandi

There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much to magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
Francis Bacon

Courage

One man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Jackson

Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemmingway

I would rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Lyndon Baines Johnson

Death

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
Bill Ferris

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell

God's finger touched him, and he slept.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their name.
Proverb

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: Those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.
Sir Winston Churchill

Debt

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Debt is the worst poverty.
Thomas Fuller

Never spend your money before you have it.
Thomas Jefferson

Difficulty

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you can alter the difficulties or you can alter yourself meeting them.
Phyllis Bottome

We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.
Abram Sacher

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Seneca

Faith

Belief is held in the mind, faith is a fire in the heart.
Johnathan Swift

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Henry David Thoreau

Family

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
Robert Frost

A family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George Sabtayana

Fear

In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.
William Sloane Colton

The only thing to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

There is no anger, jealousy, hatred, suspicion. There is only fear and its various derivatives.
Anon

Forgive

Forgive does not mean forgetting, only God can do that.
Jim L. Fuller

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Jean Paul Richter

Friendship

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius

In order to be friendly, you have to show yourself friendly.
Raymond Shann

God

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
St. Augustine

God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

God never shuts one door but he opens another.
Irish Proverb

Happiness

Happiness in not a reward—it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment—it is a result.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The grand essentials for happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Allan K. Chambers

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Burton Hills

Hate

If we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.
George William Russell

Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.
Rev. Martin Luther King

Hatred is the madness of the heart.
Lord Byron

Heart

Two things are bad for the heart---running up stairs and running down people.
Bernard M. Maruch

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
Jacque Benigne Bossuet

Hell

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
Dante

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Karl Marx

Humor

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
Will Rogers

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Husbands

Husbands never become food; they merely become proficient.
H.L. Mencken

Lie

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, and before an election.
Otto Von Bismark

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
William Osler

The greatest part of life is to spend it with someone who will outlast it.
Jim L. Fuller

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Kierkengaard

The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates

Love

Live each day as if it were your last, love as if it was your first.
Jim L. Fuller

It is better to have loved and lost than to have never have loved at all.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Henry Ward Beecher

Opportunity

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

Peace

Peace is the harvest of love as war is the fruit of hate.
Joan Walsh

Procrastination

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin

Problems

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Albert Einstein

Purpose

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
Washington Irving

Religion

Religion is a fashionable substitute for belief.
Oscar Wilde

Strength

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going and going that way.
Henry Ward Beecher

God is our refuge and our strength, a very present help in trouble.
Psalms 16:1

If God be for us, who can be against us.
Romans 8:31

Trust

When someone hurts you, forgiveness is your gift but trust is always earned.
Jim L. Fuller

Vision

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Johnathan Swift