Quotes For Sermons

 

 

“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.”

 

“The average American will tell 23 lies a day.”

 

“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 Saying1

 

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.

Sis 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 priveledges.

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

 

Life 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