Clergy Quotes

Happy are they who freely mingle prayer and toil till God responds to the one and rewards the other.

Samuel I. Prime

We cannot keep thieves from looking in at our windows, but we need not give them entertainment with open doors.

All shall work together for good; everything is needful that He sends; nothing can be needful that He withholds.

It is true that the faith, which I am enabled to exercise, is altogether God's own gift; it is true that He alone supports it, and that He alone can increase it; it is true that, moment by moment, I depend upon Him for it, and that, if I were only one moment left to myself, my faith would utterly fail...

I would not live alway: I ask not to stay
Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way.

William Augustus Muhlenberg

Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright.

Elias Lyman Magoon

All Christ's public acts were consecrated by prayer, — His baptism, His transfiguration, His miracles, His agony, His death. He breathed away His spirit in prayer. " His last breath," says Philip Henry, "was praying breath."

John Rose Macduff

When a Christian stops growing, help is needed. If you are the same Christian you were a few months ago, be careful.

And yet the doing is ours, not His. He inspired it, we wrought it out. He quickened, but we brought forth. His the heart-beat, but ours the hand-stroke; His the influence, ours the effluence.

George C. Lorimer

The dead leaves their rich mosaics
Of olive and gold and brown
Had laid on the rain-wet pavements,
Through all the embowered town.

Samuel Longfellow

When America has been discovered in America it will be discovered in Europe. They are looking for America now.

Gerald Stanley Lee