Frank W. Boreham Quotes

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It must be made clear to men that the narrow path that leadeth unto life is as crowded with adventure as the broad path that leadeth to destruction.

Frank W. Boreham
If the church is to impress the world with the deathless hope of the everlasting gospel, she must be animated by that hope herself. She cannot communicate what she does not possess.

Frank W. Boreham
He is the happiest minister who, in the quiet and kindly way that mirrors have, maintains a gracious ministry of personal revelation.

Frank W. Boreham
Since we all need reproving and rebuking, and since we all know that we need reproving and rebuking, we ought — if we were logical — to be extremely grateful to those who reprove and rebuke us. And I suppose that, sooner or later, we are; but almost invariably later.

Frank W. Boreham
For birthdays are mere records of time, not registers of distance. They tell me how long I have been on the road, not how far I have travelled.

Frank W. Boreham
How often has a boy carved his way to fame because of his intense consciousness that somebody expected him to become great!

Frank W. Boreham
What did Columbus do, for example? He sailed in a ship, that was all! Many a mariner has done the same before, but no man had held on a westward course so obstinately, so persistently or so long.

Frank W. Boreham
Wishing cannot take the place of working! Aspiration is excellent; but perspiration, too, must play its part before the summit is attained. I press towards the mark for the prize of the upward call! says Paul. I press!

Frank W. Boreham
Men are willing to keep their evil characters if they can but get rid of their evil reputations. They are scrupulously studious of appearances.

Frank W. Boreham
The ordinary man tramples the stones beneath his feet, seeing nothing. But the geologist recognizes in those self-same stones the archives of antiquity.

Frank W. Boreham
No, no; a man is not judged by the company he keeps; he is to be judged by the company that he would like to keep — the company that form his own set — the company in which he would be most perfectly at home.

Frank W. Boreham
The Bible is packed from cover to cover with things that it never mentions. Sympathy is one of them. The word nowhere occurs; the thing is everywhere.

Frank W. Boreham
There is no craving in the human heart more persistent or more passionate than the craving to lay a firm hand upon something eternal. And only the preacher whose eyes are lit by the inner fires of profound conviction can hope to lead those groping pilgrims to their shining goal.

Frank W. Boreham
Yet, when all is said and done, birthdays are mere records of time, not registers of distance. They are chronometers, not speedometers. They tell us how long we have been upon the road, not how far we have travelled.

Frank W. Boreham