Quotes by clergymen

'We really shouldn't look like a church.' I've heard that so much I want to vomit. 'Why?' I ask. 'Do you want your bank to look like a bank? Do you want your doctor's office to look like a doctor's office, or would you prefer your doctor to dress like a clown?' Charles R. Swindoll
You Doctor Church Clown Would Dress Vomit Like Look Heard Office Bank Want Prefer Ask Much Really Your Why
The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us. Charles R. Swindoll
God Wonderful About He Knows Wonderful Thing Us Persuade Thing Need
We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never. Charles R. Swindoll
Church Focus Important Our Address Crowd Crowds Never He Feel Liked Make Were Goal Getting Want Us Your Grow Why Jesus Suggested
Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God. Charles Spurgeon
God Nature Obedience Passion Power Every Our Spirit Faculty Thy Come Lord Subdue Oh Sanctify Might Us Use Saturate
There is a power in God's gospel beyond all description. Charles Spurgeon
God Power Beyond Gospel Description
May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary. Charles Spurgeon
God Secret Our Find Him Hearts May The Secret Of Little Sanctuary Us Communion
If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell. Charles Spurgeon
Religion Me Prayer You Word Will Long Hell Live Christian Enough Say One Word Without Pray Get Die Any Ask Should Epitome Christian Religion
I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary. Charles Spurgeon
Good Me Speak Weary Word Hundred Hundred Times Would Spirit Know Cheer How Go Been Times Afflicted Might Season
A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow's supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn. Charles Spurgeon
Day Needs Daily Tomorrow Unborn Dawned Supply Still Really Portion Need
Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past. Charles Spurgeon
Future God Blessing Trust Old Men Past Young Magnify Mercies Make Him Young Men Old Men Bright
We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it. Charles Spurgeon
Christ Church We Cannot Vital Him Till Cannot Communion Union
The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights. Charles Spurgeon
Truth Me Soul Peace Joy Word Value Saved Must My Soul Attach Delights Revealed Hearing Preached Which Awakened Ever Received Peculiar
I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin! Charles Spurgeon
Time Daily Corruption Free Drop Shall Sin Oh Body Flesh
You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord. Charles Spurgeon
God Good You Good Things Speak Try Will Possible Exaggerate Never Lord Dear Boast Brethren Things
To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses. Charles Stanley
God Conversation Heart Experience People Speak Monopolize Responses Never Miss Majestic Hear May Pause
When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God. Charles Stanley
God Experience Intimacy Restoration Scars Lead Sin Learn Renewed Us
Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. Charles Stanley
Failure Confidence People Fear Opportunities Cause Lost Thinking Our Indefinitely Spiral Rather Risk Results Talented Talented People Known Erosion Than Begins Stagnation Procrastinate Creates Who Actions Downward
In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living. Charles Stanley
You Wise People Somebody Lost Living Our Intimacy Say Spirit Never Well Does Friend Friends Friendships Person Godly Same Mean Might Holy Should Holy Spirit Your Choose Whom
The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices. Charles Stanley
Faith Satan Result Face Three Own Difficulties Others Our Some Attacks Sinful Lord Still Due Test Sources Sent Us Choices Originate
The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences. Charles Stanley
Bible Discipline Consequences Those Cities Devastating Clear Fail Individuals Lord Nations Whether Heed Who Suffer
True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment. Dada Vaswani
Happiness Success Freedom True Happiness Lies True True Success Happiness Lies Fulfillment
Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people. Dada Vaswani
You People Type See Beware Company Keep Right Associate
We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can. David Brainerd
Work God Good Great World Rich Design Ourselves Possibly Look Him Glorify Faithfully Always His Accordingly Labour Placed Should Grow Servants
The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery. David Brainerd
Wisdom Moving On God Heart Father State Our Eye Touched Recovery Mercies Infinite Beheld Pity Deplorable Laid Plan
Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ. David Wilkerson
Life Time Christ Evil Face Energy Cares Spend Neglecting Pursuing Troubles Sin Expense Themselves Us Riches Things Necessary
A loving heart is an inventive one. Dominique Pire
Heart Inventive Loving
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