Quotes by clergymen

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever. Douglas Horton

Love You Free Back Something Never Had Come Go Forever

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself. Dwight L. Moody

Bible Book Better Itself Than Which Defend

The eternal God - the infinite Jehovah - has done all he could do - even to the sacrificing his own Son - to provide a way for man's happiness, and yet they reject him, hate him, and laugh him to scorn! Elijah Parish Lovejoy

People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored. Eugene H. Peterson

People Problems Mysteries Solved Explored

When I read the statements of Christ, there seems to be this urgency and intensity. I guess that's what I get out of it when I read the tone of the Scriptures, which is very different from the tone of our culture. Francis Chan

Culture Christ Guess Our Statements Out Seems Read Very Get Intensity Different Which Scriptures Urgency Tone

Everything comes in time to those who can wait. Francois Rabelais

Time Wait Everything Those Who

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. Fulton J. Sheen

Competition Pride Fears Secretly Dreads Weakness Admission Rivals

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery. Fulton J. Sheen

Love Love Is Mutual Ends Which

I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness. George Fox

Love Death Darkness Light Ocean Saw Over Also Infinite Which

The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray. George Muller

God Word Read Pray Less Desire

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least. George Whitefield

Sad Together Christianity Neglecting Ourselves Religious True Perhaps Least Decay May Reasons Many Assemble Among Societies

Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments. Gordon B. Hinckley

Attitude God Gratitude Acceptance Meekness Power Recognition Spirit Oneself Implies Beyond Greater Opposed His Self-Sufficiency Commandments Acknowledgement

There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us. Greg Boyle

Only Them Us

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God. Henri Nouwen

God Home Prayer Our Way Most Make Concrete

Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself. Henri Nouwen

God Broken Care Blessed Say Those He Himself Said Where Loves Poor Us Communion Who Deeper Deeply Jesus

A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive. Henri Nouwen

Life Lonely Destructive Without Becomes Quiet Center Place

I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys. Henri Nouwen

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! Henry Ward Beecher

Thankful Day Heart Will Every Find Finds Some Magnet Through Mercies Hour Blessings Discovers Iron Heavenly Sweep

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. Henry Ward Beecher