Quotes by clergymen

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart. John Bunyan

You Heart Words Rather Without Pray Than Your

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone. John C. Maxwell

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you'll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you. John C. Maxwell

You Problem Negative Energy Thinking Finally Degenerate Haunt Mentally Magnify Point Exceptionally Crumble Cave Where Which Decisions Your Hard

A comprehended god is no god. John Chrysostom

God

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. John Henry Newman

Corruption Evil Own Only Excess Substance Which Perversion Defect

Ability is sexless. John Henry Newman

Ability

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. John Henry Newman

Change Our We Cannot Distort Must Find Take Facts Attempt Wishing Make Cannot Them Us Use Let Us Things

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark. John Jewel

Knowledge Dark Philosophy Astrology Uncertain Geometry Human Human Knowledge

The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves. John Jewel

God Word Mind Ourselves Know Us

No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved. John Knox

Man Heart World Other Else Worshipped Has-Been No-One Devoutly Been Gods Loved Holds Place Which Held Jesus

Learning something new is a fabulous way to be refreshed. When work can grind you down, something about learning a new activity thrills the soul. It reminds you that the world is bigger than your desk and your to-do list. John Ortberg

The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear. John Ortberg

Life People Fear Made First Longing Fall Go Away Our Inside Throughout Never Weird Know Also Known Got Still Go Were Exist Cultures Human After Us Across Deep Deep Inside Now Away Deepest

Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects. John Ortberg

Immediate Ability Make Foresight Effects Prudence Decisions Basis

When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent. John Ortberg

Soul Chronic Liberated Hurry Unsatisfied Attended Understood Discontent Preoccupation Desires

I wrote 'Soul Keeping' because we are taught more about how to care for our cars than how to steward our souls. But you cannot have an impactful life with an impoverished soul. John Ortberg

Life You Soul Car Care Our About More Wrote Steward Because Souls How Impoverished Than Taught Cannot Keeping

At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection. John Ortberg

Death Faith Heart Christian Resurrection Story Christian Faith Jesus

You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally. John Piper

Life God You Totally Give He Over Authority Your

The Gospel is not a theory; the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea; the Gospel is not a way of thinking or feeling. The Gospel is an event in history. John Piper

History Feeling Thinking Philosophy Way Idea Gospel Theory Event

I know God's voice. I've seen God's hand. If the Lord is my helper, why should I be afraid? John Piper

God Seen Voice Know Lord Hand Afraid Should Helper Why

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement! John Piper

Food Sex Our Tribute TV Kitchen Occasional Bedroom Woe Blocks Den Get Cement Us Satisfaction Basement