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QUOTATIONS FOR SERMONS ![]() 2. "The greatest ability is dependability." (Anonymous) 3. Said an African wagon driver, who had been a great drunkard: "I have never tasted liquor since the Lord opened my eyes." 4. "Don't you ever take wine?" said a hospital host to a friend."Are you afraid of it?" "No," replied his wiser friend, " I am afraid of the example." 5. All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. (Burke) 6. A dead fish can float stream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.(Anonymous) 7. Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.(Dodd) 8. In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experience of the love of God. (Bunyan) 9. A Christian minister once said, " I was never of any use until I found out that God did not intend me to be a great man." Selected 10. The proud man has no God; the envious man had no neighbour; the angry man had not himself. (Bishop Hall) 11. Beauty unaccompanied by virtue is a flower without perfume. (T Adams) 12. One evidence of the value of the Bible is the character of those who oppose it. (Anonymous) 13. A man's mind is known by the company it keeps. (Lowell) 14. Our opportunities to do good are our talents (Cotton Mather). ---------- 15. A metal when it comes out from the furnace is more prepared for its proper use, so are the people of God when they come from the furnace of afflictions. (Keach) 16. A very old lady was one asked her age."Ninety-three," was her reply. "The judge of all the earth means that I shall have no excuse for being unprepared to meet Him." 17. they fall deepest into hell who fall backwards into hell. (Bunyan) --------- 18. Not what we give but that we share, For the gift without the giver is bare. (Lowel) 19. The death of Christ did not terminate but did germinate His work. 20. Joy is the grace we say to God (Jean Ingelow) 21. Modesty is silent when it is improper to speak (Lavater). ----------------------- 22. Hell is paved with good intentions (Samuel Johnson) 23. CULTURE is good; genius is brilliant; civilization is blessing; education is a great privilege; but we may be educated villians. The thing that we need most is the precious gift of the Holy Spirit. (jOHN Hall) 24.Intelligence is like a river..the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. (Gilcrafter) ------------------ 25. When it is hardest to pray, pray hardest. (Anonymous) 26. The nearer the soul is to God, the less is restlessness; as the point nearest the center of a circle is subject to the least motion. ------------------ 27. God put the church in the world. Satan seeks to put the owrld into the church. (Anonymous) 28. An Indian having heard from a white man some strictures on zeal, replied, :I don't know about having too much zeal; but i think it is better the pot should boil over than not boil at all." 29. The soul is dyed the color of the leisure hours. ------------------------ 30. we reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly. 31. One sickly sheep infects the folk, And weakens all the rest. (Unknown) 32. Profanity is the tribute which the devil's servants pay to their master as a token of allegiance.(Anonymous) ![]() |
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