Clergyman Quotes

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

Man thinks, God directs.

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.

We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.

We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position.

We are distressed by the unilateral actions of those provinces that are clearly determined to redefine what our common faith was once.

The Bible says that two cannot walk together unless they are agreed.

It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.

The paper burns, but the words fly away.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women.

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.