Inspirational Quotes by Assorted Authors

“Teach us to give and not to count the cost.”

“God will mend a broken heart if you give Him all the pieces.”

“We are told in scripture that with God all things are possible. But Lewis states that this does not mean that God can do anything. God cannot, for example, answer nonsensical questions...He cannot do both of two mutually exclusive things; for example, He cannot create creatures with free will and at the same time withhold free will from them.”

“Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I move that prayer imploring the assistance of Heaven be held every morning before we proceed to business.”

“Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.”

“A God all mercy is a God unjust.”

“Everything that God asks is absolutely intelligent and proper.”

“It is absolutely illogical to believe that nothing produces something, or that profoundly intricate designs have come into existence by self-generation. The more simple and natural conclusion is that there is an immeasurably great Creator and Benefactor back of all the remarkable existences which we observe and experience.”

“We have all been encouraged to feel in the guardianship and guidance of that Almighty Being whose power regulates the destiny of nations, whose blessings have been so conspicuously dispensed to this rising Republic.”

“Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.”

“God desires to be loved by men, although He needs them not; and men refuse to love God, though they need Him in an infinite degree.”

“The lovingkindness of the Lord is an essential part of Himself; His severity is accidental. One belongs to Himself, the other to external circumstances.”

“The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.”

“If we can keep our minds calm on the subject of the "Eternity of God," if reason does not totter on her seat at the contemplation of underived existence, it will be strange if any other mystery relating to God should disturb us. He who can bring his reason to bow reverently at the idea of a Being who had no beginning, is well prepared to receive any communication of His will.”

“Though, in debating with regard to theories, it be lawful to say whether this or that is consistent with the Divine attributes, yet, when we find that God has actually done any thing, all question about its justice, wisdom, and benevolence is forever out of place.”

“The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.”

“As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.”

“The mind of him that worketh ill is not always corrupt; but the mind of him that defendeth evil is ever corrupt.”

“Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.”

“To return good for good is human; to return evil for evil is brutal; to return evil for good is diabolical; but to return good for evil is Divine.”