Inspirational Quotes by Assorted Authors

“Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.”

“Sanctified afflictions are like so many artificers working on a pious man's crown to make it more bright and massive.”

“The empyrean heaven saved not the angels who in that heaven committed sin. The terrestrial Paradise saved not Adam, who in that paradise committed sin. And dost thou presume to hope in the Church for impunity of those evils which in the Church you perpetrate?”

“The meek are not those who are never at all angry, for such are insensible; but those who, feeling anger, control it, and are angry only when they ought to be. Meekness excludes revenge, irritability, morbid sensitiveness, but not self-defence, or a quiet and steady maintenance of right.”

“How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves.”

“Our clerics neither evangelize like the apostles, nor go to war like the secular lords, nor toil like laborers.”

“If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible that main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: 'Men had forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.'”

“By night an atheist half-believes in God.”

“To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.”

“Monkeys are superior to men in this: When a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.”

“The cross is a one time, visual representation of God's grief over sin.”

“Our peace and confidence are to be found not in our empirical holiness, not in our progress toward perfection, but in the alien righteousness of Jesus Christ that covers our sinfulness and alone makes us acceptable before a holy God.”

“He hideth our unrighteousness with His righteousness, He covereth our disobedience with his obedience, He shadoweth our death with His death, that the wrath of God cannot find us.”

“At the heart of the story stands the cross of Christ where evil did its worst and met its match.”

“Turn to God from idols. For the sword of His wrath that had been aimed at you has been sheathed into the heart of His Son. And the arrows of His anger that had been put against your breast were loosed into the Lord Jesus Christ. Because He has died for you, you were forgiven.”

“There is no mystery in heaven or earth so great as this - a suffering Deity, an almighty Saviour nailed to a Cross.”

“All our discontents about what we want appear to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.”

“We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.”

“God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.”

“A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.”