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Cleric Inspirational Quotes (3978)

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God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of His providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for He never gives us two moments together.
Francois Fenelon
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
George Herbert
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The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.
Charles Spurgeon
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He (God) loves what I shall be.
George MacDonald
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If I had only one more sermon to preach before I died, it would be about my Lord Jesus Christ. And I think that when we get to the end of our ministry, one of our regrets will be that we did not preach more of him.
Charles Spurgeon
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In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is continual prayer.
John Wesley
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Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest.
George Herbert
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The Spirit must therefore first take hold of us before we can live in Christ, and when he doth so, then we are enabled to exert that vital act of faith, whereby we receive Christ.
John Flavel
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Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest.
Charles Spurgeon
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Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.
George MacDonald
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We are not entitled to such licence, I mean that of affirming what we please we make the Holy Scriptures the rule and the measure of every tenet we necessarily fix our eyes upon that, and approve that alone which may be made to harmonize with the intention of those writings
Gregory of Nyssa
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The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.
Charles Spurgeon
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Who the Lord calls, the Lord will qualify.
Thomas S. Monson
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Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.
John Flavel
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A pittifull looke askes enough.
George Herbert
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I started out as the president of a small college in Minnesota in 1947. And I had five years of experience at the college. Then we went to Los Angeles. And the press got to what we were doing. And I went to Boston, which is my next series of meetings. That was in 1950.
Billy Graham
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I started out as the president of a small college in Minnesota in 1947. And I had five years of experience at the college. Then we went to Los Angeles. And the press got to what we were doing. And I went to Boston, which is my next series of meetings. That was in 1950.
Billy Graham
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As to our friend , I pray God to bestow upon him a simplicity that shall give him peace . Happy are they indeed who can bear their sufferings in the enjoyment of this simple peace and perfect acquiesence in the will of God.
Francois Fenelon
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Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem - but all in vain until He is born in me.
Angelus Silesius
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A rose is but a rose, it blooms because it blooms it thinks not of itself, nor asks if it is seen.
Angelus Silesius
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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
Angelus Silesius
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Three days: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday, I know, Yet if the past were cancelled within the here and now, And then the future hidden, I could regain that Day, Which I, before I was, had lived in God's own way.
Angelus Silesius
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God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.
Angelus Silesius
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God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.
Angelus Silesius
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