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Clergyman Inspirational Quotes (5086)

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He who waits on God loses no time.
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Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity
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When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.
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We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to the world for the scandal of the cross.
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Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.
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The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.
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The detour is always rougher than the main road
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Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.
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Faith has no value of its own, it has value only as it connects us with Him. It is a trick of Satan to get us occupied with examining our faith instead of resting in the Faithful One.
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Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.
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Self, service, substance is the Divine order and nothing counts until we give ourselves.
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It is a matter of whether one wants to get rich or be rich. We can be rich in Christ Jesus or perhaps get rich in Egypt, but we cannot do both.
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It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.
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Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.
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People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear of God before its eyes mocks at sin. We are so fond of being called tolerant and broadminded that we wink at sin when we ought to weep.
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If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.
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One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.
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If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.
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Make Jesus Christ your theme! I have seen preachers espouse causes and champion movements, and when the cause died and the movement collapsed, the preacher vanished too. But the man who glories in Christ never grows stale.
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No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.
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We are challenged these days, but not changed convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not and thereby we deceive ourselves.
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
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The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
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If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
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