Clergyman Quotes

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough.
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.
You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.
And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow.
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.
No form of Christianity is absolutely and only true.
A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.
However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.
In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.
Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
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