Clergyman Quotes

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.
Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.
Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.
Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things.
As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.
But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.
But the word of the Gospel is not as the word of an earthly prince.
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