Quotes
Quotes about Cause
Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107 There is a false self-distrust which denies the worth of its own talent. It is not humilityâit is petty pride, withholding its simple gifts from the hands of Christ because they are not more pretentious. There are men who would endow colleges, they say, if they were millionaires. They would help in the work of Bible study if they were as gifted as Henry Drummond. They would strive to lead their associates into the Christian life if they had the gifts of Dwight L. Moody. But they are not ready to give what they have and do what they can and be as it has pleased God to make them, in His serviceâand that is their condemnation.
Feast of All Souls If you ask me how I believe in God, how God creates Himself in me, and reveals Himself to me, my answer may perhaps provoke your smiles or laughter, and even scandalize you. I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand drawing me, leading me, grasping me.
Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397 When no tensions are confronted and overcome, because insiders or outsiders of a certain class or group meet happily among themselves, then the one new thing, peace, and the one new man created by Christ, are missing; then no faith, no church, no Christ, is found or confessed. For if the attribute "Christian" can be given sense from Eph. 2, then it means reconciled and reconciling, triumphant over walls and removing the debris, showing solidarity with the "enemy" and promoting not one's own peace of mind but "our peace"... When this peace is deprived of its social, national, or economic dimensions, when it is distorted or emasculated so much that only "peace of mind" enjoyed by saintly individuals is leftâthen Jesus Christ is being flatly denied. To propose, in the name of Christianity, neutrality or unconcern on questions of international, racial, or economic peaceâthis amounts to using Christ's name in vain.
Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.
Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstancesâ it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop laughing.
Prayer does not cause faith to work, faith causes prayer to work.
Truth is the most powerful force on earth because it cannot be changed.
I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.
Sometimes God doesn't tell us His plan because we wouldn't believe it anyway.
What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.
When dogs leap onto your bed, it's because they adore being with you. When cats leap onto your bed, it's because they adore your bed.
We all get heavier as we get older because there is a lot more information in our heads.
Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for, because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
I wear my wife's eyeglasses because she wants me to see things her way.
God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.
For God is not against us because of our sin. He is with us; against our sin.
A bicycle can't stand on its own because it's two-tired.
A bird does not sing because it has an answerâit sings because it has a song.
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.
