Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

When the time comes for you to die, you need not be afraid, because death cannot separate you from God's love.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith and works are bound up in the same bundle. He that obeys God trusts God; and he that trusts God obeys God. He that is without faith is without works; and he that is without works is without faith.

Charles Spurgeon

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

Charles Spurgeon

When I thought God was hard, I found it easy to sin; but when I found God so kind, so good, so overflowing with compassion, I smote upon my breast to think that I could ever have rebelled against One who loved me so, and sought my good.

Charles Spurgeon

It is folly to think the Lord provides grace for every trouble but the one you are in today.

Charles Spurgeon

Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill them up with holy service.

Charles Spurgeon

You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

Charles Spurgeon

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Charles Spurgeon

When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready.Get good striking tracts, or none at all. But a touching gospel tract may be the seed of eternal life. Therefore, do not go out without your tracts.

Charles Spurgeon

You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.

Charles R. Jackson

We continue to experience a steep growth curve and positive response from customers that are aggressively transitioning their procurement processes to leverage our technologies' benefits.

Charles Palliser

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable.

Charles Phillips

Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.

Charles Peguy

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

Charles Portis

You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?" "I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.

Charles Osgood

I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it's become it's a labor of love. They love what they do.

Charles R. Swindoll

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

Charles R. Swindoll

Two words will help you cope when you run low on hope: accept and trust.

Charles R. Swindoll

We gain the ability to rejoice under pressure through a carefully monitored training program directed by the Lord Himself.

Charles R. Swindoll

I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.

Charles R. Swindoll

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

We won't be totally disappointed because there will be other goodies in the package,

Art Linkletter

I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters

Art Linkletter

A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given ether. As he was coming out of the anesthetic a fire broke out in the building next door. As the flames began to show through the hospital windows the nurse pulled the shades down. She didn't want the preacher to think his operation had been a failure.

Art Buchwald

Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

Art Buchwald

I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.

Art Buchwald

Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope.

Art Buchwald

As my good friend Al Capp told me a few years ago, the best thing to do with a confirmed [hotel] reservation slip when you have no room is to spread it out on the sidewalk in front of the hotel and go to sleep on it. You'll either embarrass the hotel into giving you a room or you'll be hauled off to the local jug, where at least you'll have a roof over your head.

Art Buchwald

Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?

Art Buchwald

I don't mind 800 million Chinese drinking a bottle [of Coca-Cola] a day, but I don't want them to bring back the empties.

Art Buchwald

This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.

Art Buchwald

There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes.

Arthur Ashe

Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, "Let's see if he can juggle another one."