 There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large. Author: William Booth |
| We all believe in the sovereignty of God in the affairs of men, but when this view is strained to the point of eliminating man's responsibility, we have no hesitation in saying it borders on heresy. Author: Duncan Campbell |
| Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't. Author: John Hagee |
| There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some would put the ring on his finger while he still in the pigsty. Others would paint the pigsty and advocate bigger and better hogpens. Author: Vance Havner |
| If we don't come apart; we will come apart. Author: Vance Havner |
| Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out. Author: Vance Havner |
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| Men could be content to have the kingdom of Heaven; but they are loathe to fight for it. They choose rather to go in a feather bed to Hell than to be carried to Heaven in a 'fiery chariot' of zeal and violence. Author: Thomas Watson |
| We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to be so. Author: Phillips Brooks |
| Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse. Author: Vance Havner |
| No man ever flees from duty without incalculable hurt, not only to himself, but to others as well. Author: Clovis G. Chappell |
| Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can't give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don't have to work because the other half's going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody's going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation. Author: Adrian Rogers |
| Do not be lazy. Run each day's race with all your might, so that at the end you will receive the victory wreath from God. Keep on running even when you have had a fall. The victory wreath is won by him who does not stay down, but always gets up again, grasps the banner of faith and keeps on running in the assurance that Jesus is Victor. Author: Basilea Schlink |
