Edwin Louis Cole Quotations

God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive.

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.

You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

Men and women have strengths that complement each other.

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

God is the Creator; Satan is the counterfeiter.

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.

Being faithful in that which is another man's qualifies us to receive our own.

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.

The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.

God will lead you into a deliverance where the means that delivers you will be those who would destroy you.

A dream doesn't become a goal until it is written

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

There are no small churches, just small people.

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.

When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm.

Crying over what's gone won't find the present.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.

God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires.

Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.

What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life.

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages.

If you can't take it, you won't make it.

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone.

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.

It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness.

There is a price to pay for accomplishment.

The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.

There is a high cost for low living.

To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin.

Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.

Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.

By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.

What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure.

Some things are more important that life itself

Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.

All wrong conduct is based on wrong believing

Failing is not the worst thing in the world; quitting is

Professionals who are prayerful and productive are indispensable!

Christians are not patched-up sinners, they are new creations.

Accepting responsibility for the actions of others contributes to your own greatness.

To talk to his children about God, a person needs to first talk to God with the impossible.

Truth cannot be defeated.

You don't reward reaction; you reward results.

You cannot compensate by sacrifice what you lose through disobedience

Truth is life's most precious commodity.

A woman's uniqueness is her greatest appeal to a man - and his greatest challenge.

Attitude determines the altitude of life.

Good is often the enemy of best.

The difference between men who succeed or fail is their ability to handle pressure.

Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.

The counterfeit trinity is me, myself, and I.

Greatness comes through serving. The more you serve, the greater you become

There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true.

A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.

Fear attracts attack.

All sin is a form of insanity. Satan is the most insane being of all because he still believes he can defeat God

Character is more important than talent.

A man who honors God privately will show it by making good decisions publicly.

You are committed to what you confess.

The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious appetite, inflamed with eroticism, demanding more indulgence more often until a degenerative spiral captures the soul and drags us on a never ending descent into deeper patterns of immorality and illicit behaviour... Lust goes beyond the sexual. Lust can show itself in a variety of forms: covetousness, gluttony, drunkeness, power hunger, or unbridled ambition, to name a few

Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.

Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences of sin. Remorse and regret cannot compensate for sin....though sins can be forgiven immediately - the consequences can last a lifetime

Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application.

Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice.

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!