Edwin Louis Cole Literature Quotations

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

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

There are no small churches, just small people.

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

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

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

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

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

You don't reward reaction; you reward results.

The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.

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

Truth is life's most precious commodity.

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

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

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

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

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

You are committed to what you confess.

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

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.