Holy Humour

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Holy Humour

Miscellaneous pithy quotes on religion

Most of us spend the first six days of the week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
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Affliction is good, but not pleasant.
Sin is pleasant, but not good.
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We are not sinners because we sin-we sin because we are sinners.
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We fear man so much, because we fear God so little.
It is only the fear of God, that can deliver us from the fear of man.
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Many have been victorious in great temptations and ruined by little ones.
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Grace is God giving us what we do not deserve-Heaven.
Mercy is God not giving us what we do deserve-Hell.
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Our sins will not keep us from Heaven, but our righteousness will!
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There never was anything of false doctrine brought into the church, but either it was by neglecting the Scripture, or by introducing something above the Scripture.
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The more purely God's Word is preached-the more deeply it pierces the heart.
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God's love is more seen in comforting and strengthening under trouble, than in delivering from it.
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A man may as well fill a bag with wisdom, as the soul with the world.
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Consider how foolish it is for the children of Heaven to go licking up the dust of this earth!
The woman's seed should not desire the food of the serpent!
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Some are proud of what they are-others of what they are not.
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All men may be divided into two classes:
the righteous, who know themselves to be sinners.
Lost sinners, who believe themselves to be righteous.
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Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.
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To err is human; to blame it on somebody else is even more human.
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A door that is almost shut, is open.
A man that is almost honest, is a thief.
A man that is almost saved, is altogether damned!
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We can take reproof patiently from a book, but not from a tongue.
The book hurts not our pride, the living reprover does.
We cannot bear to have our faults seen by others.
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All men are convinced that they are sinners, but very few are convinced that they deserve to be punished.
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The mortifying our lusts and corruptions is difficult; the satisfying of them is impossible.
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That which hinders the ungodly from acknowledging the glory of the cross, is that it shows so much of God's hatred of what they love.
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The cross melts cold and frozen hearts; it breaks stony hearts; it pierces adamant hearts!
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God puts no bounds to His mercy, whereas He does set some to His anger.
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Some people are kind, polite and sweet-spirited - until you try to get into their pew.
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The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.
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Do you know the three times that most people are in church? When they are hatched, matched, and dispatched.
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Quit griping about your church; if it were perfect, you couldn't belong.
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We were called to be witnesses, not lawyers.
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Every evening, I turn my troubles over to God - He's going to be up all night anyway.
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Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.
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