Benjamin Franklin Quotes

A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to Him.

No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist.

The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The only way to avoid this is for the priest to be instant in prayer. If he is not, he will lose that touch of the supernatural, without which he has no right to be a priest at all.

All service is the same with God.

A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.

I'm just waiting for God to tell me what to do, but whatever it is, I want to be doing something like I am doing now-serving God and helping people.

His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good.

Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.

I taught Sunday school when I was younger, and ended up an elder in the church, and it just seemed to me that a lot of people who went to church certainly weren't - the rest of the week - living what I would call an Christian life.

God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.

It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.

I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught.

...we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving God.

I was going to go to church, but I decided to get doughnuts instead.

Self, service, substance is the Divine order and nothing counts until we give ourselves.

Even in dreams doing good is not wasted.

There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.

The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'

The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.

He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can.