George Gillespie Quotes

I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.

Much prayer, but no piety.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Fear God and work hard.

Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.

The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.

TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.

Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act.

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing - not only by our words - that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God.

There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.