George Barrell Cheever quotes

For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever present sense of humor; it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.
-- George Barrell Cheever

#Humor #Abiding Faith #Giving

Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.
-- George Barrell Cheever

#Procrastination #Men #Nurse

A traveler amid the scenery of the Alps, surrounded by the sublimest demonstration of God's power, had the hardihood to write against his name, in an album kept for visitors, "An atheist." Another who followed, shocked and indignant at the inscription, wrote beneath it, If an atheist, a fool; if not, a liar!
-- George Barrell Cheever

#Atheist #Liars #Writing

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity ...

Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.

The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.  God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!

Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.

There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is Madhusüdana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses

I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.