Edwin Louis Cole Quotes

A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.

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

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

If you can't take it, you won't make it.

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

By being faithful in that which is another man's, it qualifies you for that which is your own.

Accepting responsibility for the actions of others contributes to your own greatness.

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

Christians are not patched-up sinners, they are new creations.

There are no small churches, just small people.

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.

Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages.

There is a price to pay for accomplishment.

You cannot compensate by sacrifice what you lose through disobedience

There is a high cost for low living.

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

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.

Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences of sin. Remorse and regret cannot compensate for sin....though sins can be forgiven immediately - the consequences can last a lifetime

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

Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.

Some things are more important that life itself

Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.

Professionals who are prayerful and productive are indispensable!

Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice.

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!

God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive.

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

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.

Truth is life's most precious commodity.

Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.

Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.

You don't reward reaction; you reward results.

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.

Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.

God will lead you into a deliverance where the means that delivers you will be those who would destroy you.

God is the Creator; Satan is the counterfeiter.

A man who honors God privately will show it by making good decisions publicly.

To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin.

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

Attitude determines the altitude of life.

A dream doesn't become a goal until you write it down.

Men and women have strengths that complement each other.

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.

The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious appetite, inflamed with eroticism, demanding more indulgence more often until a degenerative spiral captures the soul and drags us on a never ending descent into deeper patterns of immorality and illicit behaviour... Lust goes beyond the sexual. Lust can show itself in a variety of forms: covetousness, gluttony, drunkeness, power hunger, or unbridled ambition, to name a few

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.