Thomas De Witt Talmage Quotes

#1. Social dissipation, as witnessed in the ball-room, is the abettor of pride, the instigator of jealousy, it is the sacrificial altar of health, it is the defiler of the soul, it is the avenue of lust and it is the curse of every town in America.

Thomas De Witt Talmage

#2. I like the Bible folded between lids of cloth, or calfskin, or morocco, but I like it better when, in the shape of a man, it goes out into the world-a Bible illustrated.

Thomas De Witt Talmage

#3. I wish that I could marshall all the young to an appreciation of the fact that you have an earnest work in life and your amusements and recreations are only to help you along in that work.

Thomas De Witt Talmage

#4. Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.

Thomas De Witt Talmage

#5. The pen is the lever that moves the world.

Thomas De Witt Talmage

#6. By the 1990s, longevity will be so improved that 150 years will be no unusual age to reach.

Thomas De Witt Talmage

#7. In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.

Thomas De Witt Talmage

#8. I move for a creed for all our denominations made out of Scripture quotations, pure and simple. That would be impregnable against infidelity and Appolyonic assault. That would be beyond human criticism. Let us make it simpler and plainer for people to get into the Kingdom of God.

Thomas De Witt Talmage

#9. I care not what your education is, elaborate or nothing, what your mental calibre is, great or small, that man who concentrates all his energies of body, mind and soul in one direction is a tremendous man.

Thomas De Witt Talmage

#10. One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.

Thomas De Witt Talmage

#11. A mother is a bank where I deposit all my worries and hurts

Thomas De Witt Talmage

#12. The grace of God is abundant. It is for all lands, for all ages, for all conditions. It seems to undergird everything. Pardon for the worst sin, comfort for the sharpest suffering, brightest light for the thickest darkness.

Thomas De Witt Talmage

#13. Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but neither of them is of much help in the making of a creed.

Thomas De Witt Talmage