Henrietta C Mears Quotes

#1. Some people grow under responsibility; others swell.

Henrietta C. Mears

#2. I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show.

Sara Sheridan

#3. Let the Bible fill the memory, rule the heart, and guide the feet.

Henrietta Mears

#4. If you would be pure, saturate yourself with the Word of God.

Henrietta C. Mears

#5. Living in the woods does strange things to lonely men.

Paul Doiron

#6. Time cannot be saved, it can only be spent, and if not spent wisely and well, it is wasted.

Henrietta C. Mears

#7. God never put anyone in a place too small to grow in.

Henrietta Mears

#8. There is no magic in small plans.

Henrietta Mears

#9. It is our duty to do all we can to introduce every generation to Christ.

Henrietta Mears

#10. Only that which is directed toward definite goals, which in turn are founded on sound educational philosophy, can be ultimately meaningful. The principles must always precede the activities.

Henrietta Mears

#11. Take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you for your own" (Joshua 1:11). It is God's to give! It is ours to possess!

Dr. Henrietta C. Mears

#12. God buries His workmen, but not His work..

Henrietta Mears

#13. Our duty is to understand youth, but more, to help them understand themselves that they may release their varied abilities ... We must help them to discover a life work, not work for life.

Henrietta Mears

#14. The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won't have time to envy the man above him.

Henrietta Mears

#15. The man who walks with God always gets to his destination.

Henrietta Mears

#16. Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize bucket of hot water, the magus said as he settled into the bath the servants had filled for him.

Megan Whalen Turner

#17. Hospitality should have no other nature than love.

Henrietta Mears

#18. It is my business as a Sunday school teacher to instill a divine discontent for the ordinary. Only the best possible is good enough for God. Can you say, 'God, I have done all that I can?

Henrietta C. Mears

#19. All that I see teaches me to thank the Creator for all I cannot see.

Henrietta Mears

#20. It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving.

Henrietta Mears

#21. When I consider my ministry, I think of the world. Anything less than that would not be worthy of Christ, nor of his will for my life,

Henrietta Mears

#22. A man generally lives up to what is expected of him.

Henrietta C. Mears

#23. I know not the way He leads me, but well do I know my Guide.

Henrietta C. Mears

#24. Youth does not think into the future far enough, therefore we must encourage them to dream of great tomorrows.

Henrietta Mears

#25. A merry heart does good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.

Ruskin Bond

#26. Age is a number ... LIFE is all ATT-i-tude!

LinDee Rochelle

#27. The laws of the jungle remind me of the laws of the street. When I came abroad, I had to learn a different set of laws. Everywhere we go there is a different set of laws. Most of them unwritten.

Heidi Heilig

#28. You teach a little by what you say. You teach most by what you are,

Henrietta Mears

#29. When God gives a command or a vision of truth, it is never a question of what He will do, but what we will do.

Henrietta Mears

#30. Faith is caught rather than taught.

Henrietta Mears