Fw Boreham Quotes

We make our decisions, and then our decisions turn around and make us.

I have learned that my quenchless longing for life is, after all, unconsciously, a secret, unutterable yearning after God; for how can you conceive of life apart from Him?

God with all His omnipotence at His disposal never wastes anything. He never sends a flood if a shower will do; never sends a fortune if a shilling will do; never sends an army if a man will do. And He never thunders if a whisper will do.

When speaking of the difficulty which a black boy experiences in America in competing with his white rivals, Booker Washington tells us that his own pathetic and desperate struggle taught him that 'success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Men are willing to keep their evil characters if they can but get rid fo their evil reputations. They are scrupulously studious of appearances.

The Old Testament records the sage words of an old woman in addressing two younger ones: 'The Lord grant', said Naomi, 'that ye may find rest, each of you, in the house of her husband!' Who ever heard of a woman finding rest in the house of her husband? And yet, and yet ! The restless hearts are not the hearts of wives and of mothers, as many a lonely woman knows. There is no more crushing load than the load of a loveless life. It is a burden that is often beautifully and graciously borne, but its weight is a very real one. The mother may have a bent form, a furrowed brow, and worn, thin hands ; but her heart found its rest for all that. Naomi was an old woman; she knew the world very well, and her words are worth weighing. Heavy luggage is Christ's strange cure for weary hearts.

I have learned that my quenchless longing for life is, after all, unconsciously, a secret, unutterable yearning after God; for how can you conceive of life apart from Him? We make our decisions, and then our decisions turn around and make us.

It was the Claim of Monopoly. 'Call upon Me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee.

There is an unconscious influence about the true peacemaker that leads every man he meets to love his fellow men.

There is no drama like the drama of reality.

I said, too, that the recent war—the Boer war of 1900—had brought about a condition of general unsettlement and dislocation which would make his difficult task still more baffling.