Edwin louis cole quotes

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.

The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.

God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires.

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

You cannot compensate by sacrifice what you lose through disobedience

Some things are more important that life itself

Fear attracts attack.

Truth cannot be defeated.

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

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

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.

A woman's uniqueness is her greatest appeal to a man - and his greatest challenge.

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application.

The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.

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

God is the Creator; Satan is the counterfeiter.

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

Crying over what's gone won't find the present.

There is a price to pay for accomplishment.

To talk to his children about God, a person needs to first talk to God with the impossible.

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

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

Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages.

Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.

Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.

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

The counterfeit trinity is me, myself, and I.

There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true.

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

Failing is not the worst thing in the world; quitting is

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

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

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

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

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

Good is often the enemy of best.

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

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

Men and women have strengths that complement each other.

The difference between men who succeed or fail is their ability to handle pressure.

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

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

All sin is a form of insanity. Satan is the most insane being of all because he still believes he can defeat God

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

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

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

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life.

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

The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone.

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Professionals who are prayerful and productive are indispensable!

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

There are no small churches, just small people.

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

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

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

The principle of investing is that by use you possess and gain, by disuse you decline and lose.

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

Greatness comes through serving. The more you serve, the greater you become

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

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

Attitude determines the altitude of life.

Truth is life's most precious commodity.

Character is more important than talent.

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.

All wrong conduct is based on wrong believing

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.

It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness.

Remember, you are only committed to what you confess.

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

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

When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm.

You don't reward reaction; you reward results.

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.

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

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

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

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

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

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

There is a high cost for low living.

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.