Thomas De Witt Talmage Quotes

• The pen is the lever that moves the world.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Moving, World, Levers

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1870). “Crumbs Swept Up”, p.256

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• If your path had been smooth, you would have depended upon your own surefootedness; but God roughened the path, so you have to take hold of His hand. If the weather had been mild, you would have loitered along the watercourses, but at the first howl of the storm you quickened your pace heavenward and wrapped around you the warm robe of Saviour's righteousness.

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  Hands, Weather, Storm

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1878). “The worried housekeeper, and other sermons”

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• 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.

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  Light, Land, Grace

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1875). “Daily Thoughts”, p.240

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• Take not into your ear that scum of hell that people call tittle-tattle. Whosoever willingly listens to a slander is equally guilty with the one who tells it, and an old writer says they ought both to be hanged; the one by the tongue and the other by the ear. Do not smile upon such a spaniel, lest like a pleased dog, he puts his dirty paw upon you.

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  Dog, Dirty, People

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• God puts his ear so closely down to your lips that he can hear your faintest whisper.

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  Ears, Lips

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1887). “Live Coals”

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• 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.

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  Men, Morocco, World

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1872). “Sermons”, p.240

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• The mob that hounded Christ from Jerusalem to "the place of a skull" has never been dispersed, but is augmenting yet, as many of the learned men of the world and great men of the world come out from their studies and their laboratories and their palaces, and cry, "Away with this man! Away with him!" The most bitter hostility which many of the learned men of this day exercise in any direction they exercise against Jesus Christ the Son of God, the Saviour of the world.

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  Friday, Jesus, Son

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• A mother is a bank where I deposit all my worries and hurts

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  Mother, Hurt, Worry

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• The Bible is a warm letter of affection from a parent to a child; and yet there are many who see chiefly the severer passages. As there may be fifty or sixty nights of gentle dews in one summer, that will not cause as much remark as one hailstorm of half an hour, so there are those who are more struck by those passages of the Bible that announce the indignation of God than by those that announce His affection.

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  Bible, Summer, Children

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1872). “Sermons”, p.248

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• You are a free man, and let no organization come between you and your best interests. Do not let any man, or any body of men, tell you where you shall work, or where you shall not work, when you shall work, or when, you shall not work. If a man wants to belong to a labor organization, let him belong. If he does not want to belong to a labor organization, let him have perfect liberty to stay out. You own yourself. Let no man put a manacle on your hand, or foot, or head, or heart.

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  Heart, Men, Organization

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1886). “The Battle for Bread: A Series of Sermons Relating to Labor and Capital”

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• You can graduate a man's progress in religion by the amount of prayer, not by the number of hours perhaps, but by the earnest supplication that he puts up to God. There is no exception to the rule. Show me a man who prays and his strength and his power cannot by exaggerated. Just give to a man this power of prayer and you give him almost omnipotence.

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  Prayer, Motivation, Inspiration

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1922). “The Wisdom and Wit of T. De Witt Talmage”

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• 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.

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  Appreciation, Dancing, Wish

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1887). “Live Coals”

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• 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.

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  Men, One Direction, Soul

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1896). “The Earth Girdled: The World as Seen To-day...Embracing Scenes and Experiences Among Semi-civilized as Well as Cultured Peoples of the World”

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• At the beginning God said: "Let there be light," and light was, and light is, and light shall be. So Christianity is rolling on, and it is going to warm all nations, and all nations are to bask in its light. Men may shut the window-blinds so they cannot see it, or they may smoke the pipe of speculation until they are shadowed under their own vaporing; but the Lord God is a sun!

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  Men, Light, Rolling

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1901). “Sin: A Series of Popular Discourses”

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• A lawyer is sometimes required to search titles, and the client who thinks he has good right to an estate, puts the papers in his hands, and the attorney goes into the public records and finds everything right for three or four years back; but after a time he comes to a break in the title. So he finds that the man who supposed he owned it owns not an acre of the ground which belongs to someone else. I trace the title of this world from century to century until I find the whole right vested in God. Now to whom did he give it? To his own children. All are yours.

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  Children, Men, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Gratitude, Men, Indulge In

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1892). “Brilliants”

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• Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.

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  Kingdoms, Remember, Lord

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1876). “Entrances of pearls: being a 5th ser. of 50 sermons”

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• If the bones of all those who have fallen as a prey to intemperance could be piled up it would make a vast pyramid. Who will gird himself for the journey and try with me to scale this mountain of the dead--going up miles high on human carcasses to find still other peaks far above, mountain above mountain, white with the bones of drunkards.

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  Journey, Pyramids, White

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

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  Years, Age, Unusual

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• 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.

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  Laughter, Men, Gun

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1896). “The Earth Girdled: The World as Seen To-day”

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• The distance between capital and labor is not a great gulf over which is swung a Niagara suspension bridge; it is only a step, and the laborers here will cross over and become capitalists and the capitalists will cross over and become laborers. Would to God they would shake hands while they are crossing, these from one side, and those from the other side.

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  Distance, Hands, Bridges

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1886). “The Battle for Bread: A Series of Sermons Relating to Labor and Capital”

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• Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of immortal souls, you would go home and kneel down and pray God that rather than your children should ever become the victims of this evil habit, you might carry them out to Greenwood and put them down in the last slumber, waiting for the flowers of spring to come over the grave-sweet prophecies of the resurrection. God hath a balm for such a Wound, but what flower of comfort ever grew on the blasted heath of a drunkard's sepulcher?

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  Sweet, Children, Spring

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• 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.

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  Moving, Simple, People

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• What may we expect of people who work all day and dance all night? After a while they will be thrown on society nervous, exhausted imbeciles.

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  Night, People, Dancing

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1892). “Trumpet Blasts, Or Mountain-top Views of Life: Comprising the Most Earnest Reasonings, Delightful Narratives, Poetic Imageries, Striking Similies, Fearless Denunciations of Wrong and Inspiring Appeals for the Right, that During His Whole Phenonomenal Career Have Been Given to the World”

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• 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.

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  Pride, America, Dancing

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