quotes
of the day
Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.
Edwin Louis Cole
Sin is basically a denial of God’s right of possession.
Edwin Louis Cole
Sin is still sin – no matter how you spell it.
Edwin Louis Cole
Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change – from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.
Edwin Louis Cole
The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
Edwin Louis Cole
The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.
Edwin Louis Cole
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.
Edwin Louis Cole
The more you build your life on principle and less on personality – yours or others – the straighter will be your course.
Edwin Louis Cole
The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.
Edwin Louis Cole
The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.
Edwin Louis Cole
The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.
Edwin Louis Cole
There are no small churches, just small people.
Edwin Louis Cole
There is a high cost for low living.
Edwin Louis Cole
There is a price to pay for accomplishment.
Edwin Louis Cole
To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin.
Edwin Louis Cole
Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.
Edwin Louis Cole
Truth cannot be defeated.
Edwin Louis Cole
Truth is life’s most precious commodity.
Edwin Louis Cole
What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure.
Edwin Louis Cole
What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life.
Edwin Louis Cole
When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm.
Edwin Louis Cole
You are committed to what you confess.
Edwin Louis Cole
You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.
Edwin Louis Cole
You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you’ve been responsible for sin.
Edwin Louis Cole
You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
Edwin Louis Cole
You don’t reward reaction; you reward results.
Edwin Louis Cole
You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.
Edwin Louis Cole
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.
Edwin Louis Cole
Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.
Edwin Louis Cole
Edwin Louis Cole
A dream doesn’t become a goal until it is written.
Edwin Louis Cole
A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God’s commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.
Edwin Louis Cole
Attitude determines the altitude of life.
Edwin Louis Cole
Being faithful in that which is another man’s qualifies us to receive our own.
Edwin Louis Cole
Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.
Edwin Louis Cole
Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.
Edwin Louis Cole
By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.
Edwin Louis Cole
Character is more important than talent.
Edwin Louis Cole
Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.
Edwin Louis Cole
Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.
Edwin Louis Cole
Crying over what’s gone won’t find the present.
Edwin Louis Cole
Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.
Edwin Louis Cole
Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.
Edwin Louis Cole
Fear attracts attack.
Edwin Louis Cole
God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires.
Edwin Louis Cole
God is the Creator; Satan is the counterfeiter.
Edwin Louis Cole
God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive.
Edwin Louis Cole
God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.
Edwin Louis Cole
God will lead you into a deliverance where the means that delivers you will be those who would destroy you.
Edwin Louis Cole
Good is often the enemy of best.
Edwin Louis Cole
Have faith in God; God has faith in you.
Edwin Louis Cole
If you can’t take it, you won’t make it.
Edwin Louis Cole
Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
Edwin Louis Cole
Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.
Edwin Louis Cole
It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness.
Edwin Louis Cole
Knowledge of God’s Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
Edwin Louis Cole
Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages.
Edwin Louis Cole
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.
Edwin Louis Cole
Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.
Edwin Louis Cole
Men and women have strengths that complement each other.
Edwin Louis Cole
Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.
Edwin Louis Cole
Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.
Edwin Louis Cole
Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.
Edwin Louis Cole
Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.
Edwin Louis Cole
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.
Edwin Louis Cole
Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.
Edwin Louis Cole
Prayer in private results in boldness in public.
Edwin Louis Cole
Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.
Edwin Louis Cole