Bob Jones Sr Quotes 1

* The hardest job in this world is to be a consistent Christian. 
* The real test of your spiritual life is what you underscore.  One of the surest signs that you're a Pharisee is when you underscore a non-essential and fail to underscore an essential.
* You may acquire knowledge, but you have to get wisdom from God.

* You can borrow brains, but you cannot borrow character.

* No doubt the trouble is with you.

* The only thing between a lost sinner and hell is a heartbeat, and the only thing between a Christian and Hell is the Blood of Jesus Christ.

* The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.

* There's just one difference between a saved man and an unsaved man: a saved man has Christ, an unsaved man doesn't (I John 5:12).

* Prayer saying is not prayer praying.

* Constructive suggestions appreciated, griping not tolerated.

* We'll all find out who's who at the Judgment Seat of Christ.

* Jesus is the only Advocate I want; He is the only Lawyer I need, He wins all His cases at the Bar of Judgment in the sky.

* You'll go to hell if you live your own life. No man can go to Heaven living his own life. You don't go to Heaven by living your life, you go to Heaven by accepting a divine life from Christ.

* Hell is God's insane asylum for incurables.

* The greatest proof of human depravity is the fact that men do not love Jesus Christ. They may say good things about Him, but they don't love Him.

* The wise man always prepares for the inevitable.

* What America needs is another John the Baptist to seize this country by the nap of the neck and seat of the britches and shake it over Hell!

* Religion is reliance. The thing on which a man relies for salvation - that is his religion. A Christian is a person who, knowing he cannot save himself, relies upon Jesus Christ and His atoning blood for salvation.

* Education without salvation is damnation.

* When in doubt, play it safe.

* You can't blame God if you go to Hell, God died to keep you out of Hell. If you go to Hell, you won't blame anyone but yourself.

* No man can soar higher than he is able to think by the grace of God.

* If God has a round hole for you and you are a square peg, you ought to ask God to turn you into a round peg.

* Don't sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate.

* No man ever succeeds in life who does not learn to finish every job he undertakes. Finish the job!

* You can do anything you ought to do.

* Plan for the worst, but hope for the best.

* Go as far as you can on the right road.

* Some people can't blow their brains out, they don't have any brains to blow out.

* The amount of publicity any man gets is in direct proportion to the extent to which he can be controlled.

* The man who won't trust anybody is a thief at heart, and the woman who is prone to believe everything bad she hears about all other women is fundamentally crooked.

* No man is high born until he is born from on high (John 3:7).

* You can't do wrong and get away with it (Numbers 32:23; Galatians 6:7). The right road always leads out at the right place.

* You don't have to take any chances with your soul. Don't take any, trust Jesus Christ with your soul.

* There is nobody but you to blame for your failure. You will be a failure if you "pass the buck" to somebody else.

* You can't do right doing wrong.

* If you will learn how to live, you can make a living.

* For a Christian, life is not divided into the secular and sacred. To the Christian all ground is holy ground, every bush is a burning bush, and every place is a temple of worship.

* I know there is a God. With the hand of prayer, I knocked at His door; and He opened it.

* God will not do for you what He has given you strength to do for yourself.

* Back of every tragedy in human character, there is a process of wicked thinking.

* It is a sin to do less than your best.

* The door to the room of success always swings on the hinges of opposition.

* If you will give God your heart, He will comb all the kinks out of your head.

* Blessed is the man who knows how to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

* The two biggest little words in the English language are "Do Right."

* The thing you would do if you could do in the sight of God you have done.

* The most important light in the house is not chandelier in the parlor. It's that little back hall light that keeps you from breaking your neck when you go into the bathroom in the middle of the night.

* The greatest ability is dependability.

* Don't blame God if you go to Hell, if you go to Hell, go like a man, just go down there and take it like a man, and say, I deserve to be here, I didn't have to come, I was just too proud and too mean not to come, and here I am forever. The rich man wanted his stay in hell to be comfortable, he wanted some water, but he didn't beg to be let out. If you reject Christ and go to Hell, you'll have to say, Amen, I deserve to be here.

* A Christian does good deeds, but just doing good deeds does not make a man a Christian.

* A man may be saved in a second, but it takes time to build a Christian character that will stand the test of years and the storms of life.

* Honest is the best policy, but the man who is honest because it is the best policy is really not honest. He is selfish.

* God is the same person yesterday, today, and forever; but in the drama of the ages, He plays many parts.

* The Christian philosophy is a philosophy of self-denial, self-control, and self-restraint. The satanic philosophy is a philosophy of "live as you please"; "have what you want"; "it's your life, you have got a right to live it."

* When gratitude dies on the altar of a man's heart, that man is well-nigh hopeless.

* What you love and what you hate reveal what you are.

* Simplicity is truth's most becoming garb.

* The man who sincerely and unselfishly desires to know what's right doesn't have any trouble finding out what's right.

* It is one thing to know there is a God; it's another thing to know the God that is.

* A man is a fool who leans on the arm of flesh when he can be supported by the arm of Omnipotence.

* Do not ask God to give you a light burden; ask Him to give you strong shoulders to carry a heavy burden.

* When there is a good, straight road to the right place, why go a round-about way to get to that place?

* Heaven and Hell are in opposite directions, and no man can go both ways at the same time.

* There is no tragedy as tragic as combining high mentality with low morality.

* The things you do that you ought not to do, you do because you don't do what you ought to do.

** Jesus never taught men how to make a living; He taught men how to live.

* The test of your character is what is takes to stop you.

* The measure of your responsibilities is a measure of your opportunities.

* Two boys laughed at me for becoming a Christian. One of them later went to prison for murder, and the others sleeps in a drunkard's grave.

* I have no trouble believing in the deity of Jesus because no one but God could do for me what Jesus has done.

* It is better to die for something than to live for nothing.

* Pride is the stone over which many people stumble.

* Jesus was the greatest Teacher ever known: He knew His subject; He knew His pupil; He lived what He taught.

* Like it or not, you will have to live somewhere forever and ever; so you had better learn how to live.

* A man who has no enemies is no good. You cannot move without producing friction.

* It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.

* It is at the Cross I get the power to live the Sermon on the Mount.

* Have convictions, but be sure your convictions are convictions and not prejudices.

* A don't religion is not enough. The way you keep from "don'ting" is to "do" so fast you don't have time to "don't."

* Trust God as if it all depends upon Him, and work as if it all depends upon you.

* Beware of the man who kowtows to his superiors, or who is rude to his inferiors.

* Beware of unreasonable people. Good men are always reasonable (James 3:17).

* Mere education is not enough. You cannot put a man in the penitentiary for forgery until you first teach him to write. You can't put a man in jail for fraud until you first teach him to figure.

* Do right though the stars fall.

* Wisdom is knowing how to use knowledge so as to meet successfully the emergencies of life.

* Your character is what God knows you to be; your reputation is what men think you are.

* This is not the age of the thinker; it's the age of the doer. If you try to think crossing a highway or street, some fool will run over you.

* Give God, and not the Devil, the benefit of the doubt.

* You and God make a majority in your community.

* The religions of the world say, "do and live." The religion of the Bible says, "live and do."

* You can't be religious without religion. You can't be a Christian without Christ. You can't deliver the good unless you have the good to deliver. You can't get water out of a dry well; so quit "putting on."

* The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His words.

* Dying men have said, "I am sorry I have been an atheist, an agnostic, a skeptic, or a sinner"; but no man ever said with his last breath, "I am sorry I have lived a Christian life."

* It's no disgrace to fail; it is a disgrace to do less than your best to keep from failing.

* The drunkard in the ditch has gone to the dogs. According to the Bible, the self-righteous man who thinks he doesn't need God has gone to the Devil.