Quotes By 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.

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

The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.

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

You don't reward reaction; you reward results.

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

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

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

Men and women have strengths that complement each other.

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

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

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.

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

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

Being faithful in that which is another man's qualifies us to receive our own.

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

There is a high cost for low living.

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

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

Character is more important than talent.

Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.

You are committed to what you confess.

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

There are no small churches, just small people.

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

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.

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

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

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

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.