John H Aughey famous quotes

God brings men [and women] into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse [teach and improve] them. [It is fair and appropriate to get excited about what those lessons and improvements to you will mean for the future happiness of you and those you care about.]
-- John H Aughey

#Mean #Men #Deep Water

Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.
-- John H Aughey

#Beautiful #Climbing #Sublime

Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies.
-- John H Aughey

#Self #Done #Deeds

God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct.
-- John H Aughey

#God #Father #Adversity

The most generous and merciful in judgment upon the faults of others are always the most free from faults themselves.
-- John H Aughey

#Faults #Judgment #Merciful

God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.

There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a billion people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

No one man is superior to the game.

You don't know how to get yourself out of that deep water until you're in the deep water.