Edwin Louis Cole famous quotes

God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Positive #Negative #Ends

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Love #Soulmate #Giving

Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Men #Choices #Males

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

#Successful #People #Literature

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Motivational #Positive #Fall

Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Faith #Trustworthy #Faithfulness

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

#God #Hype #Temptation

Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Never Quit #Quitting #Winner

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Christmas #Miracle #Atmosphere

Character is more important than talent.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Character #Important #Talent

Men and women have strengths that complement each other.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Strength #Men #Men And Women

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Art #Reading #Men

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

#Friendship #Enemy #Devil

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

#Wedding #Heaven #Earth

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

#Men #People #Literature

Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Men #Scripture #Conformity

There is a high cost for low living.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Cost #Lows

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Greatness #Vision #Illusion

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Tickets

The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Personality #Principles

When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Giving #Literature #Way

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Faith #Literature #Have Faith

You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Depth #Literature #Height

Attitude determines the altitude of life.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Life #Attitude #Inspire

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Loyalty #Literature #Virtue

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Obedience #Results #Disobedience

The counterfeit trinity is me, myself, and I.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Trinity #Counterfeit

To talk to his children about God, a person needs to first talk to God with the impossible.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Children #Needs #Firsts

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Limits #Literature #Boundaries

Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Believe #Literature #Evolution

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

#Men #Literature #World

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Literature #Gods Will

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Men #Immature #Immaturity

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Men #Perfection #Excellence

Crying over what's gone won't find the present.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Gone #Literature #Cry

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Uprising #Christian Inspirational #Patterns

The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Yoke #Literature #Bears

You are committed to what you confess.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Literature #Committed

You don't reward reaction; you reward results.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Literature #Rewards #Reactions

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

#Character #Men #Mind

Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Men #Literature #Guilty

The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious appetite, inflamed with eroticism, demanding more indulgence more often until a degenerative spiral captures the soul and drags us on a never ending descent into deeper patterns of immorality and illicit behaviour... Lust goes beyond the sexual. Lust can show itself in a variety of forms: covetousness, gluttony, drunkeness, power hunger, or unbridled ambition, to name a few
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Ambition #Names #Soul

A man who honors God privately will show it by making good decisions publicly.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Men #Decision #Honor

Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Godly #Impossible #Sand

All wrong conduct is based on wrong believing
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Believe

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Responsibility #Acceptance #Maturity

Failing is not the worst thing in the world; quitting is
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#World #Quitting #Failing

Some things are more important that life itself
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Important

Greatness comes through serving. The more you serve, the greater you become
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Greatness

All sin is a form of insanity. Satan is the most insane being of all because he still believes he can defeat God
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Believe #Insanity #Insane

Accepting responsibility for the actions of others contributes to your own greatness.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Responsibility #Greatness #Action

The difference between men who succeed or fail is their ability to handle pressure.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Adversity #Men #Differences

Truth cannot be defeated.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Defeated

To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Doe #Sin

Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences of sin. Remorse and regret cannot compensate for sin....though sins can be forgiven immediately - the consequences can last a lifetime
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Regret #Temptation #Lasts

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

#Mean #Deliverance #Gods Will

You cannot compensate by sacrifice what you lose through disobedience
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Sacrifice #Disobedience

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Umpires #Gods Will

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

#Believe #God Life #Harm

A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Prayer #Obedience #Produce

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Firsts #Sin #Responsible

Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Understanding #Facts #Application

Professionals who are prayerful and productive are indispensable!
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Indispensable #Prayerful #Productive

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

#Men #Faithful #Literature

Truth is life's most precious commodity.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Literature #Truth Is #Commodity

Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Literature #Substitutes #Fund

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

#Literature #Moral #Bases

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Two #Appreciate #Literature

There are no small churches, just small people.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#People #Church #Literature

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Men

It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Sin #Enough #Righteousness

God is the Creator; Satan is the counterfeiter.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Satan #Creator

God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Heart #Desire #Literature

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

#Tree #Literature #Fruit

By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Aggravation #Use #Literature

Fear attracts attack.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

Good is often the enemy of best.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Enemy

Christians are not patched-up sinners, they are new creations.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Christian #Creation #Sinner

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Prayer #Results #Boldness

A woman's uniqueness is her greatest appeal to a man - and his greatest challenge.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Men #Challenges #Appeals

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Denial #Sin #Possession

There is a price to pay for accomplishment.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Accomplishment #Pay

A dream doesn't become a goal until it is written
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Dream #Goal

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Inspirational #Discipline #Decision

What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Mind #Literature #Body

Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Matter #Sin #Stills

Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Literature #Levels #Life Is

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

#Fasting #Literature #Demand