Top 94 Quotes & Sayings by Edwin Louis Cole

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Edwin Louis Cole.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Edwin Louis Cole

Edwin Louis Cole (1922–2002), also known as Ed Cole, was the founder of the Christian Men's Network, an American religious organization devoted to helping Christian men and fathers. He published many books and preached numerous sermons relating to men and religion.

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