Quotes by Edwin Cole

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