Edwin Louis Cole Quotes


"There is a high cost for low living."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Living)

"There are no small churches, just small people."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: People, Churches)

"The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Burden)

"The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Society)

"The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Rebellion, Repentance, Ruin)

"The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Life, Personality, Will)

"The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: God, Discipline, Decisions, Devotion)

"The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Giving)

"Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: God, Denial, Possession, Right, Sin)

"Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Change, Time, People, Successful, Crisis)

"Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: God, Faithfulness)

"Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Sin)

"There is a price to pay for accomplishment."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: 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."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: God, People, Man)

"You are committed to what you confess."
- Edwin Louis Cole
"Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Virtue, Faithfulness, Loyalty)

"Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Art, Artist, Man, Reading)

"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
(Related: God, Friend, Devil, Enemy, Now, Right)

"You don't reward reaction; you reward results."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Results, Reward)

"You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Water)

"You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: God)

"You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Nature, Man, Words)

"To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Sin)

"When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Pressure)

"What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Life, God, Harm, Potential)

"What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Body, Mind, Will)

"Truth is life's most precious commodity."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Life, Truth)

"Truth cannot be defeated."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Truth)

"Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Trust)

"You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: First, Salvation, Sin)

"Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Life)

"God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: God, Will)

"God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: God, Negative, Positive)

"God is the Creator; Satan is the counterfeiter."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: God, Satan)

"Fear attracts attack."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Fear)

"Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Miracles)

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

"God will lead you into a deliverance where the means that delivers you will be those who would destroy you."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: God, Will)

"By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Gain)

"God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: God, Heart, Will)

"Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Christ, Evolution)

"Prayer in private results in boldness in public."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Boldness, Prayer, Public, Results)

"A dream doesn't become a goal until it is written."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Dream, Goal)

"Crying over what's gone won't find the present."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Present)

"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
(Related: God, Hunger)

"Attitude determines the altitude of life."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Life, Attitude)

"Being faithful in that which is another man's qualifies us to receive our own."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Being, Man)

"Character is more important than talent."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Talent, Character)

"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
(Related: Men, Knowledge, Building, Principles, Worth)

"Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Peace, God, Umpire, Will)

"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
"Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Faith, Act, Obedience, Result, Unbelief)

"Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Faith)

"Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Men, Scripture)

"Good is often the enemy of best."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Enemy)

"Men and women have strengths that complement each other."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Men, Women)

"Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Men, Work, Excellence)

"Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Marriage, Earth, Heaven, Hell, May, Will)

"Have faith in God; God has faith in you."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Faith, God)

"Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: God, Knowledge, Deception, Persecution, Temptation, Word)

"It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Righteousness, Sin)

"Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Men)

"Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Greatness, Visions)

"If you can't take it, you won't make it."
- Edwin Louis Cole
"Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Life)

"Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Men, Women)