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Austin Phelps Quotes

Are you living for the things you are praying for?

Are you living for the things you are praying for?

Austin Phelps
Prayer, Praying
AUSTIN PHELPS (1860). “THE STILL HOUR”, p.29

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Austin Phelps
Happiness, Attitude, Book
Austin Phelps (1882). “The Theory of Preaching: Lectures on Homiletics”

A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.

Austin Phelps
Men, Faithful, May

It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.

Austin Phelps
Prayer, Men, Long
AUSTIN PHELPS (1860). “THE STILL HOUR”, p.93

We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession.

Austin Phelps
Prayer, Christ, Intercession
AUSTIN PHELPS (1860). “THE STILL HOUR”, p.117

Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success

Austin Phelps
Inspirational, Persistence, Opportunity

We never feel Christ to be a reality, until we feel Him to be a necessity

Austin Phelps
Reality, Christ, Feels

Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the text of the new life sermon; the girding on of the armor for battle; the pilgrim's preparation for his journey. It must be supplemented by action or it amounts to nothing.

Austin Phelps
Christian, Prayer, Book

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.

Austin Phelps
Religious, Principles, Ethics

The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual or aesthetic sermons. Daniel Webster used to complain of some of the preaching to which he listened. "In the house of God" he wanted to meditate "upon the simple varieties, and the undoubted facts of religion;" not upon mysteries and abstractions.

Austin Phelps
Intelligent, Simple, House
Austin Phelps (1882). “Men and Books: Or Studies in Homiletics; Lectures Introductory to The Theory of Preaching”

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