Sermons on biblical characters Quotes

“Anything that turns our eyes away from a steadfast gaze of faith upon Christ spells disaster.”
― Clovis Gillham Chappell, Sermons on biblical characters

“It is better to make a thousand failures than to be too cowardly to ever undertake anything.”
― Clovis Gillham Chappell, Sermons on biblical characters

“my brethren, do you not agree that we need more of the faith that made Peter undertake his mad enterprise? Isn't the tragedy of the Church to-day just this, that the average Christian is not walking by faith, but by sight? That is the reason we have so little of that high spirit of daring that marked the early Church. That is the reason that life for many of us is so dull and prosaic. What we need is faith. For faith is not a tame and spineless thing that dares nothing. Real faith dares something, something big and brawny, beyond the human.”
― Clovis Gillham Chappell, Sermons on biblical characters

“there are just two cities on your map. The Nineveh of obedience and the Tarshish of disobedience. You are going to Nineveh or to Tarshish.”
― Clovis Gillham Chappell, Sermons on biblical characters

“Wherever hungry hearts come together who yearn for Him and make Him welcome, there comes the blessed Christ to stand in the midst. And therefore I would not absent myself from the meeting together of the people of God. I would not because I want to be there when Jesus comes, when the King comes in to see the guests.”
― Clovis Gillham Chappell, Sermons on biblical characters