Sylvester Stallone Quotes

The church is the gym of the soul.

Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.

The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint

My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.

Being a Christian has not and does not come naturally or easy for me. I take that to be a good thing because I am sure that to be a Christian requires training that lasts a lifetime.

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the church of Christ.

I reflected much on that vain desire, which had pursued me for so many years, of being in solitude in order to be a Christian. I have now, thought I, solitude enough; but am I therefore the nearer being a Christian? Not if Jesus Christ be the model of Christianity.

It is truth alone that capacitates any soul to glorify God.

I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then explain and justify my position by formulating a definition of MAGICK and setting forth its main principles in such a way that ALL may understand instantly that their souls, their lives, in every relation with every other human being and every circumstance, depend upon MAGICK and the right comprehension and right application thereof.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

Do you wish to grow in grace and be a holy Christian? Then never forget the value of prayer.

The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does not operate completely and once for all in any of us. Like the act of Faith it must be continuous and grow by exercise. Frequency is of the highest effect. Seven times a week is more nourishing than seven times at intervals.

It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.

I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.

We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact "right" on people. It has to come from the inside. And that's where the church should be working.

Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it

He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

I now opened my Bible and began to study, and faith has been growing ever since.

Training in God's gym may hurt sometimes, but He will make us stronger.

Christ calls us to carry the Cross; churches call us to have fun in His name.

The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls.