Edwin Louis Cole quotes:

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

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.

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.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

Men and women have strengths that complement each other.

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.

Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.

God will lead you into a deliverance where the means that delivers you will be those who would destroy you.

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

There are no small churches, just small people.

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.

Being faithful in that which is another man's qualifies us to receive our own.

Good is often the enemy of best.

Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.

It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness.

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

A dream doesn't become a goal until it is written.

To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin.

God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires.

There is a high cost for low living.

There is a price to pay for accomplishment.

The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.

Accepting responsibility for the actions of others contributes to your own greatness.

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.

Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences of sin. Remorse and regret cannot compensate for sin....though sins can be forgiven immediately - the consequences can last a lifetime

God is the Creator; Satan is the counterfeiter.

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.

Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.

When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm.

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.

Attitude determines the altitude of life.

God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive.

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.

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

Truth is life's most precious commodity.

Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages.

What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life.

You are committed to what you confess.

By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.

Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice.

Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application.

The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious appetite, inflamed with eroticism, demanding more indulgence more often until a degenerative spiral captures the soul and drags us on a never ending descent into deeper patterns of immorality and illicit behaviour... Lust goes beyond the sexual. Lust can show itself in a variety of forms: covetousness, gluttony, drunkeness, power hunger, or unbridled ambition, to name a few

Character is more important than talent.

Fear attracts attack.

The difference between men who succeed or fail is their ability to handle pressure.

All sin is a form of insanity. Satan is the most insane being of all because he still believes he can defeat God

A man who honors God privately will show it by making good decisions publicly.

A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.

Greatness comes through serving. The more you serve, the greater you become

There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true.

The counterfeit trinity is me, myself, and I.

Some things are more important that life itself

Failing is not the worst thing in the world; quitting is

All wrong conduct is based on wrong believing

If you can't take it, you won't make it.

You cannot compensate by sacrifice what you lose through disobedience

Professionals who are prayerful and productive are indispensable!

You don't reward reaction; you reward results.

Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.

Christians are not patched-up sinners, they are new creations.

A woman's uniqueness is her greatest appeal to a man - and his greatest challenge.

A dream doesn't become a goal until it is written

What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure.

Crying over what's gone won't find the present.

To talk to his children about God, a person needs to first talk to God with the impossible.

Truth cannot be defeated.