“Good resolutions are like babies crying in church. They should be carried out immediately.””
Quotes by Charles M. Sheldon
“Must Jesus bear the cross alone And all the world go free? No, there's a cross for every one, And there's a cross for me.””
“But if our definition of being a Christian is simply to enjoy the privileges of worship, be generous at no expense to ourselves, have a good, easy time surrounded by pleasant friends and by comfortable things, live respectably and at the same time avoid the world's great stress of sin and trouble because it is too much pain to bear it”
“The greatest question in all of human life is summed up when we ask, 'What would Jesus do?' if, as we ask it, we also try to answer it from a growth in knowledge of Jesus himself. We must know Jesus before we can imitate Him.””
“No man can tell until he is moved by the Divine Spirit what he may do, or how he may change the current of a lifetime of fixed habits of thought and speech and action.””
Charles M. SheldonCharles Monroe Sheldon was an influential American Congregationalist minister and a prominent figure in the Social Gospel movement. Born in 1857, he dedicated his life to addressing social issues thro...