F.W. Boreham > Quotes

“We make our decisions, and then our decisions turn around and make us.”
― F.W. Boreham

“I have learned that my quenchless longing for life is, after all, unconsciously, a secret, unutterable yearning after God; for how can you conceive of life apart from Him?”
― F.W. Boreham

“God with all His omnipotence at His disposal never wastes anything. He never sends a flood if a shower will do; never sends a fortune if a shilling will do; never sends an army if a man will do. And He never thunders if a whisper will do.”
― F.W. Boreham, The Whisper of God

“Nicknames reveal the man; real names conceal the man.”
― F. W. Boreham, Mushrooms on the Moor

“The Old Testament records the sage words of an old woman in addressing two younger ones: 'The Lord grant', said Naomi, 'that ye may find rest, each of you, in the house of her husband!' Who ever heard of a woman finding rest in the house of her husband?
And yet, and yet ! The restless hearts are not
the hearts of wives and of mothers, as many a lonely woman knows. There is no more crushing load than the load of a loveless life. It is a burden that is often beautifully and graciously borne, but its weight is a very real one. The mother may have a bent form, a furrowed brow, and worn, thin hands ; but her heart found its rest for all that. Naomi was an old woman; she knew the world very well, and her words are worth weighing. Heavy luggage is Christ's strange cure for weary hearts.”
― F.W. Boreham, The Luggage of Life

“The savage knows nothing of 'the law of Christ.' He will bear no other's burden. The sick must die; the wounded must perish; the feeble must go to the wall. Only the mightiest and most muscular survive and produce another generation. 'The law of Christ' ends all that. The luggage of life must be distributed. The sick must be nursed; the wounded must be tended; the frail must be cherished. These, too, must be permitted to play their part in the shaping of human destiny. They also may love and wed, and become fathers and mothers. The weaknesses of each are taken back into the blood of the race. The frailty of each becomes part of the common heritage. And, in the last result, if our men are not all Apollos, and if our women do not all resemble Venus de Medici, it is largely because we have millions with us who, but for 'the law of Christ/ operating on rational ideals, would have had no existence at all. In a Christian land, under Christian laws, we bear each other's burdens, we carry each other's luggage. It is the law of Christ, the law of the cross, a sacrificial law. The difference between savagery and civilization is simply this, that we have learned, in our very flesh and blood, to bear each other's burdens and so fulfil the law of Christ.”
― F. W. Boreham, The Luggage of Life......Plus .....George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand

“When speaking of the difficulty which a black boy experiences in America in competing with his white rivals, Booker Washington tells us that his own pathetic and desperate struggle taught him that 'success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
― F.W. Boreham, Mushrooms on the Moor

“Men are willing to keep their evil characters if they can but get rid fo their evil reputations. They are scrupulously studious of appearances.”
― F.W. Boreham, The Three Half-Moons

“The prayer that moves Omnipotence to pity, and summons all the hosts of heaven to help, is not the prayer of nicely rounded periods--Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null--but the prayer of passionate entreaty. It is a call--a call such as a doctor receives at dead of night; a call such as the fireman receives when all the alarms are clanging; a call such as the ships receive in mid-ocean, when, hurtling through the darkness and the void, there comes the wireless message, 'S.O.S.' 'Call upon Me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me.”
― Frank W. Boreham, A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds

“The honour of a nation can never rise above the standard of the integrity of its judges. The corruption of a people is quickly reflected in the degradation of its Courts; the good sense and moral soundness of a people are indicated by the unbending probity of its judicial administrators.”
― F. W. Boreham

“See there, Auguste! the poorest, meanest soul on our place will be living when all those stars are gone for ever--will live as long as God lives!”
― Frank W. Boreham, A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds

“There are two kinds of progress. There is the progress that moves away from infancy towards youth, towards maturity, towards age and decrepitude. And there is a higher progress, a progress that moves towards infancy. 'Except ye be converted and become as little children,' Jesus said, 'ye shall not enter into the kingdom of God.' And the only way of becoming a little child once more is by being born again. It is the glory of the gospel that it offers a man that chance.”
― Frank W. Boreham, A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds

“There is an unconscious influence about the true peacemaker that leads every man he meets to love his fellow men.”
― F.W. Boreham, The Heavenly Octave: A Study Of The Beatitudes 1936

“When Elizabeth came to the English throne, a number of men and women, who were awaiting martyrdom under Mary, were liberated. Animated by the spirit of Ridley and Latimer, they would have kissed the faggots and embraced the stake. Yet, in the years that followed, some of them lapsed into indifference, went the way of the world, and named the name of Christ no more. The ordeal of life proved more potent and more”
― Frank W. Boreham, A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds

“terrible than the ordeal of a fiery death.”
― Frank W. Boreham, A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds

“We need a God and cannot be happy till we find Him. The instinct of adoration is in our blood, and we are ill at ease until we can find One at whose feet we can lay the tribute of our devotion.”
― Frank W. Boreham, A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds

“Nothing either great or small,
Nothing, sinner, no;
Jesus did it, did it all,
Long, long ago.
'It is Finished!' yes, indeed,
Finished every jot;
Sinner, this is all you need;
Tell me, is it not?
Cast your deadly doing down,
Down at Jesus' feet;
Stand in Him, in Him alone,
Gloriously complete.”
― Frank W. Boreham, A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds

“Jesus can make a dying bed
Feel soft as downy pillows are.”
― Frank W. Boreham, A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?' asked Uncle Tom, with his last breath. 'Massa George sat fixed with solemn awe,' says Mrs. Beecher Stowe, in continuing the story. 'It seemed to him that the place was holy; and as he closed Tom's lifeless eyes, and rose to leave the dead, only one thought possessed him--What a thing it is to be a Christian!' It is indeed!”
― Frank W. Boreham, A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds

“I have learned that my quenchless longing for life is, after all, unconsciously, a secret, unutterable yearning after God; for how can you conceive of life apart from Him? We make our decisions, and then our decisions turn around and make us.”
― F.W. Boreham

“I said, too, that the recent war—the Boer war of 1900—had brought about a condition of general unsettlement and dislocation which would make his difficult task still more baffling.”
― F.W. Boreham, Wisps of Wildfire

“There is no drama like the drama of reality.”
― F.W. Boreham, Wisps of Wildfire

“The eyes, cleansed by weeping, have obtained a clearer vision of life’s profound mystery and beneficent discipline.”
― F. W. Boreham

“It was the Claim of Monopoly. 'Call upon Me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee.”
― F.W. Boreham, A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds