Edwin Louis Cole

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

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

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

Truth is life’s most precious commodity.

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

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

Attitude determines the altitude of life.

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

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

There is a high cost for low living.

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

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

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

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

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

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.

You are committed to what you confess.

Fear attracts attack.

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.

Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages.

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.

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

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

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

The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.

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

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

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

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

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

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

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.

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

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.

There is a price to pay for accomplishment.

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

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

You don’t reward reaction; you reward results.

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

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

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

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

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

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

There are no small churches, just small people.

Truth cannot be defeated.

Men and women have strengths that complement each other.

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

Good is often the enemy of best.

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

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

Character is more important than talent.

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

God is the Creator; Satan is the counterfeiter.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

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

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

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

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