Sayings of Dr. Bob Jones, Sr.

1.   Finish the job.
2.   You can do anything you ought to do.
3.   Figure on the worst, but hope for the best.
4.   Go as far as you can on the right road.
5.   You can borrow brain, but you cannot borrow character.
6.   Every successful man I ever met had come at some time under the dominating power of a great truth.
7.   No doubt the trouble is with you.
8.   The wise man always prepares for the inevitable.
9.   When in doubt, play safe.
10.   The man who won't trust anybody is a thief at heart, and the woman who is prone to believe everything bad she hears about all other women is fundamentally crooked.
11.   No man is high born until he is born form on high.
12.   You can't do wrong and get away with it.
13.   The right road always leads out at the right place.
14.   Don't sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate.
15.   For a Christian, life is not divided into the secular and the sacred.  To him all ground is holy ground, every bush is a burning bush, and every place a temple of worship.
16.   Back of God's commands He puts omnipotence.
17.   You may acquire knowledge, but you have to get wisdom direct from God.
18.   I know there's a God.  With the hand of prayer, I knocked at His door, and He opened it.
19.   Every dissipation of youth must be paid for with a draft on old age.
20.   The Bible was not written to teach men science, but the Bible is scientifically correct.
21.   God will not do for you what He has given you the strength to do for yourself.
22.   Back of every tragedy in human character, there is a process of wicked thinking.
23.   It is a sin to do less than your best.
24.   The door to the room of success swings on the hinges of opposition.
25.   If you will give God your heart, He will comb all the kinks out of your head.
26.   Blessed is the man who knows how to make stepping stones out of stumbling stones.
27.   The two biggest little words in the English language are the two little words "do right".
28.   The thing you would do if you could do in the sight of God you have done.
29.   The most important light in the house is not the chandelier in the parlor.  It's that little back hall light that keeps you from breaking your neck when you go to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
30.   The greatest ability is dependability.
31.   A Christian does good deeds, but just doing good deeds does not make a man a Christian.
32.   A man may be saved in a second, but it takes time to build a Christian character that will stand the test of years and the storms of life.
33.   Honesty is the best policy, but the man who is honest because it is the best policy is really not honest.  He is selfish.
34.   God is the same person yesterday, today and forever; but in the drama of the ages, He plays many parts.
35.   The Christian philosophy is a philosopgy of self-denial, self-control and self-restraint.  The satanic philosophy is a philosophy of "live as you please", "have what you want", "don't let anybody tell you what to do" and "it's your life, you have got a right to live it."
36.   When gratitude dies on the altar of a man's heart, that man is well-nigh hopeless.
37.   What you love and what you hate reveal what you are.
38.   Simplicity is truth's most becoming garb.
39.   The man who sincerely and unselfishly desires to know what's right doesn't have any trouble finding out what's right.
40.   It is one thing to know there is a God;   it is another thing to know the God that is.
41.   A man is a fool who leans on the arm of flesh when he can be supported by the arm of Omnipotence.
42.   Do not ask God to give you a light burden; ask Him to give you strong shoulders to carry a heavy burden.
43.   When there is a good, straight road to the right place, why go a round-about way to get to that place?
44.   Heaven and Hell are in opposite directions, and no man can go both ways at the same time.
45.   There is no tragedy as tragic as combining high mentality with low morality.
46.   The things you do that you ought not to do, you do because you don't do what you ought to do.
47.   Jesus never taught men how to make a living;   He taught men how to live.
48.   The test of your character is what it takes to stop you.
49.   The measure of your responsibilities is a measure of your opportunities.
50.   Two boys laughed at me for becoming a Christian.  One of them later went to prison for murder, and the other sleeps in a drunkard's grave.
51.   I have no trouble believing in the deity of Jesus because no one but God could do for me what Jesus has done.
52.   It is better to die for something that to live for nothing.
53.   Pride is the stone over which many people stumble.
54.   Measured by the highest standards of pedagogy, Jesus was the greatest teacher the world ever knew.  He knew His subject;  He knew His pupil;  He lived what He taught.
55.   Like it or not, you will have to live somewhere forever, so you had better learn how to live.
56.   A man who achieves greatness is too busy to tell people where his ancestors came from.  He doesn't have to tell them anyway;   somebody else will tell them.
57.   A man who has no enemies is no good.  You cannot move without producing friction.
58.   I always go to the right source for advice.   I would not ask a man on Broadway in New York who says "opossum" how to catch "possums."  I would ask a fellow from the country who owns a "cur-dog" and who says "possum."
59.   It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.
60.   It is at the cross I get the power to live the Sermon on the Mount.
61.   Have convictions, but be sure your convictions are convictions and not prejudices.
62.   A "don't" religion is not enough.   The way to keep from "don'ting" is to "do" so fast you don't have time to "don't."
63.   Beware of the man who kowtows to his superiors or who is rude to his inferiors.
64.   Beware of unreasonable people.  Good men are always reasonable.
65.   Mere education is not enough.  You cannot put a man in the penitentiary for forgery until you first teach him to write.  You can't put a man i jail for fraud until you first teach him to figure.
66.   Wisdom is knowing how to use knowledge so as to meet successfully the emergencies of life.
67.   Your character is what God knows you to be;   your reputation is what men think you are.
68.   This is not the age of the thinker;  it is the age of the doer.  If you try to think of crossing a highway or street, some fool will run over you.
69.   Give God, and not the Devil, the benefit of the doubt.
70.   Jesus said that He would be in the midst of two or three gathered in His name, but this does not mean that our Lord does not like to have a larger crowd.
71.   You and God make a majority in your community.
72.   The religions of the world say, "do and live."  The religion of the Bible says, "live and do."
73.   You can't be religious without religion.   You can't be a Christian without Christ.  You can't deliver the goods unless you have the goods to deliver.  You can't get water out of a dry well; so quit "putting on."
74.   Dying men have said, "I am sorry I have been an athiest, an infidel, an agnostic, a skeptic or a sinner.  But no man has ever said with his last breath, "I am sorry I have lived a Christian life."
75.   It is no disgrace to fail;  it is a disgrace to do less than your best to keep from failing.
76.   No man can soar higher than he is able to think by the grace of God.
77.   The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to commit adultry;  he tempted them to live independently of God.
78.   The drunkard in the ditch has gone to the dogs.   According to the Bible, the self-righteous man who thinks he doesn't need God has gone to the Devil.
79.   A preacher who preaches an old sermon because he is too lazy to make a new sermon is not fit to be a preacher;  but a preacher who shold repeat a sermon because the people need to hear is again is a coward and a betrayer of Jesus Christ if he does not repeat the sermon.
80.   Religion is reliance.  The thing on which a man relies for salvation - that is his religion.  A Christian is a person who, know he cannot save himself, relies upon Jesus Christ and His atoning blood for salvation.
81.   When I was fourteen years old, I knelt by my dying mother's bed.  She smiled at me through the death shadow on her face and said she was going Home.  She asked me to meet her in Heaven, and I gave her my promise.   Her body sleeps in a lonely cemetery in the state of Alabama.  As I have sat by her grave and listened to a funeral dirge played by the wind in the pine trees nearby, I have said, "Mother, I wil see you again someday."  Some people say I am dreaming. If I am, don't wake me.  If this world were all, I would want my Christian faith.  My faith hangs a rainbow of hope over the dust of my loved ones and kindles a smile on the brow of my bereavement.  This world is not all.  There is a God. There is a Heaven.  There is a Hell.  I am playing a safe game.  If there were only one world, I have already won.  Since there is an afterlife, I win for two worlds.  You don't have to take chances with your soul.  Don't take any.