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Decision: Quotations from Burning Words

Here I stand; I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen.— MARTIN LUTHER

Firmness, both in sufferance and exertion, is a character which I would wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and the cowardly, feeble resolve.— ROBERT BURNS

Decision is a vastly important thing with a convicted sinner. He must choose, or he must be lost. If he will not do it, he may expect the Divine Spirit to depart from him, and leave him to his own way.— ICHABOD SPENCER

I take one decisive and immediate step, and resign my all to the sufficiency of my Saviour.— THOMAS CHALMERS

For a few brief days the orchards are white with blossoms. They soon turn to fruit, or else float away, useless and wasted, upon the idle breeze. So will it be with present feelings. They must be deepened into decision, or be entirely dissipated by delay.— T. L. CUYLER

A man an who has not learned to say "no" - who is not resolved that he will take God's way in spite of every dog that can bark at him, in spite of every silvery voice that can woo him aside - will be a weak and wretched man till he dies. -— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

To be energetic and firm where principle demands it, and tolerant in all else, is not easy. It is not easy to abhor wickedness, and oppose it with every energy, and at the same time to have the meekness and gentleness of Christ, becoming all things to all men for the truth's sake. The energy of patience, the most godlike of all, is not easy.— MARK HOPKINS

I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly; if it be wrong, leave it undone.— GILPIN

In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and guided by any thing lower than an inflexible will, fixed in obedience to God, will in the end be shaped into a deformity, and guided to wreck and ruin.— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

The souls of men of feeble purpose are the graveyards of good intentions.