C.C. Franklin Quotes

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.

The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident.

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

My heart is still there in gospel music. It never left . . . I'm gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone.

Prayer is our essential lifeline to God's throne and heart.

Trust the gifts that God has placed within you.

Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.

Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.

A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.

Judy Garland is a singer with a capital S. And talk about soul. This woman was soul personified. Judy Garland is a class by herself.

Practice makes perfect.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all

To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

God pours His oil into clean vessels!

Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.

If you watch your pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.

I love to sing. It's just a natural thing for me.

If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United States could be told adequately and fairly.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Jesus is Lord! That is not negotiable.

I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being.

There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me.

Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.

A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.

Is your integrity at the level of the thing you are praying for?

You're a no good heartbreaker, you're a liar, and you're a cheat. I don't know why I let you do these things to me.

Don't cry over spilled milk

I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She's such a can-do kind of girl; that's why I'm crazy about her.

Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

The only thing we have to fear...is audiovisual glitches at our annual event.

A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.

The milk of kindness flows through my body, I shall follow Jesus to the Taco Bell and give thanks.

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Applause waits on success.