C.C. Franklin Quotes

Those things that hurt, instruct.

He that best understands the world, least likes it

If you want something done, ask a busy person.

When giving, praying, and fasting are practiced together in the life of a believer, it creates a type of threefold cord that is not easily broken.

There's nothing left . . . but to get drunk.

He that drinks his Cyder alone, let him catch his Horse alone.

This search for happiness can knock us out of sync with God. As the life of Jesus makes clear, keeping in sync with God is about obedience. Any other pursuit will get in the way.

The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.

The whole world is one neighborhood.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.

Fart for freedom, fart for liberty—and fart proudly.

Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.

As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war ... You have to learn when to let go. And that's not easy.

Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.

After the White House what is there to do but drink?

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

Men and Melons are hard to know.

For all of us, we put our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. He's in our boat. And when those storms come and those waves (of life) come, He's in the boat with us.

When I was taught truth, that's when I got my freedom.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

Success is the residue of planning.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

Sometimes we complain, but there is something beautiful about waking up before everyone to get better at what we love.

Every life is precious to God. God created every one of us. He gave us a soul, and that soul will live as long as God lives.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

When God loves you, what can be better than that?

The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.

The path to success requires you to commit.

Half the truth is often a great lie.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.

The discipline of fasting breaks you out of the world's routine.

It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.

The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong help the weak to survive."

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Time is money'... Waste it now. Pay for it later!

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

You have to look at what a person does with his life. Anyone can say that hes a Christian, but you look at how they live.

Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Fasting is a constant means of renewing yourself spiritually.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.