Quotes by Dr. Jack Hyles

September 25,
1926—February 6, 2001
"The best thing I can do for you is to love
you." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"I'd like to close my ministry some day from behind this pulpit with one word
to my people: 'OTHERS! Signed, Your Pastor.'"
"Faith is the willingness to risk anything
on God." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"A Christian ought to feel that when a need
arises, it is his duty to fill that need." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"If I and a need meet, God must have had in
mind my filling it." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"A man's main business is God; a woman's
main business is the man." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Love is a gift of God." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"A good name is what is given you by others
and that which has been earned by you." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"He who cannot obey cannot command." - Dr.
Jack Hyles
"God does not choose those who are fit. He
outfits those whom He chooses." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Nothing unites people as sharing the same
affliction." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"It is easy to be grateful for a bonus; it
is character to be grateful for a salary." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"There is nothing wrong with America that
cannot be cured by old-fashioned preaching." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"A friend cannot be known in prosperity. An
enemy cannot be hidden in adversity." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Jesus makes you happy in reality. The
world makes you happy escaping from reality." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"He Who can love as no man can love can
hurt as no man can hurt." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"If you do what you always did, you'll get
what you always got." - Dr. jack Hyles
"It is tragic for our God, Who gave us His
Son to die on the cross, to beg us to love Him." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Too may people today ask God 'where'
instead of 'what.'" - Dr. Jack Hyles
"A tribulation gives you the opportunity to
test a truth you have always believed." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"God never leads anyone anywhere for
money." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Failure means I dared try." - Dr. Jack
Hyles
"There is no victory in the world any more
shallow than victory over another." - Dr. jack Hyles
"Happiness is untested delight. Joy is
delight tested" - Dr. Jack Hyles
"The pursuit of things robs me of
investing more in the work of Christ." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"You will never really love until you love
someone who hates you." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Being loved is life's second greatest
blessing; loving is the greatest." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"A tribulation gives you the opportunity to
test a truth you have always believed."
- Dr. Jack Hyles
"Nobody is fit to be leader unless he would
rather be a follower instead of a leader." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"God's mighty power comes when God's people
learn to walk with God." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"There is no one big will of God for your
life, God has many wills for your life." - Dr. jack Hyles
"Nobody 'used to love' anyone; there is no
such thing as an 'ex-friend.'" - Dr. Jack Hyles
"The man who gets ahead is the man who
works while others sleep." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Just to love, that's enough; being loved,
that's a bonus." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"God's normal dealings with man are very
quiet." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Effort, weakness, trust, victory: that's
my biography." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"The leader must be alone while others are
with each other." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Preaching is fire in the pulpit that melts
the ice in the pew." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"If we prepare ourselves for life's
inevitables, we will not be perplexed by life's transitions." - Dr. Jack
Hyles
"Success is on the same road as failure;
success is just a little further down the road." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"If I live for self, I can only live for
one. If I live for others, I can live for 3,000,000,000." - Dr. Jack
Hyles
"You express love by obedience." - Dr. Jack
Hyles
"You don't get strength for the load; you
get strength from the load." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"There is nothing more
blessed than to be used of God." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Real leaders would rather follow." - Dr.
Jack Hyles
"God never gives us
anything to do that He does not give us the strength to do." - Dr. Jack
Hyles
"I thank God that I have known hunger; I
know what it is for God to feed me." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Use you work to build your people, not
your people to build your work." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Greatness is in the preparation, not in
the performance." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"A church doesn't
necessarily need space to grow; it just needs the power of God." - Dr.
Jack Hyles
"The difference between success and failure
is work." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"We need God as much in
the calm as in the storm." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Laughter means nothing
unless there have been tears." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"The ones who disappoint
you need you the most." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"There is nothing in this
world so empty as getting what you want." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Until we are willing to
die, we have no right to live." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Remind your mind to use His mind." - Dr.
Jack Hyles
"It is not easy to lose,
but often more is won in loss than victory." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Preaching is truth set
on fire." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"A person who has not
done well the little is not prepared or qualified to do the big." - Dr.
Jack Hyles
"If I labor for God, I
fail. If I labor with God, I succeed." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"I know enough of God to
want to know more." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"If I have ever loved
you, I will always love you." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Let principles make
decisions." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"The follower is as
important as the leader." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Your faith level is
determined by your obedience level." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Preaching is sin's
greatest adversary." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"If God called us to a
task, He will then qualify us for the job." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"You stay successful the
same way you became successful." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"What we do today is more
important than what we plan to do in the future." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"I never had a trial I
wanted to have, but I never had trial I wasn't glad I had." - Dr. Jack
Hyles
"Leadership is made for
service." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Faith is the key that
unlocks all of God's cupboards." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"A friend will not try to
change your convictions." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"A prepared person will
always have his opportunity." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"To lose something in the
will of God is to find something better." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Meditation is love's
nourishment." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Love is a verb." - Dr.
Jack Hyles
"Clay is earth with
humility." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Back of the clouds, the
sun is always shining." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Leadership is forced on
a man who is prepared but unaware." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Faith is asking. Faith
is believing. Faith is doubting. Faith is stepping out anyway." - Dr.
Jack Hyles
"If a task is worthy of
our attention, it is worthy of our best." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"The reward that outdoes
all others is the peace of knowing that you did right." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"A request from a friend
is a royal command." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"He Who can love as no
man can love can hurt as no man can hurt." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Everything you declare
with your lips will be tested in your life." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"If you can't see His
goodness, you can trust His goodness." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"The best way to help those who are behind
you is to heed those before you." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"The greatest blessing the the whole world
is being a blessing." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"A friend cannot be known in prosperity. An
enemy cannot be hidden in adversity." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Life is too short not to spend it doing
what God wants us to do." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Giving is the true barometer of love." -
Dr. Jack Hyles
"There are two ways to be rich in life:
have what you want or want what you have." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"On the essentials, unity. On the
nonessentials, liberty. In everything, charity." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"The Christian life is a way of life." -
Dr. Jack Hyles
"Leadership always has to be learning." -
Dr. Jack Hyles
"Love is a heavenly quality that is given
to prepare men to enjoy the heavenly city more." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"The fire doesn't make you what you are; it
reveals what you were." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"The thing that God wants from us more than
anything else is our dependency on Him." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Preaching is the moral conscience of a
nation." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"What you are is what it takes to stop
you." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Preaching is teaching with a tear in the
eye." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Love is hope when reason despairs." - Dr.
Jack Hyles
"The wise follower will want to build
strong leaders." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"It is tragic for our God, Who gave us His
Son to die on the cross, to beg us to love Him." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"The war is not won on the battlefield; it
is won in the boot camp." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Duty and love always accompany each
other." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"The reward that outdoes all others is the
peace of knowing that you did right." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Clay is earth with humility." - Dr. Jack
Hyles
"Do not ask for fears to be removed; ask
for courage equal to the fears." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"When you get to the top, raise the top and
climb some more." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Love is thinking." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"God never gives us anything to do that He
does not give us the strength to do." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Living by faith is believing that God
knows what is best for me." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"God does not choose those who are fit. He
outfits those whom He chooses." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"If there is a secret in my life it is
this: I do everything by schedule." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"My mother said, 'Son, it's the I CAN that
makes a great man.'" - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Silence between friends says that one's
presence is enough." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Lord, help me to preach today as if it
were the last sermon I would ever preach." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"To please a friend is a welcome bonus; to
help him is the great reward." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Nothing is happy until it fulfills the
purpose for which it was created by God." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"How can you give up the world? Just do
what you ought to do, and it will give you up." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Love is the doorway through which the
human soul passes from selfishness to service." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Suffering is the strongest and closest
fellowship in the world." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"God won't do for you what you can do for
yourself." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"There is no greater joy in the Christian
life than to trust Him and need no explanation." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Character comes by repetition of right
until right is done subconsciously." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"The more you learn to love, the fewer
people you will have to love you as you love them." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"True friendship needs no reciprocation." -
Dr. Jack Hyles
"One of the most important words in the
English language is "appropriate."" - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Failing is not a disgrace unless you make
it the last chapter of your book." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"A tear today is an investment in a laugh
tomorrow." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Make no provision for failure." - Dr. Jack
Hyles
"I cannot love you as I love myself until I
love God as I ought to love Him." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Faith is proving your beliefs with works."
- Dr. Jack Hyles
"There is always a prepared place for a
prepared person." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"You do not have to seek God's will when
you are doing God's will." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Hearts are united when they ache and break
together." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Faith is asking. Faith is believing. Faith
is doubting. Faith is stepping out anyway." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"A prepared person will always have his
opportunity." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"God's people cannot be shamed into serving
God; they need to be challenged." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"Happiness is untested delight. Joy is
delight tested" - Dr. Jack Hyles
"You can't come back to God because He is
already there." - Dr. Jack Hyles
"I can't make you love
me, but you can't keep me from loving you." - Dr. Jack Hyles
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