A Collection of Dr. Bob Jones, Sr.’s Chapel Sayings

• The greatest thought I ever had is that I have to live somewhere forever.

• It is one thing to know there is a God; it’s another thing to know the God that is.

• The two biggest little words in the English language are the two little words “do right.”

• There is only one thing to do about anything, and that is to do the right thing.

• Do right though the stars fall.

• You can borrow brains, but you can’t borrow character,

• The greatest ability is dependability.

• If you will give God your heart, He will comb the kinks out of your head.

• Finish the job.

• Back of every tragedy in human character there is a process of wicked thinking.

• It is no disgrace to fail; it is a sin to do less than your best to keep from failing.

• It is a sin to do less than your best.

• The religions of the world say, “do and live.” The religion of the Bible says, “live and do.”

• Whatever the Bible says is so.  Whatever man says may or may not be so.

• God will not do for you what He has given you strength to do for yourself.

• The door to the room of success swings on the hinges of opposition.

• A Christian does good deeds, but doing good deeds does not make a man a Christian.

• Your character is what God knows you to be; your reputation is what men think you are.

• The test of your character is what it takes to stop you.

• Don’t sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate.

• What you love and what you hate reveal what you are.

• Pride is the stone over which most people stumble.

• Successful people make stepping-stones our of stumbling-stones.

• You and God make a majority in any community.

• True success is finding God's will for your life and doing it. Being faithful is being successful.

• A man is a fool who leans on the arm of flesh when he can be supported by the arm of Omnipotence.

• What you love and what you hate reveal what you are.

• Jesus never taught men how to make a living; He taught men how to live.

• Do not ask God to give you a light burden; ask Him to give you strong shoulders to carry a heavy burden.

• It is better to die for something than to live for nothing.

• It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.

• 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.

• 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.

​• Dying men have said, “I am sorry I have been an atheist, an infidel, an agnostic, a skeptic, or a sinner”; but with his last breath no man has ever said, “I am sorry I have lived a Christian life.”