The Founder’s Burden
Dr. Bob Jones, Sr., the founder of Bob Jones University, placed great emphasis upon the development of Christian character. That burden is reflected in his “chapel sayings” which he repeated often to his “boys and girls” in his chapel messages. They include:
- You can do anything you ought to do.
- Finish the job.
- The two biggest little words in the English language are the two little words, “do right.”
- The thing you would do if you could do it in the sight of God you have done.
- You can’t do wrong and get away with it.
- Back of God’s commands He puts omnipotence.
- If you will give God your heart, He will comb the kinks out of your head.
- Don’t sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate.
- Honesty is the best policy, but the man who is honest because it is the best policy is really not honest. He is selfish.
- When gratitude dies on the altar of a man’s heart, that man is well-nigh hopeless.
- Back of every tragedy in human character there is a process of wicked thinking.
- It is a sin to do less than your best.
- The door to the room of success swings on the hinges of opposition.
- The greatest ability is dependability.
- What you love and what you hate reveal what you are.
- Do not ask God to give you a light burden; ask Him to give you strong shoulders to carry a heavy burden.
- The test of your character is what it takes to stop you.
- It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.
- It’s no disgrace to fail; it is a disgrace to do less than your best to keep from failing.
- No man can soar higher than he can think by the grace of God.
