What They Said

"Without the interpretation of the universe by man to the glory of God the whole world would be meaningless."

"Humility is the bloom and the beauty of holiness."

"It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it."

"Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory."

"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more."

“The truth of God may well be likened to a narrow path skirted on either side by a dangerous and destructive precipice: in other words, it lies between two gulfs of error.”

"God bestows His blessings without discrimination. The followers of Jesus are children of God, and they should manifest the family likeness by doing good to all, even to those who deserve the opposite."

"The law showeth unto us our sins, and maketh known unto us our miserable estate and wretchedness, and how that there is nothing good in us, and that we are far off from all manner of righteousness, and so driveth us of necessity to seek righteousness in Christ."

"The test of happiness is gratitude."

“When was public virtue to be found when private was not?”

“Whatever I cannot do for God’s glory must be avoided.”

"The question to be asked of all teaching is not, 'Is it new?' but 'Is it true?'"

"As the musician straineth his strings, and yet he breaketh none of them, but maketh thereby a sweeter melody and better concord; so God, through affliction makes His own better unto the fruition and enjoying of the life to come."

"God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else."

"There is one safe and happy place, and that is in the will of God."

"A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles."

"All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God."

"If Christians are ever to be united, they must be united in Christ, their living head and the source of their spiritual life."

"Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical."

"If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?"

"The saving power of faith resides thus not in itself, but in the Almighty Saviour on whom it rests."

"This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him."

"One man with truth on his side is stronger than a majority in error, and will conquer in the end."

"The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the wellbeing of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves."

“The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them.”

"A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy."

"Virtue consists in doing our duty, in the several relations we sustain in respect to ourselves, to our fellow men, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation."

"Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly."

"Be humble, talk little, think and pray much."

"Thus, for Instance, Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves, and is only so far enjoined as it is suitable to the Truth of our State, for to think worse of ourselves than we really are, is no more a Virtue than to make five to be less than four."