What They Said

"Comfort may be increased by the sight of good works, but it is not built upon them; they are seeds of hope, not props of confidence."

"People today are in too much of a hurry to get nowhere."

"For God is not merely mending, not simply restoring a status quo. Redeemed humanity is to be something more glorious than unfallen humanity."

“None are so bad but the gospel affords them a ground of hope: none are so good as to have any just ground of hope without it.”

“This holy complacency, this rest and sweet repose of mind, is the foundation of the delight of believers in this duty. They do not pray only because it is their duty so to do, nor yet because they stand in need of it, so as that they cannot live without it, but they have delight in it; and to keep them from it is all one as to keep them from their daily food and refreshment.”

"The end of study is information, and the end of meditation is practice, or a work upon the affections."

"We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin."

“He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.”

“Permit me to advise you to study the redemption of time; it is an important talent, and we have all misspent too much of it.”

“The mind of man is covered with thoughts, as a tree with blossoms. Most of them fall off, vanish, and come to nothing, end in vanity; and sometimes where the mind doth most abound with them there is the least fruit; the sap of the mind is wasted and consumed in them. Howbeit there is no fruit which actually we bring forth, be it good or bad, but it proceeds from some of these thoughts.”

"To hear and not to meditate is unfruitful. We may hear and hear, but it is like putting a thing into a bag with holes."

"Oh God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more."

“Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.”

“What a shame, then, is it that my Lord and your's should ever be a single minute out of my mind, since there is not a single minute but brings me some new proof of his goodness.”

“When men feed on the word, it is turned into a principle of life, spiritual strength, and growth within; which a taste of it only will not give. As food, when it is digested, turns into flesh and blood and spirits, so doth the word, and Christ therein, unto the souls of men spiritually.”

"What we take in the word we digest by meditation and let out by prayer."

"The church must worship, and worship and entertainment are at opposite ends of the table."

“Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.”

“How grand and magnificent is the arch over our heads in a starry night! But if it were always day, the stars could not be seen. The firmament of scripture, if I may so speak, is spangled with exceeding great and precious promises, as the sky is with stars, but the value and beauty of many of them are only perceptible to us in the night of affliction.”

“Men do but deceive themselves who suppose that the purity of religion will be preserved in confessions and canons, whilst some make it their business to corrupt its truth, and few or none make it their business to preserve its power.”

“The door of the Word can only be unlocked and opened by the key of diligence.”

“The outward holy life of a believer is the result of an inward principle of love to God.”

"To be truly happy "a man must have sources of happiness which are not dependent on anything in this world." There is nothing on earth which is not stamped with the mark of instability and uncertainty. All the good things that money can buy are but for a moment: they either leave us or we are obliged to leave them. All the sweetest relationships in life are liable to come to an end: death may come any day and cut them off. The man whose happiness depends entirely on things here below is like him who builds his house on sand."

"What people need is the gospel, not directions for saving themselves but knowledge of how God has saved them."

“God therefore uses means, not for lack of power, but through the abundance of his goodness; that namely, he might communicate a certain dignity of working to his Creatures also, and might make his Efficiency more perceivable in them.”

"Meditation and careful thought, exercise us and strengthen the soul for the reception of the yet more lofty truths. We must meditate.  The Word of God is always most precious to the man who met lives upon it."

“Go forth and BE LOVING, even as your Father in heaven is loving. Let your heart be as large in its creature capacity as God's heart is in its divine. If He has a large heart for you, beware of a small heart for your fellows.”

"The heart in which love grows is a heart changed, renewed, and transformed by the Holy Spirit."

"There can be no greater mistake than to suppose that Jesus ever separated theology from ethics."

“The Omnipotence of God is that whereby he is able to effect all things that he wills or can will.”