What They Said

"Take notice not only of the mercies of God, but of God in the mercies.  Mercies are never so savoury as when they savour of a Saviour."

"Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy." 
  

"Without the heart it is no worship. It is a stage play. It is an acting of a part without being that person, really. It is playing the hypocrite."

"An oath of office places a man and the people he governs in covenant with God.  It binds the man and the people.  It is an act of the most serious nature and consequences.  Before it is too late, we had better take it as seriously as God does!"

"Where there is no want, there is usually much wantonness."

"Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons."

"Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation."

"This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it."

"It is our bounden duty to live in obedience, but it would prove our utter ruin to live on obedience."

"The devil tempts, that he may deceive; but God suffers us to be tempted, to try us.  Temptation is a trial of our sincerity."

"The cause why our oppressors prevail oft against us is, because we trust too much in our own wits, and lean too much upon our own inventions; opposing subtility to subtility, one evil device to another, matching and maintaining policy by policv, and not committing our cause to God."

"To want temptations is the greatest temptation of all."

"Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before."

"If thou hast fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it."

"Satan, like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish."

"We have as many hypocrites in government as we do because so many of us voters are hypocrites.  We are all for reforming everyone except ourselves."

"To understand therefore what is happening in America's economy, the answer is not to complain about the rising price of farm products but to look at the changing yardstick, money."

"When the faith is more than a possession but a fire in our being that possesses us, we are governed by it.  It commands and compels us as nothing else can, because we are in the hands and power of the living God."

"When a civilisation looses its faith, it begins to live, not in terms of responsibilities, and the future, but in terms of the present pleasure." 

"Politics cannot produce character: Christianity must. The decline of faith is a decline of character and a decline of character is the forerunner of political decay and collapse. Christianity has an obligation to train a people in the fundamentals of God's grace and law, and to make them active and able champions of true political liberty and order."

"Evangelical repentance is repentance of sin as sin: not of this sin nor of that, but of the whole mass. We repent of the sin of our nature as well as the sin of our practice. We bemoan sin within us and without us. We repent of sin itself as being an insult to God. Anything short of this is a mere surface repentance, and not a repentance which reaches to the bottom of the mischief. Repentance of the evil act, and not of the evil heart, is like men pumping water out of a leaky vessel, but forgetting to stop the leak. Some would dam up the stream, but leave the fountain still flowing; they would remove the eruption from the skin, but leave the disease in the flesh."

"God will not pardom for repentance, nor yet without it."