What They Said

“He who makes the promise ever fulfils it by His own unaided omnipotence. If He speaks, it is done — done by Himself. His promises do not depend for their fulfillment upon the co-operation of the puny strength of man.”

"PEOPLE are often very anxious about things which they never realize;………Secondly, That we should beware of presumption, and say, “The Lord shall choose mine inheritance for me.” “Go to, now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell and get gain: whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away.”

“He has never refused to bear your burdens, He has never fainted under their weight. Come, then, soul! have done with fretful care, and leave all thy concerns in the hand of a gracious God.”

“Our estimation of things will be seen in the diligence of our endeavors. That which we most highly value, we shall think no pains too great to obtain."

“We remain on earth as sowers to scatter good seed; as ploughmen to break up the fallow ground; as heralds publishing salvation. We are here as the "salt of the earth," to be a blessing to the world. We are here to glorify Christ in our daily life. We are here as workers for Him, and as "workers together with Him." Let us see that our life answereth its end.”

"PEOPLE are often very anxious about things which they never realize;……..The first is, That we should commit ourselves to God by prayer, that we may be prepared for all our future days, whatever may be their complexion.”

“This must ever be a great and certain truth, that we love Him for no other reason than because He first loved us. Our love to Him is the fair offspring of His love to us. Cold admiration, when studying the works of God, anyone may have, but the warmth of love can only be kindled in the heart by God's Spirit.”

“Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others.”

“The happiest state of a Christian is the holiest state. As there is the most heat nearest to the sun, so there is the most happiness nearest to Christ.”

“There is a difference between the race and the goal. We are now running the race that is set before us, and we are required to run with patience; the crown is suspended on high.”

“Follow after holiness; it is the Christian's crown and glory.”

"The habit of laying up a text of Scripture in the morning, to be meditated upon while engaged in the business of this world through the day, is both profitable and delightful. It is as a refreshing draught to a weary traveler.”

“Think little of yourselves, but do not think too little of your callings. Every lawful trade may be sanctified by the gospel to noblest ends.”

"The more we love Him, The more lovely we become to others, and the more lovely He will become to us."

"We soon exhaust the most excellent characters of earth. But in the character of our Redeemer there are depths, heights, lengths and breadths of loveliness that we can never exhaust through time or eternity. After, in Heaven, we shall have seen the King in His beauty as many millions of years as there are grains of dust in our globe, there will still be in Him an infinitude of undeveloped beauties to transport our ever expanding souls."

“Real love is not passive; because one cannot feel it without being ready to fight for it.”

“When the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it. It is then that the world is made to listen to her message, though it may hate it at first.”

“The flippant, the insincere, the superficial, and the shallow make religion a jukebox.  Put a dime in, press a button, and get this jukebox religion.”

“There is no doubt but that the most unhappy and discouraged Christian today are those who do not exercise their senses with respect to this Word of God.”

“Christ, in one word, has purchased a full forgiveness, if we are only willing to receive it. He has done all, paid all, suffered all that was needful to reconcile us to God.”

“Opponents of Christianity will believe anything except Christianity.”

“It is very foolish to ignore the past. The man who does ignore it, and assumes that our problems are quite new, and that therefore the past has nothing at all to teach us, is a man who is not only grossly ignorant of the Scriptures, he is equally ignorant of some of the greatest lessons even in secular history.”

“If I have to tell someone I am a Christian, I am not living a life that pleases the Lord.  I need to allow Christ’s silent love to flow into my heart and life so the people around me can see there is a difference inmate.”

“The Christian message is not one which lauds or praises the past; it is concerned to make us look to the future.”

“Faith is the only thing required, not knowledge. A man may be a poor unlearned sinner, and know little of books. But if he sees enough to find the foot of the cross, and trust in Jesus for pardon, I will engage, from the authority of the Bible, that he shall not miss heaven. To know Christ is the corner-stone of all saving knowledge.”

“We do not want a newspaper to give us a vision of the world made perfect; we want a Church for that. We do not want a newspaper to give us good news; we want a Gospel for that. We want a newspaper to give us true news; not elevating news or improving news.”