What They Said

"Beware of no man more than of yourself...we carry our worst enemies within us."

“Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.”

"Though Christians be not kept altogether from falling, yet they are kept from falling altogether."

"If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be."

"Spiritual rest maketh no man idle, spiritual walking maketh no man weary."

"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can."

"My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence."

"Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride."

"Most of God's people are contented to be saved from the hell that is without; they are not so anxious to be saved from the hell that is within."

"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."

"Faith, without trouble or fighting, is a suspicious faith; for true faith is a fighting, wrestling faith."

"Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in."

"Christ is the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean, which is the meeting-place of all the waters in the world, so Christ is that ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet."

"The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction"

"Gifts may make a man a scholar, but grace makes man a believer."

Matthew Mead

(1629-1699)

"If God be our God, He will give us peace in trouble. When there is a storm without, He will make peace within. The world can create trouble in peace, but God can create peace in trouble."

A truly sanctified heart dares not skip or blot one word God has written, but desires to be a faithful executor to perform the whole will of God.

"A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent."

"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."

"When God and his glory are made our end, we shall find a silent likeness pass in upon us; the beauty of God will, by degrees, enter upon our soul."

"And, therefore, it behoves us to ask with so much the greater care, that he
would increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant,
confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and that he
would even raise it up when it is overthrown."   

                                                                                                            ~ (John Calvin on Psalm 25:19)
                                                                                                               

"O Christian, never be proud of things that are so transient, injurious, and uncertain as the riches of this evil world! But set your heart on the true and durable riches of grace in Christ Jesus."

"... there will be three effects of nearness
to Jesus - humility, happiness, and holiness."

                                                            
                                                                                           - Charles Spurgeon

"I measure ministers by square measure. I have no idea of the size of a table, if you only tell me how long it is: but if you also say how wide, I can tell its dimensions. So, when you tell me what a man is in the pulpit, you must also tell me what he is out of it, or I shall not know his size"

"Whatsoever is good for God's children they shall have it; for all is theirs to help them towards heaven; therefore if poverty be good they shall have it; if disgrace or crosses be good they shall have them; for all is ours to promote our greatest prosperity."

"Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart."

"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."

"The enjoyment of [God] is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of earthly friends, are but shadows; but God is the substance. These are but scattered beams, but God is the sun. These are but streams. But God is the ocean."