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."

"The impressions, with which I first undertook the arduous trust, were explained on the proper occasion. In the discharge of this trust, I will only say, that I have, with good intentions, contributed towards the organization and administration of the government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable. Not unconscious, in the outset, of the inferiority of my qualifications, experience in my own eyes, perhaps still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself; and every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied, that, if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it."

"How soon are we broken on the soft pillow of ease! Adam in paradise was overcome, when Job on the dunghill was a conqueror."

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."

"The Word is the storehouse of all instruction. Look not for any new diverse doctrine, which is not in the Word."

"How sweet the name of Jesus hears in a believer's ears! it sooths his sorrow, heals his wounds, and drives away his fears."

"Tragedy is what happens to a non-Christian, it never happens to a Christian."

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

"Without law, love is blind."

"Religion begat prosperity and the daughter devoured the mother."

"The gospel is not an announcement that God has relaxed his justice or lowered the standard of His holiness."

"All Christians should make their houses and families a schoolhouse of a godly life."

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

“Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner”

"Sin and grace may stand together, but not love of sin and grace."

"The source of sovereign authority is found in God alone and not in the will of the people nor in human law. "

"There is no death of sin without the death of Christ."

“Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of”

“Many think they repent when it is not the offence, but the penalty which troubles them; not the treason, but the bloody axe. They think they repent when they shed a few tears; but though this ice begins to melt a little, it freezeth again; they go on still in sin.”

"I see from the number of physicians that you think my condition dangerous, but I thank God, if it is His will, that I am ready to go."  

“It is impossible for men by their own strength and natural ability to become Christians, but it is possible for God to make them Christians.”

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." 

"The lives of Christians are the transcripts of their doctrine."

"The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh."

"Christ will be all in all, or nothing at all."

"I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did."

"As the heart is, so will the service be."

"As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low."

"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men."

“In a strict sense, there is no little sin, because there is no little God to sin against “