What They Said

"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."