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."