What They Said

"A dark hour makes Jesus bright."

“Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.”

"A life of ease is a difficult pursuit"

"Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness and love. And this doctrine, when properly understood, is a most comforting and reassuring one. Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to short-sighted and perverted self? Those who reject God's sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left."

“The government is upon his shoulders ; and though he is concealed by a veil of second causes from common eyes, so that they can perceive only the means, instruments, and contingencies by which he works, and therefore think he does nothing; yet, in reality, he does all, according to his own counsel and pleasure, in the armies of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth. ”

"Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God."

“One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.”

“There have been many suggestions of what we shall do in heaven, and what we shall enjoy, but they all seem to me to be wide of the mark compared with this one, that we shall be with Jesus, be like him, and shall behold his glory. “

“Let us start reading our Bibles with the thought that God means exactly what He says.”

“Cultivate a constant, an ardent thirst for holiness. Be not discouraged, if the more intensely the desire for sanctification rises, the deeper and darker the revelation of the heart’s hidden evil. The one is often a consequent of the other; but persevere.”

"The man who thinks that by escaping toil he can secure rest makes a great mistake. Toll is man's normal condition. He who shirks toil usually shirks duty, and he who shirks duty is guilty of sin."

"It is too late to mend the days that are past. The future is in our power. Let us, then, each morning, resolve to send the day into eternity in such a garb as we shall wish it to wear forever. And at night let us reflect that one more day is irrevocably gone, indelibly marked."

"Christians find it so; and those blessings are sweetest to them, which they are most thankful for; that are won with prayers, and worn with thanks."

“Anyone who thinks that he can live the Christian life himself is proclaiming that he is not a Christian.”

“To love to preach is one thing, to love those to whom we preach quite another.”

“When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.”

"Now you cannot understand Christian salvation without understanding that it is because of iniquity and this terrible thing called sin that life in this world has become what all of us know by experience that it is,"

"First of all, the very fact that God ever sent his Son into the world is a glorious manifestation of his glory."

"The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos."

“Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.”