What They Said

"There is one safe and happy place, and that is in the will of God."

"A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles."

"All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God."

"If Christians are ever to be united, they must be united in Christ, their living head and the source of their spiritual life."

"Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical."

"If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?"

"The saving power of faith resides thus not in itself, but in the Almighty Saviour on whom it rests."

"This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him."

"One man with truth on his side is stronger than a majority in error, and will conquer in the end."

"The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the wellbeing of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves."

“The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them.”

"A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy."

"Virtue consists in doing our duty, in the several relations we sustain in respect to ourselves, to our fellow men, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation."

"Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly."

"Be humble, talk little, think and pray much."

"Thus, for Instance, Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves, and is only so far enjoined as it is suitable to the Truth of our State, for to think worse of ourselves than we really are, is no more a Virtue than to make five to be less than four."

“A far higher motive than the pleasing of his hearers must actuate and regulate ministerial service.”

"If riches increase, set not your hearts upon them: so if friends increase, set not your hearts upon them, but trust in the living God, let it be the living God that you rest on even for all outward things in this world."

"I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it—His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures."

"Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you. Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies."

"He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life."

"If we do not show love to one another, the world has a right to question whether Christianity is true."

"Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your  years."