What They Said

"Doctrine is only the drawing of the bow; application is hitting the mark."

"No short cut exists for a deeper spiritual life. The man who would know God must give time to Him."

“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”

“O, it is good sailing with an infallible Pilot at the helm, who has the wind and weather at his command!”

“It is utterly impossible we should walk before God, unto his glory, or with any real peace, comfort, or satisfaction in our own souls, unless our minds are continually exercised with thoughts of his almighty power.”

"Divisions in the church always breed atheism in the world."

"God is always the same. No outside pressure of any kind changes Him. Hallelujah! When I find God, I find God."

"Faith is the art of holding on to things in spite of  your changing moods and circumstances."

“O the excellency of the knowledge of Christ. It will be growing upon us through time, yea, I believe through eternity.”

“Where there is continuance in prayer, there will be spiritual growth in some proportion.”

"Comfort may be increased by the sight of good works, but it is not built upon them; they are seeds of hope, not props of confidence."

"People today are in too much of a hurry to get nowhere."

"For God is not merely mending, not simply restoring a status quo. Redeemed humanity is to be something more glorious than unfallen humanity."

“None are so bad but the gospel affords them a ground of hope: none are so good as to have any just ground of hope without it.”

“This holy complacency, this rest and sweet repose of mind, is the foundation of the delight of believers in this duty. They do not pray only because it is their duty so to do, nor yet because they stand in need of it, so as that they cannot live without it, but they have delight in it; and to keep them from it is all one as to keep them from their daily food and refreshment.”

"The end of study is information, and the end of meditation is practice, or a work upon the affections."

"We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin."

“He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.”

“Permit me to advise you to study the redemption of time; it is an important talent, and we have all misspent too much of it.”

“The mind of man is covered with thoughts, as a tree with blossoms. Most of them fall off, vanish, and come to nothing, end in vanity; and sometimes where the mind doth most abound with them there is the least fruit; the sap of the mind is wasted and consumed in them. Howbeit there is no fruit which actually we bring forth, be it good or bad, but it proceeds from some of these thoughts.”

"To hear and not to meditate is unfruitful. We may hear and hear, but it is like putting a thing into a bag with holes."

"Oh God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more."