What They Said

"It is not enough that we determine to commit no sin; we must carefully keep at a distance from all approaches to it."

"Prayer differs from hearing the word, in that hearing is concerned with the will of God; but Prayer is concerned with our will. In hearing the word, we receive the Will of God; but in Prayer we offer our will to God, that it may be received by him."

"A godly man never prays more than when God prospers him in this world.  Carnal men will pray much in times of affliction, but to be motivated to pray by prosperity is rare."

"Now the measure in which we profit from our reading and study of the Scriptures may be ascertained by the extent to which Christ is becoming more real and more precious unto our hearts."

"All God's acts are done in perfect wisdom, first for His glory, and then for the highest good for the greatest number for the longest time."

"The Bible is God’s merciful provision for sinful man’s soul, the map by which he must steer his course if he would attain eternal life. All that we need to know in order to make us peaceful, holy, or happy, is there richly contained."

"God therefore uses means, not for lack of power, but through the abundance of his goodness; that namely, he might communicate a certain dignity of working to his Creatures also, and might make his Efficiency more perceivable in them."

"Many men and women think they have need of God in their affliction: during such times they depend greatly upon God.  Yes, but you should depend upon God just as much if you owned the whole world as you would if you were the poorest beggar in the world."

"We must be made conscious of our imperfections ere we can really appreciate the Divine perfections."

"God dwells in eternity but time dwells in God.  He has already lived all our tomorrows as He has lived all our yesterdays."

"Pride sits in all our hearts by nature. We are born proud. Pride makes us rest satisfied with ourselves, think we are good enough as we are, stop our ears against advice, refuse the Gospel of Christ, and turn every one to his own way."

"The Providence of God is either immediate, whereby God by himself, as the absolute sole cause, provides for things; or it is mediate whereby he provides by the use of means."

"If adversity has slain her thousands, prosperity has slain her ten thousands."

'It is not until man is made thoroughly displeased with himself that he begins to aspire after God. "

"Perverted notions about God soon rot the religion in which they appear."

"Youth is the seedtime of full age, the molding season in the little space of human life, the turning point in the history of man’s mind."

"God is incomprehensible, because he is void of any bounds to encompass him."

"The beginning of all true Christianity is ti discover that we are guilty, empty, needy sinners."

"A right conception of God is basic not only to systematic theology but to practical Christian living as well."

“The whole creation is nothing but the visible curtain behind which radiates the exalted working of this divine thinking.”

"Sin is the mother of all sorrow, and no sort of sin appears to give a man so much misery and pain as the sins of his youth."

"Faith is a resting of the heart on God, as on the author of life and eternal salvation."