What They Said

“The family is the simplest and smallest unit of society and the real fountain of culture. If this fountain remains pure, man's culture has promise. But if it becomes polluted, all the rest will turn to dust and ashes, since the home is the foundation of the entire social structure.”

“Articles or rules for doctrine or practice in matters of religion to be imposed upon men, should be as few as may be; there is very great danger in the unnecessary multiplying them. This in all ages has caused division and exceeding disturbances in the churches of Christ.”

"No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness"

"God is neither shut up in nor shut out of any place."

"Those that look to be happy must first look to be holy."

"The two Testaments are the two lips by which God hath spoken to us."

"O be not quick to bury the Church before she is dead."

"All other graces like birds in the nest depend upon what faith brings to them."

“The sheep in the Lord’s flock have each their own peculiarities. The trees in the Lord's garden are not all precisely alike. All true servants of God agree in the principal things of religion. All are led by one Spirit. All feel their sins, and all trust in Christ. All repent, all believe, and all are holy. But in minor matters they often differ widely.”

"What health is to the heart, that holiness is to the soul."

"For what is grace but the beams of Christ, the Sun of Righteousness."

"Men who know they are wrong in one direction often struggle to make things right by excess of zeal in another direction.  That very zeal is their condemnation."

"The fear of death is ingrafted in the common nature of all men, but faith works it out of Christians."

"If I speak what is false ,  I must answer for it; if truth, it will answer for me."

"All grace grows as Love to the Word of God grows."

"Friendship is the marriage of affections."

"The love of Christ to sinners is the very essence and marrow of the gospel."

"Vain thoughts defile the heart as well as vile thoughts."

"Love is the queen of the graces; it outshines all the others, as the sun the lesser planets."

"It is a grave responsibility that a man takes upon himself when he seeks to edit out of God's self-revelation such features as he in his ignorance deems objectionable."

"Those things that appear insignificant to us now have great significance from heaven's viewpoint."

"Love delights to please its object, and the more our affections are drawn out to Christ the more shall we desire to honour Him by a life of obedience to His known will."

"The testimony of faith is that, no matter how things look in this fallen world, all God's acts are wrought in perfect wisdom."