What They Said

"Thanksgiving is good: thanksliving is better."

"Let us never think that we have learned a doctrine, until we have seen its fruit in our lives."

"Sovereignty characterizes the whole being of God. He is sovereign in all His attributes."

"Take the candle of God's Word and search the corners of your heart."

"Scripture is like a pair of spectacles, which dispel the darkness and give us a clear view of God."

"We cannot expect too little from man, nor too much from God."

“The work of sanctification, beloved, is a great and a daily work. It commences at the very moment of our translation into the kingdom of Christ on earth, and ceases not until the moment of our translation into the kingdom of God in heaven.”

"If zeal is true, it will be a zeal according to knowledge. It must not be a blind, ignorant zeal. It must be a calm, reasonable, intelligent principle, which can show the warrant of Scripture for every step it takes."

“Troubles are free schoolmasters.”

"All the danger is when the world gets into the heart.  The water is useful for sailing of the ship; all the danger is when the water gets into the ship; so the fear is when the world gets into the heart.  "Thou shall not covet."

"I do verily believe that when God shall accomplish it (unity) it will be the effect of love, and not the cause of love. It will proceed from love, before it brings forth love."

“That Christ should love us was the beginning of wonders. When we endeavor to comprehend that love, measure it, fathom it, scale it, and learn that it has heights we cannot reach, depths we cannot sound, lengths and breadths we cannot measure, we are prepared for every wonder belonging to and springing from Him who is Wonderful.”

“Zeal in religion is a burning desire to please God, to do His will, and to advance His glory in the world in every possible way."

“God’s truth must be spoken, however it be taken.”

“Man is a creature that is led more by patterns than by precepts.”

“Be sure to set the presence of God before you in prayer.  Have a real sight of the infinite greatness, majesty, and glory of that one whom you present yourselves unto when you are calling on Him.”

“There is one political maxim which comforts me: ‘The Lord reigns.’”

"Pride is...the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and of communion with Christ.  It...often creeps insensibly into the midst of religion, even sometimes under the disguise of humility itself."

"Love to God is armor of proof against error. For want of hearts full of love, men have heads full of error; unholy opinions are for want of holy affections."

“Zeal is like fire, in the chimney it is one of the best servants; but out of the chimney it is one of the worst masters.”

“The glory of God should be the chief matter we are to pray for………..Begin with the Glory of God.  Mind that in the chief place above all things.”