What They Said

“[Christ came] “that he might take our flesh, and redeem us; that he might instate us into a kingdom. He was poor, that he might make us rich. He was born of a virgin, that we might be born of God. He took our flesh, that he might give us his Spirit. He lay in the manger that we might lie in paradise. He came down from heaven, that he might bring us to heaven.”

“The tongue is called our glory (Psalm 30:12), because it is the instrument of glorifying God. When our tongues are out of tune in murmuring, then they are not our glory; but when the organs sound in holy discourse, then our tongues are our glory.”

"Though the business of piety at first seems hard—yet when once we are entered into it, it is pleasant. When the wheels of the soul are oiled with grace, now a Christian moves in piety with facility and delight, Romans vii. 22."

"Our lives, like the seas, are full of tempests. But in the kingdom of Heaven, there is nothing to give grief. There, all is serene and calm; nothing within to trouble, or without to molest."

"The comforts here below, are checkered. Honor may be stained with disgrace; joy interwoven with sorrow. Our suns are mixed with clouds. But the delicacies of heaven are pure as well as pleasant."

"Every time you draw your breath, you suck in mercy."

"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."

"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."

"Better is the sin which humbles me, than that duty which makes me proud."

"Civility is a good staff to walk with among men, but it us a bad ladder to climb up to heaven."

"Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise."

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

"Friendship is the marriage of affections."

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

"Read the Scriptures, not only as a history, but as a love-letter sent to you from God."

"The vessels of mercy are first seasoned with affliction, and then the wine of glory is poured in.  Thus we see afflictions are not prejudicial, but beneficial, to the saints."

"Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting."

"The reason we come away so cold from reading the Word, is because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation."

“One hour in Heaven will make us forget all our sorrows. As the sun dries up the water, so one beam of God's glorious face will dry up all our tears.”

"Self-denial is the foundation of godliness, and if this be not well-laid, the whole building will fall. If there be any lust in our souls which we cannot deny, it will turn at length either to scandal or apostasy. Self-denial is the thread which must run along through the whole work of religion. The self-denying Christian will be the suffering Christian. ‘Let him deny himself and take up his cross’.”