What They Said

"Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart."

"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."

"The enjoyment of [God] is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of earthly friends, are but shadows; but God is the substance. These are but scattered beams, but God is the sun. These are but streams. But God is the ocean."

"The impressions, with which I first undertook the arduous trust, were explained on the proper occasion. In the discharge of this trust, I will only say, that I have, with good intentions, contributed towards the organization and administration of the government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable. Not unconscious, in the outset, of the inferiority of my qualifications, experience in my own eyes, perhaps still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself; and every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied, that, if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it."

"How soon are we broken on the soft pillow of ease! Adam in paradise was overcome, when Job on the dunghill was a conqueror."

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."

"The Word is the storehouse of all instruction. Look not for any new diverse doctrine, which is not in the Word."

"How sweet the name of Jesus hears in a believer's ears! it sooths his sorrow, heals his wounds, and drives away his fears."

"Tragedy is what happens to a non-Christian, it never happens to a Christian."

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

"Without law, love is blind."

"Religion begat prosperity and the daughter devoured the mother."

"The gospel is not an announcement that God has relaxed his justice or lowered the standard of His holiness."

"All Christians should make their houses and families a schoolhouse of a godly life."

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

“Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner”

"Sin and grace may stand together, but not love of sin and grace."

"The source of sovereign authority is found in God alone and not in the will of the people nor in human law. "

"There is no death of sin without the death of Christ."

“Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of”

“Many think they repent when it is not the offence, but the penalty which troubles them; not the treason, but the bloody axe. They think they repent when they shed a few tears; but though this ice begins to melt a little, it freezeth again; they go on still in sin.”

"I see from the number of physicians that you think my condition dangerous, but I thank God, if it is His will, that I am ready to go."  

“It is impossible for men by their own strength and natural ability to become Christians, but it is possible for God to make them Christians.”

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." 

"The lives of Christians are the transcripts of their doctrine."

"The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh."

"Christ will be all in all, or nothing at all."

"I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did."