What They Said

"It is the office of faith to believe what we do not see, and it shall be the reward of faith to see what we do believe."

“A compassionate open home is part of Christian responsibility, and should be practiced up to the level of capacity.”

“Covetousness is far more specious than worldly conformity. It has much to plead under the cover of necessity, justice, prudence, and economy.”

“Since man is a moral being, his culture cannot be a-moral. Because man is a religious being, his culture, too, must be religiously oriented.”

"A godly heart discovers that the more often anything comes from God's hand, the better and sweeter it is.  Therefore, he is willing to regularly give up what he has into God's hand."

“We must realize that the Reformation world view leads in the direction of government freedom. But the humanist world view with inevitable certainty leads in the direction of statism. This is so because humanists, having no god, must put something at the center, and it is inevitably society, government, or the state.”

"I cannot pretend to determine what ministers, or what body of people come nearest the character of the primitive times, but in my judgment they are the happiest who have the lowest thoughts of themselves, and in whose eyes Jesus is most glorious and precious.

“To pretend to dread sin without fearing temptation, is self-delusion.”

“Culture is "lived religion". It is the form that religion takes in the lives of men.”

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

"A good conscience and a good confidence go together."

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

“As to spiritual qualifications, we would be careful neither to lower, exceed, or deviate from, the Scriptural standard.”

"How happy are tried Christians, afterwards. There is no calm more deep than that which follows a storm. Who has not rejoiced in clear shining after rain? Victorious banquets are for well-exercised soldiers."

"The time when people are the least careful is when they eat and are full; then they think they are in no danger at all."

“Scripture is not only the authoritative guide for the way of salvation, but it furnishes man with an authoritative interpretation of reality as a whole.”

“Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.”

"He that demands mercy, and shows none, ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass."

"How should finite comprehend infinite?  We shall apprehend Him, but not Comprehend Him."

"Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord."

“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."