If you have no share in the living Lord may God have mercy upon you! If you have no share in Christ’s rising from the dead then you will not be raised up in the likeness of His glorified body. If you do not attain to that resurrection from among the dead then you must abide in death.
This, then, is the doctrine of the resurrection. We do not believe – at least I do not – that law has been rudely violated in one extraordinary and unparalleled episode. We believe that a universal law of life, overmastering death, and always superior to it, has had once a visible witness.
We Christians do not believe that Jesus Christ was the only one that ever rose from the dead. We believe that every death-bed is a resurrection; that from every grave the stone, is rolled away.
Home is the grandest of all institutions.
When home is ruled according to God’s Word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.
A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.
Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool.
A Christian is the gentlest of men; but then he is a man.
Our prayers are the shadows of mercy.
The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.
A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.
Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.
Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory.
To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning.
Great faith must have great trials.
The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ.
Do not fret over your heavy troubles, for they are the heralds of weighty mercies.
Be assured, there is nothing new in theology except that which is false.
Come as you are. If you are the blackest soul out of hell, trust Christ, and that act of trust shall make you clean.
It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.