If two angels were sent down from heaven, – one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street, – they would feel no inclination to change employments.
Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God!
A bowler can make or break a chap.
There are many who stumble in the noon-day, not for want of light, but for want of eyes.
Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.
I make it a rule of Christian duty never to go to a place where there is not room for my Master as well as myself.
Many are convinced, who are not truly enlightened; are afraid of the consequences of sin, though they never saw its evil; have a seeming desire of salvation, which is not founded upon a truly spiritual discovery of their own wretchedness, and the excellency of Jesus.
So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.
Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years.
There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.
Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain.
The best advice I can give you: Look unto Jesus, beholding his beauty in the written word.
A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.
Christ has taken our nature into Heaven to represent us; and has left us on earth, with His nature, to represent Him.
Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord.
Experience is the Lord’s school, and they who are taught by Him usually learn by the mistakes they make that in themselves they have no wisdom; and by their slips and falls, that they have no strength.
If our zeal is embittered by expressions of anger, invective, or scorn – we may think we are doing service of the cause of truth, when in reality we shall only bring it into discredit!
God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.
So long as men are compassionate to such a degree that they cannot hear a fly struggling in a spider’s web without emotion it can never be reasonably maintained that it is their natural impulse to wound and kill the dumb animals, or to butcher one another in what is called the field of honour.
As to myself, if I were not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows.