91 quotes
The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.
Faith's Checkbook (1888)
Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.
A man who does nothing never has time to do anything.
The Salt-Cellars (1885)
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
The Salt-Cellars (1885)
A child of God should be a visible Beatitude, for joy and happiness, and a living Doxology, for gratitude and adoration.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the might of the Spirit of God.
Mind your till, and till your mind.
The Salt-Cellars (1885)
This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?
Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
A Christian is the gentlest of men; but then he is a man.
A vigorous temper is not always an evil. Men who are as easy as an old shoe are generally of as little worth.
Lectures to My Students (1870)
A Christian making money fast is just a man in a cloud of dust, it will fill his eyes if he be not careful.
I never wish to be more charitable than Christ. I find it written: "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.
Lectures to My Students (1870)
The practice of truth is the most profitable reading of it.
Morning and Evening (1866)
Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.
Lectures to My Students (1870)
We are all, at times, unconscious prophets.
The Salt-Cellars (1885)
God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
I would rather go to Heaven doubting all the way than be lost through self-confidence.
Sermons (1854)