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Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
Remains of Mr. Cecil (1836)
The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
In viewing the scheme of redemption, I seem like one viewing a vast and complicated machine of exquisite contrivance; what I comprehend of it is wonderful, what I do not, is, perhaps, more so still.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God: "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him." When we plead with Him, our faces should be in the dust.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The man who labors to please his neighbor for his good to edification has the mind that was in Christ. It is a sinner trying to help a sinner. Even a feeble, but kind and tender man, will effect more than a genius, who is rough and artificial.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Never was there a man of deep piety, who has not been brought into extremities — who has not been put into fire — who has been taught to say, "Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him."
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim — that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The Christian will sometimes be brought to walk in a solitary path. God seems to cut away his props, that He may reduce him to Himself. His religion is to be felt as a personal, particular, appropriate possession. He is to feel, that, as there is but one Jehovah to bless, so there seems to him as though there were but one penitent in the universe to be blessed by Him.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)