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Rowland Hill Quotes

d. 1833 England

Rowland Hill A.M. (1744–1833) was a popular English preacher, enthusiastic evangelical and an influential advocate of small-pox vaccination. He was founder and resident pastor of a wholly independent chapel, the Surrey Chapel, London; chairman of the Religious Tract Society; and a keen supporter of the British and Foreign Bible Society and the London Missionary Society.

England

Also known as: Rowland Hill

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We can do more good by being good than in any other way.

Prayer is the breath of a new-born soul, and there can be no Christian life without it.

I have learned by experience that no man's character can be eventually injured but by his own acts.

I like ejaculatory prayer; it reaches heaven before the devil can get a shot at it.

Conformity to the world has in all ages proved the ruin of the church. It is utterly impossible to live in nearness to God, and in friendship with the world.

Why should the devil have all the good tunes?

Unless you live in Christ, you are dead to God.

I do not want the walls of separation between different orders of Christians to be destroyed, but only lowered, that we may shake hands a little easier over them.

Cast thy burden on the Lord,
Only lean upon His word;
Thou wilt soon have cause to bless
His unchanging faithfulness.

But I am unable to reach the lofty theme; — yet I do not think that the smallest fish that swims in the boundless ocean ever complains of the immeasurable vastness of the deep. So it is with me, I can plunge with my puny capacity, into a subject, the immensity of which I shall never be able fully to comprehend.

Why should the Devil have all the best tunes?

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rowland Hill (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.