17 quotes
With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
This character wherewith we sink into the grave at death is the very character wherewith we shall reappear at the resurrection.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
I take one decisive and immediate step, and resign my all to the sufficiency of my Saviour.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Natural Theology (1836)
The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
O Heavenly Father, convert my religion from a name to a principle! Bring all my thoughts and movements into an habitual reference to Thee!
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Be assured, my dear Anne, that it is only by taking our lesson from God and doing the will of God, that we can either please Him in time, or be happy with Him in eternity.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.
The benevolence of the Gospel lies in actions
Discourses on the Christian Revelation viewed in connection with the Modern Astronomy together with his sermons (1818)
The Bible is like a wide and beautiful landscape seen afar off, dim and confused; but a good telescope will bring it near, and spread out all its rocks and trees and flowers and v__ulant fields and winding rivers at one's very feet. That telescope is the Spirit's teaching.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Not till we come to a simple reliance on the blood and mediation of the Saviour, shall we know what it is either to have trust in God, or know what it is to walk before Him without fear, in righteousness and true holiness.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Christ came to give us a justifying righteousness, and He also came to make us holy — not chiefly for the purpose of evidencing here our possession of a justifying righteousness — but for the purpose of forming and fitting us for a blessed eternity.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
I feel my disease, and I feel that my want of alarm and lively affecting conviction forms its most obstinate ingredient; I try to stir up the emotion, and feel myself harassed and distressed at the impotency of my own meditations. But why linger without the threshold in the face of a warm and urgent invitation? "Come unto me." Do not think it is your office to heal one part of the disease, and Christ's to heal the remainder.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The grand essentials of life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for
Misattributed
Live for something! Do good and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storm of time can never destroy. Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with, year by year, and you will never be forgotten. Your name, your deeds, will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind, as the stars on the brow of evening. Good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven.
Misattributed P. 243. in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be a blot, radiating his dark influence outward to the very circumference of society; or he may be a blessing, spreading benediction over the length and breadth of the world: but a blank he cannot be. There are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters. We are either the sower that sows and corrupts, or the light that splendidly illuminates, and the salt that silently operates; but being dead or alive, every man speaks.
Misattributed actually a quote from Voices of the Dead by John Cumming (1854)