Birth: October 12, 1810 Death: March 21, 1870
The enthronement of Christ over the minds of men is steadily going forward. His kingdom embraces the princes in the realm of mind. It embraces the na….
In His discourses, His miracles, His parables, His sufferings, His resurrection, He gradually raises the pedestal of His humanity before the world, b….
One has said that Christ excelled all other moralists in this, that He puts the padlock not upon the hand, but upon the heart. But He does not use th….
The world cannot bury Christ. The earth is not deep enough for His tomb, the clouds are not wide enough for His winding-sheet; He ascends into the he….
Lincoln did but pour the soul of the nation into the monumental act of universal liberty; and that soul was inspired by the gospel..
There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all..
What are the sciences but maps of universal laws, and universal laws but the channels of universal power; and universal power but the outgoings of a ….
As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept fr….
The longer men sin, the more easily they can; for every act of transgression weakens conscience, stupefies intellect, hardens hearts, adds force to b….
Give us more and more of real Christianity, and we shall need less of its evidences. Act upon the supposition that Christ is a Divine Teacher, and yo….
Go to the family where darkness and suspicion and jealousy and disorder reign, and if they will but receive Christ, mark how light and confidence and….
All other great men are valued for their lives; He, above all, for His death, around which mercy and truth, righteousness and peace, God and man are ….
Great trials seem to be a necessary preparation for great duties. It would seem that the more important the enterprise, the more severe the trial to ….
You may be a dreadful failure. Christ is a divine success. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth..