Occupation: Writer Birth: November 25, 1697 Death: April 3, 1769
Let none, however difficult the circumstances, consider himself as debarred from the way of holiness. Have we but God and the cross of Christ, we hav….
Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us...Prayer is simply asking God to do….
He brings to naught, destroys and rejects all that is not His own work; how He draws everything to Himself and absorbs it, that at last He may live a….
A God comprehended is no God. (Ein begriffener Gott ist kein Gott.).
As long as we want to be different from what God wants us to be at the time, we are only tormenting ourselves to no purpose..
The love ofChrist is my prayer-book.
Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us ... This service of prayer is not a….
Your own self-will and anxiety, your hurry and labor, disturb your peace and prevent Me from working in you. Look at the little flowers, in the seren….
To walk before God and in His presence, is the ground and the costly jewel of true Christian living. I would have you above all things to grasp this ….
Be not afraid, though every stay Should fail, or be removed away, And thou be stript of all; But lose thyself in that vast sea, The ocean of the ….