Occupation: Author Birth: February 7, 1832 Death: May 1, 1911
Thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ!.
No soul can be really at rest until it has given up all dependence on everything else and has been forced to depend on the Lord alone. As long as our….
You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more complex o….
We were made to be human beings here, and when people try to be anything else, they generally get into some sort of scrapes..
Those who are God's without reserve are, in every sense, content.
For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have..
An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do..
Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow.
Our God is so wonderfully good, and lovely, and blessed in every way that the mere fact of belonging to Him is enough for an untellable fullness of j….
God's slavation is not a purchase to be made, nor wages to be earned, nor a summit to be climbed, nor a task to be accomplished; but it is simply and….
If our hearts are full of our own wretched "I ams" we will have no ears to hear His glorious, soul-satisfying "I Am.".
Our lives are full of supposes. Suppose this should happen, or suppose that should happen; what could we do; how could we bear it? But, if we are liv….
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days..
Be not afraid of rowing slowly. Be afraid of standing still..
In the secret of God's tabernacle no enemy can find us, and no troubles can reach us. The pride of man and the strife of tongues find no entrance int….
Thee may tell Aunt Janet from me that she might as well try to stop the stars in their courses as to try to stop a love affair..
Better and sweeter than health, or friends, or money, or fame, or ease, or prosperity, is the adorable will of our God..
Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders.
It is of course evident that everything in one's religious life depends upon the sort of God one worships. The character of the worshiper must necess….
Remember always that there are two things which are more utterly incompatible even than oil and water, and these two are trust and worry. Can you cal….
Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed..