Occupation: Author Birth: February 7, 1832 Death: May 1, 1911
There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good..
Put together all the tenderest love you know of, multiply it by infinity, and you will begin to see glimpses of the love and grace of God..
Many Christians still at bottom look upon God as one of the most selfish, self-absorbed Beings in the universe, far more selfish than they could thin….
A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray..
I do not find that I feel myself to be any different as an English subject than as an American. I have not the vote in either place, so I am not a ci….
Sight is not faith, and hearing is not faith, neither is feeling faith; but believing when we neither see, hear, nor feel is faith; and everywhere th….
The Bible is a statement, not of theories, but of actual facts... things are not true because they are in the Bible, but they are only in the Bible b….
The time for universal praise is sure to come some day. Let us begin to do our part now..
Sarah, I want to ask thee a solemn question. Did thee ever one single time have thy Bank book balance and thy own check book balance agree exactly? D….
Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd..
To sum it all up, then, what is needed for happy and effectual service is simply to put your work into the Lord's hands, and leave it there. Do not t….
I find that every soul that has travelled on this highway of holiness for any length of time, has invariably cut loose from its old moorings..
We must take our troubles to the Lord, but we must do more than that, we must leave them there..
Nothing can separate you from His love, absolutely nothing, neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, n….
My soul was always so full of aspirations, that a God was a necessity to me. I was like a bird with an instinct of migration upon me, and a country t….
I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?.
Those who are God's without reserve are, in every sense, content.
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….
For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have..
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….
If our hearts are full of our own wretched "I ams" we will have no ears to hear His glorious, soul-satisfying "I Am.".