Birth: April 14, 1802 Death: February 17, 1876
Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it..
Jesus does not drive His followers on before, as a herd of unwilling disciples, but goes before Himself, leading them into paths that He has trod, an….
If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Sim….
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be..
Somewhere under the stars God has a job for you to do and nobody else can do it..
Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement..
Trust in God for great things. With your five loaves and two fishes He will show you a way to feed thousands..
Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that God has girded you for great….
It doth not yet appear what we shall be. We lie here in our nest, unfledged and weak, guessing dimly at our future, and scarce believing what even no….
Take your duty, and be strong in it, as God will make you strong. The harder it is, the stronger in fact you will be. Understand, also, that the grea….
God listens for nothing so tenderly, as when His children help each other by their testimonies to His goodness and the way in which He has brought th….
Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.
Christ wants to lead men by their love, their personal love to Him, and the confidence of His personal love to them..
O Thou Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world, what Thou bearest in Thy blessed hands and feet I cannot bear; take it all away. Hide me in….
We come, in our trust, unto God, and the moment we so embrace Him, by committing our total being and eternity to Him, we find every thing is transfor….
Christ's sacrifice stands in glorious proportions with the work to be done. Nothing else or less would suffice. It is a work supernatural, transacted….
A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience..
Not all the winds, and storms, and earthquakes, and seas, and seasons of the world, have done so much to revolutionize the earth as Man, the power of….
God made sin possible just as he made all lying wonders possible, but he never made it a fact, never set anything in his plan to harmonize with it. T….
Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how to live; and the most beautiful characters the wor….
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin..