Birth: April 14, 1802 Death: February 17, 1876
When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from ….
Christ commands you to take up His cross and follow Him, not that He may humble you, or lay some penance upon you, but that you may surrender the low….
It is the grand endeavor of the gospel to communicate God to men..
O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of….
Somewhere under the stars God has a job for you to do and nobody else can do it..
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….
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….
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….
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….
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….
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be..
Trust in God for great things. With your five loaves and two fishes He will show you a way to feed thousands..
Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement..
Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it..
Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.
O, if we could tear aside the vail, and see for but one hour what it signifies to be a soul in the power of an endless life, what a revelation would ….
Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treas….
The peoples of the old world have their cities built for times gone by, when railroads and gunpowder were unknown. We can have cities for the new age….
It is the grandeur of Christ's character which constitutes the chief power of His ministry, not His miracles or teachings apart from His character. T….
By His trials, God means to purify us, to take away all our self-confidence, and our trust in each other, and bring us into implicit, humble trust in….
Every man's life is a plan of God..