Occupation: Poet Birth: December 19, 1808 Death: May 31, 1889
I came to Jesus as I was, weary and worn and sad; I found in Him a resting place, and he has made me glad..
Up, then, with speed, and work; Fling ease and self away-- This is no time for thee to sleep-- Up, watch, and work, and pray!.
The gospel comes to the sinner at once with nothing short of complete forgiveness as the starting-point of all his efforts to be holy. It does not sa….
For we are not saved by believing in our own salvation, nor by believing anything whatsoever about ourselves. We are saved by what we believe about t….
The more fully that the gospel is preached, in the grand old apostolic way, the more likely is it to accomplish the results which it did in the apost….
Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain..
It is not opinions that man needs: it is TRUTH. It is not theology; it is God. It is not religion: it is Christ. It is not literature and science; bu….
Yes, He is ris'n who is the First and Last; Who was and is; who liveth and was dead; Beyond the reach of death He now has pass 'd, Of ….
The gospel is the proclamation of free love; the revelation of the boundless charity of God. Nothing less than this will suit our world; nothing else….
How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in….
Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly -every thought, feeli….
Out of His fulness we receive, and grace for grace, — like wave upon wave..
A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord..
All unbelief is the belief of a lie..
...the cross saves completely, or not at all. Our faith does not divide the work of salvation between itself and the cross. It is the acknowledgment ….
Faith does not come to Calvary to do anything. It comes to see the glorious spectacle of all things done, and to accept this completion without a mis….
Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our p….
Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed..
A believing man will be a zealous man. Faith makes a man zealous. Faith shows itself by zeal. Not by zeal for a party or a system or an opinion; but ….
Thus is Jesus in all respects fitted for his mighty work of redeeming. He is very man and very God. He is the seed of the woman, the seed of Abraham,….
Faith is rest, not toil. It is the giving up all the former weary efforts to do or feel something good, in order to induce God to love and pardon; an….