Occupation: Bishop Of Liverpool Birth: May 10, 1816 Death: June 10, 1900
We are evidently no friends of Satan. Like the kings of this world, he wars not against his own subjects. The very fact that he assaults us should fi….
I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion..
Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God's hand, from the greatest planet down to the leas….
Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion..
Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading..
Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen ….
A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace..
Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come!.
Those who confine God's love exclusively to the elect appear to me to take a narrow and contracted view of God's character and attributes....I have l….
The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world..
To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease..
Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The subject of personal go….
I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expec….
We have the truth and we need not be afraid to say so..
Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel..
We corrupt the Word of God most dangerously, when we throw any doubt on the plenary inspiration of any part of Holy Scripture..
If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to C….
In Christ alone God’s rich provision of salvation for sinners is treasured up: by Christ alone God’s abundant mercies come down from heaven to earth.….
There are few professing Christians, it may be feared, who strive to imitate Christ in the matter of private devotion. There is abundance of hearing,….
Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world..
Solid scriptural theology should be valued in the church. Books in which Scripture is reverently regarded as the only rule of faith and practice-- bo….