Occupation: Writer Birth: July 24, 1725 Death: December 21, 1807
I compare the troubles which we have to undergo in the course of the year to a great bundle of sticks, far too large for us to lift. But God does not….
God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually..
When people are right with God, they are apt to be hard on themselves and easy on other people. But when they are not right with God, they are easy o….
I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master..
Every drop of rain hits its appointed target..
We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden….
When I was young, I was sure of many things; now there are only two things of which I am sure: one is, that I am a miserable sinner; and the other, t….
Whoever is truly humbled — will not be easily angry, nor harsh or critical of others. He will be compassionate and tender to the infirmities of his f….
I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and ….
If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer - His grace sufficient, His promise….
Christ has taken our nature into Heaven to represent us; and has left us on earth, with His nature, to represent Him..
Our work is great; our time is short; the consequences of our labors are infinite..
May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done..
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now i see..
Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much..
Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord..
This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus..
I make it a rule of Christian duty never to go to a place where there is not room for my Master as well as myself..
All shall work together for good; everything is needful that He sends; nothing can be needful that He withholds..
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his fear..
Though troubles assail And dangers affright, Though friends should all fail And foes all unite; Yet one thing secures us, Whatever betide, The script….