Occupation: English Congregational Minister Birth: April 9, 1830 Death: November 28, 1902
Sin is a clenched fist and a blow in the face of God..
Only Christ could have conceived Christ..
Never throw mud. You may miss the mark, and you'll have dirty hands..
The first step in understanding the sex industry is to understand the customers, the johns. ... These men have already violated moral standards - and….
Giving up on life is easier than going through the hard times to find the good..
Have no fear for the unsettlement or the disturbance of the Kingdom of heaven. It began in eternity, it will go on through everlasting; there is no p….
The man whose little sermon is ‘repent’ sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by the age whose moral tone….
Humans need Jesus Christ as a necessity and not as a luxury. You may be pleased to have flowers, but you must have bread. . . . Jesus is not a phenom….
Everywhere I find the signature, the autograph of God, and he will never deny his own handwriting. God has set his tabernacle in the dewdrop as surel….
It is right for you, young men, to enrich yourselves with the spoils of all pure literature; but he who would make a favorite of a bad book, simply b….
After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference betwe….
No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the heart..
The dew waits for no voice to call it to the sun..
Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defens….
True preaching is the sweating of blood..
When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays..
When children ask you questions about gray hairs, and wrinkles in the face, and sighs that have no words, and smiles too bright to be carved upon the….
The truly religious man does everything as if everything depends on himself, and then leaves everything as if everything depended on God..
Speak to the suffering, and you will never lack an audience. There is a broken heart in every crowd..