Birth: September 1, 1813 Death: March 29, 1878
Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ..
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible..
We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to ….
The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appro….
Who will reach heaven? I do not know, but I am certain that no one will be there who does not feel at home..
The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is real….
Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fa….
Remove from the history of the past all those actions which have either sprung directly from the religious nature of man, or been modified by it, and….
Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn o….
Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends..
Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe..
The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity; argument did not cause, and….
Christianity alone inspires and guides progress; for the progress of man is movement toward God. and movement toward God wili ensure a gradual unfold….
The strength that we want is not a brute, unregulated strength; the beauty that we want is no mere surface beauty; but we want a beauty on the surfac….
Faith then, in its relation to salvation, is that confidence by which we accept it as a free gift from the Saviour, and is the only possible way in w….
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought..
Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity..
Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affectio….
We say then, that Christianity is adapted to the intellect, because its spirit coincides with that of true philosophy; because it removes the incubus….
All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power..
In Christ we see the strength of achievement, and the strength of endurance. He moved with a calm majesty, like the sun. The bloody sweat, and the cr….