Occupation: Clergyman Birth: November 8, 1748 Death: August 15, 1810
The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture..
Eloquence is vehement simplicity..
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse..
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant..
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as pos….
Prayer is faith passing into action..
Sin, without strong restraints, would pull God from His throne, make the world the minion of its lusts, and all beings bow down and worship..
The man who labors to please his neighbor for his good to edification has the mind that was in Christ. It is a sinner trying to help a sinner. Even a….
Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality..
Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly..
In viewing the scheme of redemption, I seem like one viewing a vast and complicated machine of exquisite contrivance; what I comprehend of it is wond….
Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf..
There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making..
Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine..
We are urgent about the body; He is about the soul. We call for present comforts; He considers our everlasting rest. And therefore when He sends not ….
Providence is a greater mystery than revelation..
The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, ….
Time can take nothing from the BIBLE. It is the living monitor. Like the sun, it is the same in its light and influence to man this day which it w….
Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration ….
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness..
Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart..