Occupation: Author Birth: 1600 Death: 1661
There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him..
There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ..
In our fluctuations of feelings, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by..
I find my Lord Jesus cometh not in the precise way that I lay wait for Him. He hath a manner of His own. Oh, how high are His ways above my ways.
Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows….
I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots; faith is the better for th….
The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here, where by his grace, in….
I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet..
Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us..
No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus..
The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines..
You will not get to steal quietly into heaven, into Christ's company, without a conflict and a cross. I find crosses to be Christ's carved work that ….
Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven..
When we shall come home, and enter into the possession of our Brother's fair kingdom, and when our heads shall find the weight of the eternal crown o….
O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be in hell, and have Thee still, it would be heaven to….
I urge you a nearer communion with Christ, and a growing communion. There are curtains to be opened in Christ that we have never seen before... Ther….
Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction..
Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom..
Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby..
I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself..
Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop..