Occupation: Writer Birth: January 10, 1822 Death: February 26, 1909
You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear through all ete….
It is the easiest thing in the world to obey God when He commands us to do what we like, and to trust Him when the path is all sunshine. The real vic….
I never yet have heard of a good man having fallen when he was trying to do Christ's will and trusting on Christ's help. Every fall without one excep….
I have heard of a monk who in his cell had a glorious vision of Jesus revealed to him. Just then a bell rang, which called him away to distribute loa….
Conversion is the act of joining our hands to the pierced hand of the crucified Saviour. The new life begins with the taking of Christ's hand, and Hi….
God does not give us ready money. He issues promissory notes, and then pays them at the throne. Each one of us has a check-book..
A sermon in shoes is often more eloquent than a sermon on paper..
When God says to us, "Give me your load, trust me, what you cannot do, I will do for you," He puts our faith to one of the strongest tests. He never ….
A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the good….
Conversion by the Holy Spirit is a spiritual illumination of the soul. God's grace lights up the dark heart. And when a man has once been kindled at ….
Exalt the Cross! God has hung the destiny of the race upon it. Other things we may do in the realm of ethics, and on the lines of philanthropic refor….
It will require more than a few hours of fasting and prayer to cast out such demons as selfishness, worldliness, and unbelief. Repentance, to be of a….
Faith is trusting Jesus to lead us and going where He leads. What avails it to me to analyze Saratoga water, and to believe in its virtues? I must dr….
Tears never yet saved a soul. Hell is full of weepers weeping over lost opportunities, perhaps over the rejection of an offered Saviour. Your Bible d….
The disciples were not losing time when they sat beside their Master, and held quiet converse with Him under the olives of Bethany or by the shores o….
What right has a man to ask Jesus to forgive him, when his heart is still burning with hatred or festering with grudges against a fellow-creature? Co….
One day of good preaching is no match for six days of inconsistent practice. God will never honor His church with complete success until it completel….
Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and ….
Now let us gather into one bouquet, from the King's garden, these seven fragrant flowers: Jesus the Son of God; Jesus our sin-bearer; Jesus the giver….
Faith that trusts on Jesus alone for salvation, and not on your respectable life, and the obedience that follows Him, are the indispensable steps to ….
It is the easiest thing in the world for us to obey God when He commands us to do what we like, and to trust Him when the path is all sunshine. The r….