Birth: May 29, 1824 Death: April 14, 1881
Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold..
The gospel proceeds on the basis of universal depravity; the gospel assimilates all varieties of human nature into one common experience of guilt and….
The darkness is not so dense as it was; there are faint streaks on the horizon's verge; mist is in the valleys, but there is a radiance on the distan….
Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating — real in a generation of triflers — true amongst a multitude of shams; when tempte….
Amid the stirring and manifold activities of the age in which we live, to be neutral in the strife is to rank with the enemies of the Saviour. There ….
There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages..
We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human..
Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey..
Surely there is a fitness in the institution of the Lord's Supper as a standing memorial by which the church at large may commemorate the grandest ac….
Young men, terminate, I beseech you, in your own experience, the sad divorce which has too often existed between intellect and piety. Take your stand….
It is a kind and wise arrangement of Providence that weaves our sorrows into the elements of character and that all the disappointments, and conflict….
Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures..
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?.
Young men, you who have any piety at all, what sort is it? Is it a hot-house plant, which must be framed and glassed, lest March, that bold young fel….
Don't aim at any impossible heroisms. Strive rather to be quiet in your own sphere. Don't live in the cloudland of some transcendental heaven; do you….
And so the blasts of calumny, howl they ever so fiercely over the good man's head, contribute to his juster appreciation and to his wider fame. Prese….
There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar?.
All the world over it is true that a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways, like a wave on the streamlet, tossed hither and thither with ever….