It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

- Christian Scriver

The whole of Christianity is comprised in three things--to believe, to love, and to obey Jesus. These are things, however, which we must be learning …

- Christian Scriver

My God, help me always resolutely to strive, and, through life and death, to force my way unto Thee.

- Christian Scriver

God has given you your child, that the sight of him, from time to time, might remind you of His goodness, and induce you to praise Him with filial re…

- Christian Scriver

If he who has little wit needs a master to inform his stupidity, he who has much frequently needs ten to keep in check his worldly wisdom, which migh…

- Christian Scriver

O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.

- Christian Scriver

My God! my time is in Thine hands. Should it please Thee to lengthen my life, and complete, as Thou hast begun, the work of blanching my locks, grant…

- Christian Scriver

The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school.

- Christian Scriver

Never have I greater reason for suspicion that when I am particularly pleased with myself, my faith, my progress, and my alms.

- Christian Scriver