There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.

- Edward Thomson

Lincoln did but pour the soul of the nation into the monumental act of universal liberty; and that soul was inspired by the gospel.

- Edward Thomson

The longer men sin, the more easily they can; for every act of transgression weakens conscience, stupefies intellect, hardens hearts, adds force to b…

- Edward Thomson

One has said that Christ excelled all other moralists in this, that He puts the padlock not upon the hand, but upon the heart. But He does not use th…

- Edward Thomson

The world cannot bury Christ. The earth is not deep enough for His tomb, the clouds are not wide enough for His winding-sheet; He ascends into the he…

- Edward Thomson

As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept fr…

- Edward Thomson

You may be a dreadful failure. Christ is a divine success. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

- Edward Thomson

Go to the family where darkness and suspicion and jealousy and disorder reign, and if they will but receive Christ, mark how light and confidence and…

- Edward Thomson

What are the sciences but maps of universal laws, and universal laws but the channels of universal power; and universal power but the outgoings of a …

- Edward Thomson