An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.

- Alfred Edersheim

God is the God of the present as well as of the future...even here on earth, He reigneth, dispensing good and evil.

- Alfred Edersheim

Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.

- Alfred Edersheim

We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calli…

- Alfred Edersheim

So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self.

- Alfred Edersheim

There is ever the prior question of plain duty, with which nothing else, however tempting or promising of success, can come into conflict; and such s…

- Alfred Edersheim

We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calli…

- Alfred Edersheim