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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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