When I consider it is for JESUS CHRIST, who has called me by his free grace into his marvellous light, and has promised to be with us always, even unto the end of the world, a divine fire kindles in my heart, and I long to call the lingering battle on.
—George Whitefield
When I consider it is for JESUS CHRIST, who has called me by his free grace into his marvellous light, and has promised to be with us always, even unto the end of the world, a divine fire kindles in my heart, and I long to call the lingering battle on.
—George Whitefield
Christ is the joy of the soul, and if the soul be rejoiced and filled with divine light, such joy no man can take away; whatever outward misery there be, the Spirit will sustain it.
—Jonathan Edwards
That such a person who was divine and so dear to the Father should suffer at all would have been a wonderful testimony of God’s hatred of sin. But specially it was so when Christ suffered so much.
—Jonathan Edwards
So ready are we – at least, so ready am I – to want to recall the day that is past and correct the disposals of Divine Providence.
—John Newton
The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.
—Nikolai Gogol