GOD give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love, and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst.
—George Whitefield
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
—Nikolai Gogol
Nothing more habitually reconciles a child of God to the thought of death than the wearisomeness of…warfare with sin and temptation.
—John Newton
I only wish, that I may have grace given me to preach the truth, as it is in JESUS; and then, come what will, I hope I shall (as I do, blessed be GOD) rejoice.
—George Whitefield
I have an all-sufficient GOD to apply to in all emergencies.
—George Whitefield
Surely we cannot grow angry at trifles, when the Son of GOD endured such bitter usage, without the least murmur or complaint.
—George Whitefield
The glory and honor of God requires that sometimes there should be tokens of his displeasure against the sins of men here in this world.
—Jonathan Edwards
If anything in the world could have been a temptation to God to dispense with justice, it would have been the infinite dearness of his own Son. But when he took our sins, God poured out his wrath upon him.
—Jonathan Edwards
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!
—John Locke
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!
—John Locke
God hath woven into the principles of human nature such a tenderness for their off-spring, that there is little fear that parents should use their power with too much rigour.
—John Locke
The law of faith then, in short, is for every one to believe what God requires him to believe, as a condition of the covenant he makes with him: and not to doubt of the performance of his promises.
—John Locke
When we find out an Idea, by whose Intervention we discover the Connexion of two others, this is a Revelation from God to us, by the voice of Reason.
—John Locke
So that God, by commanding to subdue, gave authority so far to appropriate: and the condition of human life, which requires labour and materials to work on, necessarily introduces private possessions.
—John Locke
So that God, by commanding to subdue, gave authority so far to appropriate: and the condition of human life, which requires labour and materials to work on, necessarily introduces private possessions.
—John Locke
Many men & women who are troubled for their sin think God will be satisfied by their mourning. But mourning your heart out for 1,000 years will never satisfy the justice of God. Mourning will come to nothing, unless it leads
you to Jesus Christ for satisfaction of God’s justice.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Many men & women who are troubled for their sin think God will be satisfied by their mourning. But mourning your heart out for 1,000 years will never satisfy the justice of God. Mourning will come to nothing, unless it leads
you to Jesus Christ for satisfaction of God’s justice.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
There is so much sweetness in our peace with God that it must so quiet the spirit of that man in whom it is that whatsoever is without shall never be able to make any great disturbance in his spirit, so great and excellent is the sweetness of that peace.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
There is so much sweetness in our peace with God that it must so quiet the spirit of that man in whom it is that whatsoever is without shall never be able to make any great disturbance in his spirit, so great and excellent is the sweetness of that peace.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
If there is such a blessed peace between God and a true Christian, then he must be very peaceable in the world. He must be of a very peaceable disposition before men.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
We should study Christ, and praise and bless God, and have our hearts enlarged for Jesus Christ.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Here we see the infinite love of God, that He has been pleased to think of us poor creatures from everlasting, and make it His work to reconcile us to Himself.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
The life of every person is a fairy tale written with the fingers of God.
—Taras Shevchenko
We should study Christ, and praise and bless God, and have our hearts enlarged for Jesus Christ. This is the duty of believers to whom God has revealed Christ as wonderful… You should so walk before men as to manifest to all the world that your Savior is a wonderful Savior.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
We should study Christ, and praise and bless God, and have our hearts enlarged for Jesus Christ. This is the duty of believers to whom God has revealed Christ as wonderful… You should so walk before men as to manifest to all the world that your Savior is a wonderful Savior.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
In God’s worship there must be nothing tendered up to God but what he hath commanded; whatsoever we meddle with in the Worship of God, it must be what we have a warrant for out of the Word of God.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
In God’s worship there must be nothing tendered up to God but what he hath commanded; whatsoever we meddle with in the Worship of God, it must be what we have a warrant for out of the Word of God.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Nice privacy! Nothing in life can be sweeter, more charming than solitude, especially in the face of the smiling, blossoming beauty of Mother Nature. Under its sweet magical charm, a person involuntarily plunges into himself and sees God on earth, as the poet says.
—Taras Shevchenko
Whatsoever is in God, is God Himself, from this Name Jehovah. He is an Absolute Being, nothing but Himself. This is the difference between God and any Creature.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
God when he will bring life, brings it out of death, he brings joy out of sorrow, and he brings prosperity out of adversity.
—Jeremiah Burroughs