A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one. |
Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please. |
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. |
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. |
Certain things can only be dealt with by ignoring them; if you face them you increase their power. It is absurd to say, Pray about them; when once a thing is seen to be wrong, don't pray about it, it fixes the mind on it; never for a second brood on it, destroy it by neglect. |
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested. |
Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master. |
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. |
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man. |
I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do. |
If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality. |
It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God’s work in our own way. |
The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ. |
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. |
We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us. |