Quote Collection
Two Types of Peace – Joseph Alleine
The conscience cannot be truly pacified until soundly purified (Heb 10:22). Cursed is that peace maintained in a way of sin (Deut 29:19-20). Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world: peace with sin, and peace in sin.
– Joseph Alleine –
from A Sure Guide to Heaven, 1671
Waiting Souls – Thomas Brooks
The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him (Lam 3:25). Waiting souls, remember this assurance is yours, but the time of the giving it is the Lord’s; the jewel is yours, but the season in which he will give it is in his own hand: the gold chain is yours, but he only knows the hour wherein he will put it about your necks.
Well! Wait patiently and quietly, wait expectantly, wait believingly, wait affectionately, and wait diligently, and you shall find that scripture made good in power upon your souls, “Yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry,” (Heb 10:37, Hab 2:3).
– Thomas Brooks –
from Heaven on Earth: A Treatise on Christian Assurance, 1654
Happiness – Charles Spurgeon
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
– Charles Spurgeon –
The Church and the World – LE Maxwell
The Church had never such influence over the world as in the days when she had nothing to do with the world.
– LE Maxwell –
Prairie Pastor issue number 1, January 1928
Dependent on God – Oswald Chambers
God comes in where my helplessness begins.
– Oswald Chambers –
Faith – Charles Kingsley
I do not want merely to possess faith; I want a faith that possesses me.
– Charles Kingsley –
1819-1875
Church is a hospital – John Bunyan
Christ’s church is a hospital of sick, wounded, and afflicted people.
– John Bunyan –
Work Ethic – RCH Lenski
Throw your soul into the work as if your one employer were the Lord!
– RCH Lenski –
1864-1936
All are equal before the Cross – Hugh Latimer
The poorest ploughman is in Christ equal with the greatest prince that is.
– Hugh Latimer –
1485-1555