Guidance & Wisdom
If it’s the work of the devil turn your back against it. I would if I thought it was. If it is the work of God, be careful what you do. My friends, it is a terrible thing to fight against God.
A man need not try to pull a man out of the river if he is in it himself.
It is folly for any man to attempt to fight in his own strength.
When the Spirit of God is on us the world looks very empty; the world has a very small hold upon us.
If we can’t be a lighthouse, let us be a tallow candle.
Wealth to most men proves nothing more or less than a great rock upon which their eternity is wrecked.
I am ashamed of Christianity in the nineteenth century when I think of those early Christians. Why, it would take all the Christians in the Northwest to make one Paul.
There is not room in your heart for two thrones.
If the world has nothing to say against you, Jesus Christ will have nothing to say for you.
Young man! the Bible is true. What have these infidels to give you in its place? What has made England but the open Bible?
If our work is mere profession on our part, the quicker we renounce it the better.
It is a question if any man on the face of the earth has ever been converted, without God using some human instrument, in some way.
God will not accept a divided heart.
The tree grows the way the twig is bent.
I believe that Satan is willing to have us worship anything, however sacred, if only we do not worship God Himself.
God can not use many of his servants, because they are full of irritability and impatience.
I wouldn’t give a snap of my finger for a religion that doesn’t begin at home.
People see that we are carrying around empty buckets, and they will not come to us until they are filled.
A good, loving son generally turns out better than a refractory son.
Make the fountain good, and the stream will be good.
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