John Newton
We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
A bowler can make or break a chap.
Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.
God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.
Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.Collection: Religious
I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I amCollection: Grace
If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer - His grace sufficient, His promise unchangeable.Collection: Prayer
May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.Collection: Feet
When I was young, I was sure of many things; now there are only two things of which I am sure: one is, that I am a miserable sinner; and the other, that Christ is an all-sufficient Saviour. He is well-taught who learns these two lessons.Collection: Two
When people are right with God, they are apt to be hard on themselves and easy on other people. But when they are not right with God, they are easy on themselves and hard on others.Collection: God
I compare the troubles which we have to undergo in the course of the year to a great bundle of sticks, far too large for us to lift. But God does not require us to carry the whole at once. He mercifully unties the bundle, and gives us first one stick, which we are to carry today, and then another, which we are to carry tomorrow, and so on. This we might easily manage, if we would only take the burden appointed for us each day; but we choose to increase our troubles by carrying yesterday's stick over again today, and adding tomorrow's burden to our load, before we are required to bear it.Collection: Years
Christ has taken our nature into Heaven to represent us; and has left us on earth, with His nature, to represent Him.Collection: Taken
Our work is great; our time is short; the consequences of our labors are infinite.Collection: Infinite
Whoever is truly humbled — will not be easily angry, nor harsh or critical of others. He will be compassionate and tender to the infirmities of his fellow-sinners, knowing that if there is a difference — it is grace alone which has made it! He knows that he has the seeds of every evil in his own heart. And under all trials and afflictions — he will look to the hand of the Lord, and lay his mouth in the dust, acknowledging that he suffers much less than his iniquities have deserved.Collection: Heart
The best advice I can give you: Look unto Jesus, beholding his beauty in the written word.Collection: Jesus
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now i see.Collection: Sweet
Though troubles assail And dangers affright, Though friends should all fail And foes all unite; Yet one thing secures us, Whatever betide, The scripture assures us, The Lord will provide.Collection: Scripture
I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.Collection: School
All shall work together for good; everything is needful that He sends; nothing can be needful that He withholds.Collection: Working Together
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his fear.Collection: Christian
God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms.Collection: Storm
God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our narrow views would prescribe. He brings a death upon our feelings, wishes, and prospects when He is about to give us the desire of our hearts.Collection: Heart
My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.Collection: Heart
The Christian must know that the season, measure, and continuance of his sufferings are appointed by Infinite Wisdom, and designed to work for his everlasting good; and that grace and strength shall be afforded him according to his need.Collection: Christian
I make it a rule of Christian duty never to go to a place where there is not room for my Master as well as myself.Collection: Christian
If it were possible for me to alter any part of his plan, I could only spoil it.Collection: Plans
How Sweet the name of Jesus... the rock on which I build, my shield and hiding place, my never failing treasury, filled with boundless stores of grace.Collection: Sweet
Every drop of rain hits its appointed target.Collection: Rain
This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus.Collection: Jesus
Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain.Collection: Men
If you once love Him, you will study to please Him.Collection: Study
Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much.Collection: Art
Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home.Collection: Home
A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.Collection: Friendship
There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.Collection: Disappointment
Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord.Collection: Christian
Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to yearsCollection: Time
There are many who stumble in the noon-day, not for want of light, but for want of eyes.Collection: Christian
What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which the Lord delights, and to which the promise of his presence is made?Collection: Humble
If two angels were to receive at the same moment a commission from God, one to go down and rule earth’s grandest empire, the other to go and sweep the streets of its meanest village, it would be a matter of entire indifference to each which service fell to his lot, the post of ruler or the post of scavenger; for the joy of the angels lies only in obedience to God’s will, and with equal joy they would lift a Lazarus in his rags to Abraham’s bosom, or be a chariot of fire to carry an Elijah home.Collection: Lying
I look upon prayer-meetings as the most profitable exercises (excepting the public preaching) in which Christians can engage. They have a direct tendency to kill a worldly, trifling spirit, and to draw down a Divine blessing upon all our concerns, compose differences, and enkindle (at least maintain) the flames of Divine love amongst brethren.Collection: Christian
"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.Collection: Christian
How many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present!Collection: Heart
If our zeal is embittered by expressions of anger, invective, or scorn—we may think we are doing service of the cause of truth, when in reality we shall only bring it into discredit!Collection: Reality
I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)Collection: Land
I am a great Sinner and God is a great SaviorCollection: Savior
Let me endeavor to lead you out of yourself: let me invite you to look unto Jesus.Collection: Jesus
I am not what I ought to be! Ah! how imperfect and deficient! - I am not what I wish to be! I 'abhor what is evil,' and I would 'cleave to what is good!' - I am not what I hope to be! Soon, soon, I shall put off mortality: and with mortality all sin and imperfection! Yet, though I am not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be, nor what I hope to be, I can truly say, I am not what I once was - a slave to sin and Satan; and I can heartily join with the Apostle, and acknowledge; By the grace of God, I am what I am!Collection: Evil
But by the grace of God I am what I amCollection: Grace
Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.Collection: Dark