Quotes by H. Clay Trumbull

A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible.

— H. Clay Trumbull

Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of His disciples watched and prayed in agony.

— H. Clay Trumbull

It takes practice to use one's eyes, even when God has opened them. And there are some believers who never get beyond confounding a doctrinal statement of a truth with a living exemplification of that truth.

— H. Clay Trumbull

Here is where a great many professed disciples of Jesus fail of being real disciples. They have regularly enlisted, have put on their uniform, and there they stand before the recruiting office, with knapsacks and blankets on their backs, with muskets at "carry," marking time to the martial music—although some of them don't do even that; and there they have stood since their enlistment, never marching a rod.

— H. Clay Trumbull

If a man is unable to find the way to Jesus, he ought to be led. It is good work this bringing the blind to Him who alone can give them sight.

— H. Clay Trumbull

An over-readiness to criticise or to depreciate a minister of Christ is proof of a lack of devotion to Christ.

— H. Clay Trumbull

Attention is our first duty whenever we want to know what is our second duty. There is no such cause of confusion and worry about what we ought to do, and how to do it, as our unwillingness to hear what God would tell us on that very point.

— H. Clay Trumbull

Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.

— H. Clay Trumbull

  ​ It is a good thing to follow Jesus with our eyes open. That is walking both by sight and faith. But it is better to follow Jesus blindly than not to follow at all.

— H. Clay Trumbull

Just as sure as the days go by, Jesus will come to us, looking for fruit; and He will come in personal hunger, needing and longing for the fruit which we might have ready for Him.

— H. Clay Trumbull

The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life Into life itself.

— H. Clay Trumbull