What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had only slept a night, and shall be fresh and strong.
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Here I stand; I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen.
Put thou thy trust in God; In duty's path go on; Fix on His word thy steadfast eye; So shall thy work be done.
Faith, like light, should ever be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren.
Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift.
We believe that the very beginning and end of salvation, and the sum of Christianity, consists of faith in Christ, who by His blood alone, and not by any works of ours, has put away sin, and destroyed the power of death.
Faith ever says, "If Thou wilt," not "If Thou canst."
We may search long to find where God is, but we shall find Him in those who keep the words of Christ. For the Lord Christ saith, "If any man love me, he will keep my words; and we will make our abode with him."
The sweetness of the gospel lies mostly in pronouns, as me , my , thy . "Who loved me , and gave Himself for me ." "Christ Jesus my Lord." "Son, be of good cheer, thy sins are forgiven thee."
The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle, but stirreth him up to all exercises of piety and godliness, and of true religion, to the love of God, to the patient suffering of afflictions, to prayer, to thanksgiving, and the exercise of charity towards all men.
The law discovers the disease. The gospel gives the remedy.
The law is what we must do; the gospel what God will give.
The first freedom is freedom from sin.
Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ gives by promise. Just as if a prince should say to me, "Come to me in my castle, and I will give you a hundred florins." I do a work, certainly, in going to the castle, but the gift is not given me as the reward of my work in going, but because the prince promised it to me.
Let us keep to Christ, and cling to Him, and hang on Him, so that no power can remove us.
True obedience to God is the obedience of faith and good works; that is, he is truly obedient to God who trusts Him, and does what He commands.
The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God's word? Yea, to bodily gifts, such as beauty and health, or to the gifts of the mind, such as understanding, skill, wisdom? Yet men toil for them day and night, and take no rest. Therefore our Lord God commonly gives riches to foolish people to whom He gives nothing else.
He who receives a sacrament does not perform a good work, he receives a benefit.
Sin is essentially a departure from God.
Peace, if possible, but the truth at any rate.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
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