 He hideth our unrighteousness with His righteousness, He covereth our disobedience with his obedience, He shadoweth our death with His death, that the wrath of God cannot find us.
- Henry Smith Topics: Atonement, Righteousness |
At the heart of the story stands the cross of Christ where evil did its worst and met its match.
- John W. Wenham Topics: Atonement, The Cross |
Turn to God from idols. For the sword of His wrath that had been aimed at you has been sheathed into the heart of His Son. And the arrows of His anger that had been put against your breast were loosed into the Lord Jesus Christ. Because He has died for you, you were forgiven.
- Paris Reidhead Topics: Atonement, Idolatry |
There is no mystery in heaven or earth so great as this - a suffering Deity, an almighty Saviour nailed to a Cross.
- Sameul M. Zwemer Topics: Atonement, The Cross |
All our discontents about what we want appear to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
- Daniel Defoe Topics: Blessings, Thankfulness, Discontentment |
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
- Robert E. Lee Topics: Blessings, Providence, Failure |
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God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
- Bernard of Clairvaux Topics: Blessings, God |
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
- Charles Lamb Topics: Books, Humorous, Reading |
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
- Bernard of Clairvaux Topics: Books |
The wise man considers what he wants, and the fool what he abounds in.
- Lancelot Addison Topics: Character, Foolishness |
One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.
- Ludwig von Beethoven Topics: Character |
Our actions are the springs of our happiness or misery.
- Philip Skelton Topics: Character |
