 God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the bare deed instead of the will. Author: Richard Baxter |
| There are soft moments even to desperadoes. God does not, all at once, abandon even them. Author: Richard Cecil |
The lovingkindness of the Lord is an essential part of Himself; His severity is accidental. One belongs to Himself, the other to external circumstances.
- Septimius Tertullian Author: Assorted Authors |
God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
- Bernard of Clairvaux Author: Assorted Authors |
The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
- Bernard of Clairvaux Author: Assorted Authors |
| Of all created comforts, God is the leader; you are the borrower, not the owner. Author: Samuel Rutherford |
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| Since therefore all things are ordered in subserviency to the good of man, they are so ordered by Him that made both man and them. Author: Stephen Charnock |
| This boundless desire had not its original from man itself; nothing would render itself restless; something above the bounds of this world implanted those desires after a higher good, and made him restless in everything else. And since the soul can only rest is something infinite, there is something infinite for it to rest in. Author: Stephen Charnock |
| What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in the head as in a watch-tower, having the softest nerves for receiving the greater multitude of spirits necessary for the act of vision! Author: Stephen Charnock |
| How comfortable it is to have One, day and night, before the throne to control the charge of our enemy, and the despondencies of our souls. Author: Stephen Charnock |
| Since nothing but God is eternal, nothing but God is worth the loving. Author: Stephen Charnock |
If we can keep our minds calm on the subject of the "Eternity of God," if reason does not totter on her seat at the contemplation of underived existence, it will be strange if any other mystery relating to God should disturb us. He who can bring his reason to bow reverently at the idea of a Being who had no beginning, is well prepared to receive any communication of His will.
- Nehemiah Adams Author: Assorted Authors |
