English Quotes

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

The cries of the sufferers on the remaining part of the wreck were heard during the night.

Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil.

I have seven apartments in the house to keep in a state fit to be inspected everyday by Gentlemen.

The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.

The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.

Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of finding blessing in the midst of that confusion which is acknowledged to exist.

Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.

Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it.

Let those who like society better have it.

Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.

It is the desire of our hearts, and as we believe God's will under this dispensation, that all the children of God should be gathered together as such, and, consequently, as not of the world.

If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them.

I know that those who esteem these little organised associations to be the churches of God, see nothing but mere meetings of men in every other gathering of God's children.

I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.

I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God.

I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.

I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.

I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

God is sufficient in all ages for His church.

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.