Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
Isaac Watts (Minister/Theologian 1674 – 1748)
When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of Glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.
Isaac Watts (Minister/Theologian 1674 – 1748)
Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.
Isaac Watts (Minister/Theologian 1674 – 1748)
Order my footsteps by Thy Word and make my heart sincere; let sin have no dominion, Lord, but keep my conscience clear.
Isaac Watts (Minister/Theologian 1674 – 1748)
Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God’s will.
Frederick William Robertson (English clergyman, 1816 – 1853)
Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
Frederick William Robertson (English clergyman, 1816 – 1853)
Life, like war, is a series of mistakes,he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes: organize victory out of mistakes.
Frederick William Robertson (English clergyman, 1816 – 1853)
It is not in understanding a set of doctrines; not in outward comprehension of the “scheme of salvation,” that rest and peace are to be found, but in taking up, in all lowliness and meekness, the yoke of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Frederick William Robertson (English clergyman, 1816 – 1853)
The only revenge which is essentially Christian is that of retaliating by forgiveness.
Frederick William Robertson (English clergyman, 1816 – 1853)
You reap what you sow — not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens humbleness. The thing reaped is the very thing sown, multiplied a hundred fold. You have sown a seed of life, you reap life everlasting.
Frederick William Robertson (English clergyman, 1816 – 1853)