Great Throughts Treasury

"They that know God will be humble; they that know themselves cannot be proud."

"It is a dangerous crisis, when a proud heart meets with flattering lips."

"Man's extremity is God's opportunity."

"The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying."

"Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid and bleaching, they alter the hue and make them white."

"Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves."

"Faith is the bond of union, the instrument of justification, the spring of spiritual peace and joy, the means of spiritual peace and subsistence."

"There are three acts of faith, assent, acceptance, and assurance."