11 quotes found
Missionary · American · 1788–1850
American missionary (1788–1850)
“God answers all true prayer either in kind or in kindness.”
“Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another and by and by they meet.”
“Embrace every opportunity of exercising kind feelings and doing good to others, especially to the household of faith.”
“Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.”
“There were two worlds, two lives, for each person: this one--brief, narrow, finite; and the hereafter-- eternal, limitless, infinite. Fame, to mean anything, should go with one into the next world,...”
“God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.”
“I never was deeply interested in any object; I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything, but it came at some time - no matter how distant, in some way, in some shape, probably the last I s...”
“Christ commands those who believe to be baptized. Pedobaptists adopt a system which tends to preclude the baptism of believers. They baptize the involuntary infant and deprive him of the privilege ...”
“I wish you believe, not for myprofit, but for yours. I daily pray the true God give you light, that you may believe. Whether you will ever believe in tis world I do not know, but when you die I kno...”