Three Thousand Selected Quotations from Brilliant Writers: Compiled from the Religious Literature of All AgesS. S. Scranton Company, 1912 - 681 pages |
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A. E. KITTREDGE ALEXANDER MACLAREN beauty believe Bible BISHOP blessed C. H. SPURGEON CHARLES KINGSLEY Christian CHRISTIAN SCRIVER church cross D. L. MOODY darkness death Divine duty E. L. MAGOON earth EDWARD THOMSON eternal everlasting evil eyes F. W. ROBERTSON faith Father feel FENELON forever give glory God's gospel grace H. W. BEECHER hand happy hath heart heaven holy hope HORACE BUSHNELL human immortal infinite J. G. HOLLAND JAMES HAMILTON JAMES MARTINEAU Jesus Christ JOHN ANGEL JAMES JOHN FLAVEL light live look Lord mercy mind MOUNTFORD nature never ourselves peace perfect pray prayer PUNSHON R. S. STORRS religion repentance rest RICHARD CECIL RICHARD FULLER righteousness salvation Saviour sinner sins sorrow soul spirit strength T. L. CUYLER Thee Thine thing THOMAS À KEMPIS THOMAS BROOKS Thou hast thought throne tion true trust truth unto W. E. CHANNING weary word
Popular passages
Page 370 - WE do not presume to come to this thy table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy table.
Page 174 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Page 231 - Just as I am Thou wilt receive, Wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve ! Because Thy promise I believe, O Lamb of God, I come...
Page 304 - Why should I shrink at pain and woe, Or feel at death dismay? I've Canaan's goodly land in view, And realms of endless day.
Page 337 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 385 - Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard. to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Page 279 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Page 564 - Heaven is not reached at a single bound ; But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.
Page 28 - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Page 613 - Only waiting till the shadows Are a little longer grown, Only waiting till the glimmer Of the day's last beam is flown...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Three Thousand Selected Quotations from Brilliant Writers: Compiled from the Religious Literature of All Ages |
| Author | Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert |
| Publisher | S. S. Scranton Company, 1912 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 25 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 681 pages |
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