As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill. — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
All other great men are valued for their lives; He, above all, for His death, around which mercy and truth, righteousness and peace, God and man are reconciled; for the cross is the magnet which sends the electric current through… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
What are the sciences but maps of universal laws, and universal laws but the channels of universal power; and universal power but the outgoings… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
The world cannot bury Christ. The earth is not deep enough for His tomb, the clouds are not wide enough for His winding-sheet; He… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
In His discourses, His miracles, His parables, His sufferings, His resurrection, He gradually raises the pedestal of His humanity before the world, but under… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
Give us more and more of real Christianity, and we shall need less of its evidences. Act upon the supposition that Christ is a… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
The longer men sin, the more easily they can; for every act of transgression weakens conscience, stupefies intellect, hardens hearts, adds force to bad… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
Lincoln did but pour the soul of the nation into the monumental act of universal liberty; and that soul was inspired by the gospel. — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
Go to the family where darkness and suspicion and jealousy and disorder reign, and if they will but receive Christ, mark how light and… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
You may be a dreadful failure. Christ is a divine success. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
Great trials seem to be a necessary preparation for great duties. It would seem that the more important the enterprise, the more severe the… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
One has said that Christ excelled all other moralists in this, that He puts the padlock not upon the hand, but upon the heart.… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all. — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
