"It is not with a rush and a……" — Thomas Guthrie
"It is not with a rush and a spring that we are to reach Christ's character, and attain to perfect saintship; but step by step, foot by foot, hand over hand, we are slowly and often painfully to mount the ladder that rests on earth, and rises to heaven."
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Thomas Guthrie
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11 Quotes by Thomas Guthrie
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In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn,…
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The Bible, which ranges over a period of four thousand years, records but one instance of a death-bed conversion (the…
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Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?
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If you find yourself loving any pleasure more than your prayers, any book better than the Bible, any house better…
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As in nature. and in the arts, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls as well as…
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A sunny temper [an attitude of gratitude for what blessings and mercies there are] gilds the edges of life's blackest…
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Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
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The work that is done in love loses half its tedium and difficulty.
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As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones,…
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The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no…
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