John Berridge Quotes

#1. The Bible is a precious storehouse, and the Magna Charta of a Christian. There he reads of his Heavenly Father's love, and of his dying Saviour's legacies. There he sees a map of his travels through the wilderness, and a landscape, too, of Canaan.

John Berridge

#2. All decays begin in the closet; no heart thrives with out much secret converse with God, and nothing will make amends for the want of it.

John Berridge

#3. Run, John, and work, the law commands,
Yet give me neither feet nor hand.
Much better new the Gospel brings:
It bids me fly and gives me winds.

John Berridge

#4. Avoid all controversy in preaching, talking, or writing; preach nothing down but the devil, and nothing up but Jesus Christ.

John Berridge

#5. A Christian never falls asleep in the fire or in the water, but grows drowsy in the sunshine.

John Berridge

#6. Make me like a little child, Simple, teachable, and mild; Seeing only in Thy light; Walking only in Thy might!

John Berridge