Top 21 Thomas Guthrie Quotes

#1. 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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#2. Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.

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#3. A sunny temper [an attitude of gratitude for what blessings and mercies there are] gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud.

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#4. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.

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#5. The mental powers acquire their full robustness when the cheek loses its ruddy hue, and the limbs their elastic step; and pale thought sits on manly brows, and the watchman, as he walks his rounds, sees the student's lamp burning far into the silent night.

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#6. The work that is done in love loses half its tedium and difficulty.

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#7. As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

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#8. The Bible, which ranges over a period of four thousand years, records but one instance of a death-bed conversion (the thief on the cross) - one that none may despair, and but one that none may presume.

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#9. Scatter money in a crowd, how they scramble for it; offer bread to the starving, how greedily they seize it; throw a rope to the drowning, how he eagerly grasps it! With like eagerness and earnestness may the Spirit of God help you to lay hold on Christ.

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#10. The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity.

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#11. The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards.

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#12. [A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it.
[Man and the Gospel (1865)]

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#13. Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that most glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer court.

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#14. The cry of distress lays hold of our Lord's omnipotence. It is as easy for God to supply thy greatest as thy smallest wants, even as it was within His power to form a system or an atom, to create a blazing sun as to kindle the fire-fly's lamp.

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#15. Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

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#16. Prayer flies where the eagle never flew.

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#17. The Christian is not always praying; but within his bosom is a heaven-kindled love
fires of desire, fervent longings
which make him always ready to pray, and often engage him in prayer.

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#18. Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?

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#19. More tears are shed in playhouses than in churches.

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#20. The new novel is sought more eagerly, and devoured more greedily, the New Testament.

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#21. Perhaps God does with His heavenly garden as we do with our own. He may chiefly stock it from nurseries, and select for transplanting what is yet in its young and tender age
flowers before they have bloomed and trees ere they begin to bear.

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