Octavius Winslow Quotes

#1. Octavius Winslow was a prominent evangelical preacher in the 1800s. He said of the Holy Spirit, "It is his aim . . . to increase our happiness by making us more holy."[717]

Randy Alcorn

#2. Christ took your cup of grief, your cup of the curse, pressed it to his lips, drank it to its dregs, then filled it with his sweet, pardoning, sympathizing love, and gave it back for you to drink, and to drink forever!

Octavius Winslow

#3. The death of Jesus was the opening and the emptying of the full heart of God; it was the outgushing of that ocean of infinite mercy that heaved and panted and longed for an outlet; it was God showing how he could love a poor, guilty sinner.

Octavius Winslow

#4. For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

Octavius Winslow

#5. Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life.

Octavius Winslow

#6. If God has laid your sins upon the Son of His love, you may rest assured that He will never lay them a second time upon you; since, if Christ has borne them and atoned for them to Divine justice, they never again can be found.

Octavius Winslow

#7. Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it to warm up a lot.

Amy Lee

#8. Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.

Walt Disney Company

#9. It is because we have such shallow views of God's love that we have such defective views of God's dealings. We blindly interpret the symbols of His providence, because we so imperfectly read the engravings of His heart.

Octavius Winslow

#10. So completely was Jesus bent upon saving sinners by the sacrifice of Himself, He created the tree upon which He was to die, and nurtured from infancy the men who were to nail Him to the accursed wood.

Octavius Winslow

#11. no such affluence of wisdom and knowledge, and truth and holiness, could flow from any other source than Deity,

Octavius Winslow

#12. The banquet is ready, and the minstrels are tuning their harps to celebrate the return from your wanderings to your Father's heart and home, with the gladness of feasting, and with the voice of thanksgiving and of melody.

Octavius Winslow

#13. Seasons vary, circumstances change, feelings fluctuate, friendships cool, friends die, but Christ is ever the same.

Octavius Winslow

#14. The everlasting covenant which God has made with Jesus, and through Jesus with all His beloved people, individually, is a strong ground of consolation amidst the tremblings of human hope, the fluctuations of creature things, and the instability of all that earth calls good.

Octavius Winslow

#15. There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look; it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help.

Octavius Winslow

#16. Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.

Jack Horner

#17. The biggest thing is to continue to do what you do. A lot of people, when they get to a certain level, start thinking about it too much and they change what they do.

Eric Church

#18. As the leadership team, we're taking bold and decisive action to evolve our organization and culture. This includes difficult steps, but they are necessary to position Microsoft for future growth and industry leadership.

Amy Hood

#19. He never sat an examination in economics: his knowledge came from pondering problems and discussing them as much as from book-learning.

Richard Davenport-Hines

#20. Contrition for an offence must precede the pardon of an offence.

Octavius Winslow

#21. James' fingers brushed her cheek. "You can run, or you can see this through to the end. Whatever that end might be.

Chudney Thomas