38 Quotes by Horatius Bonar

How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard to be understood become in a moment plain.

The more fully that the gospel is preached, in the grand old apostolic way, the more likely is it to accomplish the results which it did in the apostolic days.

It is to the dead that the life comes; it is to the unloveable that the love comes; it is to the lost that the salvation comes.

The soul and eternity of one man depends upon the voice of another.

It is forgiveness that sets a man working for God. He does not work in order to be forgiven, but because he has been forgiven, and the consciousness of his sin being pardoned makes him long more for its entire removal than ever he did before.

The believed gospel saves; but it is the believed promise that assures us of this salvation.

Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain.

The voice from the tree did not summon them to do, but to be satisfied with what was done.

Love of novelties has been the shipwreck of many a soul.