35 Quotes by Thomas Guthrie

[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)]

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.

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

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

The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards.

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

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.

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

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.