C.J. English Quotes

Alas! it is but little we have done for our Master's glory. Our winter has lasted all too long. We are as cold as ice when we should feel a summer's glow and bloom with sacred flowers.

There is no such thing as an independent Christian.

Spurgeon challenges us to go to the river of our experience, to pull up bulrushes, and to place them in the Ark of our memory, experiencing again the wonder that allowed our infant faith to flourish.

Everyone tries to be an optimist. But being an optimist is a bit boring and not honest. Losers are more interesting than winners.

To a great extent in spiritual things we get what we expect of the Lord. Faith alone can bring us to see Jesus.

This woman gained comfort in her misery by thinking GREAT THOUGHTS OF CHRIST.

Surely, if there could be regrets in heaven, the saints might mourn that they did not live longer here to do more good.

Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour?

Worship is the launching pad for life.

Linguist say parties in the conversation will tolerate silence for four seconds before interjecting anything, however unrelated.

A brother's sympathy is more precious than an angel's embassy.

You are a miracle. Remind yourself often.

The whitest robes, unless their purity be preserved by divine grace, will be defiled by the blackest spots.

waging war against inane language that circulates almost automatically is a writer's eternal mission, and the day will never come when this battles are unnecessary.

-I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover?I said nothing.-Deny it, damn you!

I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me. Kiss me, will you. Stop defending yourself.

If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou wilt not loiter.

Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

I wanted to know what it felt like to be loved by the man of my dreams.

Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God's warriors than standing still.

The only restorative for a guilty conscience is a sight of Jesus suffering on the cross.

The more loftily we see Christ enthroned, and the more lowly we are when bowing before the foot of the throne, the more truly shall we be prepared to act our part towards Him.

It was well to be Martha and serve, but better to be Lazarus and commune.

The intensity of the love of the upright is not so much to be judged by what it appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough.

When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come.

Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour.

Charles Wesley's hymns are forceful because they contain so many words which are physical: for him the life of a Christian was to be experienced in the body as well as in the soul.

In the sympathy of Christ we find a sustaining power.

Unbelief is a master carpenter at cross-making.

A man may follow vanity as truly in the counting-house as in the theatre. If he be spending his life in amassing wealth, he passes his days in a vain show.

All earth's candles cannot make daylight if the Sun of Righteousness be eclipsed. He is the soul of our soul, the light of our light, the life of our life.

We stood as the ground shifted and we saw the view from belowthrough tiled floors and concrete stairs, our feet burning holes in the foundation while you whispered of dreams.

It was impossible not to fall in love with him.

In a time like that, the past meets you wherever you turn. The days do not use their own hours and minutes, they find ones you have lived through with the person you are missing.

Dating in England is different. First of all because English people don’t like at all other people knowing them, and second, because English people are romantically impaired.

Let me be on my guard when the world puts on a loving face, for it will, if possible, betray me as it did my Master, with a kiss.

Purify our minds that we may be "first pure, then peaceable, " and fortify our souls, that our peaceableness may not lead us into cowardice and despair, when for Thy sake we are persecuted.

Down deep in His innermost soul Christ carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy.

I had rather have God for my banker than all the Rothschilds.

Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing?

Almightiness and wisdom combined will make no failures.

Christ loved the sons of men before there were sons of men, and me before there was me. If he was going to get tired of me, he would have done so before now.

There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child. The Father's bosom is the place for penitent confessions.

I serve, " should be the motto of all the princes of the royal family of heaven.

Carnal love is the love of table, not of the host.

God never loses sight of the treasure which He has placed in our earthen vessels.

He who grows not in the knowledge of Jesus, refuses to be blessed.

Be wise and attend to obeying. Let Christ manage the providing.

That which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth He casteth away

Let our liberty be practically exhibited by serving the Lord with gratitude and delight.