C.J. English Quotes
To give to others is but sowing seed for ourselves.
Backward we are naturally to all good things, and it is a lesson of grace to learn to go forward in the ways of God.
When you cannot use your sword you may take to the weapon of all-prayer. Your powder may be damp, your bow-string may be relaxed, but the weapon of all-prayer need never be out of order.
The seed of acceptable devotion must come from heaven's storehouse. Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God.
Why do we calculate our forces, and consult with flesh and blood to our grievous wounding? Jehovah has power enough without borrowing from our puny arm.
Is God giving you victory this day, if not this whole day, how about this very minute?
A family that never embraces life's risks never really lives.
The more God-centered our worship practices, the more mercy-centered our life.
We reign over the united kingdom of time and eternity
It is ill to offer God one duty stained with the blood of another.
Morning dawns when the grace overcomes nature.
There is a core difference between sharing the gospel with the lost and imposing a specific moral standard on the unconverted.
The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them—these sticks, stones, feathers, shells—there is no Deity.
We have, by God's grace, been given another day to serve and love, laugh and learn, pray and ponder. Spring is ready to burst into the open air, and we are ready to embrace it.
The thing to remember about a kick is you go for his twigs and berries" ~Declan~
Christ's vast benevolence must, from the very nature of things, have afforded Him the deepest possible delight, for benevolence is joy.
The usual tenor of a man's life, the dwelling of his soul, is the true test of his state.
Desire is insatiable as death, but He who fills all in all can fill it. The capacity of our wishes who can measure? But the immeasurable wealth of God can more than overflow it.
Every Autumn now my thoughts return to snow. Snow is something I identify myself with. Like my father, I am a snow person.
If we would remember that all the trees of earth are marked for the woodman's axe, we should not be so ready to build our nests in them.
Both the two of us knew it. We watched the lie go up big and slow between us, then it burst like a spit bubble. They always burst before too long.
As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights centre in our Beloved.
All providences are doors to trial. Men may be drowned in seas of prosperity as well as in rivers of affliction.
The sea is a lonely and hostile place, Captain, ' Jansen said coldly. 'It is always best not to make enemies of those who might be your friends. You never know when your ships may cross
Lord, please protect me from Your people.
Do we use the Word of God only as a cue card to commandeer our external behavior?
He refused to believe in his own weaknesses, and with her he had not found a weakness to fit himself against.
In the Salem of our peaceful hearts, the name of Jesus is great beyond compare: He has won our love, and He shall wear it.
I was a man fifteen years older than she, you understand. I had reached that stage in life where I identified with cynical villains in a book.
Man with his new powers became rich like Midas but all that he touched had gone dead and cold.
Princess, princess, youngest daughter, Open up and let me in!Or else your promise by the waterIsn’t worth a rusty pin.Keep your promise, royal daughter, Open up and let me in!
The weak mind is irritated at a little: the strong mind bears it like a rock which moveth not, though a thousand breakers dash upon it, and cast their pitiful malice in spray upon its summit.
Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.
Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world.
