Theodore L. Cuyler Quotes

A sermon in shoes is often more eloquent than a sermon on paper.

God does not give us ready money. He issues promissory notes, and then pays them at the throne. Each one of us has a check-book.

A genuine revival means a trimming of personal lamps.

You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear through all eternity.

Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.

One day of good preaching is no match for six days of inconsistent practice. God will never honor His church with complete success until it completely honors Him.

When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward.

Precious Saviour! come in spirit, and lay Thy strong, gentle grasp of love on our dear boys and girls, and keep these our lambs from the fangs of the wolf.

As long as we work on God's line, He will aid us. When we attempt to work on our own lines, He rebukes us with failure.

God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty.

Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and conduct.

We never can create a public sentiment strong enough to suppress the dram-shops until God's people take hold of the temperance reform as a part of their religion.

Know what your sin is and confess it; but do not imagine that you have approved yourself a penitent by confessing sin in the abstract.

God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments.

Oh, be assured, fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood.

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

Conversion by the Holy Spirit is a spiritual illumination of the soul. God's grace lights up the dark heart. And when a man has once been kindled at the cross of Christ, he is bound to shine.

Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercy-seat may fill your heart with the sweetest joys.

In heaven, knowledge shall be commensurate with the enlarged powers of the glorified soul.

Every man or woman who turns to Christ must bear in mind that they are breaking with their old master, and enlisting under a new leader. Conversion is a revolutionary process.