Joseph Caryl quotes

“God loves and delights to cross worldly proverbs and worldly craft.”
-- Joseph Caryl

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“So you may look lightly upon a Scripture and see nothing; meditate often upon it, and there you shall see a light, like the light of the sun.”
-- Joseph Caryl

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“God takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most grace from God are able to bear most afflictions from God. Affliction does not hit the saint by chance, but by direction. God does not draw His bow at a venture. Every one of His arrows goes upon a special errand and touches no breast but his against whom it is sent. It is not only the grace, but the glory of a believer when we can stand and take affliction quietly”
-- Joseph Caryl

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“Confession of sin shows us more clearly our need of mercy-and endears God's mercy more to us”
-- Joseph Caryl

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“All that God requires of us is an opportunity to show what He can do.”

“In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.”

“Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.”

“That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

“Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.”

“Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.”

“Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.”

“The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.”

Source : "The Front Row: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan". Interview with Anupama Chopra, blogs.wsj.com. January 4, 2013.

“As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.”

“it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it”