Henry Benjamin Whipple quotes

“All we want in Christ, we shall find in Christ. If we want little, we shall find little. If we want much, we shall find much; but if, in utter helplessness, we cast our all on Christ, He will be to us the whole treasury of God.”
-- Henry Benjamin Whipple

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 95, 1895.

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“As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost.”
-- Henry Benjamin Whipple

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“Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.”
-- Henry Benjamin Whipple

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 3, 1895.

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“Without religion, man is an atheist, woman is a monster. As daughter, sister, wife and mother, she holds in her hands, under God, the destinies of humanity. In the hours of gloom and sorrow we look to her for sympathy and comfort. Where shall she find strength for trial, comfort for sorrow, save in that gospel which has given a new meaning to the name of "mother," since it rested on the lips of the child Jesus?”
-- Henry Benjamin Whipple

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 618, 1895.

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“People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.”

Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “This Book Will Save Your Life”, p.29, Granta Books

“There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.”

“If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.”

“Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.”

Source : "The Heart of Things".

“Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.”

“Don't. Please, just let me hold you a little bit longer," he mumbled into my hair”

“A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.”

“Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.”

Source : Adam Clarke (1837). “The Preacher's Manual: Including Clavis Biblica, and A Letter to a Methodist Preacher”, p.61

“If I put things between me and Christ, it is idolatry. If I put Christ between me and things, it is victory!”

“The only reason that Jews are in ***** is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks.”