Isaac Williams quotes

“And where are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at all? We are commanded to keep the seventh; but we are nowhere commanded to keep the first day .... The reason why we keep the first day of the week holy instead of the seventh is for the same reason that we observe many other things, not because the Bible, but because the church has enjoined it.”
-- Isaac Williams

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“In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.”
-- Isaac Williams

Source : Isaac Williams (1842). “The Baptistery, Or The Way of Eternal Life by the Author of "The Cathedral" [i.e. Isaac Williams]”, p.120

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“I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.”

“A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.”

“It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ's Church to one's own little community. It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.”

Source : Abraham Kuyper (2007). “The Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.186, Cosimo, Inc.

“The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.”

“It is imperative that those who name the name of Christ would be instructed in the truth of Scripture.”

“In the Bible, ordination - I don't see that in the Scripture. In the Bible, it's whether you're filled with the Holy Spirit, whether you're anointed by God, whether you're called by God, whether you're obedient to Him. I want to be those things, but I don't see any purpose for me in being ordained.”

“Scriptures are Letters from Home. Can you imagine getting a letter from home and not even bothering to open it?”

“Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.”

“If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.”

Source : Song: Try Again, Album: I Care 4 U

“The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.”