Horatius Bonar Quotes

Horatius Bonar , a contemporary and acquaintance of Robert Murray M'cheyne was a Scottish churchman and poet. He is principally remembered as a prodigious hymn-writer.

✵ 19. December 1808 – 31. May 1889
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Famous Horatius Bonar Quotes

“Thy way, not mine, O Lord,
However dark it be!
Lead me by Thine own hand;
Choose out the path for me.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 511.

Horatius Bonar Quotes

“Yes, for me, for me He careth
With a brother's tender care;
Yes, with me, with me He shareth
Every burden, every fear.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 93.

“Less, less of self each day,
And more, my God, of Thee!”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 538.

“In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 7.

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