John Heyl Vincent Quotes

John Heyl Vincent was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

He was born at Tuscaloosa, Ala., and was educated at Lewisburg Academy and at Wesleyan Institute, Newark, N. J. He entered the New Jersey Conference in 1853, and was transferred to the Rock River Conference in 1857. He was pastor of churches in Chicago and established the Northwest Sunday-School Quarterly and the Sunday-School Teacher . He was corresponding secretary of the Sunday-school Union of his denomination and editor of its publications . In 1888, he was elected Bishop and was appointed Resident Bishop in Europe in 1900, stationed at Zurich, Switzerland; in 1904, he retired from the active episcopate. He was a co-founder of the Chautauqua Assembly , and chancellor of Chautauqua Institution from its organization . He published:



The Chautauqua Movement

The Church School and Its Officers

Studies in Young Life

A Study in Pedagogy

Earthly Footsteps of the Man of Galilee

Family Worship for Every Day in the Year Wikipedia  

✵ 23. February 1832 – 9. May 1920
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Famous John Heyl Vincent Quotes

“At some time, here or hereafter, every account must be settled, and every debt paid in full.”

John Heyl Vincent

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 361.

“Oh, wonderful teacher! Oh, favored disciples! Oh, famous school — that built no marble halls, and collected no grand library, but turned all life into opportunity”

John Heyl Vincent

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 62.
Context: Oh, wonderful teacher! Oh, favored disciples! Oh, famous school — that built no marble halls, and collected no grand library, but turned all life into opportunity; made houses and streets and seaside and mountain-tops, places of discipline and recitation and delight! Oh, blest example — shining this day on the pages of history — our example, our dream, our desire!

“There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.”

John Heyl Vincent

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 556.

“We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home.”

John Heyl Vincent

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 206.

“He was Himself forsaken that none of His children might ever need to utter His cry of loneliness.”

John Heyl Vincent

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 73.

“To live a godly life is the best way to light up a lesson that the teacher can possibly employ.”

John Heyl Vincent

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 572.

“In the highest class of God's school of suffering we learn not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing in tribulation.”

John Heyl Vincent

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 569.

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