William Arthur (minister): Quotes about religion

William Arthur (minister) was Wesleyan Methodist minister and author. Explore interesting quotes on religion.

William Arthur (minister): 30 quotes 0 likes

“Religion has never, in any period, sustained itself except by the instrumentality of the tongue of fire. Only where some men, more or less imbued with this primitive power, have spoken the words of the Lord, not with " the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth," have sinners been converted, and saints prompted to a saintlier life.”

William Arthur (minister)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 321.

Life , Wisdom , Men , Religion

“In the primitive church were not prayers simple, unpremeditated, united; prayers of the well-taught apostle; prayers of the accomplished scholar; prayers of the rough but fervent peasant; prayers of the new and zealous convert; prayers which importuned and wrestled with an instant and irrepressible urgency; — were they not an essential part of that religion, which holy fire had kindled; and which daily supplications alone could fan?”

William Arthur (minister)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 473.

Religion , Parting

“On the day of Pentecost Christianity faced the world, a new religion, without a history, without a priesthood, without a college, without a people, and without a patron. She had only her two sacraments and her tongue of fire. The latter was her sole instrument of aggression.”

William Arthur (minister)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 322.

People , World , Religion , History

“A religion without the Holy Ghost, though it had all the ordinances and all the doctrines of the New Testament, would certainly not be Christianity.”

William Arthur (minister)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 317.

Religion