William Mackergo Taylor: Quotes about heart

William Mackergo Taylor was American theologian. Explore interesting quotes on heart.

William Mackergo Taylor: 30 quotes0 likes

“The great moral lesson which Saul's history leaves for the instruction of mankind is this: That without true piety the finest qualities of character and the highest position in society will utterly fail to make a true and noble man. If Saul's heart had been true to God, he would have been one of the grandest specimens of humanity; but, lacking this true obedience to God, he made his life an utter failure, and his character amoral wreck.”

William Mackergo Taylor

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 453.

“You may be quite sure that if little light comes from a Christian character, little light comes into it. We must have the glory sink into us before it can be reflected from us. But let the love of Jesus become the master-principle of our hearts, and there will be no halting or irresolution; no parleying with temptation; no seeking to explain away our duty under color of deliberating to discover what it is; no looking one way and walking another; but with undivided souls, and with enthusiastic devotion, we shall do only and always the will of Him who loved us, and gave Himself for us.”

William Mackergo Taylor

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 116.

“We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart, and seek to round our lives into a hymn — the melody of which will be recognized by all who come in contact with us, and the power of which shall not be evanescent, like the voice of the singer, but perenninal, like the music of the spheres.”

William Mackergo Taylor

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 290.