“My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.”
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Anglican bishop 1816–1900Related quotes
Source: [https://cruxnow.com/global-church/2018/04/cardinal-in-india-inaugurates-new-parish-despite-tribulations/ Cardinal in India inaugurates new parish, despite ‘tribulations’] (April 11, 2018)
“Our Lord Jesus Christ, my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.”
Sermon (23 November 1879)
Letters, etc
“We'll always be safe in Jesus Christ if we place our faith in the Lord.”
Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 72
“I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights, to preach Christ my Lord”
Letter 225 (to his parishioners) Aberdeen 1837
Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Andrew Bonar)
Page 147
Post-Presidency, Our Endangered Values (2005)
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 543.
More Than Earthlings: An Astronaut's Thoughts for Christ-Centered Living (1983)
Variant: I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be.... religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God and heaven without hell.