Quotes to Ponder . . .

Words from the past can educate us . . . challenge us . . . thrill us . . . depending on who said them and what they pertain too. I mentioned in an earlier post acquiring the book: Draper’s Book of Quotations for the Christian World. Today I want to share with you some quotes I found under the heading of “Jesus Christ” and the men who wrote them.

“All we want in Christ, we shall find in Christ. If we want little, we shall find little. If we want much, we shall find much; but if, in utter helplessness, we cast our all on Christ, he will be to us the whole treasury of God.”

Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901)

Henry Whipple was the first Episcopal bishop of Minnesota. He also served parishes in Rome, New York and Chicago. He was a champion for the cause of Native American groups. He is best known outside of Minnesota for his dedication to the welfare of the American Indians and for his missionary work among the Dakota and Ojibwe of Minnesota. He was referred to as “Straight Tongue” by Dakota Indians because of his honesty in dealing with them.

“By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.”

Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)

Erasmus was given the best education available to a young man of his day, in a series of monastic or semi-monastic schools, most notably a school run by the Brethren of the Common Life where he gleaned the importance of a personal relationship with God. He was ordained to the Catholic priesthood but did not actively work as a priest very long. Erasmus lived through the Reformation period. He has been called “the crowning glory of the Christian humanists” and prepared important Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament. Two of his works are: Handbook of a Christian Knight and Foundations of the Abundant Style.

“I have a great need for Christ; I have a great Christ for my need.”

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)

Charles Spurgeon is known as the “Prince of Preachers.” In his lifetime he preached to around 10,000,000 people. He was a prolific author and his works have been translated into many languages. He pastored at New Park Street Chapel in London for 38 years, and his powers as a preacher made him famous. At this time I am reading through Look Unto Me: The Devotions of Charles Spurgeon by Jim Reimann.

“You never get to the end of Christ’s words. There is something in them always behind. They pass into proverbs; they pass into laws; they pass into doctrines; they pass into consolations; but they never pass away, and after all the use that is made of them they are still not exhausted.”

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815-1881)

Stanley was the leading liberal theologian of his time in England. He was untiring in literary work, and though this consisted very largely of occasional papers, lectures, articles in review, addresses, and sermons, it included a third volume of his History of the Jewish Church. The subjects to which he looked as, the most essential of all–the universality of the divine love, the supreme importance of the moral and spiritual elements of religion, the supremacy of conscience, the sense of the central citadel of Christianity as being contained in the character, the history, the spirit of its divine Founder–have impressed themselves more and more on the teaching and the preaching in the Church.

Information on each person was obtained from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Words from yesteryear . . . never grow old.