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Quotes by J. H. Vincent
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!— filed under Christ's Life and Ministry
He was Himself forsaken that none of His children might ever need to utter His cry of loneliness.— filed under Christ's Sufferings and Death
We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home.— filed under Earth
At some time, here or hereafter, every account must be settled, and every debt paid in full.— filed under Justice
Every discourse of a true minister has an influence for good or evil, and that for eternity. Every word tells for the everlasting rise or fall, weal or woe, life or death, of souls. In every sentence we touch chords that shall send their vibrations through the endless future; that shall peal in the thunder of a guilty conscience, or resound in the music of a purified spirit. You want to be radiant, eloquent ministers, ministers of great influence and success. Do you want to sit on the Lord's right hand and on His left? Then give Him your heart, so that in humility, in gentleness, in unfailing sweetness, in patience under all circumstances, you shall be like Him. He that would speak Divine things in a language which living men of to-day can comprehend, must keep up with the researches and discoveries of men who study nature, and put her words into the speech of the present.— filed under Ministers
There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.— filed under Sorrow
In the highest class of God's school of suffering we learn not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing in tribulation.— filed under Suffering
To live a godly life is the best way to light up a lesson that the teacher can possibly employ.— filed under Sunday-School
The teacher should use illustrations for the better teaching of the lesson, and never to fill up time, to amuse the class, or to display his own genius.— filed under Sunday-School