Hugh Binning Quotes

“We are not our own, therefore we ought not to live to ourselves, but to God, whose we are.”

“Self-knowledge is the mother of humility.”

“Temptation were no temptation, if our hearts were not wicked hearts.”

“I beseech you consider, that what you give your time, pains, thoughts and affections to, that is your God.”

“A believing soul looks upon God as its only portion, accounts nothing misery but to be separated from Him.”

“Charity is apt to take all things in the best sense.”

“In love a Christian should be like his Father, and there is nothing in which he resembles him more than in this, to walk in love towards all men.”

“Whatever you hear or know of God, know that it is vain and empty unless it descend down into the heart to fashion it to his fear and love.”

“I wish that souls would read the Scriptures as profitable Scriptures with the intention to profit.”

“One line of the Bible is worth more than all the learning of men.”

“Self love and pride were the first poison that the malice of Satan dropped into man's nature, and this is so strong and pestilent, that it has spread through the whole of mankind, and the whole in every man.”

“If anything seem imperfect in itself, yet it is perfect in relation to his glorious ends he directs it unto.”

“There is a greater moment and weight of Christianity in charity than in the most part of those things for which Christians bite and devour one another.”

“Self-love is the greatest enemy to true Christian love, and pride is the fountain of self-love, because it is impossible that, in this life, there should be an exact correspondence between the thoughts and ways of Christians.”

“Charity envieth not.” Envy is the seed of all contention, and self-love brings it forth.”

“If you find not the smartness of the gospel, and the doctrine of grace laying this restraint upon the heart, ye are yet in your sins.”

“The pride of angels and men was but the rising up to a height, or climbing up a steep to the pinnacle of glory, that they might catch the lower fall.”

“Know that you are lost and undone in yourselves, consider the impossibilities you lie under to escape his wrath.”

“What is wanting in knowledge let us make up in affection, and let the gap of difference in judgment be swallowed up with the bowels of mercies and love, and humbleness of mind.”

“But since the first endeavour in paradise succeeded ill, there hath nothing gone well since.”

“Ye should forbear and forgive one another, as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.”

“Great peace have all they that love thy law, and nothing shall offend them.” Love makes an equable and constant motion, it moves swiftly and sweetly.”

“Sin transformed our nature into a wild, beastly, viperous, selfish thing.”

“O the depth both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!” Rom. xi. 33.”