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Octavius Winslow Quotes
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“O you saints of the Most High, you who are traveling on through much failure, through much infirmity, it may be through much trial and tribulation, shout the hallelujahs of heaven!”
“Would not Joseph, too, in exhorting his brethren not quarrel along the way, remind them that they were journeying towards one home and to one father?”
“This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.”
“Beloved, now are we the sons of God," and all the immunities and blessings of a present sonship are ours.”
“The visible things fade upon the sight, the invisible things unveil their grandeur.”
“It is the furnace alone that reveals the alloy, and separates it from the pure gold, and so brings to view the new nature in its reality, loveliness, and purity.”
“And what is faith but the "gift of God," and the work of the eternal Spirit in the soul?”
“It is true there are moments- bright and blissful- when we sincerely and ardently desire the full, unreserved surrender.”
“Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." But it is to heaven we look for the soul's perfect and changeless happiness.”
“Carrying the oil-less vessel with the untrimmed, unlit lamp of an outward Christian profession, we dream that all is safe until the startling summons to meet the Bridegroom awakes us to consciousness, to conviction, to despair!”
“Born of God, believers advance in spiritual stature, from the babe in Christ to the young man, from the young man to the father, and from the father to the hoary head found in the way of righteousness.”
“He is teaching you, also, by trial as you could learn in no other school.”
“He who loves God, walks with God, dwells with God, is like God.”
“Whatever, then, rises between the soul and Christ- whatever would tend to satisfy the soul in His absence- whatever would take His place in the affections, must be surrendered.”
“Did I suspect the existence of such latent virulence, such deep-seated depravity?”
“True happiness, joy, and peace will ever be strangers to your heart until it tastes the love of the Savior.”
“My reader, look well to your religion, look well to your hope of the future.”
“Beloved, when God exalts you, remember it is because your Savior was abased.”
“It is written, yes, it is written, "You MUST be BORN AGAIN!" The New Birth is necessary , also, to the bringing forth of real holiness.”
“It is this living upon Christ for all he needs, this going to Christ under all circumstances and at all seasons, which forms the happy and holy life of a child of God.”
“He surveys the past of his existence, and it seems as if he had been dwelling in a tomb, wrapped within the winding-sheet of death.”
“It flashes no more curse, and rolls no more condemnation over the heads of those who are in Christ Jesus.”
“Salvation can be conveyed by no church or minister; its nature must be studied through no ecclesiastical or priestly medium.”
“How worthy of such an infinite Fountain of love and grace is His "unspeakable gift." It came from a large heart; and the heart that gave Jesus will withhold no good thing from those who walk uprightly.”
“He may now seem to be taking you down, but it is only to build you up and put you together again--a fairer, lovelier, and more symmetrical temple.”
“Simon Magus was a religious professor, yet was in the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity.”
“Oh, what a test of real religion, of vital godliness, of the new nature in the soul, is the hour of trial!”
“The sandal tree is known by the fragrance which it breathes.”
“Thus far may we travel in a religious life, and yet stop short of real and vital religion.”
“The depressions, therefore, of the new nature arise not from any essential defect in that nature--for it is incorruptible--but from the sin that dwells in us.”