I never knew a child of God being bankrupted by his benevolence. What we keep we may lose, but what we give to Christ we are sure to keep.
—Theodore L. Cuyler
Religion’s home is in the conscience.—Its watchword is the word “ought.”—Its highest joy is in doing God’s will.
—Theodore L. Cuyler
Topics: Religion
A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.
—Theodore L. Cuyler
Topics: Books, Reading
God sometimes washes the eyes of his children with tears that they may read aright his providence and his commandments.
—Theodore L. Cuyler
Blessed be the discipline that makes me reach out to a closer union with Jesus!—Blessed be the dews of the spirit that keep my leaf ever green!—Blessed be the trials which shake down the ripe golden fruits from the branches.
—Theodore L. Cuyler
Topics: Trials
To forecast our sorrows is only to increase the suffering without increasing our strength to bear them.—Many of life’s noblest enterprises might never have been undertaken if all the difficulties and defects could be foreseen.
—Theodore L. Cuyler
Topics: Sorrow
I dare not drink for my own sake, I ought not to drink for my neighbor’s sake.
—Theodore L. Cuyler
The best advertisement of a workshop is first class work. The strongest attraction to Christianity is a well made Christian character.
—Theodore L. Cuyler
Topics: Christian
The best days of the church have always been its singing days.
—Theodore L. Cuyler
Let your religion be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine. A lighthouse sounds no drum, it beats no gong; yet, far over the waters, its friendly light is seen by the mariner.
—Theodore L. Cuyler
Topics: Religion
It is the easiest thing in the world to obey God when He commands us to do what we like, and to trust Him when the path is all sunshine. The real victory of faith is to trust God in the dark, and through the dark.
—Theodore L. Cuyler
Topics: Achievement, God, Trials
A happy and a glorious Easter will this one be to all of us who get a new vision of the risen Christ, and prostrate ourselves in humble adoration at His feet, and cry out: “Rabboni! Rabboni!” Then shall we set our hearts, lifted into a new atmosphere, on things above, and reach an actual higher life. We shall know more of what it is to live by Christ, in Christ, for Christ, and with Christ, till we reach the marvelous light around the throne in glory.
—Theodore L. Cuyler
The shifting systems of false religion are continually changing their places; but the gospel of Christ is the same forever. While other false lights are extinguished, this true light ever shineth.
—Theodore L. Cuyler
You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day, you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear for all eternity.
—Theodore L. Cuyler
Topics: Inheritance
The firmament of the Bible is ablaze with answers to prayer.
—Theodore L. Cuyler
Topics: Prayer
Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and conduct.
—Theodore L. Cuyler
Topics: Repentance
Answered prayers cover the field of providential history as flowers cover western prairies.
—Theodore L. Cuyler
Topics: Prayer
Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.
—Theodore L. Cuyler
God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty.
—Theodore L. Cuyler
Topics: Angels, Duty
Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today’s duties and tomorrow’s anxieties piled on the top of them.
—Theodore L. Cuyler
Topics: Anxiety, Worry, Duty
None but a theology that came out of eternity can carry you and me safely to and through eternity.
—Theodore L. Cuyler
The richest blessing that prayer can bring—is to bring us into closer communion and agreement with the all-holy and the all-loving God. The very first essential to all right prayer—is unconditional submissiveness to God’s will.
—Theodore L. Cuyler
Topics: Prayer
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