Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Theodore L. Cuyler (American Presbyterian Clergyman)

Theodore Ledyard Cuyler (1822–1909) was a leading Presbyterian minister and religious writer in the United States. Born at Aurora, New York, Cuyler’s father died before Cuyler was five years old. Cuyler graduated from Princeton University in 1841 and from the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1846, then became a pastor in Burlington, New Jersey. He was successful in reviving the flagging institution under his pastorship, and in 1853 he realized similar success as pastor of the Market Street Dutch Reformed Church in New York City. These successes led to Cuyler’s installation in 1860 as the pastor of the Park Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, from which he oversaw the construction of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church a block away, completed in 1862. The newly constructed church, under Cuyler’s leadership, became the largest Presbyterian Church in the United States. His circle of acquaintances included other noted preachers of the day, including Horatius Bonar, Charles Spurgeon, D. L. Moody, and Charles G. Finney.

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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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