Quotes from Christian Scriver

O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.

My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be Thy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly to acquiesce in what is Thy will.

My God, help me always resolutely to strive, and, through life and death, to force my way unto Thee.

The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school.

God has given you your child, that the sight of him, from time to time, might remind you of His goodness, and induce you to praise Him with filial reverence.

The whole of Christianity is comprised in three things--to believe, to love, and to obey Jesus. These are things, however, which we must be learning all our life.

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

Never have I greater reason for suspicion that when I am particularly pleased with myself, my faith, my progress, and my alms.