Henry Martyn Famous Quotes & Sayings
18 Henry Martyn Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
The man who pauses in his honesty wants little of a villain.
The power of gentleness is irresistible.
If [God] has work for me to do, I cannot die.
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Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching. St. Paul did much good by his preaching, but how much more by his writings.
It has always happened hitherto that whenever I have begun to feel an attachment to places, persons, or things, of a merely temporary nature, I have been carried away from them. Amen! May I live as a stranger and pilgrim upon the earth. May we be brought to that better country where painful changes are known no more.
God and eternal things are my only pleasure.
I am immortal until God's work for me to do is done. The Lord reigns.
Even if I should never see a native converted, God may design by my patience and continuance in the Word to encourage future missionaries.
I have rightfully no other business each day but to do God's work as a servant, constantly regarding His pleasure. May I have grace to live above every human motive, simply with God and to God.
I am born for God only. Christ is nearer to me than father, or mother, or sister - a near relation, a more affectionate Friend; and I rejoice to follow Him, and to love Him. Blessed Jesus! Thou art all I want - a forerunner to me in all I ever shall go through as a Christian, a minister, or a missionary ...
The impious man, who sells his country's freedom
Makes all the guilt of tyranny his own.
His are her slaughters, her oppressions his;
Just heav'n! reserve your choicest plagues for him,
And blast the venal wretch.
Now let me burn out for God.
How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?
Let me burn out for God. After all,
whatever God may appoint, prayer
is the great thing. Oh, that I might
be a man of prayer!
I see no business in life but the work of Christ.
Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind and made it susceptible of impressions from the sublime and beautiful. O, how religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God, by their becoming a source of pride!
The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.
My soul, alas, needs these uneasinesses in outward things, to be driven to take refuge in God.
