Hymnwriter

🇺🇸Dwight L. Moody

Business

Higher Life movement

1837–1899

"If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?"

Henry Alford

Literature

1810–1871

"Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail; but in conveying a right impression."

🇺🇸Sidney Lanier

Literature

1842–1881

"The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West."

🇺🇸Washington Gladden

Literature

1836–1918

"The substance of all realities is in this religion of Jesus Christ; but it can be real only to those who will do His will."

Paul Gerhardt

Literature

1607–1676

"Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs, trans. J. Kelly, 80 pages, 1867."

William Cowper

Literature

Romanticism

1731–1800

"Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too."

Isaac Watts

Politics

1674–1748

"I believe the promises of God enough to venture an eternity on them."

🇺🇸Elizabeth Prentiss

Religion

1818–1878

"No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true."

🇺🇸John A. Widtsoe

Science

1872–1952

"Decide what you want to be....Pay the Price ...And be what you want to be."

Horatius Bonar

Politics

1808–1889

"In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one."

🇳🇴Elias Aslaksen

Literature

1888–1976

"Faith in the Word of Life is the strongest power that exists in the universe."

Bernard of Clairvaux

Religion

1090–1153

"What of the souls already released from their bodies? We believe that they are overwhelmed in that vast sea of eternal light and of luminous eternity"

Charles Wesley

Literature

1707–1788

"Hymns and sacred poems, 4th edition, by Wesley, John and Wesley, Charles, Bristol, 1743. At archive.org."

🇬🇧Christina Rossetti

Literature

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

1830–1894

"For there is no friend like a sisterIn calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray,To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands"

🇺🇸Fanny Crosby

Music

1820–1915

"National Cyclopedia of Biography article at Wholesome Words"

🇬🇧Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Religion

1834–1892

"Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened."

🇬🇧Nina Salaman

Social Activism

1877–1925

"Ours it is to bear the Sabbath in our souls."

🇺🇸Gordon B. Hinckley

Politics

1910–2008

"[W]ithout hard work, nothing grows but weeds."

🇩🇪Henry Suso

Literature

1295–1366

"It is hidden for everything that is not God, except for those with whom he wants to share Himself."

🇬🇧John Keble

Religion

1792–1866

"Keble's works online at Project Canterbury"

🇬🇧John Henry Newman

Religion

1801–1890

"I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people."

🇺🇸Adoniram Judson Gordon

Music

1836–1895

"A mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the natural heart — this is what is needed."

Frederick William Faber

Literature

1814–1863

"Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall take."

"Cricket is the most senior, widespread and deeply rooted of English games."

"Bring your ignorance to the Holy Spirit, the great teacher, who by His precious truth will lead you into all truth."