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Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd Quotes

Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a

Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a table-cloth hanging upon a hedge.

Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd
Fear, Twilight, Doubt
Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd (1862). “The Recreations of a Country Parson”, p.325

What is meant by believing in Christ but just going with trusting and loving hearts, and committing to His love and power ourselves, our souls, and all that concerns us for time and eternity?

Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd
Believe, Heart, Soul
Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd (1867). “Counsel and Comfort Spoken from a City Pulpit”, p.290

Apart from the positive woes of perdition, an eternity of wretchedness grows from the want of love to Christ as naturally as the oak grows from the acorn, or the harvest from the scattered grain. It is not that love to Christ merits heaven; it does far better, it makes heaven. It is, as it were, the organ of sensation that takes note of heaven's blessedness.

Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd
Heaven, Doe, Want
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 401), 1895.

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