Top 5 Quotes by John Berridge

Make me like a little child, Simple, teachable, and mild; Seeing only in Thy light; Walking only in Thy might!

Make me like a little child, Simple, teachable, and mild; Seeing only in Thy light; Walking only in Thy might!

Children, Humility, Simple

All decays begin in the closet; no heart thrives with out much secret converse with God, and nothing will make amends for the want of it.

John Berridge

Heart, Secret, Decay

John Berridge (1838). “The works of the Rev. John Berridge ... with an enlarged memoir of his life: numerous letters, anecdotes ... and his original Sion's songs”, p.424

A Christian never falls asleep in the fire or in the water, but grows drowsy in the sunshine.

John Berridge

Christian, Fall, Sunshine

John Berridge (1838). “The works of ... John Berridge, with an enlarged memoir of his life [ed.] by R. Whittingham”, p.396

The Bible is a precious storehouse, and the Magna Charta of a Christian. There he reads of his Heavenly Father's love, and of his dying Saviour's legacies. There he sees a map of his travels through the wilderness, and a landscape, too, of Canaan.

John Berridge

Bible, Christian, Father

JOHN BERRIDGE (1854). “THE CHRISTIAN WORLD UNMASKED”, p.38