(Heb.

11:4)

F.W. Boreham
Died

18th May 1959

 It is better to walk all the way uphill, being strong, than to tread a
plain path, being weak.

 Right is always in bondage. Wrong is always free! “What is 2 + 2?”

Right is shut up to one reply and one can only answer 4. Wrong
can say that 2+2 are 6 or 10 or a million. It has the entire field of
figures, an infinite range of selection, it is gloriously free. Right is
bound!

 It is so much easier to copy others than to develop ourselves. I

want a pair of spectacles that will enable me to see things for
myself. I am too prone to see things as other people see them. I
think what everybody thinks, say what everybody says, I do what
everybody does.

 Our soul has an unutterable value – and not only that but also an
unthinkable, inconceivable, incomprehensible value.
 Religion is never a subtraction, it is always an addition. It never
asks, it always offers, it points out something lacking and it points
it out because it is ready and waiting to supply the lack.

 We make our decisions, and then our decisions turn around and
make us.

 To the average man the Bible is just a book. He may regard it as a

unique book, a holy book, an inspired book, a divine book, but
when all is said and done it is just a book.

 The real glory of life lies, not in the liberty to do as I like, but in the
necessity to do as I should

 Someone who really loves nature does not only appreciate the
butterfly or birds but also the crocodile, not only the sun and
rainbow but also the thunder and lightning. He not only loves the
part but the whole.

 Do not read your Bible for entertainment, nor for instruction nor
even as an act of devotion. Read it with your soul wide awake and
your ear attentive, to hear what God is saying. Let it be the
medium by which the will of God could be revealed to you, the
agency by means of which you could be assured of the Father’s
love and grace and care.

 From those who humbly seek the leadership of the kindly Light,
the divine guidance is never withheld.

 A very familiar law ordains that people who really enjoy a thing
want to lead others into the same felicity. That law represents the
rationale of evangelization.
 As long as a man tells me that this is so or that that is so, it is a
pleasure to listen to him, but when he begins to tell me that this is
not so and that that is not so, I invariably recall an important
engagement.

 The early Church conquered the world, not through the

attendance of the world at her services, not even by her public
witness outside her walls, but by the private influence of her
members over those with whom, during the week, they came in
contact. The individual captured the individual. The work of
evangelization was done during the week – then on Sunday each
member introduced his converts to the delighted assembly.

 Memory is the soul’s best minister.

 The church can be compared to a telescope. You will form a more

just estimate of the value of it by looking through it than by
looking at it; and like the telescope, she exists that men may look,
not at her, but through her; and her office is fulfilled as soon as
men have fastened their gaze upon the sublimities which it is her
sublime prerogative to reveal.

 True religion consists, not in the intellectual acceptance of certain

doctrines, neither in reverent conformity with certain ecclesiastical
rites, nor in organic adherence to any particular Church, but in a
living personal union with Christ the Son of God, the Saviour of
the world.

 The Bible is essentially a revelation. And unless a man has looked

through its phraseology, and caught the vision that was designed
to reveal, he has; in spite of everything, read the wondrous
passages in vain.
‘Friend, remember that it is better to read 1 quote 10 times
(meditatively) than to read 10 quotes 1 time (superficially).’

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