The Works of Octavius Winslow Quotes

“O my soul! Nothing comes between you and God but the atoning blood of Jesus. His blood annihilates all your sin and guilt. Robed in His imputed righteousness, you are to God nearer than the highest angel in heaven--and nearer you can not be--and God draws near to you and speaks--"A God at hand, says the Lord.”
― Octavius Winslow, The Works of Octavius Winslow

“There can be no real establishment apart from growth in spiritual knowledge. Oh seek to be rooted and grounded in the faith! Do not be always a babe in knowledge, a mere dwarf in understanding, but go forward in the use of all God's ordained means of faith, until you "come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.”
― Octavius Winslow, The Works of Octavius Winslow

“But if we desire the advancement of the Divine life within us, we must know more of Jesus—we must discern more beauty in our Beloved—we must see more of the glory of our Incarnate God—we must know more of the love and grace of the Father in the gift of His dear Son—we must, in a word, grow in the knowledge of God and of Christ.”
― Octavius Winslow, The Works of Octavius Winslow

“The banquet is ready, and the minstrels are tuning their harps to celebrate the return from your wanderings to your Father's heart and home, with the gladness of feasting, and with the voice of thanksgiving and of melody.”
― Octavius Winslow, The Works of Octavius Winslow

“In social life, in the family government, in the Church, and in the State this is an acknowledged and invariable law. The debtor would be incapable of appreciating the clemency which cancelled the debt, so long as he denied either the existence or the justice of the claim. Unconscious of the obligation, he would be insensible to the grace that remitted it.”
― Octavius Winslow, The Works of Octavius Winslow

“Contrition for an offence must precede the pardon of an offence.”
― Octavius Winslow, The Works of Octavius Winslow

“no such affluence of wisdom and knowledge, and truth and holiness, could flow from any other source than Deity,”
― Octavius Winslow, The Works of Octavius Winslow