Proverbs Quotes

“ignorance is the field, on which the quackery of a political impostor ever reaps its most abundant harvest.”
― Charles Bridges, Proverbs

“Nowhere throughout the universe do the moral perfections of the Governor of the world shine so gloriously as at the cross”
― Charles Bridges, Proverbs

“Among all my conquests’ — said the dying emperor Valentinian — ‘there is but one that now comforts me. I have overcome my worst enemy — my own haughty heart.”
― Charles Bridges, Proverbs

“Let us study the minute details of our Master’s well-filled life. He shall deal prudently (Isaiah 52:13.). This was his distinctive character. The Spirit of prudence was the furniture for his work.”
― Charles Bridges, Proverbs

“It is not enough, that there is no poison in the tongue. It must be healing, not only purified from “corrupt communication,” but “ministering grace unto the hearers.”
― Charles Bridges, Proverbs

“He is surely a brute, and not a rational creature, who has swallowed poison, and will rather suffer it to take its course, than admit the necessary relief of medicine, lest he should be obliged to confess his folly, in exposing himself to the need of it.”
― Charles Bridges, Proverbs

“The gospel does not shut us up in our own private interests, as if we had no sympathy with our neighbour. It is an universal brotherhood of love.”
― Charles Bridges, Proverbs