Robert Leighton
9 quotes.
Quotes by Robert Leighton
- A holy life is a voice; it speaks when the tongue is silent, and is either a constant attraction or a perpetual reproof.
- Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
- Calumny would soon starve and die of itself if nobody took it in and gave it lodging.
- Forgive thyself little, and others much.
- Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveler cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him.
- If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes. Forgive thyself little and others much.
- Sin first is pleasing, then it grows easy, then delightful, then frequent, then habitual, then confirmed; then the man is impenitent, then he is obstinate, then he is resolved never to repent, and then he is ruined.
- The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.
- True prayer never comes weeping home: I am sure that I shall get either what I ask, or what I ought to have asked.