John Rose Macduff Quotes

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Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh things, if kind things will do as well.

John Rose Macduff

If, like Jacob, you trust God in little things, He may answer you by great things.

John Rose Macduff

Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, and words, and thoughts; daily forgivenesses, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial. Oh, it is these, like the blending colors in a picture, or the blending notes of music, which constitute the man.

John Rose Macduff

Faith does not first ask what the bread is made of, but eats it. It does not analyze the components of the living stream, but with joy draws water from the " wells of salvation."

John Rose Macduff

Even when the shadows of trial are falling around us, let us "pass through the cloud" with the sustaining motive— "All my wish, O God, is to please and glorify Thee!"

John Rose Macduff

All Christ's public acts were consecrated by prayer, — His baptism, His transfiguration, His miracles, His agony, His death. He breathed away His spirit in prayer. " His last breath," says Philip Henry, "was praying breath."

John Rose Macduff

John Rose Macduff

John Rose Macduff

Born: May 23, 1818

Died: April 30, 1895 (aged 76)

Bio: John Ross Macduff was a Scottish divine and a prolific author of religious essays. He published many practical and devotional works which have attained a wide circulation.

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