John Witherspoon
5 quotes
Biography
"Never read a book through merely because you have begun it."
"Men are not generally sufficiently aware of the distinction between the law of God and his purpose; they are apt to suppose, that as the temper of the sinner is contrary to the one, so the outrages of the sinner are able to defeat the other; than which nothing can be more false."
"It is very evident that both the prophets in the Old Testament and the apostles in the New are at great pains to give us a view of the glory and dignity of the person of Christ. With what magnificent titles is he adorned! What glorious attributes are ascribed to him! All these conspire to teach us that he is truly and properly God - God over all, blessed forever!"
"Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation."
"It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of men."