Charles Henry Fowler
Charles Henry Fowler (August 11, 1837 – 1908) was a Canadian-American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1884.
Quotes
[edit]Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
[edit]Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).
- Religions which depend upon arguments are failures. A religion, to be aggressive, must be experimental; men must be something and do something by means of it, which would be otherwise impossible; then they become both rhetoric and logic — persuasion and proof.
- P. 137.
- The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
- P. 217.
- A man may make his way across the Atlantic in a skiff, for all I know; but if you are intending to cross the sea, take my advice, and secure passage in a first-class steamer, and you will be more likely to get there. So it is with these heathen millions. I do not know but some of them may drift, and we shall find them in the city of God. But I do know that by giving them the gospel, by building up and supporting among them a Christian church, we shall greatly multiply their chances for heaven.
- P. 417.
- Remember, there are only a few model preachers. We have read of only one perfect Model, and He was crucified many centuries ago.
- P. 476.
- The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up.
- P. 537.
- You are born supernaturally through faith, by the grace of God, into the kingdom of righteousness; but you are born a little babe, that is all; and if you make any progress from that point on, it must be by work, by sacrifice, by the practice of Christian virtues, by benevolence, by self-denial, by resisting the adversary, by making valiant war for God and against sin; and on no other basis, am I authorized in giving you a hope that you may come to manhood in Christ Jesus.
- P. 564.
