Charles C. Soule

“Do not enter the ministry if you can help it . . .If any student in this room could be content to bea newspaper editor, or a grocer, or a farmer, or adoctor, or a lawyer, or a senator, or a king, in thename of heaven and earth let him go his way; he isnot the man in whom dwells the Spirit of God inits fullness, for a man so full of God would utterlyweary of any pursuit but that for which his inmostsoul pants.””

“it is possible for you to have real faith, and yet to have the most grievous unbelief! "Oh!" say you, "how can faith and unbelief live together?" They cannot live together in peace, but they may dwell together in the same heart. Remember what our Lord Jesus said to Peter "O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?" He did not say, "O thou of no faith," but "of little faith." Thus there was some faith, though there was also much doubt. So, in the psalmist, there was some faith,”

“there is one subject which we never hear too much of: we can never hear too much of Christ. When ministers are wearied of preaching Him, they are false ministers: when people are wearied of hearing of Him, their souls are in an unhealthy state. When ministers have preached Him all their lives, the half of His excellence will remain untold. When hearers see Him face to face in the day of His appearing, they will find there was more in Him than their hearts ever conceived.””