A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds

“The prayer that moves Omnipotence to pity, and summons all the hosts of heaven to help, is not the prayer of nicely rounded periods--Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null--but the prayer of passionate entreaty. It is a call--a call such as a doctor receives at dead of night; a call such as the fireman receives when all the alarms are clanging; a call such as the ships receive in mid-ocean, when, hurtling through the darkness and the void, there comes the wireless message, 'S.O.S.' 'Call upon Me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me.””

— Frank Boreham

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?' asked Uncle Tom, with his last breath. 'Massa George sat fixed with solemn awe,' says Mrs. Beecher Stowe, in continuing the story. 'It seemed to him that the place was holy; and as he closed Tom's lifeless eyes, and rose to leave the dead, only one thought possessed him--What a thing it is to be a Christian!' It is indeed!””

— Frank Boreham

“terrible than the ordeal of a fiery death.””

— Frank Boreham

“When Elizabeth came to the English throne, a number of men and women, who were awaiting martyrdom under Mary, were liberated. Animated by the spirit of Ridley and Latimer, they would have kissed the faggots and embraced the stake. Yet, in the years that followed, some of them lapsed into indifference, went the way of the world, and named the name of Christ no more. The ordeal of life proved more potent and more””

— Frank Boreham

“Jesus can make a dying bedFeel soft as downy pillows are.””

— Frank Boreham

“There are two kinds of progress. There is the progress that moves away from infancy towards youth, towards maturity, towards age and decrepitude. And there is a higher progress, a progress that moves towards infancy. 'Except ye be converted and become as little children,' Jesus said, 'ye shall not enter into the kingdom of God.' And the only way of becoming a little child once more is by being born again. It is the glory of the gospel that it offers a man that chance.””

— Frank Boreham

“Nothing either great or small,Nothing, sinner, no;Jesus did it, did it all,Long, long ago. 'It is Finished!' yes, indeed,Finished every jot;Sinner, this is all you need;Tell me, is it not? Cast your deadly doing down,Down at Jesus' feet;Stand in Him, in Him alone,Gloriously complete.””

— Frank Boreham

“See there, Auguste! the poorest, meanest soul on our place will be living when all those stars are gone for ever--will live as long as God lives!””

— Frank Boreham

“We need a God and cannot be happy till we find Him. The instinct of adoration is in our blood, and we are ill at ease until we can find One at whose feet we can lay the tribute of our devotion.””

— Frank Boreham