“The elect are said to be engraven on Christ's hands: now, what is only painted may be rubbed out; or what is held may be let go; but what is graven cannot but remain.”
Quotes by Augustus Toplady
“Though I cannot entirely agree with you in supposing that extreme study has been the cause of my late indisposition, I must yet confess that the hill of science, like that of virtue, is in some instances climbed with labour. But when we get a little way up, the lovely prospects which open the eye make infinite amends for the steepness of the ascent. In short, I am wedded to these pursuits, as a man stipulates to take his wife; viz., for better, for worse, until death us do part. My thirst for knowledge is literally inextinguishable. And if I thus drink myself into a superior world, I cannot help it.”
“Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.”
Augustus TopladyAugustus Montague Toplady was an influential English Anglican cleric and hymn writer known for his staunch Calvinist beliefs and his opposition to John Wesley. Born in 1740, he became a prominent figu...