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The church is not a select circle of the immaculate, but a home where the outcast may come in. It is not a palace with gate attendants and challenging sentinels along the entrance-ways holding off at arm's-length the stranger, but rather a hospital where the broken-hearted may be healed, and where all the weary and troubled may find rest and take counsel together.
- James H. Aughey


72
God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
- James H. Aughey


71
Death to the Christian is the funeral of all his sorrows and evils, and the resurrection, of all his joys.
- James H. Aughey


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Christ is the Good Physician. There is no disease He cannot heal; no sin He cannot remove; no trouble He cannot help. He is the Balm of Gilead, the Great Physician who has never yet failed to heal all the spiritual maladies of every soul that has come unto Him in faith and prayer.
- James H. Aughey


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Cheerfulness is the friend and helper of all good graces, and the absence of it is certainly a vice.
- James H. Aughey


66
Happiness and comfort stream immediately from God himself, as light issues from the sun; and sometimes looks and darts itself into the meanest corners, while it forbears to visit the largest and the noblest rooms.
- James H. Aughey
65
The mission of the Church is to seek and to save them that are lost.
- James H. Aughey
64
As every mercy is a drop obtained from the ocean of God's goodness, so every affliction is a drachm weighed out in the wisdom of God's providence.
- James H. Aughey
63
Youth, beauty, wit may recommend you to men, but only faith in Jesus Christ can recommend you to God.
- James H. Aughey
62
On the head of Christ are many crowns. He wears the crown of victory; He wears the crown of sovereignty; He wears the crown of creation; He wears the crown of providence; He wears the crown of grace; He wears the crown of glory - for every one of His glorified people owes his honor, happiness and blessedness to Him.
- James H. Aughey
61
Be deaf to the quarrelsome, blind to the scorner and dumb to the inquisitive.
- James H. Aughey
60
Holiness consists of three things - separation from sin, dedication to God, transformation into Christ's image. It is in vain that we talk about the last, unless we know something experimentally about the first.
- James H. Aughey
59
Cheerfulness sharpens the edge and removes the rust from the mind. A joyous heart supplies oil to our inward machinery, and makes the whole of our powers work with ease and efficiency; hence it is of the utmost importance that we maintain a contented, cheerful, genial disposition.
- James H. Aughey
58
The most holy men are always the most humble men; none so humble on earth as those that live highest in heaven.
- James H. Aughey
57
Many men affect to despise fear, and in preaching resent any appeal to it; but not to fear when there is occasion is as great a weakness as to fear unduly without reason. God implanted fear in the soul as truly as He implanted hope or courage.
- James H. Aughey
56
The ability to find fault is believed, by some people, to be a sure sign of great wisdom, when, in most cases, it only indicates narrowness of mind and ill nature.
- James H. Aughey
55
He who bears failure with patience is as much of a philosopher as he who succeeds; for to put up with the world needs as much wisdom as to control it.
- James H. Aughey
54
Jesus organized the church, which is His vineyard. He commands all to go into the vineyard and work. All who are united to Christ by faith, and are thus members of His mystical body, should be members of His visible church.
- James H. Aughey
53
Happiness without peace is temporal; peace along with happiness is eternal.
- James H. Aughey
52
Great things are not accomplished by idle dreams, but by years of patient study.
- James H. Aughey
51
There are many seasons in a man's life - and the more exalted and responsible his position, the more frequently do these season's recur - when the voice of duty and the dictates of feeling are opposed to each other; and it is only the weak and the wicked who yield that obedience to the selfish impulses of the heart which is due to reason and honor.
- James H. Aughey
50
Our religion is not Christianity so much as Christ. Our gospel is the knowledge, not of a system, but the saving knowledge of a personal Savior.
- James H. Aughey
49
Difficulty excites the mind to the dignity which sustains and finally conquers misfortunes, and the ordeal refines while it chastens.
- James H. Aughey
48
When our will runs parallel with the will of God, no cross is formed; but when our will runs counter to God's will, a cross is formed which is heavy to be borne.
- James H. Aughey
47
Remember that holiness is not the way to Christ, but Christ is the way to holiness.
- James H. Aughey
46
All Christian power springs from communion with God and from the indwelling of divine grace.
- James H. Aughey
45
This is one of the sad conditions of life, that experience is not transmissible. No man will learn from the suffering of another; he must suffer himself.
- James H. Aughey
44
Faith without evidence is, properly, not faith, but prejudice or presumption; faith beyond evidence is superstition, and faith contrary to evidence is either insanity or willful perversity of mind.
- James H. Aughey
43
Do daily and hourly your duty; do it patiently and thoroughly. Do it as it presents itself; do it at the moment, and let it be its own reward. Never mind whether it is known and acknowledged or not, but do not fail to do it.
- James H. Aughey
42
There is dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens its cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself and the drop runs off. So God rains goodness and mercy as wide as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we do not open our hearts to receive them.
- James H. Aughey
41
Our Christianity is a name, a shadow, unless, we resemble Him who, being the incarnate God, was incarnate goodness.
- James H. Aughey
40
Five, or six, ten people shall be made temporarily wretched because one person, unconsciously perhaps, yet supremely, egotistic and selfish, has never learned to control his disposition and bridle his tongue.
- James H. Aughey
39
Sorrow comes soon enough without despondency. It does a man no good to carry around a lightning-rod to attract trouble.
- James H. Aughey
38
A hope unaccompanied with a godly life had better be given up, and the sooner the better; for, if retained, it will prove as a spider's web when God shall take away the soul.
- James H. Aughey
37
Were it not for an unquestioning faith, human progress would be an intolerable burden.
- James H. Aughey
36
Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies.
- James H. Aughey
35
The great comprehensive truths written in letters of living light on every page of our history are these: Human happiness has no perfect security but freedom; freedom none but virtue; virtue none but knowledge; and neither freedom nor virtue has any vigor of immortal hope, except in the principles of Christian faith, and in the sanctions of the Christian religion.
- James H. Aughey
33
He that has never known adversity but half acquainted with others or himself.
- James H. Aughey
32
God makes crosses of great variety; He makes some of iron and lead, that look as if they must crush; some of straw, that seem so light, and yet are no less difficult to carry; some He makes of precious stones and gold, that dazzle the eye and excite the envy of spectators, but in reality are as well able to crucify as those which are so much dreaded.
- James H. Aughey
31
God's corrections are our instructions; His lashes our lessons, and His scourges our schoolmasters.
- James H. Aughey
30
One improper word or act will neutralize the effect of many good ones; and one base deed, after years of noble service, will cover them all with shame.
- James H. Aughey
28
The most generous and merciful in judgment upon the faults of others, are always the most free from faults themselves.
- James H. Aughey
27
Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open enemies.
- James H. Aughey
26
A firm faith is the best theology; a good life is the best philosophy; a clear conscience the best law; honesty, the best policy, and temperance the best physic.
- James H. Aughey
25
It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any other path of safety except that of duty.
- James H. Aughey
24
It is not affliction itself, but affliction rightly borne, that does us good.
- James H. Aughey