Edward Bouverie Pusey Quotes & Sayings

Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly. — Edward Bouverie Pusey

Learn to commend thy daily acts to God, so shall the dry every-day duties of common life be steps to heaven, and lift they heart hither. — Edward Bouverie Pusey

Take steadily some one sin, which seems to stand out before thee, to root it out, by God's grace, and every fibre of it. Purpose strongly, by the grace and strength of God, wholly to sacrifice this sin or sinful inclination to the love of God, to spare it not, until thou leave of it none remaining, neither root nor branch. — Edward Bouverie Pusey

Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself; it is not too little, but too great for him, that he doeth it not. — Edward Bouverie Pusey

God's chief gift to those who seek him is Himself. — Edward Bouverie Pusey

Never dwell on the tomorrow; remember, that it's God's and not ours. — Edward Bouverie Pusey

In all adversity, what God takes away He may give us back with increase. — Edward Bouverie Pusey

If we wished to gain contentment, we might try such rules as these:
1. Allow thyself to complain of nothing, not even of the weather.
2. Never picture thyself to thyself under any circumstances in which thou art not.
3. Never compare thine own lot with that of another.
4. Never allow thyself to dwell on the wish that this or that had been, or were, otherwise than it was, or is. God Almighty loves thee better and more wisely than thou dost thyself.
5. Never dwell on the morrow. Remember that it is God's, not thine. The heaviest part of sorrow often is to look forward to it. "The Lord will provide. — Edward Bouverie Pusey

God does not take away trials or carry us over them, but strengthens us through them. — Edward Bouverie Pusey