It is commonly said that covetousness is one of the reigning sins of old age. How strange that it should be so! Especially considering what they have seen, and known, and it may be, felt of the emptiness and uncertainty of riches. They have witnessed how often they make themselves wings. What! And not yet convinced! What! Almost at the end of thy journey, and yet loading thyself with thick clay! Think of the time of day. It is almost night; even sun-set. And art thou unmindful of the grave? The body is bending downwards, let the heart be upwards.
— Philip Henry (1631–1696), Puritanischer Prediger
Topics: Money & Possessions, Time & Transience, Wisdom & Understanding
Occasions: For Reflection
Philip Henry
Philip Henry (1631–1696) war ein englischer presbyterianischer Prediger, der vor allem in Flintshire wirkte und nach der Uniformitätsakte von 1662 als Nonkonformist seine Pfarrstelle verlor. Er steht für eine praxisnahe puritanische Frömmigkeit, das Festhalten an der Gewissensfreiheit und prägte als geistlicher Mentor seinen Sohn, den Bibelkommentator Matthew Henry. Für Bibelleser heute bieten seine überlieferten Tagebücher und Zitate prägnante Impulse für das persönliche Gebetsleben und das Vertrauen auf Gottes Vorsehung.
All quotes by Philip Henry (6)
God made us to love people and use things. Our problem is that we love things and use people.
Unknown
My banker is the good Lord. He sees to it that there is always something.
Mother Teresa
George Muller
Martin Luther
Nikolai Berdyaev
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C.S. Lewis
Material wealth is either a window through which we see God or a mirror in which we see ourselves.
Warren Wiersbe
Martin Luther