John Nelson Darby Quotes

To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

We cannot be unclean and expect the help of the Almighty.

God does not change; he is Love, ever and always. In himself, he is communion, unity in Trinity, and all his words and works are directed to communion.

The heart of the matter is always our oneness with divine spirit, our union with all life.

As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

In Divine unity and the affirmation of it, Divine beauty and dominical perfection become apparent. If there was no unity, that pre-eternal treasury would remain hidden.

I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment.

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.

It certainly must help us if we recognize that it is the presence of the Holy Spirit which creates a unity which we can never create.

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

They are not reformers who simply abhor evil. Such men become in the end abhorrent themselves.

To the Puritan all things are impure.

If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries.

Evil is tolerable if purged of coarseness.

At the heart of every being lies creation's dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.

Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.

Purity doesn't happen by accident; it requires obedience to God.

Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections tend to holiness. That which men love, they desire to have and to be united to, and possessed of. That beauty which men delight in, they desire to be adorned with. Those acts which men delight in, they necessarily incline to do.

Only in Christ are all things in communion. He is the point of convergence of all hearts and beings and therefore the bridge and the shortest way from each to each.

Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.

Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.