Ebenezer Erskine Quotes

United Kingdom, Minister
June 22, 1680 – June, 2, 1754.

Ebenezer Erskine was a Scottish minister whose actions led to the establishment of the Secession Church (formed by dissenters from the Church of Scotland).

The triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment. Whereas the groanings of the righteous are but short, and their jubilee and triumph shall be everlasting.

Ebenezer Erskine
- Joy
- Hypocrite
- Groaning
So often we give God a partial obedience. We do not dare to disobey, but we do not care to obey fully. So we compromise. We do some of what we should, thus removing the stigma of disobedience. But we refrain from the most difficult or objectionable or uncomfortable part, and thus try to get the best of both worlds.

Ebenezer Erskine
- God
- Compromise
- Obedience

I think, that a man never passes the verge of moral humility, till self-righteousness be dethroned, till the high and towering imaginations of the man's own righteousness by the law be levelled by the mighty weapons of the gospel, and he brought to submit to the righteousness of God for justification, which is, in the gospel revealed 'from faith to faith.'

Ebenezer Erskine
- God
- Faith
- Humility