John Patton Quotes

Paton's autobiography is quickly becoming one of my favorite books. With humbling and Christ exalting quotes, like the ones below, how can it not???

"All through my City Mission period, I was painfully carrying on my stuies ... The work was hard and most exacting; and if I never attained the scholarship for which I thirsted - being but poorly grounded in my younger days - I yet had much of the blessed Master's presence in all my efforts, which many better scholars sorely lacked; and I was sustained by the lofty aim which burned all these years bright within my soul, namely, - to be qualified as a preacher of the Gospel of Christ, to be owned and used by Him for the salvation of perishing men." pg. 51

"At last I replied, 'Mr. Dickson, you are advanced in years now, and your own prospect is soon to be laid in the grave, there to be eaten by worms; I confess to you, that if I can but live and die serving and honouring the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by Cannibals or by worms; and in the Great Day my resurrection body will arise as fair as yours in the likeness of our risen Redeemer.'" pg. 56