Octavius Winslow

Octavius Winslow (August 1, 1808 – March 5, 1878), also known as "The Pilgrim's Companion", was one of the foremost evangelical preachers of the 19th Century in England and America. A Baptist minister for most of his life and contemporary of Charles Spurgeon and J.C. Ryle, he seceded to the Anglican church in his last decade.

Quotes

• The everlasting covenant which God has made with Jesus, and through Jesus with all His beloved people, individually, is a strong ground of consolation amidst the tremblings of human hope, the fluctuations of creature things, and the instability of all that earth calls good.
  • Midnight Harmonies (New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1853), "Songs in the Night", p. 32.

• There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more—there is action. […] The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look—it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help.
  • The Sympathy of Christ with Man: Its Teaching and Consolation (London: Janes Nisbet, 1862), Preface, pp. iii–iv.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).

• Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life.
  • P. 458.

External links

• The Octavius Winslow Archive
• "Octavius Winslow" Featured in the February issue of the Free Church Witness
• List of Winslow's Writings
• Collection of Free E-Books
• "Morning and Evening Thoughts" Email Subscribe to a daily email devotional based on Winslow's "Morning and Evening Thoughts"