With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favored of all creatures.

What a blessed truth to understand that, in the middle of all of our difficulties and calamities, we have a refuge.

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

When a man falls on his knees and stretches his hands heavenward, he is doing the most natural thing in the world.

God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking His words and causing the power of them to persist across the years.

A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.

God's justice and God's mercy do not quarrel with each other.