Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.

Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth.

Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use, that determines my religious position and character.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

He who has the Holy Spirit in His heart and the Scripture in his hands has all he needs.

Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being, and the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a self-righteous being. The one is all contempt; the other, all pity.