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

True peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God and will be deep and passing all understanding in the exact measure in which we live in and partake of the love of God.

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.

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.

If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.

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.