The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.

Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.

Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.

The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.