Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him.

A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.