Do you resolve to do the right and to love the true, depend upon it you will get no assistance from this world. Of its maxims, nine out of ten are false, and the other one selfish; and even that which is selfish has a lie at the bottom of it.

No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harboured in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that go up in their own estimation must come down again by His discipline

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.

The best style of prayer is that which cannot be called anything else but a cry.

When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.

I believe nothing merely because Calvin taught it, but because I have found his teaching in the Word of God.