To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice.

It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less. On, on, on for ever, without recreation may suit spirits emancipated from this 'heavy clay', but while we are in this tabernacle, we must every now and then cry halt, and serve the Lord by holy inaction and consecrated leisure. Let no tender conscience doubt the lawfulness of going out of harness for a while

God's law is our pleasure when the God of the law is our God.

If you get condemnation out of the Gospel, you put the condemnation into it yourselves! It is not the Gospel, but your rejection of it that will condemn you.

A Christian is the gentlest of men; but then he is a man.

If Christ were only a cistern we might soon exhaust his fullness but who can drain a fountain?

Defend the Bible? I'd sooner defend a lion. You don't defend the Bible; you open its cage and let it roar.