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.

Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth.

We venture to assert, that if there be any day in the year, of which we may be pretty sure that it was not the day on which the Savior was born, it is the 25th of December. Regarding not the day, let us, nevertheless, give thanks to God for the gift of His dear Son.

Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.