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

A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is, the better.

Brethren, who are we that God should have been so good to us?

I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.

A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.