Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for himself.

I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law.

True prayer is the trading of the heart with God, and the heart never comes into spiritual commerce with the ports of heaven until God the Holy Ghost puts wind into the sails and speeds the ship into its haven.

Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you.

Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name more charming, more precious than another, it is this name. It is woven into the very warp and woof of our psalmody. Many of our hymns begin with it, and scarcely any, that are good for anything, end without it. It is the sum total of all delights. It is the music with which the bells of heaven ring; a song in a word; an ocean for comprehension, although a drop for brevity; a matchless oratorio in two syllables; a gathering up of the hallelujahs of eternity in five letters.

I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes

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