So long as we are receivers of mercy, we must be givers of thanks.

Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.

It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until, at last, you come to talk in Scriptural language, and your very style is fashioned upon Scripture models, and, what is better still, your spirit is flavored with the words of the Lord. Prick him anywhere; and you will find that his blood is Bibline, the very essence of the Bible flows from him.

Winners of souls must first be weepers for souls.

Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.