It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree.

The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. John Knox's gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again.