To throw the Christian into the furnace is to put him into Christ's parlor; for lo! Jesus Christ is walking with him.

If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.

Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be. Is this world dreary? Then think of the next.

A good character is the best tombstone.

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

You shall find books and sermons everywhere, in the land and in the sea, in the earth and in the skies, and you shall learn from every living beast, and bird, and fish, and insect, and from every useful or useless plant that springs from the ground.

The Cross was the place of your spiritual birth; it must ever be the spot for renewing your health, for it is the sanatorium of every sin-sick soul. The blood is the true balm of Gilead; it is the only catholicon [remedy] which heals every spiritual disease.