It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ.

The friend of God must not spend a day without God, and he must undertake no work apart from his God.

All places are places of worship to a Christian. Wherever he is, he ought to be in a worshiping frame of mind.

Sometimes a fog will settle over a vessel's deck and yet leave the topmast clear. Then a sailor goes up aloft and gets a lookout which the helmsman on deck cannot get. So prayer sends the soul aloft; lifts it above the clouds in which our selfishness and egotism befog us, and gives us a chance to see which way to steer.

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!