Light physical is said by Solomon to be sweet, but gospel light is infinitely more precious, for it reveals eternal things, and ministers to our immortal natures.

Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism.

This, then, is the doctrine of the resurrection. We do not believe--at least I do not--that law has been rudely violated in one extraordinary and unparalleled episode. We believe that a universal law of life, overmastering death, and always superior to it, has had once a visible witness.

Nonsense is nonsense whether it rhymes or not, just as bad half-pennies are good for nothing whether they jingle or lie quiet.

When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.

He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.

Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.