I will say broadly that I have more confidence in the spiritual life of the children that I have received into this church than I have in the, spiritual condition of the adults thus received. I will even go further than that, and say that I have usually found a clearer knowledge of the gospel and a warmer love of Christ in the child-converts than in the man-converts. I will even astonish you still more by saying that I have sometimes met with a deeper spiritual experience in children of ten and twelve than I have in certain persons of fifty and sixty.

Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

If Christ be anything, He must be everything.

The more holy, the more humble.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.